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  • The Ex-Human

    Science Fiction and the Fate of Our Species

    by Michael Bérubé ...
    Facing threats like climate change and nuclear warfare, science fiction authors have conjured apocalyptic scenarios of human extinction. Can such gloomy fates help us make sense of our contemporary crises? How important is the survival of our species if we wind up battling for an Earth that has become an unhabitable hellscape? What other possible futures do narratives of the end of humanity allow ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Secret Life of Stories

    From Don Quixote to Harry Potter, How Understanding Intellectual Disability Transforms the Way We Read

    by Michael Bérubé ...
    How an understanding of intellectual disability transforms the pleasures of readingNarrative informs everything we think, do, plan, remember, and imagine. We tell stories and we listen to stories, gauging their "well-formedness" within a couple of years of learning to walk and talk. Some argue that the capacity to understand narrative is innate to our species; others claim that while that might be ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Crip Theory

    Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability

    by Robert McRuer, Michael Bérubé ...
    Series Book 9 - Cultural Front
    A bold and contemporary discourse of the intersection of disability studies and queer studies.Crip Theory attends to the contemporary cultures of disability and queerness that are coming out all over. Both disability studies and queer theory are centrally concerned with how bodies, pleasures, and identities are represented as "normal" or as abject, but Crip Theory is the first book to analyze ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • It's Not Free Speech

    Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom

    by Michael Bérubé, Jennifer Ruth ...
    How far does the idea of academic freedom extend to professors in an era of racial reckoning?The protests of summer 2020, which were ignited by the murder of George Floyd, led to long-overdue reassessments of the legacy of racism and white supremacy in both American academe and cultural life more generally. But while universities have been willing to rename some buildings and schools or grapple ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Life as Jamie Knows It

    An Exceptional Child Grows Up

    by Michael Berube ...
    The story of Jamie Bérubé’s journey to adulthood and a meditation on disability in American lifePublished in 1996, Life as We Know It introduced Jamie Bérubé to the world as a sweet, bright, gregarious little boy who loves the Beatles, pizza, and making lists. When he is asked in his preschool class what he would like to be when he grows up, he responds with one word: big. At four, he is like many ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Humanities, Higher Education, and Academic Freedom

    Three Necessary Arguments

    by Michael Bérubé, J. Ruth ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book is a lively, passionate defence of contemporary work in the humanities, and, beyond that, of the university system that makes such work possible. The book's stark accounts of academic labour, and its proposals for reform of the tenure system, are novel, controversial, timely, and very necessary. ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Philosophy as Poetry

    by Richard Rorty, Mary Varney Rorty ...
    Series series Page-Barbour Lectures
    Undeniably iconoclastic, and doggedly practical where others were abstract, the late Richard Rorty was described by some as a philosopher with no philosophy. Rorty was skeptical of systems claiming to have answers, seeing scientific and aesthetic schools as vocabularies rather than as indispensable paths to truth. But his work displays a profound awareness of philosophical tradition and an urgent ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Higher Education Under Fire

    Politics, Economics, and the Crisis of the Humanities

    by Michael Berube, Cary Nelson ...
    The contributors to this collection explore why--and how--higher education in America under attack. ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Rhetorical Occasions

    Essays on Humans and the Humanities

    by Michael Bérubé ...
    A nationally known scholar, essayist, and public advocate for the humanities, Michael Bérubé has a rapier wit and a singular talent for parsing complex philosophical, theoretical, and political questions. Rhetorical Occasions collects twenty-four of his major essays and reviews, plus a sampling of entries on literary theory and contemporary culture from his award-winning weblog.Selected to ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • What's Liberal About the Liberal Arts?

    Classroom Politics and "Bias" in Higher Education

    by Michael Bérubé ...
    "A sensitive, sensible, and compelling account of American education at its best."—Philadelphia InquirerDescribed as one of the "101 Most Dangerous Academics in America" by right-wing critic David Horowitz, Michael Bérubé has become a leading liberal voice in the ongoing culture wars. This "smooth and swift read" (New Criterion) offers a definitive rebuttal of conservative activists' most ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Left at War

    by Michael Bérubé ...
    Series series Cultural Front
    The terrorist attacks of 9/11 and Bush’s belligerent response fractured the American left—partly by putting pressure on little-noticed fissures that had appeared a decade earlier.In a masterful survey of the post-9/11 landscape, renowned scholar Michael Bérubé revisits and reinterprets the major intellectual debates and key players of the last two decades, covering the terrain of left debates in ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    It's Not Free Speech

    Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom

    by Jennifer Ruth, Michael Bérubé ...
    Narrated by David Chandler ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 58 min

    How far does the idea of academic freedom extend to professors in an era of racial reckoning?The protests of summer 2020, which were ignited by the murder of George Floyd, led to long-overdue reassessments of the legacy of racism and white supremacy in both American academe and cultural life more generally. But while universities have been willing to rename some buildings and schools orgrapple ... Read more

    $19.99 USD