Monthly Archive: April, 2020

April 30, 2020

Yemayá, Water Logics, and Archives of Conjure in Afrolatinx Cultures

By Solimar Otero

“A poetic, fluid, and compelling book. By producing an ‘archive of conjure’ pieced together through interwoven elements of ethnography, literature, archival notations, bolero music, poetry, and other Afrolatinx inspirations, Solimar Otero provides humanities scholarship with a new, transdisciplinary technique and...

April 30, 2020

Book Excerpt! When Principles Pay, by Geoffrey Heal (preface)

“Geoffrey Heal’s scholarly work on environmental economics, the role of the state in economic life, and other contributions to economic analysis have been of great importance and wide reputation. He has now prepared a widely accessible yet careful and responsible...

April 29, 2020

How Damage to the Environment Leads to the Emergence of Previously Unknown Diseases

By Geoffrey Heal

“Geoffrey Heal’s scholarly work on environmental economics, the role of the state in economic life, and other contributions to economic analysis have been of great importance and wide reputation. He has now prepared a widely accessible yet careful and responsible...

April 29, 2020

New from Our Distributed Presses! Productivity and The Conservative Challenge to Globalization!

The Conservative Challenge to Globalization Our weekly list of new books is now available! Agenda Publishing The Conservative Challenge to Globalization Anglo-American Perspectives Ray Kiely Ray Kiely examines the conservative discourse of “winners” and “losers” of globalization that has emerged...

April 28, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Thriving in Crisis, The Power of And, The Ages of Globalization and more!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! The Ages of Globalization Geography, Technology, and Institutions Jeffrey D. Sachs Jeffrey D. Sachs turns to world history to shed light on how we can meet the challenges and opportunities of...

April 24, 2020

Book Excerpt! Poetry Unbound, By Mike Chasar (introduction)

“By disclosing what are at once poetry’s most inscrutable and its most public aspects, Chasar reorients our understanding of poetry’s relation to the media, throwing gasoline on the fire of a question we have dodged for too long: what is...

April 24, 2020

Book Excerpt! The Cinema of James Cameron, by James Clarke (introduction)

“Examines Cameron’s place in the transitional paradigm of a post-analogue, posthuman, and painterly cinema where impossible bodies are rendered through reassuringly old-fashioned narrative and spectacular conventions that have made his films the biggest on the planet. This comprehensive study outlines...

April 23, 2020

Origin Stories

By Mike Chasar

“A persuasive, thoroughly researched, memorable, and often delightful book. Mike Chasar has excelled in his ambitious coverage of primary sources. Moreover, this is a book that addresses questions that come up frequently in the poetry world about where and why...

April 22, 2020

New from Our Distributed Presses! Restless Ideas

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Fernwood Publishing Restless Ideas Contemporary Social Theory in an Anxious Age Tony Simmons How do we make sense of the rise of political strongmen like Trump and Erdoğan, or the increase...

April 22, 2020

Picturing Wilderness

By James Clarke

“Examines Cameron’s place in the transitional paradigm of a post-analogue, posthuman, and painterly cinema where impossible bodies are rendered through reassuringly old-fashioned narrative and spectacular conventions that have made his films the biggest on the planet. This comprehensive study outlines...

April 21, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Away from Chaos, Climate Change Science and more!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Away from Chaos The Middle East and the Challenge to the West Gilles Kepel. Translated by Henry Randolph. Away from Chaos is a sweeping political history of four decades of Middle...

April 17, 2020

Book Excerpt! Capital and the Common Good, by Georgia Levenson Keohane (introduction)

 “Keohane weaves together case studies from around the globe that illustrate the immense potential of market mechanisms to more effectively use public, philanthropic, and private sector funds to address the world’s seismic challenges. Capital and the Common Good should...