Power Button: A History of Pleasure, Panic, and the Politics of Pushing, Hardcover - Rachel Plotnick

DescriptionPush a button and turn on the television; tap a button and get a ride; click a button and "like" something. The touch of a finger can se...

Explores the mirthful modes of political performance by LGBT artists, activists, and collectives that have inspired and sustained deadly serious st...

The Sultan's Communists uncovers the history of Jewish radical involvement in Morocco's national liberation project and examines how Moroccan Jews ...

Reducere. A study of three controversies that illuminate the changing cultural role of art exhibition in the nineteenth centuryFrom the antebellum era throug...

Roy Plotnick provides a behind-the-scenes look at paleontology as it exists today in all its complexity. He explores the field's aims, methods, and...

Description'The authors draw on an impressive array of contemporary literature and critical studies to provide original and illuminating analyses o...

DescriptionPeter Crawford examines the life and career of the fifth-century Roman emperor Zeno and the various problems he faced before and during ...

This is the first book to ever be written on Joan, Lady of Wales, the first woman to be designated with such a title. Her role a political diplomat...

Reducere. 1968 was an unprecedented year in terms of upheaval on numerous scales: political, military, economic, social, cultural. In the United States, perh...

In this fascinating study, Alison Cole explores the distinctive uses of art at the five great secular courts of Naples, Urbino, Ferrara, Mantua, an...

The forces of freedom are challenged everywhere by a newly energized spirit of tyranny, whether it is Jihadist terrorism, Putin's imperialism, or t...

DescriptionThe interaction of sustainability governance and global value chains has crucial implications the world over. When it comes to sustainab...

Reducere. It is February 1839, and the survivors of the Cherokee Trail of Tears have just arrived in Fort Gibson, Indian Territory. A quarter of the removed ...

Reducere. Description: Man's freedom--God's omnipotence: how can they be reconciled? That question is central to this penetrating study of political action a...

The Harlem Renaissance was the most influential single movement in African American literary history. The movement laid the groundwork for subseque...

A provocative history of the changing values that have given rise to our present discontents.We pursue power, pleasure, and profit. We want as much...

DescriptionSince the 2016 election, college campuses have erupted in violent protests, demands for safe spaces, and the silencing of views that act...

DescriptionSuper 8: An Illustrated History is a coffee table art book showcasing the history of Super 8 filmmaking. In addition to featuring stunni...

Reducere. DescriptionThis fascinating book will take you on the ride of a lifetime. Douglas Weiss explains how you're incredibly designed for pleasure--with ...

Reducere. Why has the United States assumed so extensive and costly a role in world affairs over the last hundred years? The two most common answers to this ...

Reducere. A sweeping chronicle of women's battles for reproductive freedom throughout American history, Pregnancy and Power explores the many forces--social,...

DescriptionWhere Trump Learned to RuleTo know Donald J. Trump--to understand what makes the forty-fifth president of the United States tick--it is ...

Reducere. Separating FACT from FICTION in the COVID-19 EpidemicPeople are afraid. COVID-19 has upended our lives as it poses new medical dangers, economic su...

A wide-ranging look at the interplay of opera and political ideas through the centuries The Politics of Opera takes readers on a fascinating journe...

DescriptionJapan's U.S.-imposed postwar constitution renounced the use of offensive military force, but, as Sheila Smith shows, a nuclear North Kor...

American Identity and the Politics of Multiculturalism - Jack Citrin, David O. Sears

In this study, the author moves beyond the impasse of the anti-porn/anti-censorship debate to analyze what hard-core film pornography is and does -...

DescriptionFrom the author of the national bestseller The Sleepwalkers, a book about how the exercise of power is shaped by different concepts of t...

DescriptionA sweeping chronicle of women's battles for reproductive freedomReproductive politics in the United States has always been about who has...

Reducere. In The Lettered Barriada, Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo tells the story of how a cluster of self-educated workers burst into Puerto Rico's world of le...

Reducere. The exhortation to "Go West " has always sparked the American imagination. But for gays, lesbians, and transgendered people, the City of Angels pro...

DescriptionAmerica's criminal justice policy reflects irrational fears stoked by politicians seeking to win election. A preeminent legal scholar ar...

Reducere. In Phoebe Apperson Hearst: A Life in Power and Politics Alexandra M. Nickliss offers the first biography of one of the Gilded Age's most prominent ...

The first book to chart the extraordinary story of St James's in London, the home to the city's iconic clubland and a host of famous institutionsIl...

Reducere. Part theory, part op-ed, The Game is Not a Game, is an affecting, sobering and unflinching examination of the good and evil of the sports industry....

A reflection on the status and development of current analytical methodology and its applicability within the wider textile field.Publisher: Oxbow ...

Decolonising International Law: Development, Economic Growth and the Politics of Universality - Sundhya Pahuja

A comprehensive, historical study of one of the world's largest food aid programmes, interrogating the failures of contemporary humanitarianism and...

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

Leading analysts have predicted for decades that nuclear weapons would help pacify international politics. The core notion is that countries protec...

Reducere. The book details the role of sea power during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and discusses the various factors needed to support and ach...

DescriptionEven the most powerful men in the world are human-they get sick, take dubious drugs, drink too much, contemplate suicide, fret about ail...