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  • Modern Social Imaginaries

    by Charles Taylor, Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar, Jane Kramer, Benjamin Lee, Michael Warner ...
    Series series Public planet books
    One of the most influential philosophers in the English-speaking world, Charles Taylor is internationally renowned for his contributions to political and moral theory, particularly to debates about identity formation, multiculturalism, secularism, and modernity. In Modern Social Imaginaries, Taylor continues his recent reflections on the theme of multiple modernities. To account for the ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Fear of Small Numbers

    An Essay on the Geography of Anger

    by Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar, Jane Kramer, Benjamin Lee, Michael Warner, Arjun Appadurai, Ph.D. ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    The period since 1989 has been marked by the global endorsement of open markets, the free flow of finance capital and liberal ideas of constitutional rule, and the active expansion of human rights. Why, then, in this era of intense globalization, has there been a proliferation of violence, of ethnic cleansing on the one hand and extreme forms of political violence against civilian populations on ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Empire of Love

    Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality

    by Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar, Jane Kramer, Benjamin Lee, Michael Warner ...
    Series series Public planet books
    In The Empire of Love anthropologist Elizabeth A. Povinelli reflects on a set of ethical and normative claims about the governance of love, sociality, and the body that circulates in liberal settler colonies such as the United States and Australia. She boldly theorizes intimate relations as pivotal sites where liberal logics and aspirations absorbed through settler imperialism are manifest, where ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Lone Patriot

    The Short Career of an American Militiaman

    by Jane Kramer ...
    In the mid 1990s self-styled Patriot John Pitner gathered around him a ragtag band of discontents, all eager to avenge themselves against America’s enemies, both foreign and domestic. Fervently believing that a New World Order threatened their liberty and way of life, Pitner and his recruits prepared for confrontation until an FBI sting led to their arrests on conspiracy charges in 1997.In Lone ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • How to Be an Intellectual in the Age of TV

    The Lessons of Gore Vidal

    by Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar, Jane Kramer, Benjamin Lee, Michael Warner, Marcie Frank, PhD ...
    Series series Public planet books
    Novelist, television personality, political candidate, and maverick social commentator, Gore Vidal is one of the most innovative, influential, and enduring American intellectuals of the past fifty years. In How to Be an Intellectual in the Age of TV, Marcie Frank provides a concise introduction to Vidal’s life and work as she argues that the twentieth-century shift from print to electronic media, ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Financial Derivatives and the Globalization of Risk

    by Edward LiPuma, Benjamin Lee, Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar, Jane Kramer, Michael Warner ...
    Series series Public planet books
    The market for financial derivatives is far and away the largest and most powerful market in the world, and it is growing exponentially. In 1970 the yearly valuation of financial derivatives was only a few million dollars. By 1980 the sum had swollen to nearly one hundred million dollars. By 1990 it had climbed to almost one hundred billion dollars, and in 2000 it approached one hundred trillion. ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Bilingual Aesthetics

    A New Sentimental Education

    by Doris Sommer, Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar, Jane Kramer, Benjamin Lee, Michael Warner ...
    Series series Public planet books
    Knowing a second language entails some unease; it requires a willingness to make mistakes and work through misunderstandings. The renowned literary scholar Doris Sommer argues that feeling funny is good for you, and for society. In Bilingual Aesthetics Sommer invites readers to make mischief with meaning, to play games with language, and to allow errors to stimulate new ways of thinking. Today’s ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Politics of Survival

    by Marc Abélès, Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar, Jane Kramer, Benjamin Lee ...
    Translated by Julie Kleinman ...
    Series series Public Planet Books
    In this provocative analysis of global politics, the anthropologist Marc Abélès argues that the meaning and aims of political action have radically changed in the era of globalization. As dangers such as terrorism and global warming have moved to the fore of global consciousness, foreboding has replaced the belief that tomorrow will be better than today. Survival, outlasting the uncertainties and ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • The Reporter's Kitchen

    Essays

    by Jane Kramer ...
    A "delectable collection" of food writing from the longtime New Yorker writer and National Book Award winner ( The New York Times Book Review).Jane Kramer started cooking when she started writing. Her first dish, a tinned-tuna curry, was assembled on a tiny stove in her graduate student apartment while she pondered her first writing assignment. From there, whether her travels took her to a tent ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Jane Against the Grain

    Awakening to the Mystery of Life

    by Jane Kramer ...
    Jane Kramer came into this world as a free spirited Irish Gemini. Her Celtic background nurtured her intuition and outlook on life. Her desire to help teenagers led her into the field of guidance counseling. Here as with most things, she followed her heart rather than rules. It was the same way she lived her life.An uncle once told Jane she was an example of what the Irish called having The Sight. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Whose Art Is It?

    by Jane Kramer ...
    Series series Public planet books
    Whose Art Is It? is the story of sculptor John Ahearn, a white artist in a black and Hispanic neighborhood of the South Bronx, and of the people he cast for a series of public sculptures commissioned for an intersection outside a police station. Jane Kramer, telling this story, raises one of the most urgent questions of our time: How do we live in a society we share with people who are, often by ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • What I Believe

    by Tariq Ramadan ...
    Tariq Ramadan is very much a public figure, named one of Time magazine's most important innovators of the twenty-first century. He is among the leading Islamic thinkers in the West, with a large following around the world. But he has also been a lightning rod for controversy. Indeed, in 2004, Ramadan was prevented from entering the U.S. by the Bush administration and despite two appeals, supported ... Read more

    $9.99 USD