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  • American Jewish Loss after the Holocaust

    de Laura Levitt ...
    Many of us belong to communities that have been scarred by terrible calamities. And many of us come from families that have suffered grievous losses. How we reflect on these legacies of loss and the ways they inform each other are the questions Laura Levitt takes up in this provocative and passionate book.An American Jew whose family was not directly affected by the Holocaust, Levitt grapples with ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Jews and Feminism

    The Ambivalent Search for Home

    de Laura Levitt ...
    By interrogating America's promise of a home for Jews as citizens of the liberal state, Jews and Feminism questions the very terms of this social "contract". Maintaining that Jews, women, and Jewish women are not necessarily secure within this construction of the state, Laura Levitt links this contractual construction of belonging and acceptance to legacies of marriage as a contractual home for ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • The Objects That Remain

    de Laura Levitt ...
    Series series Dimyonot
    On a November evening in 1989, Laura Levitt was raped in her own bed. Her landlord heard the assault taking place and called 911, but the police arrived too late to apprehend Laura’s attacker. When they left, investigators took items with them—a pair of sweatpants, the bedclothes—and a rape exam was performed at the hospital. However, this evidence was never processed.Decades later, Laura returns ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Judaism Since Gender

    Edición de Miriam Peskowitz, Laura Levitt ...
    Judaism Since Gender offers a radically new concept of Jewish Studies, staking out new intellectual terrain and redefining the discipline as an intrinsically feminist practice.The question of how knowledge is gendered has been discussed by philosophers and feminists for years, yet is still new to many scholars of Judaism. Judaism Since Gender illuminates a crucial debate among intellectuals both ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • Junk Drawer

    What We Leave Behind

    de Sander Gilman, Barbara Von Eckardt, Mary Bergstein, Daniel Cavicchi, John Jacob, Margaret Olin, Laura Levitt, Ruth Ost0, Rhoda Rosen1, Amanda Leigh Davis2 ...
    Series series Material Culture Perspectives
    Junk Drawer: What We Leave Behind explores the personal objects that were once treasured by their owners yet were ultimately consigned to online “junk drawer” sales. Photographer and coeditor Barbara Von Eckardt acquired these random assortments from estate remnants on eBay and has documented their contents through evocative, sepia-toned images. In doing so, she has breathed new life into items ... Leer más

    $21.59 USD

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  • What Do Pictures Want?

    The Lives and Loves of Images

    de Professor W. J. T. Mitchell ...
    Why do we have such extraordinarily powerful responses toward the images and pictures we see in everyday life? Why do we behave as if pictures were alive, possessing the power to influence us, to demand things from us, to persuade us, seduce us, or even lead us astray?According to W. J. T. Mitchell, we need to reckon with images not just as inert objects that convey meaning but as animated beings ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Portable Magic

    A History of Books and Their Readers

    de Emma Smith ...
    A history of one of humankind’s most resilient and influential technologies over the past millennium—the book. Revelatory and entertaining in equal measure, Portable Magic will charm and challenge literature lovers of all kinds as it illuminates the transformative power and eternal appeal of the written word.Stephen King once said that books are “a uniquely portable magic.” Here, Emma Smith takes ... Leer más

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  • Saving Leonardo

    A Call to Resist the Secular Assault on Mind, Morals, and Meaning

    de Nancy Pearcey ...
    Is secularism a positive force in the modern world? Or does it lead to fragmentation and disintegration? In Saving Leonardo, best-selling award-winning author Nancy Pearcey (Total Truth, coauthor How Now Shall We Live?) makes a compelling case that secularism is destructive and dehumanizing.Pearcey depicts the revolutionary thinkers and artists, the ideas and events, leading step by step to the ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • An Analysis of John Berger's Ways of Seeing

    de Emmanouil Kalkanis ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Ways of Seeing is a key art-historical work that continues to provoke widespread debate. It is comprised of seven different essays, three of which are pictorial and the other containing texts and images. Berger first examines the relationship between seeing and knowing, discussing how our assumptions affect how we see a painting. He moves on to consider the role of women in artwork, particularly ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • The Age of the Crisis of Man

    Thought and Fiction in America, 1933–1973

    de Mark Greif ...
    A compelling intellectual and literary history of midcentury AmericaIn a midcentury American cultural episode forgotten today, intellectuals of all schools shared a belief that human nature was under threat. The immediate result was a glut of dense, abstract books on the "nature of man." But the dawning "age of the crisis of man," as Mark Greif calls it, was far more than a historical curiosity. ... Leer más

    $32.39 USD

  • Tell Me True

    Memoir, History, and Writing A Life

    Edición de Patricia Hampl, Elaine Tyler May ...
    In this landmark collection, Patricia Hampl and Elaine Tyler May have gathered fourteen original essays from award-winning memoirists and historians. They are all storytellers, wrestling with a fascinating gray area where memory intersects with history and where the necessities of narrative collide with mundane facts. and whether the record emerges from archival sources or from personal memory, ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Why Hope?

    The Stand Against Civilization

    de John Zerzan ...
    The infamous eco-anarchist John Zerzan whose books have resulted in recent interviews by Vice and Believer magazines, checks in with further provocative articles about the chaotic results of civilization and technology.Says novelist Lang Gore in his introduction:"The present collection of essays continues the overarching thrust of John's scholarship, unveiling the post-apocalyptic nature of our ... Leer más

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