and the Great War Science Integration Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe: Brittleness by Stefanos Geroulanos, Todd Meyers
$66.00 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
The injuries suffered by soldiers during WWI were as varied as they were brutal. How could the human body suffer and often absorb such disparate traumas? Why might the same wound lead one soldier to die but allow another to recover? In The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe, Stefanos Geroulanos ...Show more
Truth-Spots: How Places Make People Believe by Thomas F Gieryn
$56.99 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
We may not realize it, but truth and place are inextricably linked. For ancient Greeks, temples and statues clustered on the side of Mount Parnassus affirmed their belief that predictions from the oracle at Delphi were accurate. The trust we have in Thoreau's wisdom depends in part on how skillfully he ...Show more
French Lessons by Alice Kaplan
$34.99 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
Brilliantly uniting the personal and the critical, French Lessons is a powerful autobiographical experiment. It tells the story of an American woman escaping into the French language and of a scholar and teacher coming to grips with her history of learning. Kaplan begins with a distinctly American quest ...Show more
How Our Days Became Numbered: Risk and the Rise of the Statistical Individual by Dan Bouk
$56.99 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
The Society for U.S. Intellectual History: Annual Book Award of the Society for U.S. Intellectual HistoryHonorable MentionForum for the History of Science in America: Philip J. Pauly Book PrizeWon Long before the age of "Big Data" or the rise of today's "self-quantifiers," American capitalism embra ...Show more
Politics Society Return of Work in Critical Theory: Self by Christophe Dejours, Jean-Philippe Deranty, Emmanuel Renault, Nicholas H Smith
$110.00 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
From John Maynard Keynes's prediction of a fifteen-hour workweek to present-day speculation about automation, we have not stopped forecasting the end of work. Critical theory and political philosophy have turned their attention away from the workplace to focus on other realms of domination and emancipat ...Show more
Complaint: Grievance among Friends by Avital Ronell
$49.99 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
An intellectual feast of carp, grouse, and fine whine 'It is not, nor it cannot come to good. But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.'? Thus spoke Hamlet, one of the great kvetchers of literature. Every day, gripers challenge our patience and compassion. Yet Pollyannas rile us up with their ...Show more
James Baldwin and the 1980s: Witnessing the Reagan Era by Joseph Vogel
$44.99 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
Rediscovering the iconic writer's lost decade By the 1980s, critics and the public alike considered James Baldwin irrelevant. Yet Baldwin remained an important, prolific writer until his death in 1987. Indeed, his work throughout the decade pushed him into new areas, in particular an expanded inter ...Show more
The Book by Amaranth Borsuk (Assistant Professor, University of Washington-Bothell)
$44.99 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing | Series: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
The book as object, as content, as idea, as interface.What is the book in a digital age? Is it a physical object containing pages encased in covers? Is it a portable device that gives us access to entire libraries? The codex, the book as bound paper sheets, emerged around 150 CE. It was preceded by clay ...Show more
Feats of Strength: How Evolution Shapes Animal Athletic Abilities by Simon Lailvaux
$44.99 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
A fascinating exploration of the extreme world of animal athletics, how these stunning abilities have evolved, and their insights into human performance and evolution'�� How is it that fish can climb waterfalls, snakes glide, and cheetahs run so fast? Natural and sexual selection has driven the evo ...Show more
Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death by Lillian Faderman
$37.99 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
Harvey Milk was a complex man. There were seemingly many Harveys as he drifted for years through various stages, fumbling to find the niche from which he could fulfill the high, vague aspirations of his childhood.... Each earlier "life" represented some genuine (if contradictory) aspect of Harvey Milk-a ...Show more
Van Gogh and Music: A Symphony in Blue and Yellow by Natascha Veldhorst; Diane Webb
$49.99 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing
'Ah! . . . to make of painting what the music of Berlioz and Wagner has been before us . . . a consolatory art for distressed hearts!'?'Vincent van Gogh This engaging book is the first in-depth investigation of the influential role that music and sound played throughout Vincent van Gogh's (1853'��1 ...Show more
William the Conqueror by David Bates
$44.99 NZD
Category: Gone Fishing | Series: The\English Monarchs Ser.
Fifteen years in the making, a landmark reinterpretation of the life of a pivotal figure in British and European history In this magisterial addition to the Yale English Monarchs series, David Bates combines biography and a multidisciplinary approach to examine the life of a major figure in British and ...Show more
