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Becky Nurse of Salem (TCG Edition): (or: after the witches, a comedy about a tragedy)

Becky Nurse of Salem (TCG Edition): (or: after the witches,...

Author: Sarah Ruhl ,  Sarah Ruhl
ISBN: 9781559369879
Format: Paperback
$27.99

A wry, innovative reckoning with the legacy of the Salem witch trials from one of America's foremost playwrights....  Read More >>

Wives Like Us: 'Brilliantly satirical' Daily Mail

Wives Like Us: 'Brilliantly satirical' Daily Mail

Author: Plum Sykes
ISBN: 9781408888568
Format: Paperback
$29.99

‘So wickedly smart, so effortless, so chic and hilarious. Plum Sykes is in a class of her own when it comes to peeling...  Read More >>

Art and Crime

Art and Crime

Author: Stefan Koldehoff ,  Tobias Timm
ISBN: 9781644213261
Format: Paperback
$45.00

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Catalytic Mega-Events: Tokyo 2020 and Planetary Urban Transformation

Catalytic Mega-Events: Tokyo 2020 and Planetary Urban...

Author: Filippo Bignami ,  Christian Dimmer
ISBN: 9783837665192
Format: Paperback
$65.95

Starting from the case of Tokyo 2020, the contributors bring about planetary trajectories of urban transformation...  Read More >>

Hope and Uncertainty in Health and Medicine: Imagining the Pragmatics of Medical Potential

Hope and Uncertainty in Health and Medicine: Imagining...

Author: Bernhard Hadolt ,  Andrea Stockl
ISBN: 9783837667622
Format: Paperback
$90.95

This book uses the tools of medical anthropology to address the pragmatics of hope and uncertainty within the health...  Read More >>

Lucas: His Hollywood Legacy

Lucas: His Hollywood Legacy

Author: Richard Ravalli
ISBN: 9780813199399
Format: Paperback
$110.00

While he is best known as the creative mind behind the Star Wars franchise, Lucas first gained notoriety with his...  Read More >>

But You Look So Normal: Lost and Found in a Hearing World

But You Look So Normal: Lost and Found in a Hearing...

Author: Claudia Marseille
ISBN: 9781647426262
Format: Paperback
$32.99

When four-year-old Claudia Marseille was diagnosed with severe hearing loss and received her first hearing aid,...  Read More >>

Fifty Years of Dungeons & Dragons

Fifty Years of Dungeons & Dragons

Author: Premeet Sidhu ,  Marcus Carter
ISBN: 9780262547604
Format: Paperback
$69.99

On the fiftieth anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons, a collection of essays that explores and celebrates the game's...  Read More >>

Funk the Clock: Transgressing Time While Young, Perceptive, and Black

Funk the Clock: Transgressing Time While Young, Perceptive,...

Author: Rahsaan Mahadeo
ISBN: 9781501774201
Format: Hardback
$343.20

"""Funk the Clock reveals how time is racialized, how race is temporalized, and how race, racialization, and racism...  Read More >>

All the Rage: A Partial Memoir in Two Acts and a Prologue

All the Rage: A Partial Memoir in Two Acts and a Prologue...

Author: Brad Fraser
ISBN: 9780385696395
Format: Paperback
$39.99

A Canadian playwright's rise to fame amid the terrors of the AIDS era. Brad Fraser suffered an impoverished and...  Read More >>

The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration

The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration

Author: Frank Abe ,  Floyd Cheung
ISBN: 9780143133285
Format: Paperback
$39.99

The collective voice of Japanese Americans defined by a specific moment in time- the four years of World War II...  Read More >>

Surviving Modern Yoga: Cult Dynamics, Charismatic Leaders, and What Survivors Can Teach Us

Surviving Modern Yoga: Cult Dynamics, Charismatic Leaders,...

Author: Matthew Remski
ISBN: 9798889840107
Format: Paperback
$49.99

"""An examination of the physical and sexual abuse perpetrated by Ashtanga yoga leader Pattabhi Jois and the culture,...  Read More >>

Shared Heritage Revisited: National and Postnational Dimensions on the Example of Germany, Palestine and Israel

Shared Heritage Revisited: National and Postnational...

Author: Dalya Markovich ,  Christiane Datsch
ISBN: 9783837666991
Format: Paperback
$74.95

This book explores the intersection of cultural heritage and nationality in societies that are characterized by...  Read More >>

Chinese Espresso: Contested Race and Convivial Space in Contemporary Italy

Chinese Espresso: Contested Race and Convivial Space...

Author: Grazia Ting Deng
ISBN: 9780691245799
Format: Paperback
$49.99

"Why and how local coffee bars in Italy-those distinctively Italian social and cultural spaces-have been increasingly...  Read More >>

Complicit: How We Enable the Unethical and How to Stop

Complicit: How We Enable the Unethical and How to Stop...

Author: Max H. Bazerman
ISBN: 9780691236568
Format: Paperback
$32.99

What all of us can do to fight the pervasive human tendency to enable wrongdoing in the workplace, politics, and...  Read More >>

Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes

Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes...

Author: Jerry Z. Muller
ISBN: 9780691259307
Format: Paperback
$49.99

The controversial Jewish thinker whose tortured path led him into the heart of twentieth-century intellectual life...  Read More >>

The Memory of the World: Deep Time, Animality, and Eschatology

The Memory of the World: Deep Time, Animality, and Eschatology...

Author: Ted Toadvine
ISBN: 9781517916008
Format: Paperback
$54.99

Advancing a phenomenological approach to deep time Our imagination today is dominated by the end of the world,...  Read More >>

American Disgust: Racism, Microbial Medicine, and the Colony Within

American Disgust: Racism, Microbial Medicine, and the...

Author: Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer
ISBN: 9781517916244
Format: Paperback
$52.99

Examining the racial underpinnings of food, microbial medicine, and disgust in America American Disgust shows...  Read More >>

The Rhetorical Power of Popular Culture: Considering Mediated Texts

The Rhetorical Power of Popular Culture: Considering...

Author: Deanna D. Sellnow ,  Thomas G. Endres
ISBN: 9781071851548
Format: Paperback
$303.60

Can television shows like Stranger Things, popular music by performers like Taylor Swift, advertisements for products...  Read More >>

Illness Politics and Hashtag Activism

Illness Politics and Hashtag Activism

Author: Lisa Diedrich
ISBN: 9781517917340
Format: Paperback
$17.99

How illness on social media reveals the struggle for care and access against ableism and stigma Illness Politics...  Read More >>

From Screens to Battlefields: Tracing the Construction of Enemies on Russian Television

From Screens to Battlefields: Tracing the Construction...

Author: Alona Shestopalova ,  Nina Jankowicz
ISBN: 9783838218847
Format: Paperback
$92.40

This book provides a systematic overview of hostile rhetoric on state-controlled Russian TV and how it laid the...  Read More >>

Mental Health and Relationships from Early Adulthood through Old Age

Mental Health and Relationships from Early Adulthood...

Author: Paris S Strom ,  Robert D. Strom
ISBN: 9781032497709
Format: Paperback
$103.00

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