Intimate Politics

Reducere. Settler societies habitually frame Indigenous people as 'a people of the past'--their culture somehow 'frozen' in time, their identities tied to st...

Addressing diversity in sexual and intimate experience later in life (50+), this collection explores how being older intersects with ethnicity, gen...

DescriptionDelusional States: Feeling Rule and Development in Pakistan's Northern Frontier is the first in-depth study of state power and social st...

DescriptionClose presents 120 portraits of the world's most famous and influential people across the arts and entertainment industries, politics, b...

Reducere. In recent decades, dance has become a vehicle for querying assumptions about what it means to be embodied, in turn illuminating intersections among...

Art in Time is the first book to embed art movements within the larger context of politics and history. Global in scope and featuring an innovative...

Reducere. In this provocative and captivating dialogue, bell hooks and Cornel West come together to discuss the dilemmas, contradictions, and joys of Black i...

Brazil changed drastically in the 21st century's second decade. In 2010, the country's outgoing president Lula left office with almost 90% approval...

Revolting Families places the literary depiction of familial and intimate relations in 1960s West Germany against the backdrop of public discourse ...

Americans are generally apprehensive about what they perceive as big government--especially when it comes to measures that target their bodies. Sod...

Reducere. This delightful 1974 classic is replete with new images, updates on favorite artists, and a thoughtful afterword by the author that reflects on wha...

As the 2000 decision by the Supreme Court to effectively deliver the presidency to George W. Bush recedes in time, its real meaning comes into focu...

From both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, the author paints an intimate portrait of how students and teachers actually cope, in real time, with the ch...

At odds with the common image of Jeremy Bentham as a dehumanizing calculator or an eccentric projector, this innovative study shows Bentham at his ...

Ishita Pande's innovative study tells a wide-ranging story about the importance of debates over child protection to India's coming of age, examinin...

Reducere. DescriptionAs the first full-length study of the history of sexuality in America, Intimate Matters offered trenchant insights into the sexual behav...

Reducere. In Sounds of Crossing Alex E. Ch vez explores the contemporary politics of Mexican migrant cultural expression manifest in the sounds and poetics o...

Reducere. Rare and Commonplace Flowers--a Brazilian bestseller--tells the story of two women. Elizabeth Bishop, the Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet, sou...

Reducere. DescriptionDangerous Pregnancies tells the largely forgotten story of the German measles epidemic of the early 1960s and how it created national an...

In Hunting Nature, Thomas P. Hodge explores Ivan Turgenev's relationship to nature through his conception, description, and practice of hunting--th...

This collection of articles written by feminist scholars focuses on intimate Arab familial relationships. The authors identify key family relations...

Reducere. French journalist Claire Parnet's famous dialogues with Gilles Deleuze offer an intimate portrait of the philosopher's life and thought. Conversati...

DescriptionToday over 12 million people are stateless and millions more are refugees or displaced persons. Mira Siegelberg shows how the much-conte...

Reducere. Known around the world simply as Lula, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva was born in 1945 to illiterate parents who migrated to industrializing Sao Paulo. ...

Reducere. In Art for an Undivided Earth Jessica L. Horton reveals how the spatial philosophies underlying the American Indian Movement (AIM) were refigured b...

This groundbreaking book represents the most systematic examination to date of the often-invoked but rarely examined declaration that "history matt...

Reducere. This pathbreaking book documents the transformation of reproductive practices and politics on Indian reservations from the late nineteenth century ...

Ever more popular in the age of DVDs, eBay and online fandom, the Spaghetti Westerns of the 1960s have undergone a mainstream renaissance which has...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Organizational Weapon is a classic study of the methods, propaganda, and institutions which create infiltration and eventually coopt...

The City and Man consists of provocative essays by the late Leo Strauss on Aristotle's Politics, Plato's Republic, and Thucydides' Peloponnesian Wa...

This book originated as lectures for a course on political philosophy that Rawls taught regularly at Harvard in the 1980s. In time the lectures bec...

Reducere. The definitive biography of a larger-than-life president who defied norms, divided a nation, and changed Washington forever Andrew Jackson, his int...

A compelling portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft that shows the intimate connections between her life and work Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of t...

Tis is simply the best book that has been written about politics in Chicago. In the words of Andrew M. Greeley, "It is a very astute and dispassion...

Two longtime friends share an intimate and urgent conversation about life, music, and their enduring love of America, with all its challenges and c...

Reducere. Description"Mafia" has become an indigenous South Asian term. Like Italian mobsters, the South Asian "gangster politicians" are known for inflictin...

Reducere. In this intimate portrait of one of the Middle Ages' most consequential men, Brian Patrick McGuire delves into the life of Saint Bernard of Clairva...

DescriptionJames MacMillan appeals across the spectrum of contemporary music making and is particularly celebrated for his orchestral, operatic and...

More than 50 years after their breakup, the Beatles are still attracting fans from various generations, all while retaining their original fan base...

Reducere. DescriptionThe most complete portrait ever drawn of the complex emotional connection between two of history's towering leaders Franklin Roosevelt a...

DescriptionThe most important element in every election is getting voters to the polls--these get-out-the-vote (GOTV) efforts make the difference b...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this intimate volume the long-lost voices of Wisconsin Oneida men and women speak of all aspects of life: growing up, work and econom...

Reducere. An intimate portrait of the first president of the 20th centuryThe American century opened with the election of that quintessentially American adve...

DescriptionFrom a mother, role model, and civil rights veteran, an inspiring gift of love to a child in his darkest hour. Jacqueline Jackson promis...

Reducere. Originally published in 1975, The Machiavellian Moment remains a landmark of historical and political thought. Celebrated historian J.G.A. Pocock l...

Reducere. Historical novels can be windows into other cultures and eras, but it's not always clear what's fact and what's fiction. Thousands have read Ba Jin...

This guide to Native American history and culture outlines new ways of understanding American Indian cultures in contemporary contexts. Native Amer...

Dramatic statements about the promise and peril of artificial intelligence for humanity abound, as an industry of experts claims that AI is poised ...

Reducere. The president who served the shortest term--just a single month--but whose victorious election campaign rewrote the rules for candidates seeking Am...

Reducere. Now in paperback, an intimate, loving portrait of Michael Jackson--Jermaine Jackson illuminates the private man like never before and offers unriva...

Reducere. No figure in American public life has had such great expectations thrust upon him and fallen short of them so quickly. But Ted Kennedy, the gregari...

Reducere. For most states, the repeal of prohibition meant a return to a state of legally drunken normalcy, but not so in Mississippi. The Magnolia State wen...

A radical reconstruction of the founders' debate over slavery and the Constitution, by the best-selling, award-winning author of The Rise of Americ...

Reducere. Downloaded 19 May 2018. Table of contents and article numbers have been corrected. Now includes the new Article 117a titled 'Wrongful broadcast or ...

Reducere. Personal reinvention is a core part of the human condition. Yet in the mid-twentieth century, certain private religious choices became lightning ro...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Politics of Love in Myanmar offers an intimate ethnographic account of a group of LGBT activists before, during, and after Myanmar's...

Reducere. Washington State Book AwardJames Tiptree, Jr., burst onto the science fiction scene in the late 1960s with a series of hard-edged, provocative stor...

DescriptionCreated and compiled by Charles Krauthammer before his death, The Point of It All is a powerful collection of the influential columnist'...

"The European Parliament elections in May 2019 did not bring about the rise of populism in Europe that had been feared by many. Instead, while popu...

DescriptionA rare, insider's look at the life of Donald Trump from Bill O'Reilly, the bestselling author of the Killing series, based on exclusive ...

Reducere. Finalist for the 2019 National Book Award "By some literary magic--no, it's precision, and honesty--Brown manages to bestow upon even the most publ...

Livrare din stoc, in 24-48 ore! Zarifopol-Johnston seeks to understand Cioran rather than accuse him. . . . [She] points out both continuities and ...

DescriptionErich Fromm (1900-1980) is known to most readers as the author of the international bestseller The Art of Loving (1956). What may be les...

Reducere. A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick An instant New York Times bestseller "A once-every-few-years reading experience."--Mary Beth Keane, New...

An intimate and inspiring memoir by CNBC, AABLA All African Business Woman of the YearHaving been a multi-award-winning CEO of a large internationa...

Reducere. What do we talk about when we talk about money? As the forty-four poets in this brilliant new anthology show, the answer is everything. From the im...

Reducere. "... the author's narrative is as much an inspiring business memoir as it isan absorbing chronicle of a surprisingly significant piece of sports cl...

Ordinary Affects is a singular argument for attention to the affective dimensions of everyday life and the potential that animates the ordinary. Kn...

Reducere. Poems and photographs collide in this intimate collection, challenging the invisible, indefinable ways mourning takes up residence in a body, both ...

Reducere. NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING SERIES. The ninth anthology of tales set in Eric Flint's phenomenal Ring of Fire universe--all selected and edited by F...