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This Is Not a Hoax

By (author) Heather Jessup
Categories: History of art

This Is Not a Hoax shows how the work of some contemporary artists and writers intentionally disrupts the curatorial and authorial practices of the country’s most respected cultural institutions: art ...

Governing the Social in Neoliberal Times

The contributors to this volume reveal how neoliberalism’s power to redefine “normal” is refashioning every facet of our lives. By providing examples and case studies of neoliberalism in action, ...

The Clean Body

By (author) Peter Ward
Categories: European history

Recounting the history of personal hygiene in Europe and North America and the making of the modern clean body. How often did our ancestors bathe? How often did they wash their clothes? What did they ...

Gorgeous War

By (author) Tim Blackmore
Categories: History of the Americas

Gorgeous War examines ways in which modernist design ideals influenced German and American heraldry, and argues that the two visual worlds form the foundations of contemporary corporate brand programs. ...

Feminist City

By (author) Leslie Kern
Categories: Human geography

Feminist City combines memoir, feminist theory, pop culture, and geography to expose what is hidden in plain sight: the social inequalities built right into our cities, homes, and neighbourhoods. Focusing ...

Voice of Rebellion

Many have tried to silence her, but Mozhdah Jamalzadah remains the most powerful female voice of her generation in Afghanistan, boldly speaking out about women’s rights. Voice of Rebellion charts her ...

Ubuntu Relational Love

Ubuntu is a Bantu term meaning humanity. It is also a philosophical and ethical system of thought, from which definitions of humanness, togetherness, and social politics of difference arise. Devi Dee ...

The Mongolian Chronicles

By (author) Allen Smutylo
Categories: Asian history

In the shadows of the Altai Mountains live the Kazakh nomads of western Mongolia. These hard-living nomads survive on windswept steppes, grazing their herds and keeping an ancient practice alive: hunting ...

Lost Feast

For readers of Michael Pollan and Anthony Bourdain comes an entertaining yet scholarly book about the foods we have loved to death. From passenger pigeons to megafauna, Newman identifies certain foods ...

Carpe Fin

This unique graphic novel, by acclaimed Indigenous artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, blends Asian manhwa/manga with the Haida artistic and oral tradition in one stunning hand-painted volume. The story ...