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Universes without Us
Posthuman Cosmologies in American Literature
Matthew A. Taylor
2013 Fall
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Reimagining posthumanism through the work of canonical American writers
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Unlearning the City
Infrastructure in a New Optical Field
Swati Chattopadhyay
2012 Fall
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A new way to describe the city—through the lens of popular culture and street life
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Unraveling
Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age
Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer
2020 Fall
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Developing a cybernetic model of subjectivity and personhood that honors disability experiences to reconceptualize the category of the human
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Unraveling the Garment Industry
Transnational Organizing and Women’s Work
Ethel C. Brooks
2007 Spring
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The consequences—both positive and negative—of consumer boycotts of sweatshop labor.
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Unruly Practices
Power, Discourse, and Gender in Contemporary Social Theory
Nancy Fraser
1989 Fall
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Fraser breaks new ground methodologically by integrating the heretofore divergent insights of poststructuralism, critical social theory, feminist theory, and pragmatism to form a new critical theory of late-capitalist political culture. “A wonderfully rich and insightful collection of well-integrated essays on important current thinkers and social movements.”
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Unsettling Choice
Race, Rights, and the Partitioning of Public Education
Ujju Aggarwal
2023 Fall
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How the Great Recession revealed a system of school choice built on crisis, precarity, and exclusion
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Unstable Frontiers
Technomedicine and the Cultural Politics of “Curing” AIDS
John Nguyet Erni
1994 Fall
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John Erni gives a hopeful view of how we might challenge the way scientists, healers, and the mass media look at the task of treating AIDS.
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Untimely Beggar
Poverty and Power from Baudelaire to Benjamin
Patrick Greaney
2007 Fall
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Locating literary and socioeconomic poverty at the heart of European modernity
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Unwilling Germans?
The Goldhagen Debate
Robert R. Shandley, Editor
1998 Spring
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A comprehensive overview of the controversy surrounding Hitler’s Willing Executioners.
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Up Against the Sprawl
Public Policy and the Making of Southern California
Jennifer Wolch, Manuel Pastor Jr. and Peter Dreier, Editors
2004 Spring
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Los Angeles's experience in managing urban growth and change
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Up in the Rocky Mountains
Writing the Swedish Immigrant Experience
Jennifer Eastman Attebery
2007 Spring
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How Swedish immigrants became Westerners and Americans, as shown through their letters home
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Up North
Sam Cook
2003 Spring
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Memorable descriptions of the Northern seasons—now in paperback!
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Uproarious
How Feminists and Other Subversive Comics Speak Truth
Cynthia Willett and Julie Willett
2019 Fall
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A radical new approach to humor, where traditional targets become its agents
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Urban Design
Alex Krieger and William S. Saunders, Editors
2008 Fall
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Highlights key issues in contemporary urban design through a discussion of its origins, current state, and future
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Urban Encounters
Helen Liggett
2003 Spring
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In words and photographs, reimagining the city as lived space
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Urban Exile
Collected Writings of Harry Gamboa Jr.
Harry Gamboa Jr.
Chon A. Noriega, Editor
1998 Fall
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An essential overview of the work of a pioneering figure of multimedia and conceptual art.
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Urban Imaginaries
Locating the Modern City
Alev Çınar and Thomas Bender, Editors
2007 Spring
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New global perspectives on urban life
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Urban Nightmares
The Media, the Right, and the Moral Panic over the City
Steve Macek
2006 Spring
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A hard-hitting look at the role of right-wing ideologues and the mass media in demonizing urban America
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Urban Planning Today
A Harvard Design Magazine Reader
William S. Saunders, Editor
2006 Spring
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A provocative and practical consideration of what works, and what does not, in American urban planning
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Urban Policy in the Time of Obama
James DeFilippis, Editor
2016 Fall
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How presidential policies have served—or failed to serve—America’s cities