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On the Familiar Essay
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2009; US$ 85.00Rooted in close reading of texts, including the essays of E.B. White, this comprehensive assessment of the oft-slighted subform of the literary essay situates the familiar at the heart of the essay as form. more...
New Reformation
PM Press 2010; US$ 16.00Emphasizing the importance of culture and the arts in society, this reprint of a 1960s classic?the author's last book of social criticism?includes a new introduction that situates the late Paul Goodman in his era and traces the development of his characteristic insights. The probing introduction speaks for a new generation of young scholars as it... more...
Are You Serious?
HarperCollins 2011; US$ 19.99A provocative critique of modern frivolity and a guide to being serious in an unserious age We used to live in a world run by serious people: politicians and religious leaders, writers and artists, journalists and academics, lawyers and business executives, who approached their work with maturity and mindfulness. Today it seems as if most of... more...
The Burning Library
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 17.95Along with his groundbreaking essays that redefine politics, language, identity, and friendship in the light of gay experience and desire, this magisterial collection of 25 years of White's nonfiction writings includes dazzling subversive appreciations of cultural icons as diverse as Truman Capote and Cormac McCarthy, Robert Mapplethorpe and the singer... more...
Notes from the Edge Times
Penguin Group US 2010; US$ 23.95In this unsparing tour of the perils and promises of the current era, visionary author Daniel Pinchbeck helps us understand that we don't need to wait for the dawning of the next age to radically change our perspectives. In the years since his pioneering work 2012 , Daniel Pinchbeck has touched a legion of readers hungry for insight and guidance... more...
The Aftermath of Feminism
SAGE Publications 2008; US$ 59.00Drawing on a wealth of material from film, television, art and popular culture, Angela McRobbie tackles the so-called 'end' of feminism. more...
The American Dream
Nation Books 2008; US$ 15.95In the tradition of Hunter S. Thompson and Sacha Baron Cohen, social chameleon Harmon Leon takes us on a journey into the savage heart of the American Dream more...
Gender and Migration
Zed Books 2010; US$ 34.95Provocative and intellectually challenging, Gender and Migration critically analyses how gender has been taken up in studies of migration and its theories, practices and effects. Each essay uses feminist frameworks to highlight how more traditional tropes of gender eschew the complexities of gender and migration. In tackling this problem, this collection... more...
Dear John, I Love Jane
Seal Press 2010; US$ 16.95The new buzzword in female sexuality is ?sexual fluidity??the idea that for many women, sexual identity can shift over time, often in the direction of same-sex relationships. Examples abound in popular culture, from actress Cynthia Nixon, who left her male partner of 15 years to be with a woman, to writer and comedienne Carol Leifer, who divorced... more...
Transition to Modernity
Cambridge University Press 1992; US$ 64.00This set of essays is concerned with the explanation of large scale social change. more...









