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  • The Ex-Human

    Science Fiction and the Fate of Our Species

    de Michael Bérubé ...
    Facing threats like climate change and nuclear warfare, science fiction authors have conjured apocalyptic scenarios of human extinction. Can such gloomy fates help us make sense of our contemporary crises? How important is the survival of our species if we wind up battling for an Earth that has become an unhabitable hellscape? What other possible futures do narratives of the end of humanity allow ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Secret Life of Stories

    From Don Quixote to Harry Potter, How Understanding Intellectual Disability Transforms the Way We Read

    de Michael Bérubé ...
    How an understanding of intellectual disability transforms the pleasures of readingNarrative informs everything we think, do, plan, remember, and imagine. We tell stories and we listen to stories, gauging their "well-formedness" within a couple of years of learning to walk and talk. Some argue that the capacity to understand narrative is innate to our species; others claim that while that might be ... Leer más

    $18.79 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Crip Theory

    Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability

    de Robert McRuer, Michael Bérubé ...
    Series Libro 9 - Cultural Front
    A bold and contemporary discourse of the intersection of disability studies and queer studies.Crip Theory attends to the contemporary cultures of disability and queerness that are coming out all over. Both disability studies and queer theory are centrally concerned with how bodies, pleasures, and identities are represented as "normal" or as abject, but Crip Theory is the first book to analyze ... Leer más

    $21.59 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • It's Not Free Speech

    Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom

    de Michael Bérubé, Jennifer Ruth ...
    How far does the idea of academic freedom extend to professors in an era of racial reckoning?The protests of summer 2020, which were ignited by the murder of George Floyd, led to long-overdue reassessments of the legacy of racism and white supremacy in both American academe and cultural life more generally. But while universities have been willing to rename some buildings and schools or grapple ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • Life as Jamie Knows It

    An Exceptional Child Grows Up

    de Michael Berube ...
    The story of Jamie Bérubé’s journey to adulthood and a meditation on disability in American lifePublished in 1996, Life as We Know It introduced Jamie Bérubé to the world as a sweet, bright, gregarious little boy who loves the Beatles, pizza, and making lists. When he is asked in his preschool class what he would like to be when he grows up, he responds with one word: big. At four, he is like many ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • The Humanities, Higher Education, and Academic Freedom

    Three Necessary Arguments

    de Michael Bérubé, J. Ruth ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book is a lively, passionate defence of contemporary work in the humanities, and, beyond that, of the university system that makes such work possible. The book's stark accounts of academic labour, and its proposals for reform of the tenure system, are novel, controversial, timely, and very necessary. ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Philosophy as Poetry

    de Richard Rorty, Mary Varney Rorty ...
    Series series Page-Barbour Lectures
    Undeniably iconoclastic, and doggedly practical where others were abstract, the late Richard Rorty was described by some as a philosopher with no philosophy. Rorty was skeptical of systems claiming to have answers, seeing scientific and aesthetic schools as vocabularies rather than as indispensable paths to truth. But his work displays a profound awareness of philosophical tradition and an urgent ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Rhetorical Occasions

    Essays on Humans and the Humanities

    de Michael Bérubé ...
    A nationally known scholar, essayist, and public advocate for the humanities, Michael Bérubé has a rapier wit and a singular talent for parsing complex philosophical, theoretical, and political questions. Rhetorical Occasions collects twenty-four of his major essays and reviews, plus a sampling of entries on literary theory and contemporary culture from his award-winning weblog.Selected to ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • Higher Education Under Fire

    Politics, Economics, and the Crisis of the Humanities

    de Michael Berube, Cary Nelson ...
    The contributors to this collection explore why--and how--higher education in America under attack. ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • What's Liberal About the Liberal Arts?

    Classroom Politics and "Bias" in Higher Education

    de Michael Bérubé ...
    "A sensitive, sensible, and compelling account of American education at its best."—Philadelphia InquirerDescribed as one of the "101 Most Dangerous Academics in America" by right-wing critic David Horowitz, Michael Bérubé has become a leading liberal voice in the ongoing culture wars. This "smooth and swift read" (New Criterion) offers a definitive rebuttal of conservative activists' most ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • The Left at War

    de Michael Bérubé ...
    Series series Cultural Front
    The terrorist attacks of 9/11 and Bush’s belligerent response fractured the American left—partly by putting pressure on little-noticed fissures that had appeared a decade earlier.In a masterful survey of the post-9/11 landscape, renowned scholar Michael Bérubé revisits and reinterprets the major intellectual debates and key players of the last two decades, covering the terrain of left debates in ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    It's Not Free Speech

    Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom

    de Jennifer Ruth, Michael Bérubé ...
    Narrado por David Chandler ...

    Completo

    8 hora 58 minutos

    How far does the idea of academic freedom extend to professors in an era of racial reckoning?The protests of summer 2020, which were ignited by the murder of George Floyd, led to long-overdue reassessments of the legacy of racism and white supremacy in both American academe and cultural life more generally. But while universities have been willing to rename some buildings and schools orgrapple ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD