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A Capital Collection: Houghton Hall and the Hermit...
$25.74
After the fall of Sir Robert Walpole, Britain's first 'prime' minister, from political power in 1742, most of his celebrated collection of Old Master paintings was removed to his newly-built Palladian house in Norfold, Houghton Hall. In 1779 this collection was sold by Sir Robert's grandson to the E..
A Certain Age: Colonial Jakarta through the Memori...
$10.03
A Certain Age is an unconventional, evocative work of history and a moving reflection on memory, modernity, space, time, and the limitations of traditional historical narratives. Rudolf Mrázek visited Indonesia throughout the 1990s, recording lengthy interviews with elderly intellectuals in and arou..
A History of Russia: Medieval, Modern, Contemporar...
$9.08
Is today’s Russia capable of democracy, the free market, and a pluralist ideology In this new edition of A History of Russia, Paul Dukes investigates these questions, taking into full account the extraordinary changes that have occurred since the arrival of first Mikhail Gorbachev and then Boris Ye..
A Place in Politics: São Paulo, Brazil, from Seig...
$9.85
A Place in Politics is a thorough reinterpretation of the politics and political culture of the Brazilian state of São Paulo between the 1890s and the 1930s. The world’s foremost coffee-producing region from the outset of this period and home to more than six million people by 1930, São Paulo was an..
Addiction Trajectories (Experimental Futures)
$24.32
Bringing anthropological perspectives to bear on addiction, the contributors to this important collection highlight the contingency of addiction as a category of human knowledge and experience. Based on ethnographic research conducted in sites from alcohol treatment clinics in Russia to Pentecostal ..
Adiós Niño: The Gangs of Guatemala City and the ...
$10.44
In Adiós Niño: The Gangs of Guatemala City and the Politics of Death, Deborah T. Levenson examines transformations in the Guatemalan gangs called Maras from their emergence in the 1980s to the early 2000s. A historical study, Adiós Niño describes how fragile spaces of friendship and exploration turn..
Affirmative Reaction: New Formations of White Masc...
$9.22
Affirmative Reaction explores the cultural politics of heteronormative white masculine privilege in the United States. Through close readings of texts ranging from the popular television drama 24 to the Marvel Comics miniseries The Call of Duty, and from the reality show American Chopper to the movi..
African American Religious History: A Documentary ...
$14.42
This widely-heralded collection of remarkable documents offers a view of African American religious history from Africa and early America through Reconstruction to the rise of black nationalism, civil rights, and black theology of today. The documents-many of them rare, out-of-print, or difficult to..
Alien Encounters: Popular Culture in Asian America
$14.98
Alien Encounters showcases innovative directions in Asian American cultural studies. In essays exploring topics ranging from pulp fiction to multimedia art to import-car subcultures, contributors analyze Asian Americans’ interactions with popular culture as both creators and consumers. Written by a ..
Ambient Television: Visual Culture and Public Spac...
$9.79
Although we tend to think of television primarily as a household fixture, TV monitors outside the home are widespread: in bars, laundromats, and stores; conveying flight arrival and departure times in airports; uniting crowds at sports events and allaying boredom in waiting rooms; and helping to pas..
America's Miracle Man in Vietnam: Ngo Dinh Diem, R...
$9.87
America’s Miracle Man in Vietnam rethinks the motivations behind one of the most ruinous foreign-policy decisions of the postwar era: America’s commitment to preserve an independent South Vietnam under the premiership of Ngo Dinh Diem. The so-called Diem experiment is usually ascribed to U.S. antico..
An Account of the Antiquities of the Indians: Chro...
$11.38
Accompanying Columbus on his second voyage to the New World in 1494 was a young Spanish friar named Ramón Pané. The friar’s assignment was to live among the “Indians” whom Columbus had “discovered” on the island of Hispaniola (today the island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic), to learn th..
Anesthesia Secrets
$42.17
Anesthesia Secrets, 4th Edition by James Duke, MD has the quick answers you need for practice and review. It uses the popular question-and-answer format of the Secrets Series® to make essential guidance easy to reference and study. A list of the Top 100 Secrets in anesthesiology lets you review the ..
Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Quee...
$33.44
In Animacies, Mel Y. Chen draws on recent debates about sexuality, race, and affect to examine how matter that is considered insensate, immobile, or deathly animates cultural lives. Toward that end, Chen investigates the blurry division between the living and the dead, or that which is beyond the hu..
Anthropology and Social Theory: Culture, Power, an...
$17.73
In Anthropology and Social Theory the award-winning anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner draws on her longstanding interest in theories of cultural practice to rethink key concepts of culture, agency, and subjectivity for the social sciences of the twenty-first century. The seven theoretical and interpre..
Antinomies of Art and Culture: Modernity, Postmode...
$14.51
In this landmark collection, world-renowned theorists, artists, critics, and curators explore new ways of conceiving the present and understanding art and culture in relation to it. They revisit from fresh perspectives key issues regarding modernity and postmodernity, including the relationship betw..
Arrogant Beggar
$8.55
The target of intense critical comment when it was first published in 1927, Arrogant Beggar’s scathing attack on charity-run boardinghouses remains one of Anzia Yezierska’s most devastating works of social criticism. The novel follows the fortunes of its young Jewish narrator, Adele Lindner, as she ..
Artificial Respiration (Latin America in Translati...
$13.81
Acclaimed as one of the most important Latin American novels in recent decades, Artificial Respiration is a stunning introduction for English readers to the fiction of Ricardo Piglia. Published in Argentina in 1981, it was written at a time when thousands of Argentine citizens "disappeared" during t..
At Home in the World
$19.26
Ours is a century of uprootedness, with fewer and fewer people living out their lives where they are born. At such a time, in such a world, what does it mean to be "at home " Perhaps among a nomadic people, for whom dwelling is not synonymous with being housed and settled, the search for an answer t..
Aunt Isabel Tells a Good One
$7.69
Charming watercolors tell a story within a story as Aunt Isabel concocts a fanciful tale that helps explain the elements of good fiction to her niece Penelope. Author: Duke, Kate Publisher: Dutton Juvenile Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0525448357 ISBN-13: 9780525448358..
Bad Language, Naked Ladies, and Other Threats to t...
$8.67
In Bad Language, Naked Ladies, and Other Threats to the Nation, Anne Rubenstein examines how comic books-which were overwhelmingly popular but extremely controversial in post-revolutionary Mexico-played an important role in the development of a stable, legitimate state. Studying the relationship of ..
Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame: Where “Black...
$9.92
Shame, Kathryn Bond Stockton argues in Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame, has often been a meeting place for the signs “black” and “queer” and for black and queer people-overlapping groups who have been publicly marked as degraded and debased. But when and why have certain forms of shame been embrac..
Becoming Beside Ourselves: The Alphabet, Ghosts, a...
$21.48
Becoming Beside Ourselves continues the investigation that the renowned cultural theorist and mathematician Brian Rotman began in his previous books Signifying Nothing and Ad Infinitum...The Ghost in Turing’s Machine: exploring certain signs and the conceptual innovations and subjectivities that the..
Dutton Books for Young Readers
Bedtime (Guinea Pig Board Books)
$8.97
Kate Duke's lively guinea pigs are back in board book format. This simple story, told in just a few choice words, feature a mischievous guinea pig and his ever-patient mama. The silly story line is just right for toddlers, who will delight in mother and child's evening routine in BedtimeThis board b..
Beyond A Boundary
$12.33
In C. L. R. James's classic Beyond a Boundary, the sport is cricket and the scene is the colonial West Indies. Always eloquent and provocative, James--the "black Plato," (as coined by the London Times)--shows us how, in the rituals of performance and conflict on the field, we are watching not just p..