The Gentrification of the Internet

Jessa Lingel

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The internet has become a battleground. Although it was unlikely to live up to the hype and hopes of the 1990s, only the most skeptical cynics could have predicted the World Wide Web as we kno

Grad School Essentials

Zachary Shore

评分 9.9分

What’s the hardest part of grad school? It’s not simply that the workload is heavy and the demands are high. It’s that too many students lack efficient methods to let them do their best. Professor

We are Amphibians

R. S. Deese

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At the Jazz Band Ball

Nat Hentoff

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Nat Hentoff, renowned jazz critic, civil liberties activist, and fearless contrarian - 'I'm a Jewish atheist civil-libertarian pro-lifer' - has lived through much of jazz's history and has known ma

Mama Lola

Karen McCarthy Brown

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Vodou is among the most misunderstood and maligned of the world's religions. Mama Lola shatters the stereotypes by offering an intimate portrait of Vodou in everyday life. Drawing on a 35 year long

Coming to Terms with the Nation

Thomas Mullaney

评分 8.4分

China is a vast nation comprised of hundreds of distinct ethnic communities, each with its own language, history, and culture. Today the government of China recognizes just 56 ethnic nationalities,

Sun Yat-Sen and the Origins of the Chinese Revolution

Harold Z. Schiffrin

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哈罗德·史扶邻（Harold Zvi-Schifferin， 以色列， 1922- ）1922年出生于美国纽约州的罗彻斯特，史扶邻教授的专业兴趣始终是孙中山与辛亥革命，他主要通过研究孙中山来研究中国的政治、民主制度发展之路和治国的经验。他自称他是西方第一位研究《民报》的学者。史扶邻教授的汉学研究曾得到美国良知学会、哈佛大学东亚研究中心、社会科学理事会、美国历史协会和日本增进科学协会

Visions of Japanese Modernity

Aaron Gerow

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Japan has done marvelous things with cinema, giving the world the likes of Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, and Ozu. But cinema did not arrive in Japan fully formed at the end of the nineteenth century, nor wa

The Taste of Place

Amy B Trubek

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How and why do we think about food, taste it, and cook it? While much has been written about the concept of terroir as it relates to wine, in this vibrant, personal book, Amy Trubek, a pioneering v

Longing and Belonging

Allison Pugh

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Even as they see their wages go down and their buying power decrease, many parents are still putting their kids' material desires first. These parents struggle with how to handle children's co

Alien Ocean

Stefan Helmreich

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Alien Ocean immerses readers in worlds being newly explored by marine biologists, worlds usually out of sight and reach: the deep sea, the microscopic realm, and oceans beyond national boundaries.

Wuhan, 1938

Stephen R. MacKinnon

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"Read this slim and seductively informative book and recommend it to friends who are not China specialists."—Asia Media "MacKinnon's study of Wuhan during its service as China's wartime c

Global Rebellion

Mark Juergensmeyer

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Why has the turn of the twenty-first century been rocked by a new religious rebellion? From al Qaeda to Christian militias to insurgents in Iraq, a strident new religious activism has seized the im

The Dinosauria (Second Edition)

David B. Weishampel

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When the The Dinosauria was first published more than a decade ago, it was hailed as "the best scholarly reference work available on dinosaurs" and "an historically unparalleled compendium of infor

Stoicism

John Sellars

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One of the most popular of the Hellenistic schools of philosophy in antiquity, Stoicism flourished for some five hundred years and has remained a constant presence throughout the history of Western

Beyond the Multiplex

Barbara Klinger

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Since the mid-eighties, more audiences have been watching Hollywood movies at home than at movie theaters, yet little is known about just how viewers experience film outside of the multiplex. This

Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards

Afsaneh Najmabadi

评分 9.4分

Drawing from a rich array of visual and literary material from nineteenth-century Iran, this groundbreaking book rereads and rewrites the history of Iranian modernity through the lens of gender and

Disgraceful Matters

Janet M. Theiss

评分 7.8分

Looking beyond the familiar trappings of the cult of female chastity—such as hagiographies of widows and chastity shrines--in late imperial China, this book explores the cult's political significan

Ishi in Two Worlds

Theodora Kroeber

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The life story of Ishi, the last Yahi Indian, lone survivor of an exterminated tribe, is unique in the annals of North American anthropology. For more than forty years, Theodora Kroeber's biography

Early India

Romila Thapar

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Early India represents a complete rewriting by Romila Thapar of her classic work, A History of India (the first volume in the Penguin History of India series), thirty-five years after it was first

The Political Landscape

Adam Smith

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How do landscapes--defined in the broadest sense to incorporate the physical contours of the built environment, the aesthetics of form, and the imaginative reflections of spatial representations--c

The Practice of Everyday Life

Michel de Certeau

评分 9.0分

In this incisive book, Michel de Certeau considers the uses to which social representation and modes of social behavior are put by individuals and groups, describing the tactics available to the co

Weimar

Arthur J Jacobson (EDT)

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This selection of the major works of constitutional theory during the Weimar period reflects the reactions of legal scholars to a state in permanent crisis, a society in which all bets were off. Ye

Permitted and Prohibited Desires

Anne Allison

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This provocative study of gender and sexuality in contemporary Japan investigates elements of Japanese popular culture including erotic comic books, stories of mother-son incest, lunchboxes--or obe

Women in the Chinese Enlightenment

Wang Zheng

评分 9.5分

Centering on five life stories by Chinese women activists born just after the turn of this century, this first history of Chinese May Fourth feminism disrupts the Chinese Communist Party's master n

Men, Women, and God(s)

Fedwa Malti-Douglas

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Men, Women, and God(s) is a pioneering study of the Arab world's leading feminist and most controversial woman writer, Nawal El Saadawi. Author of plays, memoirs, and such novels as Woman at Point

Epistemology of the Closet

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

评分 8.6分

Polyhymnia

Gregson Davis

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Horace's Odes have a surface translucency that belies their rhetorical sophistication. Gregson Davis brings together recent trends in the study of Augustan poetry and critical theory and deftly app

Religion in Chinese Society

C. K. Yang

评分 8.3分

An impressively comprehensive review of Chinese religions. Neither scholars from China nor the West have been able to accomplish such a comprehensive review of Chinese religions as this. No other b

The Gender of the Gift

Marilyn Strathern

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In the most original and ambitious synthesis yet undertaken in Melanesian scholarship, Marilyn Strathern argues that gender relations have been a particular casualty of unexamined assumptions held