Facing Unpleasant Facts: 1937-1939
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These years saw the publication of The Road to Wigan Pier, Homage to Catalonia, and Coming Up for...
Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London
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Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 by the Financial Times, Guardian, New Statesman, Observer, The...
Jacob-Isaac Segal: A Montreal Yiddish Poet and His Milieu
Pierre Anctil and Vivian Felsen
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Born in the Ukraine in 1896, and settling in Montreal in 1910, Segal became one of the first Yiddish...
Life of Rossini
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Rossini's popularity in Italy in the early 1820s was certainly not echoed in France where he was...
Anthropologies and Futures: Researching Emerging and Uncertain Worlds
Sarah Pink, Andrew Irving, Juan Francisco Salazar and Johannes Sjoberg
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Anthropology has a critical, practical role to play in contemporary debates about futures. This...
Knowledge of Life
Georges Canguilhem, Stefanos Geroulanos, Daniela Ginsburg and Paola Marrati
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As the work of thinkers such as Michel Foucault, Francois Jacob, Louis Althusser, and Pierre...
Simone Weil: Late Philosophical Writings
Simone Weil, Eric O. Springsted and Lawrence E. Schmidt
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Although trained as a philosopher, Simone Weil (1909-43) contributed to a wide range of subjects,...
The Bioethics of Enhancement: Transhumanism, Disability, and Biopolitics
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In a critical intervention into the bioethics debate over human enhancement, philosopher Melinda...
International Noir
R. Barton Palmer and Homer B Pettey
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Following World War II, film noir became the dominant cinematic expression of Cold War angst,...
Elk Stopped Play: And Other Tales from Wisden's 'Cricket Round the World'
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There are few parts of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack that embody the magic and appeal of the game more...