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• Author(s): John Rajchman | Paul Virilio • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Criticism

• Author(s): Leslie Black • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Construction - GeneralA comphensive guide to information sources relevant to the building industry and legislation affecting it. It is designed fo...

• Author(s): George Mariscal • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: European - Spanish & PortugueseThis ambitious book attempts to rehistoricize the Golden Age of Spain (ca. 1550-1680) by ...

• Author(s): Joanna Bourke • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Minority StudiesThis textbook looks at the construction of class within the intimate contexts of the body, the home, the marketplace, the locality and the n...

• Author(s): Morwenna Griffiths • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Feminism & Feminist TheoryWhat does the politics of the self mean for a politics of liberation? Morwenna Griffiths argues that mainstream philosoph...

• Author(s): Malcolm Quinn • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralDespite the enormous amount of material on the subject of Nazism, there has been no substantial work on its emblem, the swastika. This ori...

• Author(s): Morwenna Griffiths • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Feminism & Feminist TheoryWhat does the politics of the self mean for a politics of liberation? Morwenna Griffiths argues that mainstream philosoph...

• Author(s): Valtteri Arstila | Dan Lloyd • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: MetaphysicsInterdisciplinary perspectives on the feature of conscious life that scaffolds every act of cognition: subjective time. Our awaren...

• Author(s): John H. Holland • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Intelligence (AI) & SemanticsAn overarching framework for comparing and steering complex adaptive systems is developed through understanding the mecha...

• Author(s): Miriam F. Elman | Catherine Gerard | Galia Golan • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Security (National & International)The book brings together analy...

• Author(s): Nathan Silver • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Buildings - Public, Commercial & IndustrialThis is the story of how France's famed cultural icon, one of the most controversial and supremely public bui...

• Author(s): Jesse C. Donahue | Erik K. Trump • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - 20th Century American zoos flourished during the Great Depression, thanks to federal programs...

• Author(s): Albert G. H. Dietz • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Construction - GeneralIn print since 1948, Dwelling House Construction is a homebuilding classic that covers site inspection, foundations, framing, win...

• Author(s): John Fitchen • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Construction - GeneralHow were huge stones moved from quarries to the sites of Egyptian pyramids? How did the cathedral builders of the Middle Ages lift bloc...

• Author(s): Christina S. Jarvis • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralMuscular, fearless, youthful, athletic--the World War I...

• Author(s): G. Thomas Couser • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Reference"My primary concern is with the ethics of representing vulnerable subjects--persons who are liable to exposure by ...

• Author(s): Joan Copjec • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Mind & BodyA collection of essays by theorists in culture and politics. Experts from a variety of fields re-examine the origins of the subject as understood by De...

• Author(s): Sanford Berman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General First published in 1971 (by Scarecrow Press), Prejudices and Antipathies marked the...

• Author(s): Charles B. Osburn • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Emotions, feelings and morality play a critical role in our daily decision-making. With the rapid advance of industr...

• Author(s): Sharon Barcan Elswit • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Bibliographies & Indexes Storytelling, as oral tradition and in writing, has long played a central role in Jewish soc...

• Author(s): Julie Ellison • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

• Author(s): David Langford | Arkady Retik • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Industrial ManagementThe proceedings of the CIB W65 Symposium on the Organization and Management of Construction conference are presented he...

• Author(s): Mary V. Thompson • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: African American & BlackGeorge Washington's life has been scrutinized by historians over the past three centuri...

• Author(s): E. Natalie Rothman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - RenaissanceIn Brokering Empire, E. Natalie Rothman explores the intersecting worlds of those who regularly trave...

• Author(s): Tamara Loos • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaUnlike its Southeast Asian neighbors, Thailand was never colonized by an imperial power. However, Siam (as ...

• Author(s): Alexi Kukuljevic • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History - Contemporary (1945- )An examination of the disoriented subject of modernity: a dissolute figure who makes an makes an object of its absence; fr...

• Author(s): Tracie Matysik • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - GermanyReforming the Moral Subject explores a movement known as "ethics reform" that flourished in Central Europe be...

• Author(s): Arlene Keizer • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralWriters as diverse as Carolivia Herron, Charles Johnson, Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, and D...

• Author(s): John Stuart Mill • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralTwo cornerstones of liberalism from the great social radical of English philosophy John Stuart Mill was a prodigi...

• Author(s): Tom Huhn | Lambert Zuidervaart • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: AestheticsTheodor W. Adorno died in 1969 and his last major work, Ästhetische Theorie, was published posthumously a year later. Few philoso...

• Author(s): Len D. Martin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Allied Artists Pictures Corporation was formed in November 1946 by Monogram Pictures Corporation ...

• Author(s): Robert Olwell • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - Colonial PeriodThe slave societies of the American colonies were quite different from the "Old South" of the e...

• Author(s): Maurizio Lazzarato • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Semiotext(e) • BISAC: Political Ideologies - RadicalismAn analysis of how capitalism today produces subjectivity like any other “good,” and what would allow us to esc...

• Author(s): Edward Diener | Eunkook M. Suh • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThe question of what constitutes the good life has been pondered for millennia. Yet only in the...

• Author(s): Carol Thomas Neely • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: ShakespeareIn the first book to provide a feminist analysis of early modern madness, Carol Thomas Neely reveals the mobil...