Love belongs to those who do the feeling

love belongs to those who do the feeling—an exciting collection of new and selected poetry by Judy Grahn. The book contains selections from Judy's entire body of poetic work from The Work of a Common Woman, The Queen of Wands and The Queen of Swords, to new poems written between 1997 and 2008. J...

Roman poems

The Italian film-maker Pier Paolo Pasolini was first and always a poet—the most important civil poet, according to Alberto Moravia, in Italy in the second half of this century. His poems were at once deeply personal and passionately engaged in the political turmoil of his country. In 1949, after ...

Public spaces and urbanity: construction and design manual

This book is about renewing the city with room for people, about historical overlay and respect for the building traditions of the past, and about new architecture on a human scale. The book takes its departure in the European tradition of the dense classic city. Focus is on physical and spatial ...

Pieces of a song

Feminist Beat poet Diane di Prima was born in Brooklyn, New York. She attended Swarthmore College for two years before moving to Greenwich Village in Manhattan and becoming a writer in the emerging Beat movement. There, she developed friendships with poets Amiri Baraka, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerou...

Between pacific tides

One of the classic works of marine biology, a favorite for generations, has now been completely revised and expanded. Between Pacific Tides is a book for all who find the shore a place of excitement, wonder, and beauty, and an unsurpassed introductory text for both students and professionals.  Th...

Dialectics of the ideal

Activity Theory and 'Creative' Soviet-Marxism are still overlocked by contemporary theorists. This volume is a correction to this tragic omission.

Marxism and the oppression of women

Decades after initial publication, Vogel's book remains an essential contribution to the development of a materialist theory of gender oppression.

Blood and guts in high school

The novel that made a cult icon of Kathy Acker, whose work is “like reading William S. Burroughs while watching an avant-garde theater group perform to the sounds of a punk band” (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times)

Ecodeviance

Twenty-three new (Soma)tic exercises and rituals for creating an "extreme present" and their resulting poems.

Food culture

Offers a comprehensive guide to methods used in the sociocultural, linguistic and historical research of food use. Unique in offering food-related research methods from multiple academic disciplines. Includes methods that bridge disciplines to provide a thorough review of best practi...

A beautiful marsupial afternoon

"This mechanistic world…has required me to FIND MY BODY to FIND MY PLANET in order to find my poetry."—CAConrad

The book of frank

A portrait equal parts hope and cruelty, this searing, compelling book is an enduring fan favorite by Philadelphia-based poet CAConrad.

American crucible

This sweeping history of twentieth-century America follows the changing and often conflicting ideas about the fundamental nature of American society: Is the United States a social melting pot, as our civic creed warrants, or is full citizenship somehow reserved for those who are white and of the ...

The theory of ecological communities

A plethora of different theories, models, and concepts make up the field of community ecology. Amid this vast body of work, is it possible to build one general theory of ecological communities? What other scientific areas might serve as a guiding framework? As it turns out, the core focus of comm...

Philosophy and the mirror of nature

When it first appeared in 1979, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature hit the philosophical world like a bombshell. In it, Richard Rorty argued that, beginning in the seventeenth century, philosophers developed an unhealthy obsession with the notion of representation: comparing the mind to a mirror...

The diary of laura

One of the few Reggio Emilia books focused on the infant and toddler years, a powerful tool for early educators.

Hasidism

A must-read book for understanding this vibrant and influential modern Jewish movementHasidism originated in southeastern Poland, in mystical circles centered on the figure of Israel Ba’al Shem Tov, but it was only after his death in 1760 that a movement began to spread. Today, Hasidism is witnes...

Reflecting children's lives

Consider new possibilities in documentation, observing, and activities when planning child-centered curriculum with this updated handbook.

The uses of photography

The Uses of Photography examines a network of artists who were active in Southern California between the late 1960s and early 1980s and whose experiments with photography opened the medium to a profusion of new strategies and subjects. These artists introduced urgent social issues and themes of ...

The wild god of the world

Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) is not only the greatest poet that the American West has produced but also a major poet of the twentieth century in the tradition of American prophetic poetry. This anthology serves as an introduction to Jeffers's work for the general reader and for students in cours...

Subversive action

The essays in this volume, by authors from around the world, raise questions about the boundaries of social work and the use of extralegal action in the pursuit of human rights and social justice.

Black

The story of the color black in art, fashion, and culture—from the beginning of history to the twenty-first centuryBlack—favorite color of priests and penitents, artists and ascetics, fashion designers and fascists—has always stood for powerfully opposed ideas: authority and humility, sin and hol...

Eve out of her ruins

A harrowing account of the hidden violent reality of life in her native country by the figurehead of Mauritian literature.

Gauguin to picasso, masterworks from switzerland

Showcases two stunning collections of early twentieth-century art, with works by Picasso, Van Gogh, Cezanne and Gauguin, amongst many others.

Confronting empire

Brilliant and insightful political analyses of key political events and movements of the second half of the twentieth century.

The new deal

The first history of the new deal in global contextThe New Deal: A Global History provides a radically new interpretation of a pivotal period in US history. The first comprehensive study of the New Deal in a global context, the book compares American responses to the international crisis of capit...

American zoo

A close-up look at the contradictions and wonders of the modern zooOrangutans swing from Kevlar-lined fire hoses. Giraffes feast on celebratory birthday cakes topped with carrots instead of candles. Hi-tech dinosaur robots growl among steel trees, while owls watch animated cartoons on old televis...

Technics and time, 3

In the first two volumes of Technics and Time, Bernard Stiegler worked carefully through Heidegger's and Husserl's relationship to technics and technology. Here, in volume three, he turns his attention to the prolematic relationship to technics he finds in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, particul...

Technics and time, 2

Disorientation is the first publication in English of the second volume of Technics and Time, in which French philosopher Bernard Stiegler engages in a close dialogue with Husserl, Derrida, and other philosophers who have devoted their energies to technics, such as Heidegger and Simondon.The auth...

Gramophone, film, typewriter

Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the hegemony of the printed word was shattered by the arrival of new media technologies that offered novel ways of communicating and storing data. Previously, writing had operated by way of symbolic mediation—all data had to pass through the needle's eye ...

Typography

Typography is fundamental to graphic design. This book showcases international examples from all different areas of 2D and 3D design.

Islamic art and the museum

A unique, multi-authored volume on the issues and politics of curating Islamic art in the twenty-first century.

Between equal rights

Mieville critically examines existing theories of international law and offers a compelling alternative Marxist view.

Marx on gender and the family

Marx has long been accused of not taking women's issues seriously. Heather Brown sets the record straight.

Marx's concept of the alternative to capitalism

Marx is often accused of condemning Capitalism without clearly mapping an alternative. This work sets out to dispute those charges.

The apprentice's sorcerer

Far from being diametrically opposed, this provocative book convincingly argues that Fascism is indelibly linked to the liberal tradition.

The collected poems of lucille clifton 1965-2010

Landmark volume containing all of Lucille Clifton's published work and 55 previously unpublished poems. Foreword by Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison.

Type matters!

Once upon a time, only typesetters needed to know about kerning, leading, ligatures, and hanging punctuation. Today, however, most of us work on computers, with access to hundreds of fonts, and we’d all like our letters, reports and other documents to look as good – and as readable – as possible....

The rise and fall of violent crime in america

A compelling case can be made that violent crime, especially after the 1960s, was one of the most significant domestic issues in the United States. Indeed, few issues had as profound an effect on American life in the last third of the twentieth century. After 1965, crime rose to such levels that ...

Metaphysics

This volume makes available in English for the first time Adorno's lectures on metaphysics. It provides a unique introduction not only to metaphysics but also to Adorno's own intellectual standpoint, as developed in his major work Negative Dialectics. Metaphysics for Adorno is defined by a centra...

Life as politics

An updated and expanded look at how under the shadow of authoritarian rule, ordinary people can make meaningful change through the practices of everyday life in the Middle East.

The emotional logic of capitalism

The capitalist market, progressives bemoan, is a cold monster: it disrupts social bonds, erodes emotional attachments, and imposes an abstract utilitarian rationality. But what if such hallowed critiques are completely misleading? This book argues that the production of new sources of faith and e...

Inventing eastern europe

This is a wide-ranging intellectual history of how, in the 18th century, Europe came to be conceived as divided into "Western Europe" and "Eastern Europe". The author argues that this conceptual reorientation from the previously accepted "Northern" and "Southern" was a work of cultural constructi...

The logic of practice

Introduction to criminal justice

Introduction to Criminal Justice is the first textbook to approach theories and practices of criminal justice from a sociological perspective. It empowers students to develop expertise in criminal justice and understand how its central tenets are informed by broader sociological principles and co...

The mere future

The paperback edition of Sarah Schulman’s visionary novel of New York.