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Shell-Shocked

Bonnie Honig

A biting, funny, up-to-the-minute collection of essays by a major political thinker that gets to the heart of what feminist criticism can do in the face of everyday politics.Stormy...

ISBN: 9780823293766

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Antiquity in Gotham

Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis

The first detailed study of “Neo-Antique" architecture applies an archeological lens to the study of the NYC's structures Since the city's inception, New Yorkers have deliberately...

ISBN: 9780823293841

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In the third bloody year of Civil War, the North imposes a military draft that sparks the most destructive riot in American history. Peter Quinn’s characters are drawn from across New York City’s classes and races. Their fates coalesce in the cataclysm of the Draft Riots.

ISBN: 9780823294084

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Sunnyside Gardens

Jeffrey A. Kroessler, Laura A. Heim

Jeffrey A. Kroessler

The first book devoted to this landmark of architecture, urban planning, and social engineeringSituated in the borough of Queens, New York, Sunnyside Gardens has been an icon of...

ISBN: 9780823293803

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On the Horizon of World Literature

Emily Sun

On the Horizon of World Literature compares literary texts from asynchronous periods of incipient literary modernity in different parts of the world: Romantic England and Republican China....

ISBN: 9780823294794

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Now What?

Rachel Weiss

A profound and affecting meditation on art and revolution

ISBN: 9780823293926

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Eunice Hunton Carter

Marilyn Greenwald, Yun Li

Marilyn Greenwald and Yun Li

The fascinating biography of Eunice Hunton Carter, a social justice and civil rights trailblazer and the only woman prosecutor on the Luciano trial Eunice Hunton Carter rose to public...

ISBN: 9780823293735

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Form and Feeling

Antonio Sergio Bessa, Michael Asbury, Antonio Sergio Bessa, Claudia Calirman, Frederico Coelho, Simone Homem de Mello, Marcos Gonçalves, Jose Lira, Fernanda Lopes, Martin Mäntele, Adele Nelson, Eduardo Oliveira, Claudia Saldanha, Eduardo Sterzi, Luisa Valle

Edited by Antonio Sergio Bessa

Contributor(s): Michael Asbury, Antonio Sergio Bessa, Claudia Calirman, Frederico Coelho, Simone Homem de Mello, Marcos Gonçalves, Jose Lira, Fernanda Lopes, Martin Mäntele, Adele Nelson, Eduardo Oliveira, Claudia Saldanha, Eduardo Sterzi and Luisa Valle

A significant contribution on the development and aftermath of post–World War II Concretism in BrazilForm and Feeling features a collection of essays by noted scholars exploring...

ISBN: 9780823289110

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Who Is a Muslim?

Maryam Wasif Khan

Who is a Muslim? destabilizes traditional constructions of postcolonial literary histories through the specific example of Urdu by suggesting that this North-India vernacular, far from secular or progressive, has been shaped as the authority designate around the intertwined questions of piety, national identity, and citizenship.

ISBN: 9780823290130

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Fate of the Flesh

Daniel Juan Gil

This book argues that in the seventeenth century the ancient hope for the physical resurrection of the body and its flesh began an unexpected second life as critical theory, challenging the notion of an autonomous self and driving early modern avant-garde poetry.

ISBN: 9780823290055

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Palisades

Robert O. Binnewies

How the famous and not-so-famous like-minded citizens all gave their time, expertise, and money to build a park legacy of incomparable benefitThe Palisades park and historic site...

ISBN: 9780823293698

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Couch City

Harry Berger, Jill Frank, Ward Risvold, J. Benjamin Fuqua

Harry Berger

Edited by Ward Risvold and J. Benjamin Fuqua

Crowning six decades of literary, rhetorical, and historical scholarship, Harry Berger, Jr., offers readers another trenchant reading. Berger subverts the usual interpretations of Plato’s kalos...

ISBN: 9780823294237

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Seeing Like a Child

Clara Han, Richard Rechtman

Clara Han

An utterly original and illuminating work that meets at the crossroads of autobiography and ethnography to re-examine violence and memory through the eyes of a child.Seeing Like...

ISBN: 9780823289462

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Inventing America's First Immigration Crisis

Luke Ritter

Why have Americans expressed concern about immigration at some times but not at others? In pursuit of an answer, this book examines America’s first nativist movement, which responded to the rapid...

ISBN: 9780823289851

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World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth

J. Daniel Elam

This book foregrounds anticolonial theories of reading to reveal an alternative strain of anticolonialism committed not to the forms of authority that facilitate political recognition or national sovereignty, but rather to inexpertise and inconsequence, with the aim of replacing mastery with collective cultivation.

ISBN: 9780823289806

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Notable New Yorkers of Manhattan’s Upper West Side

Jim Mackin

Nearly 600 captivating stories of notable former residents of Manhattan’s Upper West Side, some famous, some forgottenWhat do Humphrey Bogart and Patty Hill (co-author of...

ISBN: 9780823289295

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The American Museum of Natural History and How It Got That Way

Colin Davey, Thomas A. Lesser, Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Colin Davey

With Thomas A. Lesser

Tells the story of the building of the American Museum of Natural History and Hayden Planetarium, a story of history, politics, science, and exploration, including the roles of American presidents,...

ISBN: 9780823289639

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White Reconstruction

Dylan Rodríguez

We are in the fray of another signature moment in the long history of the United States as a project of anti Black and racial–colonial violence. Long before November 2016, white nationalism, white...

ISBN: 9780823289394

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Preaching with Their Lives

Margaret M. McGuinness, Jeffrey M. Burns, Arlene Bachanov, Elizabeth Michael Boyle O.P., James T. Carroll, Heath Carter, Kathleen Sprows Cummings, Diane Kennedy O.P., Margaret M. McGuinness, Donna Maria Moses O.P., Cecilia Murray O.P., Christopher J. Renz O.P., Ellen Skerrett, Cynthia Taylor, Janet Welsh O.P.

Edited by Margaret M. McGuinness and Jeffrey M. Burns

Contributor(s): Arlene Bachanov, Elizabeth Michael Boyle O.P., James T. Carroll, Heath Carter, Kathleen Sprows Cummings, Diane Kennedy O.P., Margaret M. McGuinness, Donna Maria Moses O.P., Cecilia Murray O.P., Christopher J. Renz O.P., Ellen Skerrett, Cynthia Taylor and Janet Welsh O.P.

This volume tells the little-known story of the Dominican Family—priests, sisters, brothers, contemplative nuns, and lay people—and integrates it into the history of the United States. Starting...

ISBN: 9780823289646

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Womanpriest

Jill Peterfeso

This book is openly available in digital formats thanks to a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.While some Catholics and even non-Catholics today are asking...

ISBN: 9780823288274

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Critique of Journalistic Reason

Tom Vandeputte

This book examines philosophy’s recurrent preoccupation with journalism. It shows how modern European philosophy's preoccupation with the news inflects theories of history, time, and language.

ISBN: 9780823290253

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The Neighborhood Manhattan Forgot

Matthew Spady

Audubon Park’s journey from farmland to cityscapeThe study of Audubon Park’s origins, maturation, and disappearance is at root the study of a rural society evolving into an urban...

ISBN: 9780823289424

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The Forgotten Radical Peter Maurin

Peter Maurin, Lincoln Rice

Peter Maurin

Edited by Lincoln Rice

The definitive edition of Catholic Worker cofounder Peter Maurin's Easy Essays, including 74 previously unpublished worksAlthough Peter Maurin is well known among people connected...

ISBN: 9780823287536

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Boss of Black Brooklyn

Ron Howell

Boss of Black Brooklyn presents a riveting and untold story about the struggles and achievements of the first black person to hold public office in Brooklyn. Bertram L. Baker immigrated to...

ISBN: 9780823288694

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Xenocitizens

Jason Berger

Xenocitizens returns to the nineteenth century in order to uncover realities and possibilities that have been foreclosed by dominant liberal paradigms. Examining how antebellum crises pushed writers to formulate alternative ontological and social models for personhood and sociality, Xenocitizens glimpses startlingly unique and unfamiliar ways to exist and to leverage change.

ISBN: 9780823287673

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History

Shell-Shocked

Antiquity in Gotham

Banished Children of Eve

Sunnyside Gardens

On the Horizon of World Literature

Now What?

Eunice Hunton Carter

Form and Feeling

Who Is a Muslim?

Fate of the Flesh

Palisades

Couch City

Seeing Like a Child

Inventing America's First Immigration Crisis

World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth

Notable New Yorkers of Manhattan’s Upper West Side

The American Museum of Natural History and How It Got That Way

White Reconstruction

Preaching with Their Lives

Womanpriest

Critique of Journalistic Reason

The Neighborhood Manhattan Forgot

The Forgotten Radical Peter Maurin

Boss of Black Brooklyn

Xenocitizens

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