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Muhammad's Grave
Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
In his probing study of the role of death rites in the making of Islamic society, Leor Halevi imaginatively plays prescriptive texts against material culture and advances new ways of interpreting highly contested sources. His original research reveals that religious scholars of the early Islamic period...
The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars
Dispatches from the Front Lines
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
The ongoing assault on climate science in the United States has never been more aggressive, more blatant, or more widely publicized than in the case of the Hockey Stick graph—a clear and compelling visual presentation of scientific data, put together by MichaelE. Mann and his colleagues, demonstrating...
Dreaming of Cinema
Spectatorship, Surrealism, and the Age of Digital Media
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Video games, YouTube channels, Blu-ray discs, and other forms of "new" media have made theatrical cinema seem "old." A sense of "cinema lost" has accompanied the ascent of digital media, and many worry film's capacity to record the real is fundamentally changing. Yet...
Deathwatch
American Film, Technology, and the End of Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
The first book to unpack American cinema's long history of representing death, this work considers movie sequences in which the process of dying becomes an exercise in legibility and exploration for the camera. Reading attractions-based cinema, narrative films, early sound cinema, and films using...
Indie
An American Film Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
America's independent films often seem to defy classification. Their strategies of storytelling and representation range from raw, no-budget projects to more polished releases of Hollywood's "specialty" divisions. Yet understanding American indies involves more than just considering films....
A Desert Named Peace
The Violence of France's Empire in the Algerian Sahara, 1844-1902
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2009
In the mid-nineteenth century, French colonial leaders in Algeria started southward into the Sahara, beginning a fifty-year period of violence. Lying in the shadow of the colonization of northern Algeria, which claimed the lives of over a million people, French empire in the Sahara sought power through...
by Kim Chew Ng
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
"Dream and Swine and Aurora," "Deep in the Rubber Forest," "Fish Bones," "Allah's Will," "Monkey Butts, Fire, and Dangerous Things"—Ng Kim Chew's stories are raw, rural, and rich with the traditions of his native Malaysia. They are also full of humor...
The Kojiki
An Account of Ancient Matters
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Japan's oldest surviving narrative, the eighth-century Kojiki, chronicles the mythical origins of its islands and their ruling dynasty through a diverse array of genealogies, tales, and songs that have helped to shape the modern nation's views of its ancient past. Gustav Heldt's engaging new translation...
Sunset
A Ch'ae Manshik Reader
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Ch’ae Manshik is one of the most accomplished modern Korean writers yet is underrepresented in English translation because of the challenges posed by his distinctive voice and colloquial style. Sunset: A Ch’ae Manshik Reader is the first English-language anthology of his works and features a variety...
Spells, Images, and Mandalas
Tracing the Evolution of Esoteric Buddhist Rituals
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Koichi Shinohara traces the evolution of Esoteric Buddhist rituals from the simple recitation of spells in the fifth century to complex systems involving image worship, mandala initiation, and visualization practices in the ninth century. He presents an important new reading of a seventh-century Chinese...
by George Hawley
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
During the 2016 election, a new term entered the mainstream American political lexicon: “alt-right,” short for “alternative right.” Despite the innocuous name, the alt-right is a white-nationalist movement. Yet it differs from earlier racist groups: it is youthful and tech savvy, obsessed...
Genes and DNA
A Beginner's Guide to Genetics and Its Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2004
Covering newsworthy aspects of contemporary biology—gene therapy, the Human Genome Project, DNA testing, and genetic engineering—as well as fundamental concepts, this book, written specifically for nonbiologists, discusses classical and molecular genetics, quantitative and population genetics—including...
Chaos, Territory, Art
Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2008
Instead of treating art as a unique creation that requires reason and refined taste to appreciate, Elizabeth Grosz argues that art-especially architecture, music, and painting-is born from the disruptive forces of sexual selection. She approaches art as a form of erotic expression connecting sensory...
by Jeffrey Kinkley
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
The depiction of personal and collective suffering in modern Chinese novels differs significantly from standard Communist accounts and many Eastern and Western historical narratives. Writers such as Yu Hua, Su Tong, Wang Anyi, Mo Yan, Han Shaogong, Ge Fei, Li Rui, and Zhang Wei skew and scramble common...