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Suspended Animation
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Robert Mills |
When Marsellus in the film Pulp Fiction asserts, "I'm gonna git medieval on your ass," we know that he is about to bring down a fierce and exacting punishment. Yet is the violence of the Middle Ages … |
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Sociology
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Anthony Giddens |
The sixth edition of Anthony Giddens' "Sociology" is the best yet. Revised and updated throughout, it provides an authoritative overview of recent global developments and new ideas in sociology. Clas… |
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Modern Romance
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Eric Klinenberg,Aziz Ansari |
From NYU Wagner:
At some point, every one of us embarks on a journey to find love. We meet people, date, get into and out of relationships, all with the hope of finding someone with whom we share… |
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Digital Passages
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Koen Leurs |
Increasingly, young people live online, with the vast majority of their social and cultural interactions conducted through means other than face-to-face conversation. How does this transition impact … |
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The Soldier’s Life
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Michael Edward Stewart |
*The Soldier's Life* examines the various ways martial virtues and images of the soldier’s life shaped early Byzantine cultural ideals of masculinity. It contends that in many of the visual and liter… |
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Alfred C. Kinsey
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James H. Jones |
In this brilliant, groundbreaking biography, twenty years in the making, James H. Jones presents a moving and even shocking portrait of the man who pierced the veil of reticence surrounding human sex… |
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The Left Hand of Darkness
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
[Comment by Kim Stanley Robinson, on The Guardian's website][1]:
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin (1969)
> One of my favorite novels is The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K Le Guin… |
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The danger of gender
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Clara Nubile |
The Danger of Gender explores the influence of caste, class and gender in contemporary women's writing in India. Gender affects women in fiction as well as in real life. This work represents the curr… |
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C.G. Jung and the Humanities
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Karin Barnaby |
This timely volume is the first comprehensive attempt to assess Jung's presence and to demonstrate his far-reaching cultural impact in twentieth-century art and intellectual life. The essays reveal d… |
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