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  • Subaltern Silence

    A Postcolonial Genealogy

    by Kevin Olson ...
    Series Book 90 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    Winner, 2025 Charles Taylor Book Award, APSA Interpretive Methodologies and Methods Conference GroupSubordination did not simply fade away in the aftermath of colonialism. Instead, this illuminating book shows, a host of subtle new techniques have arisen that dominate vast categories of people by rendering them silent. Kevin Olson investigates how contemporary societies silence the subaltern: ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Imagined Sovereignties

    The Power of the People and Other Myths of the Modern Age

    by Kevin Olson ...
    Movements like the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, and the Tea Party embody some of our deepest intuitions about popular politics and 'the power of the people'. They also expose tensions and shortcomings in our understanding of these ideals. We typically see 'the people' as having a special, sovereign power. Despite the centrality of this idea in our thinking, we have little understanding of why ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • What Is a People?

    by Alain Badiou, Judith Butler, Georges Didi-Huberman, Sadri Khiari, Jacques Rancière, Pierre Bourdieu, Kevin Olson ...
    Translated by Jody Gladding ...
    Series Book 50 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    What Is a People? seeks to reclaim "people" as an effective political concept by revisiting its uses and abuses over time. Alain Badiou surveys the idea of a people as a productive force of solidarity and emancipation and as a negative tool of categorization and suppression. Pierre Bourdieu follows with a sociolinguistic analysis of "popular" and its transformation of democracy, beliefs, songs, ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Pixar for Piano

    by Hal Leonard Corp., Kevin Olson ...
    (Piano Solo Songbook). 15 beloved songs from the Pixar movies arranged especially for piano solo. The accessible arrangements are for intermediate to early advanced level pianists and are designed for solo recitals as well as mood-setting music to special occasions! Includes: Bundle of Joy (Inside Out) * If I Didn't Have You (Monsters Inc.) * The Incredits * Lava * Married Life (Up) * Ratatouille ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Frontier Manhattan

    Yankee Settlement to Kansas Town, 1854-1894

    by Kevin G. W. Olson ...
    When Isaac Goodnow and five fellow New Englanders arrived at the junction of the Kansas and Big Blue rivers in March of 1855, they pitched a tent and launched a town. Harassment and homesickness almost drove them back east, but they held their ground to establish an anti-slavery and educational stronghold: the town of Manhattan, Kansas.Kevin Olson's lively history of Manhattan's founding ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Religion and Politics in America

    Faith, Culture, and Strategic Choices

    by Allen D. Hertzke, Laura R. Olson, Kevin R. den Dulk, Robert Booth Fowler ...
    Religion and politics are never far from the headlines, but their relationship remains complex and often confusing. This book offers an engaging, accessible, and balanced treatment of religion in American politics. It explores the historical, cultural, and legal contexts that motivate religious political engagement and assesses the pragmatic and strategic political realities that religious ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • Gotham

    A History of New York City to 1898

    by Edwin G. Burrows, Mike Wallace ...
    Series series The History of NYC Series
    To European explorers, it was Eden, a paradise of waist-high grasses, towering stands of walnut, maple, chestnut, and oak, and forests that teemed with bears, wolves, raccoons, beavers, otters, and foxes. Today, it is the site of Broadway and Wall Street, the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty, and the home of millions of people, who have come from every corner of the nation and the ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Order Without Power

    An Introduction to Anarchism: History and Current Challenges

    by Normand Baillargeon ...
    With the rise of the global protestor—from Arab Spring to the Occupy movement—the term "anarchist" has been littered throughout mainstream media as never before. But just as frequently, its definition is skewed or left wanting: anarchists are painted as nihilists, supporters of chaos, or even terrorists.In Order without Power, an informative primer, Normand Baillargeon thoroughly defines anarchism ... Read more

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  • At Sea in the City

    New York from the Water's Edge

    by William Kornblum ...
    New York is a city of few boundaries, a city of well-known streets and blocks that ramble on and on, into our literature, dreams, and nightmares. We know the city by the byways that split it, streets like Broadway and Madison and Flatbush and Delancey. From those streets, peering down the blocks and up at the top floors, the city seems immense and endless.And though the land itself may end at the ... Read more

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  • Software Theory

    A Cultural and Philosophical Study

    by Federica Frabetti ...
    Series series Media Philosophy
    The cultural and philosophical study of software is crucial, both within and outside of the university, at an international level and across disciplines. Software is increasingly considered the focus of digital media studies because of the perceived need to address the invisibility, ubiquity, and power of digital media. Yet software remains quite obscure to students and scholars in media studies, ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Astoria

    by Washington Irving ...
    In 1836, Irving published " Astoria ; or, Anecdotes of an Enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains ;" a somewhat curious example of literary skill. A voluminous commercial correspondence was the dull ore of the earth which he refined and wrought into symmetry and splendor. Irving reduced to a regular narrative the events to which it referred, bringing out the picturesque whenever he found it, and ... Read more

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  • A Mad Trapper's Examination of Reader Response and Reception Theory

    by Barry Pomeroy ...
    In this project I ground my reading of reader-oriented criticism in a particular text, Rudy Wiebe's The Mad Trapper. Positioning this novel as representative of the contradictory characteristics of all texts--"always already" open to multiple interpretations--I use these multiple readings both to examine and undermine The Mad Trapper and Reader Response/Reception theory. Situating and ... Read more

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