International Studies Sale: Science and Technology
Virtual space for conference attendees and those interested in the International Studies Association. Books on sale, info on University of Minnesota Press, and more.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS: 40% OFF BOOKS
All books below are 40% off using code MN89010. Code expires June 1, 2022.
BROWSE BOOKS:
GEOGRAPHY // ANTHROPOLOGY // SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
RACE // SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY // ENVIRONMENT
PHILOSOPHY // POLITICAL SCIENCE // THEORY
ETHNOGRAPHY // NATIVE AMERICAN AND INDIGENOUS STUDIES // GLOBALIZATION
HEALTH AND MEDICINE // URBAN STUDIES // HUMAN RIGHTS
GLBT AND GENDER STUDIES // ECONOMY
ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN // GLOBALIZATION AND COMMUNITY SERIES
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Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023 Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, Editors 2023 Spring
- A cutting-edge view of the digital humanities at a time of global pandemic, catastrophe, and uncertainty
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Gut Anthro An Experiment in Thinking with Microbes Amber Benezra 2023 Spring
- A fascinating ethnography of microbes that opens up new spaces for anthropological inquiry
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The Prison House of the Circuit Politics of Control from Analog to Digital Jeremy Packer, Paula Nuñez de Villavicencio, Alexander Monea, Kathleen Oswald, Kate Maddalena and Joshua Reeves 2022 Fall
- Has society ceded its self-governance to technogovernance?
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Rubber Boots Methods for the Anthropocene Doing Fieldwork in Multispecies Worlds Nils Bubandt, Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen and Rachel Cypher, Editors 2022 Fall
- A methodological follow-up to Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet
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Settling the Boom The Sites and Subjects of Bakken Oil Mary E. Thomas and Bruce Braun, Editors 2022 Fall
- Examines how settler colonial and sexist infrastructures and narratives order a resource boom
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The Long 2020 Richard Grusin and Maureen Ryan, Editors 2022 Fall
- Sharply intelligent, often personal reflections on the global crises of 2020 that are still ongoing
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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
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Citizens of Worlds Open-Air Toolkits for Environmental Struggle Jennifer Gabrys 2022 Fall
- An unparalleled how-to guide to citizen-sensing practices that monitor air pollution
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Technopharmacology Joshua Neves, Aleena Chia, Susanna Paasonen and Ravi Sundaram 2022 Spring
- Exploring networked technologies and bioeconomy and their links to biotechnologies, pharmacology, and pharmaceuticals
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The Cyclist and His Shadow A Memoir Olivier Haralambon 2022 Spring
- A philosopher and former racing cyclist examines how competitive riders lose their sense of self as they pursue perfect motion and mastery over pain
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Algorithms of Education How Datafication and Artificial Intelligence Shape Policy Kalervo N. Gulson, Sam Sellar and P. Taylor Webb 2022 Spring
- A critique of what lies behind the use of data in contemporary education policy
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Food Allergy Advocacy Parenting and the Politics of Care Danya Glabau 2022 Spring
- A detailed exploration of parents’ fight for a safe environment for their kids, interrogating how race, class, and gender shape health advocacy
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Global Debates in the Digital Humanities Domenico Fiormonte, Sukanta Chaudhuri and Paola Ricaurte, Editors 2022 Spring
- A necessary volume of essays working to decolonize the digital humanities
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Insecurity Richard Grusin, Editor 2022 Spring
- Investigating insecurity as the predominant logic of life in the present moment
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Scale Theory A Nondisciplinary Inquiry Joshua DiCaglio 2021 Fall
- A pioneering call for a new understanding of scale across the humanities
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Calamity Theory Three Critiques of Existential Risk Joshua Schuster and Derek Woods 2021 Fall
- What are the implications of how we talk about apocalypse?
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Modelwork The Material Culture of Making and Knowing Martin Brückner, Sandy Isenstadt and Sarah Wasserman, Editors 2021 Fall
- How making models allows us to recall what was and to discover what still might be
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Profit over Privacy How Surveillance Advertising Conquered the Internet Matthew Crain 2021 Fall
- A deep dive into the political roots of advertising on the internet
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Sickening Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States Anne Pollock 2021 Fall
- An event-by-event look at how institutionalized racism harms the health of African Americans in the twenty-first century
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The Filing Cabinet A Vertical History of Information Craig Robertson 2021 Spring
- The history of how a deceptively ordinary piece of office furniture transformed our relationship with information
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Radical Secrecy The Ends of Transparency in Datafied America Clare Birchall 2021 Spring
- Reimagining transparency and secrecy in the era of digital data
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Sweetness in the Blood Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes James Doucet-Battle 2021 Spring
- A bold new indictment of the racialization of science
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Nuclear Suburbs Cold War Technoscience and the Pittsburgh Renaissance Patrick Vitale 2021 Spring
- From submarines to the suburbs—the remaking of Pittsburgh during the Cold War
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The Materiality of Architecture Antoine Picon 2020 Fall
- A new paradigm combining architectural tradition with emerging technologies
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Molecular Capture The Animation of Biology Adam Nocek 2021 Spring
- How computer animation technologies became vital visualization tools in the life sciences
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Design, Control, Predict Logistical Governance in the Smart City Aaron Shapiro 2020 Fall
- An in-depth look at life in the “smart” city
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The Probiotic Planet Using Life to Manage Life Jamie Lorimer 2020 Fall
- Assesses a promising new approach to restoring the health of our bodies and our planet
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Remote Warfare New Cultures of Violence Rebecca A. Adelman and David Kieran, Editors 2020 Fall
- Considers how people have confronted, challenged, and resisted remote warfare
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Gaian Systems Lynn Margulis, Neocybernetics, and the End of the Anthropocene Bruce Clarke 2020 Fall
- A groundbreaking look at Gaia theory’s intersections with neocybernetic systems theory
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Acid Revival The Psychedelic Renaissance and the Quest for Medical Legitimacy Danielle Giffort 2020 Fall
- A vivid analysis of the history and revival of clinical psychedelic science
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Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information Gilbert Simondon 2020 Spring
- A long-awaited translation on the philosophical relation between technology, the individual, and milieu of the living
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Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information, Volume II Volume II: Supplemental Texts Gilbert Simondon 2020 Spring
- Unique access to archival material of a major thinker, including presentations, early drafts, and a thorough introduction to the history of the philosophical notion of the individual
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On Not Dying Secular Immortality in the Age of Technoscience Abou Farman 2020 Spring
- An ethnographic exploration of technoscientific immortality
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Digitize and Punish Racial Criminalization in the Digital Age Brian Jefferson 2020 Spring
- Tracing the rise of digital computing in policing and punishment and its harmful impact on criminalized communities of color
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The Responsive Environment Design, Aesthetics, and the Human in the 1970s Larry D. Busbea 2019 Fall
- How new conceptions of human–environment interaction became central to design theories and practices in the 1970s
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Playing Nature Ecology in Video Games Alenda Y. Chang 2019 Fall
- A potent new book examines the overlap between our ecological crisis and video games
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Aesthesis and Perceptronium On the Entanglement of Sensation, Cognition, and Matter Alexander Wilson 2019 Fall
- A new speculative ontology of aesthetics
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Medical Technics Don Ihde 2020 Spring
- A personal account of the aging body and advanced technologies by a preeminent philosopher of technology
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How to Do Things with Sensors Jennifer Gabrys 2019 Fall
- An investigation of how-to guides for sensor technologies
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Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019 Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, Editors 2019 Spring
- The latest installment of a digital humanities bellwether
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Silent Cells The Secret Drugging of Captive America Anthony Ryan Hatch 2019 Spring
- A critical investigation into the use of psychotropic drugs to pacify and control inmates and other captives in the vast U.S. prison, military, and welfare systems
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Metaphysical Experiments Physics and the Invention of the Universe Bjørn Ekeberg 2019 Spring
- An engaging critique of the science and metaphysics behind our understanding of the universe
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Toward a Living Architecture? Complexism and Biology in Generative Design Christina Cogdell 2018 Fall
- A bold and unprecedented look at a cutting-edge movement in architecture
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Breathtaking Asthma Care in a Time of Climate Change Alison Kenner 2018 Fall
- People around the world are struggling to breathe. How do we care for asthma across environments that are increasingly unbreathable?
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Biology in the Grid Graphic Design and the Envisioning of Life Phillip Thurtle 2018 Fall
- How grids paved the way for our biological understanding of organisms
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The Robotic Imaginary The Human and the Price of Dehumanized Labor Jennifer Rhee 2018 Fall
- Tracing the connections between human-like robots and AI at the site of dehumanization and exploited labor
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The Eye of War Military Perception from the Telescope to the Drone Antoine Bousquet 2018 Fall
- How perceptual technologies have shaped the history of war from the Renaissance to the present
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Elements of a Philosophy of Technology On the Evolutionary History of Culture Ernst Kapp 2018 Fall
- The first philosophy of technology, constructing humans as technological and technology as an underpinning of all culture
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Into the Extreme U.S. Environmental Systems and Politics beyond Earth Valerie Olson 2018 Spring
- The first book-length, in-depth ethnography of U.S. human spaceflight
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Modernism’s Visible Hand Architecture and Regulation in America Michael Osman 2018 Spring
- A groundbreaking history of the confluence of regulatory thinking and building design in the United States
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After Extinction Richard Grusin, Editor 2018 Spring
- A multidisciplinary exploration of extinction and what comes next
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Callous Objects Designs against the Homeless Robert Rosenberger 2018 Spring
- Uncovering injustices built into our everyday surroundings
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Life A Modern Invention Davide Tarizzo 2017 Fall
- A paradigm-shifting genealogy of biological life as metaphysical concept rather than a scientific category
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New Lines Critical GIS and the Trouble of the Map Matthew W. Wilson 2017 Fall
- A provocative critique of Geographic Information Science
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Building Access Universal Design and the Politics of Disability Aimi Hamraie 2017 Fall
- Rich with archival images, the first critical history of the Universal Design movement
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Care of the Species Races of Corn and the Science of Plant Biodiversity John Hartigan Jr. 2017 Fall
- Darwin meets Foucault in this engrossing ethnography of plants, race, and biodiversity
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Shareveillance The Dangers of Openly Sharing and Covertly Collecting Data Clare Birchall 2018 Spring
- Cracking open the politics of transparency and secrecy
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The Microbial State Global Thriving and the Body Politic Stefanie R. Fishel 2017 Fall
- An innovative exploration of the metaphorical power of bodies on global politics and the potential for the planet’s future
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Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Heather Anne Swanson, Elaine Gan and Nils Bubandt, Editors 2017 Spring
- Can humans and other species continue to inhabit the earth together?
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Matters of Care Speculative Ethics in More Than Human Worlds María Puig de la Bellacasa 2017 Spring
- Challenging the view that caring is only human
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Compound Solutions Pharmaceutical Alternatives for Global Health Susan Craddock 2017 Spring
- An unprecedented look at the possibilities and limitations of humanitarian drug development
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Predator Empire Drone Warfare and Full Spectrum Dominance Ian G. R. Shaw 2016 Fall
- How a brave new world of robotic surveillance is reshaping the state, society, and our very humanity
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The Rule of Logistics Walmart and the Architecture of Fulfillment Jesse LeCavalier 2016 Spring
- How the world’s largest retailer is redefining architecture by organizing flows of merchandise and information across space and time
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Manifestly Haraway Donna J. Haraway 2016 Spring
- Breaking down the binaries: two manifestos and a conversation on dogs and cyborgs, the implosion of technology, and human and nonhuman beings
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Program Earth Environmental Sensing Technology and the Making of a Computational Planet Jennifer Gabrys 2016 Spring
- How sensors are changing our environmental relationships
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Genetic Geographies The Trouble with Ancestry Catherine Nash 2015 Spring
- Making sense of the science of ancestry and origins
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Native American DNA Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science Kim TallBear 2013 Fall
- How identifying Native Americans is vastly more complicated than matching DNA
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Political Affect Connecting the Social and the Somatic John Protevi 2009 Fall
- Encounters the visceral connection between politics and emotion