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  • Thirst

    On a searing summer Friday, Eddie Chapman has been stuck for hours in a traffic jam. There are accidents along the highway, but ambulances and police are conspicuously absent. When he decides to abandon his car and run home, he sees that the trees along the edge of a stream have been burnt, and the water in the streambed is gone. Something is very wrong.When he arrives home, the power is out and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Fearless

    Christine Harmon is not afraid of anything. Dr. Blau wants to know why. He subjects her to a seemingly endless series of experiments, testing her reactions to spiders, rollercoasters, and being buried alive. Christine's boyfriend, Carl, a professional archer turned party-entertainer, doesn't care why. He subjects her to a seemingly endless series of increasingly dangerous party tricks. As the ... Read more

    $5.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Speculative Fiction

    A Writer's Guide and Anthology

    Series series Bloomsbury Writer's Guides and Anthologies
    In a time defined by uncertainty, change and inequality, speculative fiction is fast-becoming the genre of the 21st century. Straddling genres such as fantasy, science fiction, dystopia, alternative history, and horror, this book is a comprehensive introduction to the art of writing in this imaginative, fluid, and inclusive mode. An all-in-one textbook combining a craft guide with an extensive, ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

  • Modern Social Imaginaries

    Series series Public planet books
    One of the most influential philosophers in the English-speaking world, Charles Taylor is internationally renowned for his contributions to political and moral theory, particularly to debates about identity formation, multiculturalism, secularism, and modernity. In Modern Social Imaginaries, Taylor continues his recent reflections on the theme of multiple modernities. To account for the ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Fear of Small Numbers

    An Essay on the Geography of Anger

    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    The period since 1989 has been marked by the global endorsement of open markets, the free flow of finance capital and liberal ideas of constitutional rule, and the active expansion of human rights. Why, then, in this era of intense globalization, has there been a proliferation of violence, of ethnic cleansing on the one hand and extreme forms of political violence against civilian populations on ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Empire of Love

    Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality

    Series series Public planet books
    In The Empire of Love anthropologist Elizabeth A. Povinelli reflects on a set of ethical and normative claims about the governance of love, sociality, and the body that circulates in liberal settler colonies such as the United States and Australia. She boldly theorizes intimate relations as pivotal sites where liberal logics and aspirations absorbed through settler imperialism are manifest, where ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Democracy Disrupted

    Communication in the Volatile 2020 Presidential Election

    Leading scholars analyze three disruptions in the 2020 presidential campaign and election: disruptions to the status quo caused by the renewed quest for racial justice and greater diversity of candidates, pandemic disruptions to traditional campaigning, and disruptions to democratic norms.Democracy Disrupted documents the most significant features of the 2020 U.S. presidential election through ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • An Unprecedented Election

    Media, Communication, and the Electorate in the 2016 Campaign

    Written by leading scholars of political communication, this book provides a comprehensive accounting of the campaign communication that characterized the unprecedented 2016 presidential campaign.The political events leading up to election day on November 8, 2016, involved unprecedented events in U.S. history: Hillary Clinton was the first woman to be nominated by a major party, and she was ... Read more

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  • Bilingual Aesthetics

    A New Sentimental Education

    Series series Public planet books
    Knowing a second language entails some unease; it requires a willingness to make mistakes and work through misunderstandings. The renowned literary scholar Doris Sommer argues that feeling funny is good for you, and for society. In Bilingual Aesthetics Sommer invites readers to make mischief with meaning, to play games with language, and to allow errors to stimulate new ways of thinking. Today’s ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • How to Be an Intellectual in the Age of TV

    The Lessons of Gore Vidal

    Series series Public planet books
    Novelist, television personality, political candidate, and maverick social commentator, Gore Vidal is one of the most innovative, influential, and enduring American intellectuals of the past fifty years. In How to Be an Intellectual in the Age of TV, Marcie Frank provides a concise introduction to Vidal’s life and work as she argues that the twentieth-century shift from print to electronic media, ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Migration, Risk Management and Climate Change: Evidence and Policy Responses

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This edited volume explores the circumstances under which vulnerable communities can better adapt to climate and environmental change, and focuses in particular on the centrality of migration as a resilience and adaptation strategy for communities at risk. The book features important case studies where migration is being used as a risk management strategy in the Pacific, Sub-Sahara Africa, Latin ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Democracy on the Line

    The Turbulent 2024 Presidential Election

    Leading scholars of political communication analyze the most defining and groundbreaking moments of the 2024 U.S. presidential election.With cutting-edge work on the ubiquitous presidency, a new theory of racial socialization, trailblazing theorizing on neurodiversity in political media coverage, and new conceptualizations of masculinity, this volume covers the key events and messages that defined ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

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