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Socrates in the Boardroom - In a nutshell

Socrates in the Boardroom argues that it is experts, not managers that make the better leaders. This is a message that, recently, has been almost unfashionable. I go a step...

Amanda Goodall
American Homicide - A close-up

Historically, only a small minority of murders of unrelated adults have had their origins in long-term, hostile relationships. People who killed non-relatives who lived with them—boarders, landlords, slaves, servants, masters,...

Randolph Roth
Learning to Hear - The wide angle

This book is part of a much longer project within philosophy and social theory seeking to understand what I describe as the sensed unconscious. The concept describes aspects of our...

Sarah Maslen
Pure Adulteration - The wide angle

I said there are two ways that “” the book is about how people understood, resisted, and accommodated the origins of manufactured food. But here we are at the next...

Benjamin R. Cohen
The Program Era - The wide angle

I came to this book when I was finishing my first book, The Novel Art, which was about how early twentieth century American writers negotiated their relation to mass culture...

Mark McGurl
Selective Solidarity - In a nutshell

Selective Solidarity is an ethnography about middle-class Senegalese families in Paris. It foregrounds the experiences of the French-born children of educated immigrants from Dakar, to consider how young people learn...

Chelsie Yount
Yellow Future - A close-up

My favorite pages in the book are pages 58 to 64, the subheading titled “Imaging the Future” in which I describe how Ridley Scott, the director of Blade Runner and...

Jane Chi Hyun Park
Inventing Iron Man - In a nutshell

Inventing Iron Man is a kind of sequel to my earlier book Becoming Batman. That book was about asking how far can our biology take us toward the performance of...

E. Paul Zehr
Political Affect - The wide angle

What I wanted to do in Political Affect was write a book on advances in the sciences that would use a continental figure (Deleuze) as part of its theoretical basis,...

John Protevi
Decolonization and the Evolution of International Human Rights - In a nutshell

My book charts the shifting impact of decolonization on the human rights project. I challenge the presumption that the colonized were marginal players in the construction of the human rights...

Roland Burke
Bombshell - The wide angle

The book relates to the changing nature of terrorism and how different groups are either being forced or recruited into these deadly organizations.I address several underlying theories about the nature...

Mia Bloom
Boys' Friendships and the Crisis of Connection - The wide angle

I found Jean Wade Rindlaub’s archive at the Schlesinger Library in the course of researching my first book, Oneida: From Free Love Utopia to the Well-Set Table. In that book...

Niobe Way
The Death of the American Trial - The wide angle

I have practiced law for thirty-five years. I am continually moved by the power and depth of the understanding of human situations that the trial provides. This book is an...

Robert P. Burns
A Book Forged in Hell - The wide angle

Spinoza’s Treatise is very much a product of its time—especially the immediate context of the Dutch Golden Age, with its heady mix of economic wealth, political liberalism, religious dissent, scientific...

Steven Nadler
Questioning the Veil - A close-up

I would want a reader who browses through my book to read pages 4 and 5 because they show in vivid terms the perils of thinking that veiling is faith...

Marnia Lazreg
Loath to Print - In a nutshell

At its heart this book is about scientific discovery and the risks inherent in sharing new ideas. It focuses on the scientific revolution in Europe during the 16th and 17th...

Nicole Howard
Memory, Trauma, and History - A close-up

I would hope that a casual reader would see the essays on hysteria and photography in the first section, and then the essays on photography and historical consciousness in the...

Michael S. Roth
God in Gotham - In a nutshell

Max Weber, the German sociologist, and his wife Marianne weren’t impressed with Manhattan’s spirituality when they visited New York City during their 1904 trip to the United States. They probed...

Jon Butler
The Bodhisattva’s Brain - A close-up

The “Introduction” is a paean, a song in praise of comparative philosophy.Some think that studying ancient wisdom traditions involves anachronism and ethnocentrism. One talks across too much time and one...

Owen Flanagan
Modernist America - A close-up

Chapter One, “Modernism in Europe and America,” outlines the book’s major arguments. It also focuses on the urban aspects of modernism, the cultural importance of cities like Vienna, Berlin, Paris,...

Richard Pells
The World in Play - In a nutshell

The most compelling and unsettling moment for me in all of Victorian literature comes when Alice tumbles down the rabbit hole: that epistemological abyss at the heart of nineteenth-century modernity....

Matthew Kaiser
Unsilencing - A close-up

I would begin with the preface where I describe my first meeting with Krum Horozov, one of the most candid survivors I interviewed. In the late spring of 2006, I stood at the door of his apartment not yet knowing that this encounter would define the years to come. Horozov, an eighty-one-year-old former political prisoner, had spent eleven years in camps and prisons...

Lilia Topouzova
The Future of Change - In a nutshell

The Future of Change uncovers the relationships between advances in communications technologies and the rise and success of some of the iconic social movements over the course of American history.Advances...

Ray Brescia
The Interethnic Imagination - A close-up

I would hope that a browsing reader would open the book to its first pages—which I intended as a lively, reader-friendly introduction.I start with a roster of surprising characters from...

Caroline Rody
Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism - A close-up

In 1954, Egypt’s new revolutionary regime arrested Sayyid Qutb and hundreds of other Egyptian Islamist following a Muslim Brother’s assassination attempt on President Nasser. Qutb had joined the Muslim Brotherhood,...

John Calvert
Becoming Batman - A close-up

Chapter 13 is entitled “Injury and Recovery: How Much Banging until the Batback Goes Bonk?” When thinking of Batman, people tend to often think of his gear and technology, often...

E. Paul Zehr
Starving for Justice - In a nutshell

Starving for Justice examines three hunger strikes that took place in the 1990s on university campuses. Twenty years ago, Chicana/o, Latina/o students at UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, and Stanford stopped...

Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval
Bad Girls Go Everywhere - The wide angle

Bad Girls Go Everywhere is a biography and a cultural history. It charts a woman’s life through several significant eras in American history: the deprivations of the Great Depression, the...

Jennifer Scanlon
The Word on the Streets - The wide angle

The Word on the Streets enters in a rather thorny place in modernist studies. In my mind—and I make the claim in the book—the field of modernist studies has been...

Brooks E. Hefner
The Bodhisattva’s Brain - In a nutshell

Many secular humanists are attracted to Buddhism because there is no creator God and thus it seems “spiritual but not religious.” In addition, there is much hype about the good...

Owen Flanagan

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