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Proposes a vision of survival and flourishing in the face of economic and environmental catastrophe

Rethinking the philosophical and anthropological basis of our ontology

The stock market is the background of how we begin to deal with the complex imbrication of humans, machines, and noise

Inspired by one of Nelson Mandela's recurring nightmares, Mandela's Dark Years offers a political reading of dream-life

Henry Willson was one of the quintessential power brokers in Hollywood during the late 1940s and 1950s when he launched the careers of Rock Hudson, Lana Turner, Tab Hunter, Natalie Wood, and many others. He was also a true casting couch agent, brokering sex for opportunity on the silver screen. While this practice was rampant across Hollywood, for gay actors and film professionals the casting couch was a dangerous cliff: a public revelation could and would ruin a career. The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson is an incredible biography as well as a harrowing look into Hollywood at a time of great sexual oppression, roaming vice squads searching for gay and/or communist activity, and the impossibilities for gay actors of the era.

Anime and manga have longproposed alternative worlds-some created after catastrophe. Mechademia 10revolves around Japan's 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear reactor crisesand considers a propensity for "world renewal."

The evolution and meaning of our love affair with Apple and its devices

Animal tracks always tell a story. You just have to recognize the signs. As you follow the marks an animal left behind, you get to know it: where it goes, what it likes to eat, when it runs, and why. There are secrets to be learned in those signs in the snow, mysteries to be explored in the mud along the river’s edge.Tracks in the Wild introduces young naturalists to the tracks of bears, wolves, moose, otters, and other wild animals—thirteen in all. Betsy Bowen’s signature woodcut prints accompany poetic passages about each animal, along with life-size representations of their footprints. As it reveals some of the wonders of the natural world, it will also inspire awe and respect for all the wild, elusive creatures that inhabit Minnesota’s northwoods.Winner of a 1994 Minnesota Book Award, Tracks in the Wild is perfect reading for a family to share before and after a trek through their own woods.

Originally published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.

Originally published by Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2007.

Since the early 1900s, blues and the guitar havetraveled side by side. From the first reported sightings of blues musicians tothe onset of the Great Depression, this is the most comprehensive and completeaccount ever written of the early stars of blues guitar-an essential chapter inthe history of American music.

Elusive Jannah is a remarkable portrait of thevery different experiences of Somali migrants in the UAE, South Africa, and theUnited States. Cawo M. Abdi clearly reveals the importance of immigrationpolicies in the migrant experience.

All Thoughts AreEqual is both an introductionto the work of French philosopher Francois Laruelle and an exercise in nonhumanthinking. John O Maoilearca examines how philosophy might appear when viewedwith non-philosophical and nonhuman eyes.

What does it mean to be awriter today? Is writing code for an app equivalent to writing a novel? Shouldwe change how we teach writing? Computing as Writing ponders both theimplications and contradictions of the common metaphor that equates computingand writing, from "notebook" computers to "writing" code.

How is it that self-identified environmental progressives in America can oppose liberalizing immigration policies? Environmentalism is generally assumed to be a commitment of the political left and restrictionism a commitment of the right. As John Hultgren shows, the reality is significantly more complicated. American environmentalists have support

Kurt Schock is associate professor of sociology and global affairs at Rutgers University.Contributors: Sean Chabot, Eastern Washington U; Véronique Dudouet, Berghof Foundation, Germany; Dustin Ells Howes, Louisiana State U; Brian Martin, U of Wollongong, Australia; Sharon Erickson Nepstad, U of New Mexico; Olena Nikolayenko, Fordham U; Julie M. Norman, Queen's U, Belfast; Chaiwat Satha-Anand, Thammasat U, Thailand; Janjira Sombatpoonsiri, Thammasat U, Thailand; Stellan Vinthagen, U West and U of¿Göteborg, Sweden

Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of Virginia, 2013).

Focusing on the South African city of Durban, "Security in the Bubble" looks at spatialized security practices, engaging with strategies and dilemmas of urban security governance in cities around the world. While apartheid was spatial governance at its most brutal, postapartheid South African cities have tried to reinvent space, using it as a "posi

De-centering the human,the essays collected in Elemental Ecocriticism provide importantcorrectives to the idea of the material world as mere resource. A renewedintimacy with the elemental holds the potential for a more dynamicenvironmental ethics and the possibility of a reinvigorated materialism.

Providing a solid analytic framework forunderstanding conflict over women's rights policies without stereotypingMuslims, Bargaining for Women's Rights demonstrates that, contrary toconventional wisdom, Islam does not have a uniformly negative effect on theprospects of such legislation.

Examines the material spaces in which our networks entangle themselves