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  • New Deal Modernism

    American Literature and the Invention of the Welfare State

    by Michael Szalay, Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson ...
    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    In New Deal Modernism Michael Szalay examines the effect that the rise of the welfare state had on American modernism during the 1930s and 1940s, and, conversely, what difference this revised modernism made to the New Deal’s famed invention of “Big Government.”Szalay situates his study within a liberal culture bent on security, a culture galvanized by its imagined need for private and public ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Hip Figures

    A Literary History of the Democratic Party

    by Michael Szalay ...
    Series series Post*45
    Hip Figures dramatically alters our understanding of the postwar American novel by showing how it mobilized fantasies of black style on behalf of the Democratic Party. Fascinated by jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll, novelists such as Norman Mailer, Ralph Ellison, John Updike, and Joan Didion turned to hip culture to negotiate the voter realignments then reshaping national politics. ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Second Lives

    Black-Market Melodramas and the Reinvention of Television

    by Michael Szalay ...
    A history of prestige television through the rise of the “black-market melodrama.”In Second Lives, Michael Szalay defines a new television genre that has driven the breathtaking ascent of TV as a cultural force over the last two decades: the black-market melodrama. Exemplified by the likes of The Sopranos and Breaking Bad, the genre moves between a family’s everyday life and its secret second life ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Mammal Phylogeny

    Mesozoic Differentiation, Multituberculates, Monotremes, Early Therians, and Marsupials

    Edited by Frederick S. Szalay, Michael J. Novacek, Malcolm C. McKenna ...
    The roots of this book and its sister volume, Mammal Phylogeny: Placentals, go back to discussions and plans, shelved for a while, between F. S. Szalay and W. P. Luckett during the international and multidisciplinary symposium on rodent evolution sponsored by NATO, July 2-6, 1984, in Paris. That conference, orga nized by W. P. Luckett and J. -L. Hartenberger, the proceedings of which were ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • International Climate Protection

    Edited by Michael Palocz-Andresen, Dóra Szalay, András Gosztom, László Sípos, Tímea Taligás ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This book explains the current climate protection processes and technologies, and informs the readers of the limiting factors and opportunities for future development. It represents the highest level of knowledge from leading scientists all over the world. Original high quality figures maximize understanding of the text. The book also introduces a new concept (climatographic), which provides a ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

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    by Rebecca Solnit ...
    The National Book Critics Circle Award–winning author delivers a collection of essays that serve as the perfect "antidote to mansplaining" ( The Stranger).In her comic, scathing essay "Men Explain Things to Me," Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women. She wrote about men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don't, about why this ... Read more

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  • The New New Journalism

    Conversations with America's Best Nonfiction Writers on Their Craft

    by Robert Boynton ...
    Forty years after Tom Wolfe, Hunter S. Thompson, and Gay Talese launched the New Journalism movement, Robert S. Boynton sits down with nineteen practitioners of what he calls the New New Journalism to discuss their methods, writings and careers.The New New Journalists are first and foremost brilliant reporters who immerse themselves completely in their subjects. Jon Krakauer accompanies a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Some of My Best Friends

    Essays on Lip Service

    by Tajja Isen ...
    A fearless, “funny, poignant, and super-smart” (Ms. magazine) essay collection about race, justice, and the limits of good intentions.In this “inspiring, determined work of personal narrative and cultural criticism” (Saeed Jones, author of How We Fight for Our Lives), essayist and award-winning voice actor Tajja Isen explores the absurdity of living in a world that has grown fluent in the language ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Appropriate

    A Provocation

    by Paisley Rekdal ...
    A timely, nuanced work that dissects the thorny debate around cultural appropriation and the literary imagination.How do we properly define cultural appropriation, and is it always wrong? If we can write in the voice of another, should we? And if so, what questions do we need to consider first? In Appropriate, creative writing professor Paisley Rekdal addresses a young writer to delineate how the ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • 9.5 Theses on Art and Class

    by Ben Davis ...
    9.5 Theses on Art and Class seeks to show how a clear understanding of class makes sense of what is at stake in a broad number of contemporary art's most persistent debates, from definitions of political art to the troubled status of "outsider" and street art to the question of how we maintain faith in art itself.Ben Davis currently lives and works in New York City where he is Executive Editor at ... Read more

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  • Tell It Like It Is

    A Guide to Clear and Honest Writing

    by Roy Peter Clark ...
    America's favorite writing coach and bestselling author returns with an "indispensable" guide (Diana K. Sugg, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter) to writing clearly and honestly in a world full of lies, propaganda, and misinformation.The darker and more dystopian the future appears, the more influential public writers become. But with so much content vying for our attention, and so much ... Read more

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  • Art in the After-Culture

    Capitalist Crisis and Cultural Strategy

    by Ben Davis ...
    It is a peculiar moment for art, as it becomes both increasingly rarefied and associated with elite lifestyle culture, while simultaneously ubiquitous, with the boom of "creative" industries and the proliferation of new technologies for making art. In these important essays, Ben Davis covers everything from Instagram to artificial intelligence, eco-art to cultural appropriation. Critical, ... Read more

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