Books
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Barry Le Va
The Aesthetic Aftermath
Michael Maizels
2015 Fall
- A pioneering study of one of contemporary art’s most compelling artists—and a new window on an era of social unrest
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Bases for Effective Reading
Miles A. Tinker
None None
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Bataille’s Peak
Energy, Religion, and Postsustainability
Allan Stoekl
2007 Fall
- An audacious exploration of Bataille’s philosophy of energy within current conservation debates
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Batman Saves the Congo
How Celebrities Disrupt the Politics of Development
Alexandra Cosima Budabin and Lisa Ann Richey
2021 Spring
- How celebrity strategic partnerships are disrupting humanitarian space
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Bauhaus Culture
From Weimar to the Cold War
Kathleen James-Chakraborty, Editor
2006 Spring
- Provides fresh insights on the Bauhaus from a historical perspective
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Bauhaus Weaving Theory
From Feminine Craft to Mode of Design
T’ai Smith
2014 Fall
- Considers the role of the Bauhaus school’s weaving workshop in debates about craft and medium
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Beaches, Ruins, Resorts
The Politics of Tourism in the Arab World
Waleed Hazbun
2008 Fall
- How Arab states use tourism for their own ends
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Bear Island
The War at Sugar Point
Gerald Vizenor
2006 Spring
- An award-winning Native American writer recounts the “last Indian war” in verse
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Bearheart
The Heirship Chronicles
Gerald Vizenor
1990 Spring
- Bearheart, Gerald Vizenors first novel, overturns “terminal creeds” and violence in a decadent material culture. American civilization has collapsed and Proude Cedarfair, his wife, Rosina, and a bizarre collection of disciples, are forced on a pilgrimage when government agents descend on the reservation to claim their sacred cedar trees for fuel. The tribal pilgrims reverse the sentiments of Manifest Destiny and travel south through the ruins of a white world that ran out of gas.
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Beautiful Fighting Girl
Saito Tamaki
2011 Spring
- From Nausicaä to Sailor Moon, understanding girl heroines of manga and anime within otaku culture
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Beautiful Wasteland
The Rise of Detroit as America’s Postindustrial Frontier
Rebecca J. Kinney
2016 Fall
- What is the “new Detroit” that everyone keeps talking about?
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Becoming Human
The Matter of the Medieval Child
J. Allan Mitchell
2014 Spring
- Can early concepts of being and becoming broaden our understanding of the human?
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Becoming Past
History in Contemporary Art
Jane Blocker
2015 Fall
- A brilliantly argued call for the presence of time and history in art today
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Becoming-Woman
Camilla Griggers
1996 Fall
- Analyzes the construction of the feminine in contemporary American culture.
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Before Intimacy
Asocial Sexuality in Early Modern England
Daniel Juan Gil
2005 Fall
- An insightful reexamination of early modern sexuality
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Before the Law
The Complete Text of Préjugés
Jacques Derrida
2018 Fall
- Thinking judgment in relation to the work of Jean-François Lyotard
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Begin with a Bee
Liza Ketchum, Jacqueline Briggs Martin and Phyllis Root
2021 Spring
- Begin with a Bee and its story of the life of one queen bee, a rusty-patched bumblebee, teaches us not only about bees but also about our own responsibilities in the natural world
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Beginning to See the Light
Sex, Hope, and Rock-and-Roll
Ellen Willis
2012 Fall
- Ellen Willis traces the development of rock-and-roll and the legacy of the ’60s and ’70s
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Beginning with Plato
Poems
Joseph Warren Beach
None None
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Being a Skull
Place, Contact, Thought, Sculpturesee
Georges Didi-Huberman
2016 Fall
- A renowned art historian’s exploration of the work of the Italian artist Giuseppe Penone