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  • Making Sex

    Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud

    by Thomas Laqueur ...
    This is a book about the making and unmaking of sex over the centuries. It tells the astonishing story of sex in the West from the ancients to the moderns in a precise account of developments in reproductive anatomy and physiology. We cannot fail to recognize the players in Thomas Laqueur’s story—the human sexual organs and pleasures, food, blood, semen, egg, sperm—but we will be amazed at the ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • The Dog's Gaze

    A Visual History

    by Thomas W. Laqueur ...
    **"It is difficult to think of many other books that are at once so brilliant, so wonderfully entertaining, and so moving . . . The Dog’s Gaze is full of exuberant insights about our canine friends, about art, and about the human condition." —Stephen Greenblatt“A splendid blend of histories: natural, cultural, and artistic . . . A delight for dog-loving art connoisseurs, and vice versa.” —Kirkus ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Rethinking Masculinity

    Philosophical Explorations in Light of Feminism

    by Kenneth Clatterbaugh, J Glenn Gray, Leonard Harris, Patrick Hopkins, Hugh LaFollette, Thomas Laqueur, Charles Mills, Richard Schmitt, Victor Seidler, Robert Stuffelbeam, Harry Brod, Daniel Callahan, Patrick Grim, Larry May, Laurence Thomas ...
    Series series New Feminist Perspectives
    The new edition of this popular book is reorganized to present pairs of contrasting views on what it means to be a man in contemporary Western culture. Addressing such issues as sex differences, fatherhood, intimacy, homosexuality, and oppression; the collection also includes new discussions of paternity, pornography, mixed-race marriage, impotence, and violence. Rethinking Masculinity is an ... Read more

    $23.89 USD

  • The Work of the Dead

    A Cultural History of Mortal Remains

    by Thomas W. Laqueur ...
    The meaning of our concern for mortal remains—from antiquity through the twentieth centuryThe Greek philosopher Diogenes said that when he died his body should be tossed over the city walls for beasts to scavenge. Why should he or anyone else care what became of his corpse? In The Work of the Dead, acclaimed cultural historian Thomas Laqueur examines why humanity has universally rejected Diogenes ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

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    The Dog's Gaze

    A Visual History

    by Thomas W. Laqueur ...
    Narrated by Christian Leatherman ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 49 min

    **"It is difficult to think of many other books that are at once so brilliant, so wonderfully entertaining, and so moving . . . The Dog’s Gaze is full of exuberant insights about our canine friends, about art, and about the human condition." —Stephen Greenblatt“A splendid blend of histories: natural, cultural, and artistic . . . A delight for dog-loving art connoisseurs, and vice versa.” —Kirkus ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry

    by Michael Ignatieff, Kwame Anthony Appiah, David A. Hollinger, Diane F. Orentlicher, Thomas W. Laqueur ...
    Series series The University Center for Human Values Series
    Michael Ignatieff draws on his extensive experience as a writer and commentator on world affairs to present a penetrating account of the successes, failures, and prospects of the human rights revolution. Since the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, this revolution has brought the world moral progress and broken the nation-state's monopoly on the conduct of ... Read more

    $28.79 USD