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Grossly ambitious and rooted in scientific scholarship, The Other Dark Matter shows how human excrement can be a life-saving, money-making resource-if we make better use of it.

An eye-opening analysis of the costs and effects of immigration and immigration policy, both on American life and on new Americans.

Philosophy's relation to the act of writing is John T. Lysaker's main concern in Philosophy, Writing, and the Character of Thought.

A new edition of a classic work of American history that eloquently examines the rise of antimodernism at the turn of the twentieth century.

A violent and traumatic history haunts America. This exhibition catalog covers the expansive history of American artists who visualize ghosts, paranormal phenomena, and otherworldly contact.

Fourteen essays examine the unexpected relationships between government power and intimate life in the last 150 years of United States history.

A collection of poetry spanning the career of distinguished poet Michael Collier.

Engages with one of the oldest philosophical problems-the relationship between thought and being-and offers a fresh perspective with which to approach the long history of this puzzle.

New and selected poems by renowned poet Lloyd Schwartz.

Poems that address interpersonal connections while navigating life and care amid disease and disaster.

Incivility Caste and Contention in Europe. Mosques in the Metropolis offers unique insight into two of Europes largest mosques and the communities they support, painting a nuanced picture of Islam in Europe at a particularly fraught time, shedding light on both experiences of deep and enduring marginalization and the agency of Muslim populaces.

An incisive look at how America's continued demographic explosion has spurred the development of a new identity as people of color.

"In his inventive manuscript, Anthony Fontenot reveals the affinities between Friedrich Hayek's libertarian conception of state power and the aesthetic deregulation sought by "non-design" architects and urbanists of the 1960s and 1970s such as Reyner Banham, Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Jane Jacobs. These figures, generally considered liberals who rejected the cultural presuppositions of "high" architecture, sought to let capitalism reveal what the American built environment could or should be. Fontenot further limns the implications of this affinity for political liberalism, drawing surprising connections between the cultural turn away from the state and the evolution of aesthetics and the built environment"--

Claudia Wieser's artistic practice draws from history, architecture, and design, often playing with time and space. Influenced by artists who embraced spirituality--such as Hilma af Klint, Wassily Kandinsky, and Paul Klee--she considers abstraction and physiological experience in her installations. The Berlin-based artist's practice includes hand-painted ceramics, carved wooden sculptures, tiled mirrored works, drawings, and site-specific wallpaper with images mined from her vast archive. Claudia Wieser: Generations highlights her first solo exhibition in the United States held at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts and the Smart Museum of Art. Alongside images of her work, this publication features essays by curators Rachel Adams and Jennifer Carty and three interviews conducted by Maggie Taft, Igor Siddiqui, and Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy.

Covering more than a decade of extraordinary architecture, this work also takes a fresh look at the current status of older buildings in the city. A glossary of architectural terms, an extensive index, and more than 60 new photographs are included in this new edition.

"How does science work? Does it tell us what the world is 'really' like? What makes it different from other ways of understanding the universe? In [this book], Peter Godfrey-Smith addresses these questions by taking the reader on a grand tour of more than a hundred years of debate. ... The result is a completely accessible introduction to the main themes of the philosophy of science"--