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I am an engineer. I design and build things that never before existed (mostly software, these days). For most of my life, I thought these things were my personal creations,...
I would hope that readers “browsing” would first look at the book’s cover. It is a dreamy image of water taken on the Hudson River by artist Ellen Kozak. I...
I have long believed that city building is a story of implementation for which plans are but the foundation for debate and action, and that action is driven by politics,...
I have a special interest in oral histories and anthropology, and have tailored my theatre writing around those interests. Big questions that arise: How does a cultural institution serve its community? How does The Public reflect the mores and mythologies of twenty-first century America? Is it possible...
I decided to write this book after a personal incident that took place more than a decade ago—with which I begin the introductory chapter.I was living in Seattle at the...
Peace on Our Terms recounts the dramatic story of female activism around the world during a single, remarkable year in history, 1919, when the bloodshed of World War I finally...
The Federal Bureau of Investigation reported in December 2009 that the murder rate fell by 10 percent in the United States during the first six months of 2009. That was...
How do nations, peoples, and ethnic groups fashion their own collective identities? For antiquity as well as for the modern era, one general answer has prevailed: societies shape their self-consciousness...
Although it was only in the course of the nineteenth century that the barricade emerged as the preeminent symbol of the modern revolutionary tradition, its origins can be traced as...
Your Brain on Latino Comics provides readers with an understanding of how comic books in general work to move us and to engage our critical faculties and imagination. It also...
Like many Americans who grew up following football and basketball, I simply took it for granted that athletic teams sponsored by universities would compete in highly publicized games and that...
My book is about that loosely defined cultural phenomenon known as “the recovery movement”—an agglomeration of self-help groups and practices that have grown out of Alcoholics Anonymous since its founding...
What started as a contest for spices between Portugal and Spain had many consequences. It hugely expanded European understanding of the world and allowed people, through the resulting medium of...
While my colleagues might zero in on one of the concepts the book examines (economic moralities, scales of solidarity, Facebook families, etc.) I hope that a reader who is just...
I actually did not intend to write a book on preventive war. A lot of people assumed I became interested in the subject because of the 1991 Gulf War, or...
I have to say the first pages in the book should be read first because I deliberately wrote them in order to draw the reader in. They tell of an...
While I focus on individuals, The Victims Return has a wide angle or broad context.The book begins with a short overview of Stalin’s mass terror, from 1929 to 1953, and...
Long distance solidarity is perhaps the key concept I explore in this book. Consumer activists were among the first Americans to declare that moral agency should not be dictated by...
Pictures of all kinds in all media are so omnipresent, so naturalized in our 21st-century lives that a world without them is hard to imagine. Yet the picture-saturated culture we...
I hope that a potential reader would flip through the book and find unexpected images or startling juxtapositions thereof. He might ask why a more familiar modernist painting by Kandinsky...
States of War examines an age-old conflict within constitutional legal states—to what extent can political authorities violate the law in times of crisis, emergency, or war?This question has haunted modern...
The Wretched Atom is a global history of so-called peaceful nuclear technologies. It asks provocative questions about how we frame these as an escape from environmental pressures and as a...
Why have the obvious answers to life’s relentless questions been hard to recognize even by many atheists?The most serious obstacle to accepting science’s answers to the persistent questions is one...
I hope readers look first at the table of contents, to see the whole range of topics covered in the book: from printing language to book-related insults, and from scientific...
I hope that readers who come across the book come to realize that people who disagree with them politically aren’t necessarily “wrong.” They just have a very different understanding of...
One wide angle is that there’s more we don’t know about history than we do know—by a lot. It’s possible that 90 or even 99 percent of everything ever written historically has disappeared. Paper decomposes. The victors write history and scrub it clean...
To those who do not have the time to peruse the book from cover to cover, I would recommend reading chapter five, which looks at windows and glass architecture in suburbia. Picture windows have become ...
The Conservative Turn is an intellectual history of American anti-communism told through the biographies of two intellectuals, Lionel Trilling and Whittaker Chambers, who met as Columbia undergraduates in the 1920s.Both...
The book is about race, but more broadly it is about the idea of Democracy. In it, I’m grappling with how we move closer to a society in which the...
When you hear the words “Great Depression,” certain images pop up: a mother hugging her child on a windswept plain, a hand clutching a tin plate, unemployed men standing in...
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