The Curious Humanist: Siegfried Kracauer in America
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During the Weimar Republic, Siegfried Kracauer established himself as a trenchant theorist of film,...
The Path to Salvation: Religious Violence from the Crusades to Jihad
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In the wake of 9/11, policy analysts, journalists, and academics have tried to make sense of the...
Entanglements: Conversations on the Human Traces of Science, Technology, and Sound
Simone Tosoni and Trevor Pinch
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Science and technology studies (STS) is a relatively young but influential field. Scholars from...
Gandhi: An Anti-Biography of a Great Soul
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This book is not just another biography of Gandhi. It is valuable because it offers us a French...
Scenescapes: How Qualities of Place Shape Social Life
Daniel Aaron Silver and Terry Nichols Clark
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Let's set the scene: there's a regular on his barstool, beer in hand. He's watching a young couple...
The 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games: Assessing the 30-Year Legacy
Matthew Llewellyn and John Gleaves
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The 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games stand as the most profitable and arguably the most important...
Space Traffic Control
Stuart Eves and Surrey Satellite Technology
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In Space Traffic Control, Stuart Eves makes a deliberate analogy between operations in space and air...
Tiny Stations
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An eccentric look at lost Britain through its railway request stops. Perhaps the oddest quirk of...
Saints for All Occasions
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Nora and Theresa Flynn are twenty-one and seventeen when they leave their small village in Ireland...
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The Feud: Vladimir Nabokov, Edmund Wilson, and the End of a Beautiful Friendship
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The Feud is the deliciously ironic (and sad) tale of how two literary giants destroyed their...