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New from @fernpub! THE CONSULTING TRAP does a deep dive into how governments have become hooked on private consultancy firms with dire consequences for democratic decision-making, public accountability and accessible public services.
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Now available! "A HISTORY OF UYGHUR BUDDHISM is notable for its narrative briskness, analytical rigor, and imaginative verve."
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Now available! An unprecedented account of China’s transgender histories, this book also sheds new light on a range of themes in Ming and Qing law, religion, medicine, literature, and culture. #PrideBooks #LGBTQIA #Transgender #China
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Now available! Lydia H. Liu calls CODES OF MODERNITY, "A brilliant book on the political economy of script reforms in modern China." .@WashUHistory @WUSTLArtSci
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New from @transcriptweb! This book examines the appropriation of freedom of religion by right-wing populists and extremists worldwide.
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A new book from Jeffrey Sachs (@JeffDSachs)! "The Age of Sustainable Development" http://t.co/MyOIoLhdHJ
http://t.co/mJrGEJnQa9.
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New from Roseway Publishing! Building on the work of trailblazing anthologies, Sonia Sulaiman brings together stories by speculative fiction veterans and emerging writers from Australia to Egypt, Lebanon to Canada. @SoniaSulaiman @fernpub
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Now available! "These rich and compelling essays testify not only to the breadth and brilliance of Seyla Benhabib's thought but also to her dialogism, mentorship, and influence. A marvelous collection!"—Nancy Fraser @stefeich, @AnnaJurkevics, @NicaSiegel
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How did the performing arts have a political effect on 20th century China? Listen to Andy Boyd's interview of Xiaomei Chen about her book PERFORMING THE SOCIALIST STATE on @NewBooksNetwork. #FilmStudies #ChineseFilm #ChineseTheater
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Now available! @bsod_nams "has the uncanny ability to translate some of the deepest and thorniest questions in Indian philosophy . into prose so lucid and inspired that one can read it like a Robert Frost poem or a folktale." -Wendy Doniger #Religion
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Now Available! "What nationality are you? In his stunning book, Will Hanley follows this modern question deep into the social existence of ordinary Alexandrians, demonstrating the contradictory effects of its imposition," says @samuelmoyn. #History #Law
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"His new book, DUCHAMP IS MY LAWYER, is a freewheeling eulogy to flagrant copyright violation, documenting the life and times of UbuWeb and its various brushes with the law." -Gill Partington, @LRB #BookReview #Copyright #Media
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Now available! "With its rigorous scholarship and insightful arguments, this book takes the analysis of how things, words, and people were entangled in the Ming-Qing period to a new level of sophistication."—Craig Clunas @HarvardArtsHum @FairbankCenter
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Now available! "The human sciences did not renounce racial explanation—as so many believe—but folded them into global ideas about economic development." —Karin Rosemblatt @rianoseb #LatinAmerica #RaceScience
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New from @ibidem11! This collection of essays and articles illuminates recent Russian international affairs through the lens of Moscow’s propaganda tactics.
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Now available! SLAVES OF THE EMPEROR provides a new framework for understanding the structure and function of elites both in China and across Eurasia in the early modern period. @huwaliyasuntob
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Now Available! "THE SUBSTANCE OF FICTION is a must-read for students in early modern Chinese literature and culture." -Shang Wei #Literature #History #Ming #Qing #ChineseLiterature #ArtHistory
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Now Available! IF ALL THE WORLD WERE PAPER sets out a novel program for engaging with the archive of Hindi and of South Asian languages more broadly at a moment when much of that archive faces existential threats. @Pravasi101 #HindiLiterature
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Congratulations to @kg_ubu for DUCHAMP IS MY LAWYER being named the #winner of the 2020 Francois Morellet Prize from @Cmontsoreau! #AwardWinning #ReadUP
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We are pleased to announce that @Bob_McNally's CRUDE VOLATILITY is the Winner of the 2023 Marcel Boiteux Best International Energy Economics Book Award from the @IA4EE @caelyncobb #EconomicsBook #EconomicHistory #Economics #OPEC #AwardWinner
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New this week: CHARLIE MUNGER:THE COMPLETE INVESTOR, by @trengriffin. http://t.co/7V907hKpHZ
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We are pleased to announce that #Uyghur writer Perhat Tursun, author of THE BACKSTREETS, is the recipient of the Swedish PEN 2022 Tucholsky Prize! @dtbyler @PENsweden #AwardWinning #ReadMore #Fiction #FictionInTranslation #HumanRights
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Now Available! "This is a brilliant, brave, and exceptionally unsettling book for how it guides its readers to the outer limits of what criticism can say or do, and leaves them there, in the realm of pure thought." -Merve Emre @mervatim @NewYorker #Lit
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Now available! "A compelling case for the importance of conflict narratives, and conflicts over narratives, Szekely’s book is an important contribution to scholarship on the Syrian civil war and on civil war more broadly."—Steven Heydemann @oraszekely
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We are pleased to announce that John Kieschnick's BUDDHIST HISTORIOGRAPHY IN CHINA is the winner of the 2023 Toshihide Numata Book Award in Buddhism from @UCBerkeley's Numata Center for Buddhist Studies. #AwardWinner #BookAward #Buddhism #EastAsianStudies
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Join the @SaveTibetOrg for a book talk about Lodi Gyar, THE DALAI LAMA'S SPECIAL ENVOY, Thur., Nov. 3 at noon EDT / 9 am PDT. Sign up today! #Tibet #DalaiLama #BookTalk
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Now Available! Susan Stryker call SEARCHING FOR THE BODY, ". a smart, beautiful, and timely work." #ReadMore about the significance of the #BodyMandala debate for understandings of #TibetanBuddhism. #Mandala #Buddhism #NewBook
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"This book is quite simply the best guide to today’s dominant ideologies. Blakely is concise, sympathetic, insightful, critical and fair." —William T. Cavanaugh on LOST IN IDEOLOGY. Read the full book review in American Magazine. @AgendaPub @americamag
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We are pleased to announce that Stephen Ross and Lydia Hopper's CHIMPANZEE MEMOIRS is a 2022 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title. @lincolnparkzoo @LydiaMHopper #AwardWinning #BookAward @aupresses @Columbia
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Now available! "Backed up by rich fieldwork and painstaking research over many years, this book tells a poignant story of China’s prodigious urbanization, on the back of a huge migrant labor class." - Kam Wing Chan #education #China #Labor #Migration
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Now available! Katharina Pistor calls COOPERATION by @BernardHarcourt "An inspiration for all who wish to move beyond the old dichotomy of capitalism and communism."
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“I still think that an editor at a major university press can have a more stimulating intellectual life than most faculty members have the luxury to develop.“@WmGermano on his time at Columbia University Press. #ReadUP #TBT #CUP125 @Columbia @aupresses
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"A bold intervention that will resonate with students of Islamic studies and critical secularism studies."—Hafsa Kanjwal, @InverseJournal on PROPHETIC MAHARAJA
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"I think that Joe Biden is surprising some of the skeptics who didn't think that he would lead on the issue of climate change."- @MichaelEMann Watch the full interview with the Judy Woodruff. @pbsnewshour #EarthDay #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming
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Now Available! "Embracing finitude, facing but never glorifying that most difficult sibling, Sister Death guides us on a darkly mesmerizing journey." —Catherine Keller @beamarovich #Theology #Death #Christianity #Spiritual
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Read an excerpt from Kathryn Hill's essay in THE FERRANTE LETTERS @parisreview .The Elena Ferrante in My Head
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Now available! "This is the book we need to advance the study of algorithms as part of the history of culture."—Tarleton Gillespie @striphas #Algorithm #AlgorithmicCulture #AlgorithmicJustice #AlgorithmicBias #MoreBooksLessAlgorithm #DataJustice
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Four new translations from the Russian Library are on @RussiaBeyond's list of the best Russian books published in English this year! @RusLibrary
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Now Available! SAINTS AND SOLDIERS "is an immensely timely and important book that draws on the author's decades-long research, monitoring, and analysis of online terrorism and extremism," says @hoffman_bruce. #Philosophy #Terrorism #PoliticalScience
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"The dehumanizing experience of being Uyghur in Xinjiang is at the center of THE BACKSTREETS." Read @yangyang_cheng's thoughts on Perhat Tursun's THE BACKSTREETS in @TheNation. #Uyghur #ChineseLiterature #BookTwitter
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Join @CGCTunis and @oualdi_m for a book talk about A SLAVE BETWEEN EMPIRES on May 26 at 11:30 AM (NY) / 4:30 PM (Tunis). Register today! @Columbia #AuthorEvent #VirtualEvent #Tunis #Tunisia #History #Mediterranean #Slavery
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Maggie Hennefeld, author of SPECTERS OF SLAPSTICK AND SILENT FILM COMEDIENNES, lists her top 10 favorite comedies starring #women from over 100 years ago. @magshenny #WomenInFilm #feminist #WHM2021
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We are pleased to announce that BECOMING GUANYIN by Yuhang Li is the inaugural winner of the 2024 Geiss-Hsu Book Prize for Best First Book in Ming Studies from the Society for Ming Studies.
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Now available! "Placing spoken language at the heart of historical explanation, THE SOUNDS OF MANDARIN is by turns hilarious and sobering."—Gail Hershatter #China #Linguistics #ChineseHistory
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"Good palaeoartists stay informed of the latest scientific research and discoveries, with several often working very closely with palaeontologists to ensure their reconstructions are scientifically accurate."- @Dean_R_Lomax @nhbsNews #AuthorInterview
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RETHINKING THE SOCIAL SCIENCES WITH SAM MOYO brings together renowned scholars from four continents to celebrate the lifelong and seminal contribution of Moyo to the social sciences. Order by Sept. 26 and save 20% with coupon code cup20! @Tulikabooksdel
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Now Available! "Thomas Bauer's A CULTURE OF AMBIGUITY belongs to the rare class of books that can change our thinking about a whole era of history—here premodern Islam." -Ahmed El Shamsy #Religion #Islam #MiddleEast #NewRelease
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Now available! By exploring the resulting Chan culture of discernment, which raised fundamental questions about Buddhist authority at a pivotal inflection point in Chinese history, this book offers fresh insight into the place of Buddhism in Chinese society.
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New from @ibidem11! UKRAINE VS. DARKNESS draws on the author’s experience from 26 years of Ukrainian diplomatic service to reflect his views of international affairs from a Ukrainian perspective.
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New from @agendapub! "In this terrific book, Jason Blakely clarifies the shifting pathways and maps that shape both ideologies and possibilities for moving beyond them."—Craig Calhoun
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Join @c_thorsson for a book talk with @seminewblack about THE SISTERHOOD @harriettsbooks this Sunday, January 7 at 4:00 pm.
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Now Available! "A well-argued and compellingly evidenced account of how #legitimacy works in #Afghanistan, this book challenges the rational legal perspectives that dominate #policy and #theory on this issue," says @a_a_jackson. #Philosophy
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Have you heard? Our own @jecrewe is now the 68th president to serve @aupresses & the 15th woman to serve in that role. Please join us in congratulating Jennifer and the AUP. #AcademicPublishing #UniversityPresses #WomenInLeadership #BookPublishing #ReadUP.
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Prepare for ASA 2024 by reading excerpts of conference titles by Alex Barnard (@Avb_Soc), Michael Sierra-Arévalo, Nicholas Wilson, Nicole Iturriaga (@@n_iturriaga), Jean Yen-Chun Lin, and Catherine Tan (@Catherineoscopy). @ASANews #ASA2024 #Sociology
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"In her new book Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History, Laura E. Helton lays out a clear vision of Black public bibliophilia in the first half of the 20th century."—Dorothy Berry, @LAReviewofBooks.
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Now available! "This book is a much-needed guide for how sociologists can think about and actually use comparison."—Carly Knight
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Join Darren Byler, Andrew J. Nathan, and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute for a virtual book talk about THE BACKSTREETS tomorrow, January 30 from 4:00PM - 5:30PM ET. RSVP Today! @WEAI_Columbia @Columbia @dtbyler
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See @BenGThomas42 review of LOCKED IN TIME and learn about 5 amazing fossil examples! Ben calls @Dean_R_Lomax and @Paleocreations's book "a brilliant read." #FossilFriday #Paleontology #Dinosaurs
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Congratulations to @trengriffin for A DOZEN LESSONS FOR ENTREPRENEURS winning the Silver Medal for the 2019 Axiom Business Book Award in Entrepreneurship and Small Business!
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Now available! "I HAVE NO ENEMIES is a moving biography of the courageous Liu Xiaobo." —Ha Jin. #Biography
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Congratulations to @MCLowISU for IMPERIAL MECCA: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj making the shortlist for the 2021 @bkfsbookprize!
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Looking for a book that changes your perspective? Author @thechloegong recommends THE MEMBRANES by @Tawei_Chi: "It completely made me rethink the human experience and my grasp on reality." @NZHViva
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Congratulations to @TaniaMJenkins, author of DOCTORS' ORDERS, for receiving an Honorable Mention for the 2022 Donald W. Light Award for Applied Practice of Medical Sociology from @ASAMedSoc #ASA2022 #AwardWinner #Science #Medicine
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Jeffrey Sachs (@JeffDSachs) explains sustainable development via his new book "The Age of Sustainable Development." http://t.co/bbifSlMqmO ….
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Now available! "DAYS OF OPPORTUNITY is a compelling account of how the nation came to be embroiled in U.S.-Soviet Cold War conflict and the terrible costs to the Afghan people."—Mary L. Dudziak @RobRakove
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"The Biden-Harris administration has implemented innovative immigration programs to make immigration more orderly and humane, given the lack of congressional support and budget to improve the system."—Ernesto Castañeda and Carina Cione, authors of IMMIGRATION REALITIES
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"Disasters of all kinds are prompting unprecedented displacement and massive migrations worldwide. … What happened? Why couldn’t we contain the destruction?" - @invisibl_houses. #Read the introduction to UNNATURAL DISASTERS today! #ClimateChange
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Now Available! "Solidly documented, conceptually innovative and elegantly written, this book is a gem of intellectual history." -Enzo Traverso #Fascism #Freud #History @FinchelsteinF
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Now available! "EURASIAN CROSSROADS remains the best introduction to the history of this region . This book was once pathbreaking—today it is essential." - @EricTSchluessel #History #AsianStudies @JimMillward
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We are pleased to announce that THE FERRANTE LETTERS by @sarahchihaya, @mervatim, @KHill0 , and @JillCRichards will receive the Honorable Mention for the 2020–2021 @MLAnews for Collaborative, Bibliographical, or Archival Scholarship\
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Approximately 95 percent of the films made in India during the 1930s and 1940s are considered “lost films” today. Check out the gems in today's guest post by .@Debashree2017 #SCMS21 #Bombay #Filmmaking #FilmHistory #IndianFilm
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Spend your weekend with some Russian works translated by women! Access the full reading list today for atmospheric, metaphysical, and classic novels. #WITMonth @RusLibrary @ReadRussia2021 #WomenInTranslation @Read_WIT #Translation
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We are pleased to announce that Michael Sierra-Arévalo's THE DANGER IMPERATIVE is the Winner of the American Society of Criminology Division of Policing 2024 Outstanding Book Award. #Policing #AwardWinningBook #ReadUP @michaelsierraa @ASCPolicing
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We are pleased to announce that Dan Sinykin's BIG FICTION has been shortlisted for the 2024 SHARP Book History Book Prize from the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing. @SHARPorg @SHARPorgNews @dan_sinykin
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Now available! "SUZUKI SEIJUN AND POSTWAR JAPANESE CINEMA is a thoughtful, stimulating, and rigorous study of a neglected Japanese filmmaker." - Isolde Standish #SuzukiSeijun #Japanese #Cinema #Filmmaking
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Now available! DESIRE IN LANGUAGE presents a selection of Julia Kristeva’s essays that trace the path of an investigation, extending over a period of ten years, into the semiotics of literature and the arts. #NovelTheory #LiteraryAnalysis #CriticalTheory
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How was Wu Zhao (624-705), the first and only female emperor in Chinese history, able to establish and maintain power? Find out in this peace by N. Harry Rothschild. #WomensHistoryMonth #ChineseHistory #WomenInLeadership #Empress #WUZhao
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Read about why Courtney Thorsson's THE SISTERHOOD is one of @LibraryJournal's fall picks at @c_thorsson @uocas @uoregon @UOEnglishDept #BlackLiterature #Literature #Books #BlackAuthors #BlackHistory
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Now available! AGAINST HAPPINESS provides both theoretical and empirical analysis of the limitations of the happiness agenda. #Happiness @owenflanagan @theamygdaloid @BatjaMesquite @philosophe31 @SomgyaoR @anna_sun @jennfrey @HazelRoseMarks @CSD_Columbia
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Now available! FEELING MEMORY is "A sensitive and imaginative exploration of the connections among war, childhood, and memory that demonstrates the meaning of emotions and feelings as historical forces."—Alessandro Portelli .@DrLindseyD @HistoryatHud
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New from @agendapub! "This is illuminating and essential reading at a critical turn in world politics when geoeconomics is returning to centre stage."—Naná de Graaff
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"“Poetic, stunning, fascinating, and deeply insightful, Kristeva’s readings of Dostoyevsky are as much about us and our time as they are about him and his works.” –Kelly Oliver #BookReview #JuliaKristeva #ReadUP
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Congratulations to CITY FOLK AND COUNTRY FOLK by Sofia Khvoshchinskaya and translated by Nora Seligman Favorov for winning the AATSEEL 2018 Best Literary Translation Into English from @AATSEEL_Tweets #russianlibrary #russianliterature #literatureintranslation
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"The #literature that arose from the influenza #pandemic speaks to our current moment in profound ways" Elizabeth Outka, author of VIRAL MODERNISM, looks back to the #1918Influenza to reflect on our current state in @ParisReview.
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We are pleased to announce that El Jones's ABOLITIONIST INTIMACIES is the winner of the Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award from the Nova Scotia Book Awards. @fernpub @ElJonesPoet #BookAward #PoetryTwitter #PrisonAbolition
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New from @transcriptweb! In this book, Natalie Dederichs draws on the new materialisms about the entangled nature of planetary existence and combines them with approaches to aesthetics to introduce a poetics of atmospheric reading experiences.
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.@JeffDSachs, Thomas Piketty, and other economists write an open letter to Angela Merkel in @thenation: http://t.co/cUxD2oRfDm
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"I believe I write so as to continue to exist, and also to perform disappearance, nonexistence." - Kate Zambreno. Read the full interview in @The_Millions today! #WomenWriters #Fiction
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Welcome to our annual #WITMonth celebration! Visit our blog for an overview of this year's featured #Translations and #BookExcerpts, and enter our drawing for a chance to win one of our new releases! @RusLibrary @Read_WIT @TranslateMonth #BookGiveaway
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Now Available! CHRONOS "is a magisterial book, breathtaking in scope and precision," says @ekleinberg. Check out how this work explores our ungraspable relationship with #time! #History #WorldHistory
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Against goody two-shoes feminism - @rphilos reviews Penelope Deutscher's FOUCAULT'S FUTURES: A CRITIQUE OF REPRODUCTIVE REASON #CriticalLifeStudies #philosophy
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Now Available! VULNERABLE MINDS "is a wonderful example of interdisciplinary scholarship on the brain and society, and prudent reading given humanity’s current crises." - @lasana_harris #Neuro #Politics #Mind @LiyaYuBerlin
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We are pleased to announce that @ejlacouture's DWELLING IN THE WORLD is co-winner of the Best Book in Non-North American Urban History—awarded by the @UrbanHistoryA #China #UrbanHistory #Urban #Tianjin #AwardWinning
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