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Religion in the Art of Archaic and Classical Greece

Smith, Tyler Jo
Religion in the Art of Archaic and Classical Greece
Richly illustrated with 245 halftones and seventeen color plates of mostly small-scale objects, Religion in the Art of Archaic and Classical Greece examines what objects and images can tell us about the experiences and impressions of ancient Greek religion.

CHF 114.00

Martin Scorsese and the American Dream

Cullen, Jim
Martin Scorsese and the American Dream
Exploring films as varied as Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore,  Taxi Driver,  Goodfellas,  Hugo, and The Wolf of Wall Street, this book is the first study of Martin Scorsese’s complex engagement with the American Dream—its charms, traps, and ambiguities.

CHF 43.90

Martin Scorsese and the American Dream

Cullen, Jim
Martin Scorsese and the American Dream
Exploring films as varied as Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore,  Taxi Driver,  Goodfellas,  Hugo, and The Wolf of Wall Street, this book is the first study of Martin Scorsese’s complex engagement with the American Dream—its charms, traps, and ambiguities.

CHF 115.00

Haiti Fights Back: The Life and Legacy of Charlemagne Pér...

Alexis, Yveline
Haiti Fights Back: The Life and Legacy of Charlemagne Péralte
Haiti Fights Back: The Life and Legacy of Charlemagne Péralte is the first US study of the politician and caco leader (guerrilla fighter) who fought against the US occupation of Haiti from 1915-1934. Alexis locates rare multilingual sources from both nations and documents Péralte’s political movement and citizens’ protests. The interdisciplinary work offers a new approach to studies of the US invasion period by documenting how Caribbean people...

CHF 59.50

The Age of Johnson

Lynch, Jack / Scanlan, J. T.
The Age of Johnson
Volume 24 features commentary on a range of Johnsonian topics: his reaction to Milton, his relation to the Allen family, his notes in his edition of Shakespeare, his use of Oliver Goldsmith in his Dictionary, and his always fascinating Nachleben. The volume also includes articles on topics of strong interest to Johnson: penal reform, Charlotte Lennox's professional literary career, and the "conjectural history" of Homer in the eighteenth century.

CHF 215.00

Precarity and Belonging

Ramírez, Catherine S / Ramírez, Catherine S / Falcón, Sylvanna M / Poblete, Juan / McKay, Steven C / Schaeffer, Felicity Amaya
Precarity and Belonging
Approaching mobility, precarity, and citizenship at once generates a critical exploration of the points of contact and friction and the potential politics of commonality between citizens and noncitizens. What does modern citizenship mean in a world of citizens, denizens, and noncitizens living under common conditions of labor and social precarity? Precarity and Belonging interrogates such binaries as citizen/noncitizen, and “legal”/“illegal” t...

CHF 190.00

Dreams of Archives Unfolded

Stitt, Jocelyn Fenton
Dreams of Archives Unfolded
Dreams of Archives Unfolded: Absence and Caribbean Life Writing makes a significant contribution to studies of Caribbean literature by demonstrating that women’s autobiographical narratives published in the past twenty years are feminist epistemological projects that rework Caribbean studies’ longstanding commitment to creating counter-archives.

CHF 65.00

Haunted Homes

Schweitzer, Dahlia
Haunted Homes
Haunted Homes is a short but groundbreaking study of homes in horror film and television. While haunted houses can be fun and thrilling, Hollywood horror tends to focus on haunted homes, places where the suburban American dream of safety and comfort has turned into a nightmare. From classic movies like The Old Dark House to contemporary works like Hereditary and the Netflix series The Haunting of Hill House, Dahlia Schweitzer explores why haun...

CHF 101.00

Precarity and Belonging

Ramírez, Catherine S / Ramírez, Catherine S / Falcón, Sylvanna M / Poblete, Juan / McKay, Steven C / Schaeffer, Felicity Amaya
Precarity and Belonging
Approaching mobility, precarity, and citizenship at once generates a critical exploration of the points of contact and friction and the potential politics of commonality between citizens and noncitizens. What does modern citizenship mean in a world of citizens, denizens, and noncitizens living under common conditions of labor and social precarity? Precarity and Belonging interrogates such binaries as citizen/noncitizen, and “legal”/“illegal” t...

CHF 61.00

Dreams of Archives Unfolded

Stitt, Jocelyn Fenton
Dreams of Archives Unfolded
Dreams of Archives Unfolded: Absence and Caribbean Life Writing makes a significant contribution to studies of Caribbean literature by demonstrating that women’s autobiographical narratives published in the past twenty years are feminist epistemological projects that rework Caribbean studies’ longstanding commitment to creating counter-archives.

CHF 190.00

Dying to Count: Post-Abortion Care and Global Reproductiv...

Suh, Siri
Dying to Count: Post-Abortion Care and Global Reproductive Health Politics in Senegal
Dying to Count explores how national and global population politics collide in Senegalese hospitals as health workers treat and document women who present with complications of abortion. Siri Suh’s ethnography illustrates political, economic, professional, and technological factors that jeopardize quality of and access to obstetric care in public hospitals despite national and global commitments to reproductive health.

CHF 190.00

Dying to Count: Post-Abortion Care and Global Reproductiv...

Suh, Siri
Dying to Count: Post-Abortion Care and Global Reproductive Health Politics in Senegal
Dying to Count explores how national and global population politics collide in Senegalese hospitals as health workers treat and document women who present with complications of abortion. Siri Suh’s ethnography illustrates political, economic, professional, and technological factors that jeopardize quality of and access to obstetric care in public hospitals despite national and global commitments to reproductive health.

CHF 56.90

Haunted Homes

Schweitzer, Dahlia
Haunted Homes
Haunted Homes is a short but groundbreaking study of homes in horror film and television. While haunted houses can be fun and thrilling, Hollywood horror tends to focus on haunted homes, places where the suburban American dream of safety and comfort has turned into a nightmare. From classic movies like The Old Dark House to contemporary works like Hereditary and the Netflix series The Haunting of Hill House, Dahlia Schweitzer explores why haun...

CHF 34.90

Japan and American Children's Books

Jagusch, Sybille
Japan and American Children's Books
Drawing from the Library of Congress’s massive collection, this volume takes readers on a fascinating and informative journey through nearly 200 years of American children’s books and periodicals depicting life in Japan, from fanciful travelogues full of exotic stereotypes to serious works about wartime atrocities. Published by Rutgers University Press in association with the Library of Congress.

CHF 190.00