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  • Gage Street Courtesan

    by Christopher New ...
    Hong Kong's demi-monde at the height of the British Empire... Franziska Goldmann, an opera singer fallen on hard times, has become the star courtesan in 19th century Hong Kong. A chance encounter with Queen Victoria's musical second son seems to offer Franziska an opportunity to resume her career as a singer. But it is the other unpredictable characters in her life, including her German anarchist ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Shanghai

    by Christopher New ...
    Almost the first thing callow young Englishman John Denton sees when he steps ashore in Shanghai in 1903 is the public beheading of some pirates. Shocked and sickened though he is, he must adapt himself to the brutal but fascinating city of extremes, and he spends the rest of his life there, through all the vicissitudes of revolution, riot, lawlessness and war. He makes, loses, and regains a ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Kaminsky Cure

    by Christopher New ...
    “Well, here I am at five and three quarters. It’s Christmas 1939 in a little Austrian village in Hitler’s Third Reich and I’m just beginning to notice things. Like what my brothers and sisters are about and why my parents are often crying and my father usually shouting when he isn’t crying. I think it has something to do with the war we’re fighting, which according to the wireless is due to The ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

    by Laurence Sterne, Sir Christopher Ricks ...
    'L-d! said my mother, what is all this story about? - A COCK and a BULL, said Yorick - And one of the best of its kind, I ever heard'Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categorize it, with a rich metafictional narrative that might classify it as the first 'postmodern' novel. Part novel, part digression, its gloriously disordered narrative ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Philosophy of Literature

    An Introduction

    by Christopher New ...
    Literature, like the visual arts, poses its own philosophical problems. While literary theorists have discussed the nature of literature intensively, analytic philosophers have usually dealt with literary problems either within the general framework of aesthetics or else in a way that is accessible only to a philosophical audience. The present book is unique in that it introduces the philosophy of ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Unmaking the Public University

    The Forty-Year Assault on the Middle Class

    by Christopher Newfield ...
    An essential American dream—equal access to higher education—was becoming a reality with the GI Bill and civil rights movements after World War II. But this vital American promise has been broken. Christopher Newfield argues that the financial and political crises of public universities are not the result of economic downturns or of ultimately valuable restructuring, but of a conservative campaign ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Limits of the Numerical

    The Abuses and Uses of Quantification

    Edited by Dr. Christopher Newfield, Dr. Anna Alexandrova, Dr. Stephen John ...
    This collection examines the uses of quantification in climate science, higher education, and health.Numbers are both controlling and fragile. They drive public policy, figuring into everything from college rankings to vaccine efficacy rates. At the same time, they are frequent objects of obfuscation, manipulation, or outright denial. This timely collection by a diverse group of humanists and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Great Mistake

    How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them

    by Christopher Newfield ...
    Series series Critical University Studies
    A remarkable indictment of how misguided business policies have undermined the American higher education system.Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRLHigher education in America, still thought to be the world leader, is in crisis. University students are falling behind their international peers in attainment, while suffering from unprecedented student debt. For over a ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Law and Ethics in Intensive Care

    Edited by Christopher Danbury, Christopher Newdick, Alex Ruck Keene, Carl Waldmann ...
    The practice of intensive care medicine raises multiple legal and ethical issues on a daily basis, making it increasingly difficult to know who to admit and when, at what stage invasive management should be withdrawn, and who, importantly, should decide? These profound dilemmas, already complicated in a setting of scarce resources, mandate an understanding of law and ethics for those working in ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • A New Deal for the Humanities

    Liberal Arts and the Future of Public Higher Education

    by Gordon Hutner, Feisal G. Mohamed, Roger L. Geiger, Sheldon Rothblatt, Kathleen Woodward, Yolanda Moses, Daniel Lee Kleinman, Charlotte Melin, Bethany Nowviskie0, John McGowan1, Jeffrey J. Williams2, Christopher Newfield3 ...
    Series series The American Campus
    Many in higher education fear that the humanities are facing a crisis. But even if the rhetoric about “crisis” is overblown, humanities departments do face increasing pressure from administrators, politicians, parents, and students. In A New Deal for the Humanities, Gordon Hutner and Feisal G. Mohamed bring together twelve prominent scholars who address the history, the present state, and the ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Mutant Neoliberalism

    Market Rule and Political Rupture

    by Étienne Balibar, Sören Brandes, Wendy Brown, Melinda Cooper, Julia Elyachar, Michel Feher, Megan C. Moodie, Christopher Newfield, Dieter Plehwe, Lisa Rofel, Leslie Salzinger, Quinn Slobodian ...
    Tales of neoliberalism’s death are serially overstated. Following the financial crisis of 2008, neoliberalism was proclaimed a “zombie,” a disgraced ideology that staggered on like an undead monster. After the political ruptures of 2016, commentators were quick to announce “the end” of neoliberalism yet again, pointing to both the global rise of far-right forces and the reinvigoration of ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Ivy and Industry

    Business and the Making of the American University, 1880-1980

    by Christopher Newfield ...
    Emphasizing how profoundly the American research university has been shaped by business and the humanities alike, Ivy and Industry is a vital contribution to debates about the corporatization of higher education in the United States. Christopher Newfield traces major trends in the intellectual and institutional history of the research university from 1880 to 1980. He pays particular attention to ... Read more

    $35.99 USD