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Balance of Power
Central banks now stand between societies and collapse, but are they still democratic?Two decades of financial crises have dramatically expanded central banks powers. In 2008, and …
John Donne's Physics
A reimagining of Devotions upon Emergent Occasions as an original treatment of human life shaped by innovations in seventeenth-century science and medicine. In 1624, poet and …
Afterlife of Data
A short, thought-provoking book about what happens to our online identities after we die.These days, so much of our lives takes place online but what about our afterlives? Thanks …
Master Plans and Minor Acts
An examination of planning, place, and the politics of repair in post-genocide Rwanda.Master Plans and Minor Acts examines a material politics of repair in post-genocide Rwanda, …
Extinctions : From Dinosaurs to You
A compelling answer to an important question: Can past mass extinctions teach us how to avoid future planetary disaster?On its face, the story of mass extinction on Earth is one of …
Indebted Mobilities
An ethnographic rendering of overseas students' fraught encounters studying at an American public university. As states have reduced funding to public universities, many of those …
Economics of Artificial Intelligence
A timely investigation of the potential economic effects, both realized and unrealized, of artificial intelligence within the United States healthcare system.In sweeping …
On Both Sides of the Tracks
An analysis of social mobility in contemporary French literature that offers a new perspective on figures who move between social classes.Social climbers have often been the core …
Pandemic Workplace
A provocative book arguing that the workplace is where we learn to live democratically.In The Pandemic Workplace, anthropologist Ilana Gershon turns her attention to the US …
Structuring Inequality
How inequality was forged, fought over, and forgotten through public policy in metropolitan Chicago. As in many American metropolitan areas, inequality in Chicagoland is visible in …
Aesthetics in Grief and Mourning
A philosophical exploration of aesthetic experience during bereavement.In Aesthetics of Grief and Mourning, philosopher Kathleen Marie Higgins reflects on the ways that aesthetics …
Screening the Operatic Stage
An ambitious study of the ways opera has sought to ensure its popularity by keeping pace with changes in media technology.From the early days of television broadcasts to today s …