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Jacques Derrida and the Humanities
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 36.00The work of Jacques Derrida has transformed our understanding of the humanities through its questioning of western metaphysics. This volume is a trans-disciplinary collection dedicated to his work and is distinguished by work on some of his most recent writings, and contains Derrida's address on 'the future of the humanities'. more...
Hitchcocks Cryptonymies
University of Minnesota Press 2005; US$ 75.00This second volume of Hitchcock?s Cryptonomies presents the director?s works as a radical collage of images and absences, letters and numbers, citations and sounds that together mark Hitchcock as a knowing figure who was entirely aware of his?and cinema?s?place at the dawn of a global media culture, as well as of the cinema?s revolutionary impact on... more...
Hitchcocks Cryptonymies
University of Minnesota Press 2005; US$ 75.00This first volume of Hitchcock?s Cryptonymies provides a singularly close reading of The Lady Vanishes, Spellbound, and North by Northwest, exposing the visual and aural puns, graphic elements, and cryptograms that traverse his entire body of work. Within Hitchcock?s cinema, Tom Cohen argues, these "secret agents" have more than just symbolic... more...
Prescription for a Healthy Nation
Beacon Press 2005; US$ 20.00America spends more than twice as much for health care as any other nation. So why are Americans among the sickest people in the industrialized world? Public health experts Tom Farley and Deborah A. Cohen show that the answer does not lie in our medical care system but rather in the world around us. As they explain, the leading killers of our time... more...
Material Events
University of Minnesota Press 2001; US$ 84.00Responding to the problematic of "materialism" as posed in Paul de Man?s posthumous last book, Aesthetic Ideology, a diverse and distinguished group of scholars explores the question of "material events" in ways that illuminate not just de Man?s work but their own, work at the forefront of critical theory, productive thinking, and... more...
Quantities, Units and Symbols in Physical Chemistry
Royal Society of Chemistry 2007; US$ 64.00The first IUPAC Manual of Symbols and Terminology for Physicochemical Quantities and Units (the Green Book) of which this is the direct successor, was published in 1969, with the object of 'securing clarity and precision, and wider agreement in the use of symbols, by chemists in different countries, among physicists, chemists and engineers, and... more...
Theory and the Disappearing Future
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 27.95Paul de Man is often associated with an era of ?high theory?, an era it is argued may now be coming to a close. This book, written by three leading contemporary scholars, includes both a transcript and facsimile print of a previously unpublished text by de Man of his handwritten notes for a lecture on Walter Benjamin. Challenging and relevant, this... more...
Race and Reconciliation in America
Lexington Books 2009; US$ 27.99Convinced that what is needed in America is a serious, open, civil dialogue on racial, ethnic, and religious prejudice, William S. Cohen and Janet Langhart Cohen brought together an august and varied group of individuals in July 2008. Meeting in Washington, D.C., the participants, including Douglas Blackmon, Deepak Chopra, Sam Donaldson, Louis Gossett,... more...
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