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March 16, 2011

Film Titles on Sale!

We are offering 30% off orders on dozens of titles in Film and Media Studies. Film Theory & History U.S., Canadian, and Latin American Film British, European, and Oceanic Film Asian and African Film Genre Films and Genre Studies Film...

March 15, 2011

Guobin Yang: China's Gradual Revolution

Will China follow in the footsteps of the Arab world and witness an outbreak of protests? In a New York Times op-ed China’s Gradual Revolution, Guobin Yang, author of The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online, argues...

March 15, 2011

New Book Tuesday: Religion and International Theory

Just one new book this week: Religion and International Relations Theory Edited by Jack Snyder Includes contributions by Jack Snyder, Timothy Samuel Shah, Daniel Philpott, Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Michael Barnett, Monica Duffy Toft, Daniel H. Nexon, Il Hyun Cho, J....

March 14, 2011

Patrick Keating Wins Award for Hollywood Lighting from the Silent Era to Film Noir

A belated congratulations to Patrick Keating’s whose book Hollywood Lighting from the Silent Era to Film Noir was selected by the Society of Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) as the Best First Book in 2011. The award was presented to...

March 11, 2011

Is the War in Afghanistan Necessary? — Talal Asad

Talal Asad, author of On Suicide Bombing, argues in an essay for Religion and Ethics, argues that the war in Afghanistan was not necessary. In examining the rationale for the war, Asad demonstrates the various ways that through rhetoric and...

March 10, 2011

Erica Chenoweth on the Nonviolent Resistance in the Arab Revolts

“Nonviolent resistance is about finding and exploiting points of leverage in one’s own society. Every dictatorship has vulnerabilities, and every society can find them.”—Erica Chenoweth Erica Chenoweth, co-author of the forthcoming Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent...

March 8, 2011

Arshin Adib-Moghaddam: Postmodern Islam and the Arab Revolts

Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, author of A Metahistory of the Clash of Civilisations: Us and Them Beyond Orientalism, recently wrote an op-ed for Open Democracy on the revolutions in the Arab world, in which he argues: What is striking about this moment...

March 8, 2011

New Book Tuesday: Vattimo and Hegel

The following books are now available: A Farewell to Truth Gianni Vattimo Hegel and the Infinite: Religion, Politics, and Dialectic Edited by Slavoj Zizek, Clayton Crockett, and Creston Davis Inside New York 2011 Inside New York Contemporary American Judaism: Transformation...

March 7, 2011

Craving Earth (and Ice): Sera Young on Sonic Ice

“I NEVER join these things but I really DO love Sonic Ice!!”– A post on the Sonic Ice Facebook page In Craving Earth: The Urge to Eat Clay, Starch, Ice and Chalk, Sera L. Young examines nonfood cravings described in...

March 4, 2011

Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab: Revolution and Enlightenment in the Arab World?

The following post is by Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab, author of Contemporary Arab Thought: Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective. Portions of this were also part of a BBC interview with Kassab. (You can listen to the BBC interview here.) I have...

March 3, 2011

Grzegorz W. Kolodko: New Pragmatism versus Failing Neoliberalism

“The source of the current global economic crisis lies in the failure of America’s neoliberal capitalism.”—Grzegorz W. Kolodko The following essay is from Grzegorz W. Kolodko, the author of Truth, Errors, and Lies: Politics and Economics in a Volatile World....

March 1, 2011

New Book Tuesday: A Philosophical Retrospective and Fantasies of the New Class

These books are now available: A Philosophical Retrospective: Facts, Values, and Jewish Identity Alan Montefiore Fantasies of the New Class: Ideologies of Professionalism in Post-World War II American Fiction Stephen Schryer Hermaphroditism: A Primer on the Biology, Ecology, and Evolution...

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