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Janet L. Abu-Lughod
New York, Chicago, Los
Angeles
America's Global Cities
"Abu-Lughod nicely characterizes the distinctive feel and
experience of the three cities. The city has been under attack
by theorists and sprawlers for a long time now, but this fine
book provides necessary examples of how the city may be intelligently
loved." The New Republic
402 ISBN 0-8166-3336-3 $24.95 paper
403 ISBN 0-8166-3335-5 $49.95 cloth/jacket
592 pages o 1999
Theodor W. Adorno
Aesthetic Theory
Translated by Robert Hullot-Kentor
"Aesthetic Theory is Adorno's late magnum opus (ital) and
among the most significant works on aesthetics of the twentieth
century." Radical Philosophy
404 ISBN 0816618003 $24.95 paper
405 ISBN 0816617996 $39.95 cloth/jacket
448 pages o 1996
Theory and History of Literature,
volume 88
Arjun Appadurai
Modernity at Large
Cultural Dimensions of Globalization
In this bold look at the cultural effects of a shrinking world,
Arjun Appadurai provides fresh ways of looking at popular consumption
patterns, debates about multiculturalism, and ethnic violence
in a broad global perspective.
"A masterpiece in interdisciplinary thinking." International
Migration Review
406 ISBN 0-8166-2793-2 $18.95 paper
224 pages o 1996
Public Worlds Series,
volume 1
Arturo Arias, editor
The Rigoberta Menchú
Controversy
A balanced appraisal of the bitter debate surrounding the autobiography
of Guatemala's 1992 Nobel Peace Prize recipient. Included is a
new essay by David Stoll in which he responds to his critics.
Contributors: Luis Aceituno, Juan Jesús Aznárez,
John Beverley, Allen Carey-Webb, Margarita Carrera, Duncan Earle,
Carolina Escobar Sarti, Claudia Ferman, Dina Fernández
García, Eduardo Galeano, Dante Liano, W. George Lovell,
Christopher H. Lutz, Octavio Martí, Victor D. Montejo,
Rosa Montero, Mario Roberto Morales, Jorge Palmieri, Daphne Patai,
Mary Louise Pratt, Danilo Rodríguez, Ileana Rodríguez,
Larry Rohter, Jorge Skinner-Kleé; Elzbieta Sklodowska,
Carol A. Smith, Doris Sommer, David Stoll, Manuel Vásquez
Montalbán, Kay B. Warren.
407 ISBN 0-8166-3626-5 $19.95 paper
408 ISBN 0-8166-3625-7 $49.95 cloth
416 pages o 2001
Georges Bataille
The Unfinished System
of Nonknowledge
Translated by Stuart Kendall and Michelle Kendall
Gathering Bataille's most intimate writings, these essays, aphorisms,
notes, and lectures on nonknowledge, sovereignty, and sacrifice
clarify and extend Bataille's radical theology, his philosophy
of history, and his ecstatic method of meditation.
"Bataille is one of the most important writers of his century."
Michel Foucault
409 ISBN 0-8166-3504-8 $39.95 cloth/jacket
296 pages o 2001
Otto Bauer
The Question of Nationalities
and Social Democracy
Translated by Joseph O'Donnell
Ephraim J. Nimni, editor
The first complete English translation of a classic work on nationalism.
First published in German in 1907, this seminal text has been
cited in countless discussions of nationalism, from the writings
of Lenin to Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities.
410 ISBN 0-8166-3265-0 $60.00 cloth/jacket
552 pages o 2000
Ron Berg
Northwoods Fish Cookery
The celebrated chef's complete guide to delicious fish dishes.
The book includes Ron Berg's own fishing tips, humorous anecdotes,
and lore from the Gunflint Trail, giving the book a crisp, northwoods
flavor sure to delight outdoor enthusiasts and lovers of fine
food everywhere.
411 ISBN 0-8166-3583-8 $16.95 paper
276 pages o 2000
C.R. Boxer, editor and translator
The Tragic History of the
Sea
C. R. Boxer's fascinating translations of famous Portuguese shipwreck
stories detail the disasters and terrors plaguing the perilous
sea trading route between Portugal and India. These tales of selfishness,
cruelty, despair, pirates, mayhem, and harrowing storms will captivate
readers.
412 ISBN 0-8166-3890-X $24.95 paper
528 pages o 2001
Jeremy Braddock and Stephen Hock, editors
Directed by Allen
Smithee
A new estimation of Hollywood's least appreciated director.
"While some of the essays explore individual Smithee films,
the collection emphasizes the broader questions about film authorship
and identity that his very existence-or nonexistence-provokes."
Lingua Franca
413 ISBN 0-8166-3534-X $18.95 paper
414 ISBN 0-8166-3533-1 $47.95 cloth
312 pages o 2001
Louise Brooks
Lulu in Hollywood
Expanded Edition
"Brooks is brilliantly perceptive and articulate on everything
from the art of film directing to the comedy of W. C. Fields."
New York Times
"A minor classic." Film Quarterly
415 ISBN 0-8166-3731-8 $19.95 paper
184 pages o 2000
Ricardo J. Brown
William Reichard, editor
The Evening Crowd
at Kirmser's
A Gay Life in the 1940s
"Whimsical, insightful, and compellingly readable, Ricardo
Brown's memoir offers a remarkable portrait of the life gay men
built for themselves after the Second World War in small cities
far from the coastal meccas of gay life. Fascinating." George
Chauncey
416 ISBN 0-8166-3621-4 $21.95 cloth/jacket
136 pages o 2001
James N. Butcher and Carolyn L. Williams
Essentials of MMPI-2
and MMPI-A Interpretation
Second Edition
The best resource for interpreting these widely used personality
assessment tests. James N. Butcher and Carolyn L. Williams detail
the rationale for the revision and development of the instruments
and their scales, and describe how to administer, score, profile,
code, and interpret the tests.
417 ISBN 0-8166-3552-8 $49.95 cloth
392 pages o 2000
Roberto Calasso
The Forty-nine Steps
Translated by John Shepley
Roberto Calasso offers a "secret history" of European
literature and philosophy in the wake of Nietzsche, Marx, and
Freud. The book's theme, writ large, is the power of fable-specifically,
its persistence in art and literature despite its exclusion from
orthodox philosophy.
418 ISBN 0-8166-3098-4 $29.95 cloth/jacket
280 pages o 2001
Richard J. Campbell and Jane Immler Satkowski, editors
Master Drawings from
the Collection of Alfred Moir
Works from the extensive private collection of the renowned art
historian. The drawings reproduced in this catalog of the exhibition
capture the breadth of Renaissance drawing and reflect Alfred
Moir's own interests and passions as an art historian and collector.
419 ISBN 0-8166-3769-5 $29.95 paper
144 pages o 76 color plates o 2001
Alejo Carpentier
Music in Cuba
Translated by Alan West-Durán
"Music in Cuba is a pioneering chronicle of the historical
confluence of two musical streams, from Europe and Africa, that
produced the special richness of the Cuban musical tradition.
Remarkable, ground-breaking and indispensable." Times Literary
Supplement
420 ISBN 0-8166-3229-4 $34.95 cloth/jacket
321 pages o 2001
Cultural Studies of the Americas
Series, volume 5
Elizabeth Chin
Purchasing Power
Black Kids and American Consumer Culture
In this first in-depth account of the consumer lives of poor and
working-class black children, Elizabeth Chin enters the world
of children living in hardship in order to understand the ways
they learn to manage living poor in a wealthy society.
421 ISBN 0-8166-3511-0 $17.95 paper
422 ISBN 0-8166-3510-2 $44.95 cloth
272 pages o 2001
Tom Cohen, Barbara Cohen, J. Hillis Miller, and Andrzej Warminski,
editors
Material Events
Paul de Man and the Afterlife of Theory
Responding to the problematic of "materialism" as posed
in Paul de Man's posthumous last book, Aesthetic Ideology, a diverse
and distinguished group of scholars explores the question of "material
events" in ways that illuminate not just de Man's work but
their own.
423 ISBN 0-8166-3614-1 $22.95 paper
424 ISBN 0-8166-3613-3 $57.95 cloth
416 pages o 2000
Deborah R. Connolly
Homeless Mothers
Face to Face with Women and Poverty
Both an anthropologist in the field and a social worker on the
job, Deborah R. Connolly is ideally placed to draw out homeless
women's life stories, the stories that our culture tells about
them, and the revealing contradictions between the two.
425 ISBN 0-8166-3282-0 $17.95 paper
426 ISBN 0-8166-3281-2 $24.95 cloth
244 pages o 2000
Alan Dale
Comedy Is a Man in Trouble
Slapstick in American Movies
"Alan Dale seasons his weightier theories about slapstick
in film with engaging opinions and witty asides. Dale tackles
many of the great film comedians, from Charlie Chaplin to Jim
Carrey. His seemingly encyclopedic knowledge, back to the most
obscure silent films, produces admirable close readings."
New York Times Book Review
427 ISBN 0-8166-3657-5 $25.95 cloth/jacket
288 pages o 2000
Michel de Certeau
Heterologies
Discourse on the Other
Translated by Brian Massumi
A collection of numerous essays drawn from de Certeau's writings,
Heterologies illustrates the diverse concerns that inform his
work. Each essay examines and questions the biases surrounding
contemporary reorganization.
428 ISBN 0-8166-1404-0 $18.95 paper
277 pages o 1986
Theory and History of Literature
Series, volume 17
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
Anti-Oedipus
Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Translated by Robert Hurley, Mark Seem, and Helen R. Lane
"This book must be read. It is relevant to about every sociological
orientation, not only within Marxism, and to every specialty within
our discipline." Contemporary Sociology
429 ISBN 0-8166-1225-0 $18.95 paper
400 pages o 1983
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
A Thousand Plateaus
Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Translated by: Brian Massumi
A positive exercise in the affirmative, "nomad" thought
called for in its companion volume, Anti-Oedipus. This series
of essays address war and death, territoriality and the anthropology
of groups, model theory, and psychosis.
430 ISBN 0-8166-1402-4 $19.95 paper
640 pages o 1987
Gilles Deleuze
Proust and Signs
The Complete Text
Translated by Richard Howard
The essential work on Proust, in a complete English translation
for the first time. The incomparable Gilles Deleuze reads Proust's
masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time, as a narrative of an apprenticeship
of a man of letters.
431 ISBN 0-8166-3257-X $21.95 cloth/jacket
160 pages o 2000
Theory Out of Bounds Series,
volume 17
François Dosse
History of Structuralism
Volume 1: The Rising Sign, 1945-1966
Translated by Deborah Glassman
A long-awaited translation of the first comprehensive history
of one of the most influential intellectual movements of the twentieth
century, this two-volume set examines the thinkers who made up
the movement, providing a fascinating elucidation of a central
aspect of postwar intellectual history.
432 ISBN 0-8166-2241-8 $29.95 paper
433 ISBN 0-8166-2239-6 $49.95 cloth/jacket
588 pages o 1997
Contradictions Series,
volume 8
François Dosse
History of Structuralism
Volume 2: The Sign Sets, 1967-Present
Translated by Deborah Glassman
"Dosse's work is exceptional in its pursuit of an honest
and relevant archaeology that not only clarifies the past but
offers lessons for the future." Libération
434 ISBN 0-8166-2371-6 $29.95 paper
435 ISBN 0-8166-2370-8 $49.95 cloth/jacket
416 pages o 1997
Contradictions Series,
volume 9
Terry Eagleton
Literary Theory
An Introduction, Second Edition
This classic work is designed to cover all of the major movements
in literary studies in this century. The second edition contains
a major new survey chapter that addresses developments in cultural
theory since the book's original publication in 1983, including
feminist theory, postmodernism, and poststructuralism.
436 ISBN 0-8166-1251-X $15.95 paper
224 pages o 1996
Mark Fenster
Conspiracy Theories
Secrecy and Power in American Culture
"Fenster culls the liveliest counterintelligences out there-the
Michigan Militia, religious millennialists, Chris Carter, even
Oliver Stone-and sets them up as the last idealists. They might
be obsessive and maniacal, but they're after a transparent political
system, where big business and the government can be held accountable."
Voice Literary Supplement
437 ISBN 0-8166-3243-X $17.95 paper
320 pages o 2001
Gregory Flaxman, editor
The Brain Is the Screen
Deleuze and the Philosophy of Cinema
"This book illuminates one of the most exciting events in
philosophy and film theory-a major French philosopher writing
detailed volumes on film-and extends knowledge of film, philosophy,
and their relation in subtle and far-reaching ways." Dana
Polan
438 ISBN 0-8166-3447-5 $19.95 paper
439 ISBN 0-8166-3446-7 $49.95 cloth
344 pages o 2000
Charles Green
The Third Hand
Collaboration in Art from Conceptualism to Postmodernism
In The Third Hand, Charles Green offers a sustained critical examination
of collaboration in international contemporary art.
440 ISBN 0-8166-3713-X $24.95 paper
441 ISBN 0-8166-3712-1 $62.95 cloth
248 pages o 2001
Leslie Heywood
Pretty Good for a Girl
An Athlete's Story
How can a female athlete cope with all the challenges placed upon
her? This poignant and vivid memoir reflects on these pressures,
the lessons they can teach, and the damage they can do.
442 ISBN 0-8166-3659-1 $15.95 paper
240 pages o 2000
Sport and Culture Series,
volume 1
Joseph D. Horse Capture and George P. Horse Capture
Beauty, Honor, and
Tradition
The Legacy of Plains Indian Shirts
Celebrating the power, artistry, and history of these Plains Indian
masterpieces. Through photographs and detailed descriptions of
fifty-three representative elaborately decorated hide shirts crafted
from the 1820s to the 1990s, this book explores the complex relationship
between the shirts, their makers, and their wearers.
443 ISBN 0-8166-3947-7 $34.95 paper
160 pages o 96 color photos, 10 halftones, 3 line illustrations
o 2001
Adrienne Kennedy
The Adrienne Kennedy
Reader
The Adrienne Kennedy Reader is the first comprehensive collection
of works by one of our greatest living playwrights.
"Kennedy's plays are strong dreams that reveal us in our
most vulnerable moments." Robert Brustein, director of the
American Repertory Theater
444 ISBN 0-8166-3603-6 $18.95 paper
445 ISBN 0-8166-3602-8 $47.95 cloth
328 pages o 2001
Regina Khidekel
It's the Real Thing
Soviet and Post-Soviet Sots Art and American Pop Art
An extensively illustrated treatment of this pivotal art movement.
"The price plus the hip design standards make It's the Real
Thing a book to run, not walk, to buy." Art Papers Magazine
446 ISBN 0-8166-3445-9 $29.95 paper
112 pages o 78 color photos, 36 black-and-white photos o 1999
Kitty Krupat and Patrick McCreery, editors
Out at Work
Building a GayLabor Alliance
"The book is itself a lively demonstration of the range of
activity that has been challenging workplace discrimination against
lesbians and gay men, infusing labor agitation with queer protest
tactics, and bringing class consciousness into the LGBT movement.
The anthology also gauges with a clear eye the considerable obstacles
that remain." Village Voice
447 ISBN 0-8166-3741-5 $19.95 paper
448 ISBN 0-8166-3740-7 $49.95 cloth
320 pages o 2001
Cultural Politics Series,
volume 17
David Lenson
On Drugs
"Lenson's magnificent book is a perceptive mapping of the
rippling waves of undiscovered solar systems within our brain.
It will comfort the fearful and guide the unprepared. A classic."
Timothy Leary
449 ISBN 0-8166-2711-8 $16.95 paper
256 pages o 1995
Pierre Lévy
Cyberculture
Translated by Robert Bononno
A perfectly lucid and accessible description of cyberspace-from
infrastructure to practical applications-along with an inspired,
far-reaching exploration of its ramifications. A window on the
digital world for the technologically timid, the book also offers
a brilliant vision of the philosophical and social realities and
possibilities of cyberspace for the adept and novice alike.
452 ISBN 0-8166-3610-9 $17.95 paper
453 ISBN 0-8166-3609-5 $44.95 cloth
208 pages o 2001
Electronic Mediations Series,
volume 4
Jean-François Lyotard
The Postmodern
Condition
A Report on Knowledge
Translated by Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi
This founding essay of the postmodern movement argues that knowledge-science,
technology, and the arts-has undergone a change of status since
the 19th century and especially since the late 1950s.
454 ISBN 0-8166-1173-4 $14.95 paper
110 pages o 1984
Theory and History of Literature,
volume 10
Michael Mello
The Wrong Man
A True Story of Innocence on Death Row
The Wrong Man is the dramatic story of Michael Mello's twenty-year
fight to save "Crazy Joe" Spaziano, a member of a widely
feared motorcycle gang, from execution for a murder he didn't
commit.
455 ISBN 0-8166-3783-0 $29.95 cloth/jacket
552 pages o 2001
Beatrice Ojakangas
The Great Scandinavian
Baking Book
In this mouthwatering collection, Beatrice Ojakangas calls on
her own Scandinavian heritage and wide-ranging knowledge of baking
to produce the definitive cookbook for this rich cultural heritage.
450 ISBN 0-8166-3496-3 $18.95 paper
328 pages o 1999
Beatrice Ojakangas
The Great Holiday
Baking Book
An expert on traditional holidays and the special baked treats
that mark them, veteran chef and cookbook writer Beatrice Ojakangas
presents recipes for twenty-one seasonal occasions and cultural
holidays. With these recipes, every holiday is sure to be memorable.
451 ISBN 0-8166-3868-3 $18.95 paper
368 pages o 2001
Beatrice Ojakangas
Scandinavian Feasts
Celebrating Traditions throughout the Year
The definitive word on sumptuous Scandinavian cooking. Easily
as engaging as the dishes themselves, each recipe comes with an
introduction that explains the cultural importance of the feast
and details its seasonal significance.
"America's leading exponent of Scandinavian cookery."
Los Angeles Times
456 ISBN 0-8166-3745-8 $18.95 paper
304 pages o 2001
Barry Paris
Louise Brooks
A Biography
"Louise Brooks is not simply a summary of her movie plots
and love affairs but a serious work of film and social history."
New York Magazine
"Star biographies don't get any better than Barry Paris's
Louise Brooks." USA Today
457 ISBN 0-8166-3781-4 $19.95 paper
624 pages o 2000
Christian A. Peterson
Chaining the Sun
Portraits by Jeremiah Gurney
Long been overshadowed by the reputation of his competitor Mathew
Brady, this major nineteenth-century photographer's accomplishments
are being brought to light.
"I would recommend Chaining the Sun for anyone interested
in the history of nineteenth century studio photographers."
The Daguerreian Society Newsletter
458 ISBN 0-8166-3656-7 $29.95 cloth/jacket
104 pages o 53 duotones, 2 color photos, 4 line drawings o 1999
Mark Poster
What's the Matter with
the Internet?
Leading cultural theorist Mark Poster offers a sophisticated
and astute assessment of the potential the new medium has to redefine
culture and politics. Avoiding the mindless hype and meaningless
jargon that has characterized much of the debate about the future
of the Web, he details what truly distinguishes the Internet from
other media and the implications these novel properties have for
such vital issues as authorship, national identity and global
citizenship, the fate of ethnicity and race, and democracy.
459 ISBN 0-8166-3835-7 $17.95 paper
460 ISBN 0-8166-3834-9 $44.95 cloth
232 pages o 2001
Electronic Mediations Series,
volume 3
Vijay Prashad
The Karma of Brown Folk
"The Karma of Brown Folk is remarkable not only for its radical
analysis of U.S. racism but of desi 'bad faith'-even as it contains
fascinating accounts of Afro-Asian collaboration and multiracial
organizing." Village Voice
461 ISBN 0-8166-3439-4 $16.95 paper
248 pages o 2000
Prisma's Abridged
English-Swedish and Swedish-English Dictionary
85,000 words and phrases in one volume.
462 ISBN 0-8166-2734-7 $26.95 cloth
480 pages o 1995
Sheila Radford-Hill
Further to Fly
Black Women and the Politics of Empowerment
Further to Fly describes the ways in which, since the 1960s, black
women have been stripped of their traditional status as agents
of change in the community-and how, as a result, the black community
has faltered. Radford-Hill explores the shortcomings of second-wave
black and white feminism.
463 ISBN 0-8166-3475-0 $17.95 paper
464 ISBN 0-8166-3474-2 $44.95 cloth
176 pages o 2000
Chela Sandoval
Methodology of the
Oppressed
Foreword by Angela Y. Davis
"This book provides us with a series of methods, not only
for analyzing texts, but for creating social movements and identities
that are capable of speaking to, against, and through power. "
Angela Y. Davis, from the foreword
465 ISBN 0-8166-2737-1 $19.95 paper
466 ISBN 0-8166-2736-3 $49.95 cloth
232 pages o 2000
Theory Out of Bounds Series,
volume 18
Robert R. Shandley, editor
Unwilling Germans?
The Goldhagen Debate
Translated by Jeremiah Riemer
A comprehensive overview of the controversy surrounding Hitler's
Willing Executioners.
"The essays in this volume present an illuminating range
of positions, not only on Goldhagen, but on German history and
historiographical method more broadly." South Central Review
467 ISBN 0-8166-3101-8 $17.95 paper
224 pages o 1998
Robert Silberman
World Views
Maps and Art
Essays by Robert Silberman and noted geographer Yi-Fu Tuan contextualize
this collection of contemporary art that uses map forms and strategies.
Includes maps from around the world and throughout history as
well as works by artists such as Jasper Johns and Nancy Graves
and art created especially for the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum
exhibit.
468 ISBN 0-8166-3686-9 $24.95 paper
80 pages o 38 color, 13 black-and-white photos o 2000
Michael Sorkin
Some Assembly Required
Widely hailed as one of the best architecture critics writing
today, Michael Sorkin is a witty, entertaining, yet ultimately
serious writer. In this new collection, Sorkin reviews the state
of contemporary architecture and surveys the dramatic changes
in the urban environment of the past decade.
469 ISBN 0-8166-3483-1 $19.95 paper
470 ISBN 0-8166-3482-3 $49.95 cloth
264 pages o 2001
Daphne Spain
How Women Saved the City
Spain uncovers the contribution of women to urban development
at the turn of the twentieth century to clearly demonstrate the
key role they played in shaping the American urban landscape.
She reconstructs the story of women's involvement in "redemptive
places."
471 ISBN 0-8166-3532-3 $19.95 paper
472 ISBN 0-8166-3531-5 $34.95 cloth/jacket
288 pages o 2000
Paul Strohm
Theory and the Premodern
Text
Insisting on the imaginative multiplicity of the text, Strohm
finds in theory an augmentation of interpretive possibilities-an
augmentation that sometimes requires respectful disagreement with
what a work says-or seems to want known-about itself.
473 ISBN 0-8166-3775-X $16.95 paper
474 ISBN 0-8166-3774-1 $42.95 cloth
296 pages o 2000
Medieval Cultures Series,
volume 26
Erika Suderburg, editor
Space, Site, Intervention
Situating Installation Art
The definitive work on the role of installation art within contemporary
culture and society.
"This wonderful book seeks to expand the definition of site-specific
work while dissolving its categories. This is a monster of an
undertaking and a treat to read." Bomb
475 ISBN 0-8166-3159-X $24.95 paper
352 pages o 91 black-and-white photos o 2000
Becky Thompson
A Promise and a Way
of Life
White Antiracist Activism
"A fascinating collective portrait of an extraordinary group
of white people who fought racism, often at great risk. Becky
Thompson traces the background, the thinking, the actions of these
people over a period of fifty years, as they participated in the
most important social movements of our time." Howard Zinn
476 ISBN 0-8166-3634-6 $19.95 paper
477 ISBN 0-8166-3633-8 $34.95 cloth/jacket
512 pages o 2001
Yi-Fu Tuan
Space and Place
The Perspective of Experience
On the 25th anniversary of its publication, a new edition of this
foundational work on human geography. Eminent geographer Yi-Fu
Tuan considers the ways in which people feel and think about space.
478 ISBN 0-8166-3877-2 $17.95 paper
248 pages o 2001
Victor M. Valle and Rodolfo D. Torres
Latino Metropolis
Clearly, Latino Metropolis seeks to hold us all to the very highest
standards. The authors manage to catch and hold our attention
with the occasional verbal blow, and then they deliver a sober
(and sobering) lecture on the hard realities of multiculturalism."
Los Angeles Times
479 ISBN 0-8166-3030-5 $18.95 paper
480 ISBN 0-8166-3029-1 $47.95 cloth
288 pages o 2000
Globalization and Community
Series, volume 7
Paul Virilio
The Art of the Motor
Translated by Julie Rose
A major work-and a bestseller 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.
481 ISBN 0-8166-2571-9 $15.95 paper
168 pages o 1995
Immanuel Wallerstein
The End of the World
As We Know It
Social Science for the Twenty-First Century
This book is nothing short of a state-of-the-world address, delivered
by a scholar uniquely suited to the task. Immanuel Wallerstein
documents the profound transformations our world is undergoing.
Combining an analysis of current events and recent thought, Wallerstein
provides a map through the momentous intellectual challenges that
lie ahead.
482 ISBN 0-8166-3398-3 $18.95 paper
292 pages o 1999
Wang Ping
Aching for Beauty
Footbinding in China
"Aching for Beauty demonstrates the complexity and the manifestations
of a civilization's obsession with the body-its beauty, its fulfillment,
its destruction, and its transformation. This is a rich, necessary,
and invaluable book." Ha Jin
483 ISBN 0-8166-3605-2 $27.95 cloth/jacket
364 pages o 2000
Winner of the Eugene M. Kayden Press Book Award.
Esther C. M. Yau, editor
At Full Speed
Hong Kong Cinema in a Borderless World
From Peking opera to Chow Yun-Fat, At Full Speed captures the
remarkable range and energy of Hong Kong cinema, one that borrows,
invents, and reinvents across the boundaries of time, culture,
and conventions.
484 ISBN 0-8166-3235-9 $19.95 paper
485 ISBN 0-8166-3234-0 $49.95 cloth
272 pages o 2001
Tukufu Zuberi
Thicker Than Blood
How Racial Statistics Lie
Tukufu Zuberi describes the ways race-differentiated data is misinterpreted
in the social sciences and asks searching questions about the
ways racial statistics are used.
"A tour de force." William Julius Wilson
486 ISBN 0-8166-3908-6 $24.95 cloth/jacket
232 pages o 2001