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Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger

Julie Sze

• Paperback

Beginning to End Hunger

M. Jahi Chappell

• Paperback

Thing of Beauty

Jackson Mac Low

• Paperback
• Features poetry, performance pieces, 'traditional' verse, prose poems, and other poetical texts from Jackson Mac Low's lifetime in art - that span the...

Getting Sociology Right

Neil J. Smelser

• Hardcover
• Examining sociology as a vocation and building on the work of Talcott Parsons, this book discusses author's views on the discipline of sociology and s...

The Faces of Buddhism in America

• Paperback
• Buddhism is the fastest growing religion in the United States, with adherents estimated in the several millions. But what exactly defines a 'Buddhist'...

Memory for Forgetfulness

Mahmoud Darwish

• Paperback
• What is the meaning of exile? What is the role of the writer in time of war? What is the relationship of writing (memory) to history (forgetfulness)? ...

Walter Benjamin

Richard Wolin

• Paperback
• An introduction to the life and work of Walter Benjamin, the German-Jewish philosopher and literary and cultural critic. The text offers insight into ...

Of Rock and Rivers

Ellen Wohl

• Hardcover
• A collection of essays that paints a progressive view of the American West as seen by a geologist. It traces the geologist's twenty years of living an...

Breaking Through

Edward F. Ricketts

• Hardcover
• Trailblazing marine biologist, visionary conservationist, deep ecology philosopher, Edward F Ricketts (1897-1948) has reached legendary status in the ...

Smile of the Buddha

Jacquelynn Baas

• Hardcover

The Making of a Teenage Service Class

Ranita Ray

• Paperback

Why Classical Music Still Matters

Lawrence Kramer

• Paperback
• Explores classical music's nature of subjectivity, the conquest of time and mortality, the harmonization of humanity and technology, the cultivation o...

From Colonia to Community

Virginia E. Sanchez Korrol

• Paperback
• A study documenting the historical development of the Puerto Rican community in the United States.

Mumford on Modern Art in the 1930s

Robert Mumford

• Paperback
• Includes articles, which provide a window onto the New York art scene just as it was casting off provincialism in favor of a more international outloo...

Surf, Sand, and Stone

Keith Heyer Meldahl

• Hardcover
• Southern California is sandwiched between two tectonic plates with an ever-shifting boundary. Over the last several million years, movements of these ...

The Catholic Imagination

Andrew M. Greeley

• Paperback
• Exploring what is unique about the Catholic worldview and culture and what distinguishes it from Protestantism, this text examines the religious imagi...

Nicole Brossard

Nicole Brossard

• Hardcover
• Offers an overview of the life and work of Nicole Brossard, poet, novelist, and essayist, who is widely recognized in her native Quebec and throughout...

Raptors of California

Hans J. Peeters, Pam Peeters

• Paperback

The New Food Activism

• Hardcover

The Meanings of Macho

Matthew C. Gutmann

• Paperback
• A study of machismo in Mexico City, this work overturns many stereotypes of male culture in Mexico and looks at how Mexican men see themselves, parent...

I Too Have Some Dreams

A. Sean Pue

• Hardcover
• Explores the work of N M Rashed, Urdu's renowned modernist poet, whose career spans the last years of British India and the early decades of postcolon...

Funnybooks

Michael Barrier

• Hardcover
• For a time, "Dell Comics Are Good Comics" was more than a slogan - it was a simple statement of fact. This book tells the story of the most popular Am...

Pills, Power, and Policy

Dominique A. Tobbell

• Paperback
• Offers a history of how the American drug industry and key sectors of the medical profession came to be allies against pharmaceutical reform. This tit...

The Hidden Author

Gian Biagio Conte

• Hardcover
• "The Satyricon of Petronius", a comic novel written in the first century AD, is famous primarily for its amazing banquet tale, "Trimalchio's Feast." I...