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  • A Different Trek

    Radical Geographies of Deep Space Nine

    by David K. Seitz ...
    Series series Cultural Geographies + Rewriting the Earth
    A different kind of Star Trek television series debuted in 1993. Deep Space Nine was set not on a starship but a space station near a postcolonial planet still reeling from a genocidal occupation. The crew was led by a reluctant Black American commander and an extraterrestrial first officer who had until recently been an anticolonial revolutionary. DS9 extended Star Trek’s tradition of critical ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • A House of Prayer for All People

    Contesting Citizenship in a Queer Church

    by David K. Seitz ...
    Perhaps an unlikely subject for an ethnographic case study, the Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto in Canada is a large predominantly LGBT church with a robust, and at times fraught, history of advocacy. While the church is often riddled with fault lines and contradictions, its queer and faith-based emphasis on shared vulnerability leads it to engage in radical solidarity with asylum-seekers ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

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  • Nothing Ever Dies

    Vietnam and the Memory of War

    by Viet Thanh Nguyen ...
    Finalist, National Book Critics Circle AwardFinalist, National Book Award in NonfictionA New York Times Book Review “The Year in Reading” SelectionAll wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. From the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Sympathizer comes a searching exploration of the conflict Americans call the Vietnam War and Vietnamese call ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Star Trek and Philosophy

    The Wrath of Kant

    by Kevin S. Decker, Jason T. Eberl ...
    Series Book 35 - Popular Culture and Philosophy
    Philosophy and space travel are characterized by the same fundamental purpose: exploration. An essential guide for both philosophers and Trekkers, Star Trek and Philosophy combines a philosophical spirit of inquiry with the beloved television and film series to consider questions not only about the scientific prospects of interstellar travel but also the inward journey to examine the human ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Ultimate Star Trek and Philosophy

    The Search for Socrates

    by William Irwin ...
    Series series The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
    Reunites the editors of Star Trek and Philosophy with Starfleet’s finest experts for 31 new, highly logical essaysFeatures a complete examination of the Star Trek universe, from the original series to the most recent films directed by J.J. Abrams, Star Trek (2009) and Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)Introduces important concepts in philosophy through the vast array of provocative issues raised by ... Read more

    $15.00 USD

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  • Friendly Fire

    American Images of the Vietnam War

    by Katherine Kinney ...
    Hundreds of memoirs, novels, plays, and movies have been devoted to the American war in Vietnam. In spite of the great variety of mediums, political perspectives and the degrees of seriousness with which the war has been treated, Katherine Kinney argues that the vast majority of these works share a single story: that of Americans killing Americans in Vietnam. Friendly Fire, in this instance, ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Homer Simpson Marches on Washington

    Dissent through American Popular Culture

    by Timothy M. Dale, Joseph J. Foy ...
    A volume of enlightening essays on how TV shows, movies, and music can change hearts and minds.Amid all its frenetic humor, the long-running animated hit The Simpsons has often questioned what is culturally acceptable, wading into controversial subjects like gay rights, the war on terror, religion, and animal rights. This subtle form of political analysis is effective in changing opinions and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Star Trek and History

    Edited by Nancy R. Reagin ...
    Series Book 5 - Wiley Pop Culture and History Series
    A guide to the history that informs the world of Star Trek?just in time for the next JJ Abrams Star Trek movieFor a series set in our future, Star Trek revisits the past constantly. Kirk and Spock battle Nazis, Roman gladiators, and witness the Great Depression. When they're not doubling back on their own earlier timelines, the crew uses the holodeck to spend time in the American Old West or ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Perspectives on Harry Crews

    Edited by Erik Bledsoe ...

    $17.99 USD

  • The Republic of Rock

    Music and Citizenship in the Sixties Counterculture

    by Michael J. Kramer ...
    In his 1967 megahit "San Francisco," Scott McKenzie sang of "people in motion" coming from all across the country to San Francisco, the white-hot center of rock music and anti-war protests. At the same time, another large group of young Americans was also in motion, less eagerly, heading for the jungles of Vietnam. Now, in The Republic of Rock, Michael Kramer draws on new archival sources and ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • After the Fall

    American Literature Since 9/11

    by Richard Gray ...
    Series series Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
    After the FallA common refrain heard since the collapse of the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001 is that “everything has changed.” After the Fall presents a timely and provocative examination of the impact and implications of 9/11 and the war on terror on American culture and literature. Author Richard Gray – widely regarded as the leading European scholar in American literature – ... Read more

    $34.00 USD

  • About to Die

    How News Images Move the Public

    by Barbie Zelizer ...
    Due to its ability to freeze a moment in time, the photo is a uniquely powerful device for ordering and understanding the world. But when an image depicts complex, ambiguous, or controversial events--terrorist attacks, wars, political assassinations--its ability to influence perception can prove deeply unsettling. Are we really seeing the world "as it is" or is the image a fabrication or ... Read more

    $34.19 USD