Tag: New Book Tuesday

May 6, 2014

New Book Tuesday: Umami, the Brain, $, Wine, Atheists, and More New Books!

Our weekly list of titles now available: Umami: Unlocking the Secrets of the Fifth Taste Ole G. Mouritsen and Klavs Styrbæk The World’s First Stock Exchange Lodewijk Petram The Custom-Made Brain: Cerebral Plasticity, Regeneration, and Enhancement Jean-Didier Vincent and Pierre-Marie...

April 29, 2014

New Book Tuesday: Creating a Learning Society by Joseph Stiglitz and Bruce Greenwald and More New Titles!

New books now available: Creating a Learning Society: A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce C. Greenwald Our Broad Present: Time and Contemporary Culture Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht The Inner Life of the Dying...

April 15, 2014

New Book Tuesday: Imaginal Politics, Klump, and More New Titles

The following books are now available: Imaginal Politics: Images Beyond Imagination and the Imaginary Chiara Bottici A Man: Klaus Klump Gonçalo M. Tavares East Sails West: The Voyage of the Keying, 1846–1855 Stephen Davies Escape from Hong Kong: Admiral Chan...

April 8, 2014

New Book Tuesday: Badiou on Lacan, History, Mad Moms, and More!

The following books are now available: Jacques Lacan, Past and Present: A Dialogue Alain Badiou and Élisabeth Roudinesco History and Popular Memory: The Power of Story in Moments of Crisis Paul A. Cohen Moved by the Past: Discontinuity and Historical...

April 1, 2014

New Book Tuesday! Badiou, Honneth, Blood, Beyond News, and more New Books!

New books now available: Ahmed the Philosopher: Thirty-Four Short Plays for Children and Everyone Else Alain Badiou Blood: A Critique of Christianity Gil Anidjar Freedom’s Right: The Social Foundations of Democratic Life Axel Honneth Beyond News: The Future of Journalism...

March 25, 2014

New Book Tuesday: Lady in the Dark, Crowded Orbits, A Semite, and More New Books!

The following books are now available: Lady in the Dark: Iris Barry and the Art of Film Robert Sitton Crowded Orbits: Conflict and Cooperation in Space James Clay Moltz A Semite: A Memoir of Algeria Denis Guénoun. Foreword by Judith...

March 18, 2014

New Book Tuesday: Restaurants, the Blacklist, the Dirty Art of Poetry, and More New Books!

The following books are now available: Fashioning Appetite: Restaurants and the Making of Modern Identity Joanne Finkelstein The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s Mary Helen Washington Guilty Knowledge, Guilty Pleasure: The Dirty Art...

March 11, 2014

New Book Tuesday: Winnebago Nation, Video Revolutions, Alain Robbe-Grillet and More New Titles!

Our weekly list of new titles now available: Winnebago Nation: The RV in American Culture James B. Twitchell Video Revolutions: On the History of a Medium Michael Z. Newman New Tunisian Cinema: Allegories of Resistance Robert Lang Asian and Feminist...

March 4, 2014

New Book Tuesday: Derrida/Searle, Survivors of Slavery, Hitchcock, the Homoerotics of Orientalism, and More New Books!

The following books are now available: Derrida/Searle: Deconstruction and Ordinary Language Raoul Moati Survivors of Slavery: Modern-Day Slave Narratives Laura T. Murphy Must We Kill the Thing We Love?: Emersonian Perfectionism and the Films of Alfred Hitchcock William Rothman The...

February 25, 2014

New Book Tuesday: The DMZ, Gass, Millhauser, Slow Movies, and More New Titles

Our weekly listing of new books now available: DMZ Crossing: Performing Emotional Citizenship Along the Korean Border Suk-Young Kim The Barnum Museum (Available again) Steven Millhauser Willie Masters’ Lonesome Wife William H. Gass Slow Movies: Countering the Cinema of Action...

February 18, 2014

New Book Tuesday: Eating and Praying in North America, Medieval China, New from Dalkey Archive, and More!

Our weekly list of new titles now available: Religion, Food, and Eating in North America Edited by Benjamin E. Zeller, Marie W. Dallam, Reid L. Neilson, and Nora L. Rubel Early Medieval China: A Sourcebook Edited by Wendy Swartz, Robert...

February 4, 2014

New Book Tuesday: The Insect Cookbook (really), a New Book from Mark Taylor, and More!

Our weekly list of new titles: The Insect Cookbook: Food for a Sustainable Planet Arnold van Huis, Henk van Gurp, and Marcel Dicke Recovering Place: Reflections on Stone Hill Mark C. Taylor A Materialism for the Masses: Saint Paul and...