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  • Embodying Contagion

    The Viropolitics of Horror and Desire in Contemporary Discourse

    Edited by Sandra Becker, Megen de Bruin-Molé, Sara Polak ...
    Series series Horror Studies
    From Outbreak to The Walking Dead, apocalyptic narratives of infection, contagion and global pandemic are an inescapable part of twenty-first-century popular culture. Yet these fears and fantasies are too virulent to be simply quarantined within fictional texts; vocabulary and metaphors from outbreak narratives have now infiltrated how news media, policymakers, and the general public view the real ... Read more

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  • Trans Like Me

    Conversations for All of Us

    by CN Lester ...
    A personal and culture-driven exploration of the most pressing questions facing the transgender community today, from a leading activist, musician, and academicIn Trans Like Me, CN Lester takes readers on a measured, thoughtful, intelligent yet approachable tour through the most important and high-profile narratives around the trans community, turning them inside out and examining where we really ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • On Freedom

    Four Songs of Care and Constraint

    by Maggie Nelson ...
    Named a Most Anticipated/Best Book of the Month by: NPR * USA Today * Time * Washington Post * Vulture * Women’s Wear Daily * Bustle * LitHub * The Millions * Vogue * Nylon * Shondaland * Chicago Review of Books * The Guardian * Los Angeles Times * Kirkus * Publishers WeeklySo often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or li... ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Epidemic Illusions

    On the Coloniality of Global Public Health

    by Eugene T Richardson ...
    A physician-anthropologist explores how public health practices--from epidemiological modeling to outbreak containment--help perpetuate global inequities.In Epidemic Illusions, Eugene Richardson, a physician and an anthropologist, contends that public health practices--from epidemiological modeling and outbreak containment to Big Data and causal inference--play an essential role in perpetuating a ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Braaaiiinnnsss!

    From Academics to Zombies

    Edited by Robert Smith?, Professor Stacey Smith?, Professor ...
    In the fight against zombies, our most important weapons are our brains. It's time to unleash them. Think you know a thing or two about zombies? Think again. If you’re going to keep your wits – and your brains – about you during a zombie attack, you need expert advice. Braaaiiinnnsss!: From Academics to Zombies gathers together an irreverent group of scholars and writers to take a serious look at ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Pandemics and the Media

    by Marina Levina ...
    Series Book 12 - Global Crises and the Media
    Offering a comprehensive analysis of mediated representations of global pandemics, this book engages with the construction, management, and classification of difference in the global context of a pandemic, to address what it means – culturally, politically, and economically – to live in an infected, diseased body. Marina Levina argues that mediated representations are essential in translating and ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Zombies in the Academy

    Living Death in Higher Education

    by Andrew Whelan, Ruth Walker, Christopher Moore ...
    Zombies in the Academy taps into the current popular fascination with zombies and brings together scholars from a range of fields, including cultural and communications studies, sociology, film studies and education, to give a critical account of the political, cultural and pedagogical state of the university through the metaphor of zombiedom. The contributions to this volume argue that the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Quarantine Life from Cholera to COVID-19

    What Pandemics Teach Us About Parenting, Work, Life, and Communities from the 1700s to Today

    by Kari Nixon ...
    For readers of Mary Roach and Jared Diamond, an innovative look at the histories of different epidemics and what it meant for society, alongside what lessons different diseases have to teach us as society battles the novel coronavirus.Throughout history, there have been numerous epidemics that have threatened mankind with destruction. Diseases have the ability to highlight our shared concerns ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Philosophers Take On the World

    Edited by David Edmonds ...
    Every day the news shows us provoking stories about what's going on in the world, about events which raise moral questions and problems. In Philosophers Take On the World a team of philosophers get to grips with a variety of these controversial issues, from the amusing to the shocking, in short, engaging, often controversial pieces. Covering topics from guns to abortion, the morality of drinking ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • AIDS TV

    Identity, Community, and Alternative Video

    by Alexandra Juhasz ...
    Series series Console-ing passions
    Camcorder AIDS activism is a prime example of a new form of political expression—an outburst of committed, low-budget, community-produced, political video work made possible by new accessible technologies. As Alexandra Juhasz looks at this phenomenon—why and how video has become the medium for so much AIDS activism—she also tries to make sense of the bigger picture: How is this work different from ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Concerto for the Left Hand

    Disability and the Defamiliar Body

    by Michael Davidson ...
    Series series Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability
    "Professor Davidson---an accomplished literary critic---offers a focused and balanced analysis of poetry, film, and the arts honed with his excellent knowledge of the latest advances in disability studies. He is brilliant at reading texts in a sophisticated and aesthetically pleasurable way, making Concerto for the Left Hand one of the smartest books to date in disability studies."---Lennard Davis ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Theories of International Politics and Zombies

    Apocalypse Edition

    by Daniel W. Drezner ...
    How international relations theory can be applied to a zombie invasionWhat would happen to international politics if the dead rose from the grave and started to eat the living? Daniel Drezner’s groundbreaking book answers the question that other international relations scholars have been too scared to ask. Addressing timely issues with analytical bite, Drezner looks at how well-known theories from ... Read more

    $16.59 USD