Dancing in the Dark
Hailed as one of the best books of 2009 by the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, this vibrant portrait of 1930s culture masterfully explores the anxiety and hope, the despair and surprising optimism of distressed Americans during the Great...
Mirror in the Roadway
In a famous passage in The Red and the Black, the French writer Stendhal described the novel as a mirror being carried along a roadway. In the twentieth century this was derided as a naive notion of realism. Instead, modern writers experimented wi...
Gates of Eden
Gates of Eden
Revival of Pragmatism
Although long considered the most distinctive American contribution to philosophy, pragmatism-with its problem-solving emphasis and its contingent view of truth-lost popularity in mid-century after the advent of World War II, the horror of the Hol...
Immigrant Divide
Are all immigrants from the same home country best understood as a homogeneous group of foreign-born? Or do they differ in their adaptation and transnational ties depending on when they emigrated and with what lived experiences? Between Castro's r...
Politics of Economic Life
In recent years, economic life has become increasingly politicized: now, every company has a 'philosophy', promising its customers some ethical surplus in return for buying their products; consumers shop for change; workers engage in individualize...
Nazis, Capitalism And The Working Class
The rise of the Third Reich remains one of the most widely debated and discussed events of the twentieth century. Gluckstein sets out to place Nazism in the context of the economic crisis and the failed workers' revolution, seeking to draw lessons...
People's History of the Second World War
This history reclaims the Second World War as a global fight 'from below'. The vast majority of historical accounts have focused on the regular armies of the allied powers, however, the often-neglected people's militias were crucial not only to th...
Paris Commune
In 1871, the workers of Paris took control of the city. When they established the world's first workers' democracy, they found no blueprints or precedents for how to run their city without princes or politicians. As they built new institutions of ...
Reading Song Lyrics
Reading Song Lyrics offers the first systematic introduction to lyrics as a vibrant genre of (performed) literature. It takes lyrics seriously as a complex form of verbal art that has been unjustly neglected in literary, music, and, to a lesser de...
World's Greatest Bookstores,The
Based on the New York Times bestseller Footnotes from the World's Greatest Bookstores, Bob Eckstein brings his heart-tugging illustrations to a postcard set. Here are 100 postcards that celebrate the pillar of every community--the independent bookstore--with 50 total illustrations, including seven never-before-seen designs--to both send and save.Celebrating beloved bookshops and the people who work in them, each of these postcards includes a painterly illustration with the name and dates of operation and room for writing on the back, offering a charming dedication to the world of books.
Footnotes from the World's Greatest Bookstores
Footnotes from the World's Greatest Bookstores
The Dawkins Delusion Exposed
There is a 75% chance that a creation-professing student will denounce that faith within one year at a secular college or university. Do you want to take that chance? Read this book and you won't have to. "I had many questions ab...
