Books

The Anguish of Thought The Anguish of Thought Évelyne Grossman 2017 Spring
A groundbreaking inquiry into modernist thinkers, anxiety, and writing
The Anime Ecology: A Genealogy of Television, Animation, and Game Media The Anime Ecology A Genealogy of Television, Animation, and Game Media Thomas Lamarre 2018 Spring
A major work destined to change how scholars and students look at television and animation
The Anime Machine: A Media Theory of Animation The Anime Machine A Media Theory of Animation Thomas Lamarre 2009 Fall
Presents a foundational theory of animation and what it reveals about our relationship to technology
The Anthrobscene The Anthrobscene Jussi Parikka 2015 Spring
Critiques the environmental destruction caused by media technologies in the anthropocene era
The Anti-Black City: Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil The Anti-Black City Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil Jaime Amparo Alves 2018 Spring
An important new ethnographic study of São Paulo’s favelas reveals the widespread use of race-based police repression in Brazil
The Anti-Politics Machine: Development, Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho The Anti-Politics Machine Development, Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho James Ferguson 1994 Spring
“Through a detailed case study of the Thaba-Tseka Development Project in Lesotho over the period 1975 to 1984, Ferguson exposes the discourse and the practice of 'development' to a highly explicit and critical scrutiny. . . . The importance of Ferguson's book is that it exerts a decisive wrench away from evaluation of the success or failure of development projects in their own terms and towards an analysis of what development does, who does it, and whom it actually benefits.” --Colin Murray, Man
The Apathy of Empire: Cambodia in American Geopolitics The Apathy of Empire Cambodia in American Geopolitics James A. Tyner 2024 Spring
What America’s intervention in Cambodia during the Vietnam War tells us about Cold War–era U.S. national security strategy
The Arabic Language: Its Role in History The Arabic Language Its Role in History Anwar G. Chejne None None
The Arachnean and Other Texts The Arachnean and Other Texts Fernand Deligny 2013 Fall
The network as a mode of being
The Architecture of Disability: Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes beyond Access The Architecture of Disability Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes beyond Access David Gissen 2022 Fall
A radical critique of architecture that places disability at the heart of the built environment
The Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States The Architecture of Madness Insane Asylums in the United States Carla Yanni 2007 Spring
From Kirkbride buildings to cottages, a fascinating tour through America’s nineteenth-century mental hospitals
The Art of Accompanying and Coaching The Art of Accompanying and Coaching Kurt Adler None None
Kurt Adler, conductor and chorus master of the Metropolitan Opera, provides an authoritative guide to musical accompanying and coaching, profusely illustrated.
The Art of Child Placement The Art of Child Placement Jean Charnley None None
The Art of Cooking The Art of Cooking Martha Rosler 2016 Fall
A crucial unpublished art historical document
The Art of Eastern India, 300-800 The Art of Eastern India, 300-800 Frederick M. Asher None None
The Art of Making Do in Naples The Art of Making Do in Naples Jason Pine 2012 Fall
An American anthropologist traverses the contact zones between organized crime and everyday life in Naples
The Art of Protest: Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Present, Second Edition The Art of Protest Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Present, Second Edition T. V. Reed 2019 Spring
A second edition of the classic introduction to arts in social movements, fully updated and now including Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, and new digital and social media forms of cultural resistance
The Art of the Motor The Art of the Motor Paul Virilio 1995 Fall
A major new work-and a best-seller in France-by one of the most exciting figures in contemporary French thought, this book asks how technology has changed the way we understand the world.
The Art of Wonder: Inspiration, Creativity, and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts The Art of Wonder Inspiration, Creativity, and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Editor 2015 Fall
The setup was open-ended and deceptively simple: muse about art and the nature of creativity and wonder
The Artificial Kingdom: On the Kitsch Experience The Artificial Kingdom On the Kitsch Experience Celeste Olalquiaga 2002 Fall
A cultural history of the human desire behind the emergence of kitsch.