A military expert describes how a secret group of powerful and unelected men of the national security establishment keep the nation safe from terrorism through the steady erosion and undermining of everyday freedoms protected by the Constitution.
"How--and why--do we focus on those individuals we come to call stars? How does stardom both reflect and mask the person behind it? How have the image of stardom and our stars' images changed over the past hundred years? What does celebrity mean if people can become famous simpl…
Scope and content: "Twentieth-Century Europe : A Brief History presents readers with a concise and accessible survey of the most significant themes and political events that shaped European history in the 20th and 21st centuries. Features updates that include a new chapter that …
This text asks what is the quality of participation in contemporary art and performance? Has it been damaged by cultural policies which have 'entrepreneurialised' artists, cut arts funding and cultivated corporate philanthropy? Has it been fortified by crowdfunding, pop-ups and …
The first in-depth study of diverse and radical innovation in Arab music.
"From jazz trumpeters drawing on the noises of warfare in Beirut to female heavy metallers in Alexandria, the Arab culture offers a wealth of exciting, challenging, and diverse musics. The essays in this collection investigate the plethora of compositional and improvisational te…
Discussing the work of more than 60 poets, Nerys Williams guides students through the key ideas and movements in the study of poetry. With reference to manifestos and web-based experiments as well as the role of information culture in shaping and distributing poetry globally she…
"In Inhuman Citizenship, Juliana Chang claims that literary representations of Asian American domesticity may be understood as symptoms of America's relationship to its national fantasies and to the "jouissance"--a Lacanian term signifying a violent yet euphoric shattering of th…
Compiles the accounts of soldiers, Marines, their families and friends, and also shares the unsettling narrative of his own failures during war (including complicity in a murder) and the redemptive powers of storytelling.
Essays on reference, language, and mind
by Almog, Joseph, Donnellan, Keith, Leonardi, Paolo
