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In Our Interest: How Democracies Can Make Immigration Popular (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In this data-driven, counterintuitive book, Alexander Kustov argues that showing people how immigration benefits them and their fellow citizens can lead to greater acceptance of more open policies.
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Viacheslav Ivanov: A Symbolist Life (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
A poet, scholar, philosopher, religious thinker, translator, and teacher, Viacheslav Ivanov (1866–1949) was one of the most extraordinary figures of Russia’s... Læs mere
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The The Care of the Self and the Care of the Other: From Spiritual Exercises to Political Transformation (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This book explores the ways several twentieth-century thinkers—Pierre Hadot, Georges Friedmann, Michel Foucault, Martin Luther King Jr., and Audre Lorde—can help us relate the ethical transformation of the self and the political transformation of the world.
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The The Passion of Pedro Almodovar: A Self-Portrait in Seven Films (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
James Miller considers seven of Pedro Almodóvar’s most personal films, arguing that together they offer a revealing self-portrait of the director and his search for meaning.
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Democracy and Beauty: The Political Aesthetics of W. E. B. Du Bois (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Robert Gooding-Williams reconstructs W. E. B. Du Bois’s defense of the political potential of beauty to challenge oppressive systems and foster an inclusive democracy.
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Downtime: The Twentieth Century in Slow Motion (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Downtime explores the history and aesthetics of slow motion, from its origins in early film to its prominence today.
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Attention and Alienation: The International Political Economy of Information and Communication Technologies (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Aarushi Bhandari offers a new way to understand the political economy of attention, combining quantitative analysis and personal narrative to critique the role of information and communications technologies in global society.
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People's Choice Literature: The Most Wanted and Unwanted Novels (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
People’s Choice Literature presents two novels based on a nationwide poll about literary taste—one featuring the story elements Americans most desire and another containing everything Americans despise.
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The The Documentary Audit: Listening and the Limits of Accountability (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Pooja Rangan develops a framework for understanding how documentary practices have, under the mantle of accountability, provided a moral cover for listening habits that are used to profile, exclude, and incarcerate.
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Misguided: Where Misinformation Starts, How It Spreads, and What to Do About It (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Why are people inclined to believe misinformation? This wide-ranging and comprehensive book shines a light on how false beliefs take root and spread, exploring the cognitive, emotional, and social factors that make us susceptible.
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New Story of the Stone: An Early Chinese Science Fiction Novel (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
One of China’s first works of science fiction, New Story of the Stone is a belated twentieth-century sequel to the beloved eighteenth-century masterpiece Story of the Stone (more famously known as Dream of the Red Chamber).
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Binswanger and Existential Analysis (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This book presents Michel Foucault’s unpublished manuscript on the Swiss psychiatrist Ludwig Binswanger for the first time in English, offering crucial insight into his intellectual development.
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