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Everyday life emerged in Romantic-era Britain as a present seen only once it was missed.

The History of Missed Opportunities explores an unrecognized, certainly an unappreciated, development in Romantic-era Britain: the discovery of everyday life as a world that had been overlooked or, as Maurice...

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Everyday life emerged in Romantic-era Britain as history rather than memory, a present visible only after it was missed.

A brief look at the Oxford English Dictionary indicates that the “everyday” (as opposed to the “ordinary” which was primarily a class designation) developed into a necessary descriptor sometime in...

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Everyday life emerged in Romantic-era Britain as history rather than memory, a present visible only after it was missed.

In the “Prelude” I draw an analogy between what literature discovers in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries and what other (then) versions of art turned up. In the large circular...

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Numbers are an invention, not a faculty.

Readers will see that from the outset of the book, I try to convey the ways in which numbers are filtered into our lives in pervasive and often undetected ways....

Numbers and the Making of Us

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Numbers are a human invention, not an inborn faculty.

Numbers, words, and other symbols for precise quantities, are a human invention that had a broad impact on our cognitive and behavioral lives. This claim is based on extensive findings...

Numbers and the Making of Us

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Numbers are an invention, not a faculty.

Like other more commonly acknowledged inventions from stone axes to the wheel, number words radically shifted the human story. So the book relates to other work in anthropology that seeks...

Numbers and the Making of Us

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Animus in equal protection law is government action disadvantaging a group for no legitimate reason, not subjective ill-will.

If a just-browsing reader were to open the book I would like them to begin reading the Introduction. The Introduction seeks to explain why the animus concept is so important,...

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Animus in equal protection law is government action disadvantaging a group for no legitimate reason, not subjective ill-will.

My interest in animus grows out of scholars’ and courts’ impatience with conventional equal protection doctrine. Starting in the late 1960s and continuing until the mid-1980s, the Court experimented with...

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Constitutional animus is not ill-will but government action that harms a group for no legitimate reason.

This book explores the concept of “animus” in the law of the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause. Over the last thirty years, the Supreme Court has decided several important equal protection...

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Modern advertising differs in kind from everything before it, and for the first time it meets no legal resistance.

Given its nearly ubiquitous presence in our lives, advertising is one of the most important economic and social drivers in American society. Yet its sheer ubiquity lulls us into complacency....

Adcreep

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Modern advertising differs in kind from everything before it, and for the first time it meets no legal resistance.

By some counts, the average American is exposed to over three thousand advertisements each day. It is not just the number, but the nature of these ads that are different...

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Modern advertising differs in kind, not degree, from everything before it.

Chapter 4, “From Market Share to Mindshare,” is about the new discipline of neuromarketing. The ability to monitor consumers’ biological responses to commercials in real time has led to more...

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North Korea survives because of its integration with the global economy, not despite isolation from it.

A Most Enterprising Country asks why North Korea still exists, and locates the country’s survival in its economy’s interconnectedness with the global economy. It argues, while overall, North Korea remains...

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North Korea survives because of its integration with the global economy, not despite isolation from it.

My first book, No Man’s Land, showed how and when geography and the technologies that we generally associate with globalization—cheap and fast transportation, containing shipping, the Internet, mobile phones, and...

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North Korea survives because of its integration with the global economy, not despite isolation from it.

North Korean restaurants are tourist attractions in many cities, and are often the closest the average person will ever get to North Koreans. And indeed, they were one of the...

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Where Arab Ottoman photography resembles European photography, the resemblance is evidence of shared practice, not imitation.

The introduction is a fruitful place to meander and to get a sense of the book. It covers a lot of ground. It also provides a short, traditional overview of...

The Arab Imago

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Where Arab Ottoman photography resembles European photography, the resemblance is evidence of shared practice, not imitation.

When we talk about the history of photography, we largely mean the history of European and American photography. Then, we attach the “other” photographies: Indian, South American, African, Arab, etc....

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Arab Ottoman photography was its own practice, not an imitation of Europe's.

Arab Imago has a dual personality. It explores the undiscovered history of indigenista, or indigenous, photography of the Arab world. I am particularly interested in the earliest decades of photography,...

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Gnosticism is not a religion but a spirituality that attaches to religions and remodels them.

The first page starts with my encounter as an 18-year old college student with the Gospel of Thomas and its unconventional Jesus––an encounter that was utterly transforming for me. It...

The Gnostic New Age

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Gnosticism is not a religion but a transferable countercultural spirituality that attaches to existing religions and remodels them.

In The Gnostic New Age, I tell the powerful story of how gnostic groups arose in the first century CE as countercultural religious innovators, offering people in antiquity a completely...

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Gnosticism is not a religion but a transferable countercultural spirituality that attaches to existing religions and remodels them.

The book focuses on religion and culture in America today, which has taken a gnostic turn beginning in the 1800s. It asks: “If Catholicism defeated gnostic religions in antiquity, how...

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Rustbelt cities turned to tourism not because it worked but because postwar leaders had few other options.

Chapter 3, which explores the campaign in the 1970s to build a convention center in downtown St. Louis, is probably the chapter that really cuts to the heart of the...

A Nice Place to Visit

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Rustbelt cities turned to tourism not because it worked but because postwar leaders had few other options.

A Nice Place to Visit explores how four American cities – Baltimore, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and St. Louis – coped with the problems of economic decline after World War II, and...

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Rustbelt cities turned to tourism not because it worked but because they had few other options.

As a graduate student at the University of Cincinnati, I recall walking around the city’s downtown at the time and thinking how much of the central city around me –...

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There is no inherent conflict between the economy and the environment, only four correctable defects in economic institutions.

The natural world contributes in crucial ways to our physical wellbeing. There are also spiritual and esthetic dimensions to what it brings, and it is these that have traditionally motivated...

Endangered Economies

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There is no inherent conflict between the economy and the environment, only four correctable defects in economic institutions.

Environmental conservation is essential to a prosperous, healthy lifestyle. It is a necessity and not a luxury. We are part of the environment: we evolved with nature and depend on...

Endangered Economies

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There is no inherent conflict between the economy and the environment.

I’ve identified four reasons why our economic system doesn’t support the natural world. All four of these problems can be fixed by straightforward institutional or policy reforms. In fact, there are...

Endangered Economies

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A fifth beginning of human history is underway, and world unification is inevitable.

I’ve taught prehistory for many years, and I’ve found that although students can accept the fact that humanity has a long and complex history, they also think that history is...

The Fifth Beginning

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A fifth great beginning of human history is underway now.

I’m what is known in my field as a “dirt archaeologist.” I’ve been excavating archaeological sites in various places for 43 years, and I’m not ready to quit. Why do...

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A fifth beginning of human history is underway, and world unification is inevitable.

On the first page of The Fifth Beginning, I recount an incident from the late 1980s, early in my teaching career. I had given a closing lecture in which I...

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For their members, Asiatic Muslim or Ethiopian Hebrew was one indivisible religio-racial claim, and Negro a category manufactured in slavery.

I begin the book with the stories of a number of men who were members of the Moorish Science Temple, the Commandment Keepers Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation, and Father Divine’s Peace...

New World A-Coming

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For members of these movements, race and religion were one indivisible identity.

New World A-Coming examines a set of religious movements founded in the early twentieth-century urban north whose members refused the racial category of Negro and rejected Christianity in favor of...

New World A-Coming

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For their members, Asiatic Muslim or Ethiopian Hebrew was one indivisible religio-racial claim, and Negro a category manufactured in slavery.

This topic provided the perfect opportunity for me to continue exploring the intersections of religion and race in American history. In earlier work I examined the role early sound film...

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Asking what Jefferson or the founders would do is mostly an illegitimate question.

The book’s preface lays out how Thomas Jefferson came to be “the supremely articulate superego of the American nation,” how his Revolutionary writings translate as the conscience underlying American values....

Democracy's Muse

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Asking what Jefferson or the founders would do is mostly an illegitimate question.

The discipline of history demands of professional historians that we do our best to re-encounter and faithfully restore to the modern mind the physical, moral, intellectual, social, political, emotional boundaries––the...

Democracy's Muse

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Asking what Jefferson or the founders would do is mostly the wrong question.

Democracy’s Muse examines why it is that Thomas Jefferson has come to represent American ideals for all modern generations, why the most emotive figure of the founding era appeals to...

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Arabic authorities were driven out of Renaissance curricula for being Arabic, not because their theories were superseded.

One chapter of the book, for which I have a particular liking, bears the title “Humanists on Laxatives.” It tells the story of the reception of Arabic pharmacology in the...

Success and Suppression

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Arabic authorities were driven out of Renaissance learning for being Arabic, not for being wrong.

If you were asked to name some famous figures of Renaissance culture, you would probably name Leonardo, Michelangelo or Erasmus. But you could have mentioned some Arabic names too. There...

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Arabic authorities were driven out of Renaissance curricula for being Arabic, not because their theories were superseded.

There are many forgotten heritages in Western history, but the issue of Arabic influence is particularly contested because the heritage has its roots in a culture that suffers from Western...

Success and Suppression

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Different Backgrounds, Joint TakeAs co-authors, each of us two has experience on the front lines of the battle to communicate the risks of climate change to the public. I am an...

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The media's false balance gives fossil-fuel-funded climate deniers a standing the science never gave them.

Visualizing the Denying of Climate ChangeThe cartoons in the book encapsulate several key points.One example is the “Galileo” cartoon on page xviii. It lampoons climate change-denying cranks who present themselves...

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Climate denial is a funded disinformation campaign that has worked.

The Madhouse Effect is, by design, a book that readers can just pick up, skim through, and find a page that both engages and informs. If a reader were to...

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Climate denial is a funded disinformation campaign that has worked, and humor and ridicule will reach people graphs cannot.

Denial is something we encounter in many aspects of modern life, and there is an entire psychological literature dealing with the topic. In this book, we are focused on a...

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Climate denial is a funded disinformation campaign that has worked, and humor and ridicule will reach people graphs cannot.

This book is about the single greatest challenge that we face as a civilization, the challenge to tackle the problem of human-caused climate change. It is about the ongoing campaign,...

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Europe's operas about Turks from the 1680s to the 1820s asked audiences to recognize themselves in the Turk.

On the one hand, this book addresses the well-known literature on Orientalism, and argues that singing Turks were not understood as simply exotic “others” on the European stage. On the...

The Singing Turk

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Europe's operas about Turks from the 1680s to the 1820s asked audiences to recognize themselves in the Turk.

If you opened the book to page 162 you would see a portrait print of Ludwig Fischer, the basso in Vienna for whom Mozart composed the great Turkish role of...

The Singing Turk

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Europe's operas about Turks asked audiences to see themselves in the Turk, not an exotic other.

The Singing Turk explores the huge cultural phenomenon of European operas about Turks, flourishing especially during the eighteenth century, in the European age of Enlightenment. Though most people interested in...

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The First Amendment covers Pollock, Schoenberg and Jabberwocky, but no standard justification for free speech gets you there.

We think that the book’s cover is a terrific “provocation” for thinking about the problem. We hope that readers (viewers?) will ask themselves, “Why is this covered by the First...

Free Speech Beyond Words

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Art and music count as free speech, but no standard justification for free speech explains why.

The First Amendment says that “freedom of speech” shall not be abridged. The Supreme Court has said that the First Amendment unquestionably covers Jackson Pollock’s paintings, Arnold Schoenberg’s music, and...

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The First Amendment covers Pollock, Schoenberg and Jabberwocky, but no standard justification for free speech gets you there.

Our questions here are not terribly practical ones in the United States. No one really advocates for regulating art or music as such. True, Nazi Germany did suppress “degenerate” art...

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Consumer capitalism operates as a religion, and its governing dogma is that the Market is omniscient.

I would hope that the bookstore browser would look at the introduction. It sums up what the book is about. I would also recommend the chapters on holidays, on the...

The Market as God

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Consumer capitalism does not merely resemble a religion but operates as one.

The global capitalist=consumerist economy has an entire faith system, which has its own hierarchy, its own institutions, its own marble palaces. It has its own mythology, doctrine of the creation,...

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Consumer capitalism operates as a religion, and its governing dogma is that the Market is omniscient.

The book deals with economic history in conjunction with religious history, and the interaction of the two. I use the capitalized Market to indicate a market system that has exceeded...

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Rock and roll became white through reception, not production.

There’s been a lot of discussion of “cultural appropriation” in our culture recently—this is obviously a perennial topic but it seems to be a particularly charged subject in the current...

Just around Midnight

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Rock and roll became white through reception, not production.

Just around Midnight is about the entanglements of popular music and racial thought during the 1960s, and particularly the question of how rock and roll music “became white.” By the...

Just around Midnight

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Rock and roll became white through reception, not production.

There are a lot of parts of this book I’m pretty proud of. The last chapter, on the Rolling Stones in the late 1960s, is the one that I’ve been...

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Environmental concern did not arrive late in France, and environmentalism has no single political valence.

I would hope that a reader browsing in a bookstore would first look at the range of subjects explored in the book’s seven chapters and look more closely at one...

Natural Interests

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Environmental concern did not arrive late in France.

This book challenges some of the prevailing perspectives in the field of environmental history. First, there is a widely held view that concern about the protection of the natural environment...

Natural Interests

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Muslim West Africa has an eight-hundred-year written scholarly tradition.

Among the contemporary debates to which this book seeks to contribute, African historiography and cosmopolitanism are paramount. In his Philosophy of History lectures, German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friederich Hegel claimed...

Beyond Timbuktu

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Muslim West Africa has an eight-hundred-year written scholarly tradition, and the Sahara was its bridge, not a barrier.

I hope that a just browsing reader would read all the epigraphs of the prologue, the nine chapters of the books, and the epilogue because they either illustrate a main...

Beyond Timbuktu

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The main barrier to a good life with Alzheimer's is not the disease but other people's fear.

I’ve always had an affinity for older people. My first job as a teenager was working in a nursing home where I met a woman who had what was then...

Living with Alzheimer’s

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The main barrier to a meaningful life with Alzheimer's is the fear of unimpaired others, not the disease.

I think the prologue does a particularly good job of depicting why people seek evaluation, how they feel during it, and most crucially, what can go wrong in the delivery...

Living with Alzheimer’s

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An artwork's meaning belongs to the circuit it moves through, not to its maker.

I hope a reader who stumbles across this book might initially be drawn to the visual richness of this art and then engaged by their cross-cultural narratives. These images are...

Istanbul Exchanges

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A nineteenth-century Istanbul artwork's meaning belongs to the circuit it moved through, not to its maker.

There has been much debate over the last decade about expanding our discipline to create a global history of art, but what precisely are the new methods and protocols for...

Istanbul Exchanges

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The Manhattan Project is a bad model for decisions about AI, bioengineering and surveillance.

A fairly standard practice – a look at the introduction and the last chapter – should give the reader a sense of the book. The introduction provides an overview of...

The Prometheus Bomb

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The Manhattan Project is a bad template for the bioengineering, artificial intelligence and surveillance decisions coming next.

While getting my PhD at Brandeis University, I studied public administration and administrative law with Professor Peter Woll. A classic issue in those fields is the control of experts, especially...

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The Manhattan Project is a bad template for the bioengineering, artificial intelligence and surveillance decisions coming next.

The Prometheus Bomb is an account of the building of the atomic bomb that ended combat in the Pacific theater of World War II. The book focuses on how breakthroughs...

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In Singapore and China, personalized medicine means tailoring to the ethnic group, not the person.

We tend to view cosmopolitan science as a universal form that is practiced in many places. But, does modern knowledge itself become transformed in the midst of its peregrinations? Relatedly,...

Fungible Life

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In Singapore's Biopolis and at BGI, personalized medicine means customization to the ethnic group, not the person.

The book gives a manifold view of emerging Asian post-genomic science. Each chapter features scientists at work in an adjacent field, constantly challenged by the contingencies of making scientific wagers...

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American conservation was a racial project at its origin, and game-management technique passed directly into eugenics.

Perhaps the greatest challenge I faced in writing this book was presenting a balanced depiction of the celebrated conservationist and nature writer Aldo Leopold. Few people have thought more deeply...

Vanishing America

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American conservation was a racial project from its origin.

When I commenced research for this book, I planned to focus predominantly on understandings of, and responses to, species endangerment and extinction. Yet archival materials and other primary sources revealed...

Vanishing America

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In rural Guizhou, compulsory schooling has become part of the problem it was meant to solve.

It is early May 2009, only a few days before the impending school inspection by the provincial delegate. The Dong village of Longxing has been selected as one of the...

Fabricating an Educational Miracle

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Guizhou's educational miracle is literally fabricated, with doctored rosters, borrowed students and migrant workers seated as one-day pupils.

In the media spotlight, ruthlessly dedicated Chinese students and their superb performance in international testing continue to fuel global interest in China’s education system. This, however, tells only a partial...

Fabricating an Educational Miracle

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Guizhou's educational miracle is literally fabricated, with doctored rosters, borrowed students and migrant workers seated as one-day pupils.

Between 2009 and 2010, I spent 16 months conducting intensive fieldwork in a Miao and a Dong minority village-town in Qiandongnan Prefecture, Guizhou Province. Situated closely above the southwest border...

Fabricating an Educational Miracle

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Installing sensors everywhere is a political commitment, not a neutral upgrade.

One of the key objectives in Program Earth is to rework theories of sensing by decentering the human subject that is meant to be the key locus through which sensation...

Program Earth

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Installing pervasive sensors is a political commitment that decides in advance which urban problems count.

On one level, Program Earth covers a wide range of topics, from forests and webcams to migration and climate change, garbage patches in oceans and air pollution in urban areas,...

Program Earth

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Eat local is close to impossible at sea, and the only defensible slogan for fish is eat small.

This book is a passionate, sometimes critical and frustrated intervention into the current dominant politics of food. Public campaigns, and journalistic writing often dumb down complex questions into banal slogans:...

Eating the Ocean

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Eat local is close to impossible at sea, and the only defensible slogan for fish is eat small.

My book explores how we eat the ocean, in many ways, every day, sometimes without knowing it. Of course we know when we consciously eat fish – battered, breaded, grilled,...

Eating the Ocean

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Ethical food slogans like eat local fail at sea.

I would hope readers open the book at the introduction where I describe the following:Imagine a sparkling day on Sydney’s Harbour... eating creamy Sydney rock oysters and drinking a glass...

Eating the Ocean

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Madness belongs inside civilization, has never been contained by medicine, and its history is not one of progress.

Madness is something whose mysteries puzzle us still. The loss of reason, the sense of alienation from the common sense world the rest of us imagine we inhabit, the shattering...

Madness in Civilization

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Madness belongs inside civilization, not outside it.

If a reader wanted to browse my book, a number of strategies suggest themselves. The introductory chapter is quite brief, but sets out the range of topics I plan to...

Madness in Civilization

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Madness belongs inside civilization, has never been contained by medicine, and its history is not one of progress.

I have worked on the history of psychiatry for four decades now. I originally wrote on the rise of the asylum in Victorian Britain, and the emergence of the modern...

Madness in Civilization

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Correctness is worth teaching, because error gets a speaker's ideas dismissed, often by audiences applying rules that do not exist.

One thing I ask often is this: what is the value of “correct” grammar? It seems to me that correctness has gotten a bad reputation: most people think it’s an...

One Day in the Life of the English Language

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Correctness is worth teaching, because error gets a speaker's ideas dismissed, often by audiences applying rules that do not exist.

This book is a grammar handbook. It covers parts of speech, diction, and punctuation. Most grammar handbooks function as reference books, and lay out “Standard Written English” as if it...

One Day in the Life of the English Language

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Correctness is worth teaching, because error gets a speaker's ideas dismissed.

Picking up a book in a bookstore, a lot of readers look at a book’s opening and closing pages. From these they can get a sense of the basic idea...

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The harder a firm pushes toward instantaneous delivery, the more space it must encumber.

This book looks at some of the technologies, infrastructure, and habits of mind that underpin American consumer society. It makes connections between our buying habits and the kinds of spaces...

The Rule of Logistics

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Walmart's buildings are not containers for its distribution system but instruments of it.

The book includes a 16-page color section that is a kind of visual overture of the project. This section uses a series of drawings and diagrams to address the main...

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The harder a firm pushes toward instantaneous delivery, the more space it must encumber.

In this book, I look at the back of house operations of Walmart to better understand the relationship between logistics, architecture, and urbanism. While logistics has always been a part...

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The Holy Roman Empire endured a millennium precisely by not becoming a centralized national monarchy.

The Holy Roman Empire’s history is central to the European experience and the question of European identity. Founded with Charlemagne’s coronation on Christmas Day 800, it lasted just over a...

Heart of Europe

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The Holy Roman Empire endured a millennium precisely by not becoming a centralized national monarchy.

My book is the first in English to cover the Empire’s entire history and the first in any language to offer a comprehensive reinterpretation of its place in wider European...

Heart of Europe

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The Holy Roman Empire endured a millennium precisely by not becoming a centralized national monarchy.

If the casual reader or bookshop-browser were to follow my grandfather’s advice, they would start at the end to see whether my book was worth reading. In this case, they...

Heart of Europe

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The decisive context for Jewish-Muslim relations in France is France's own empire, above all the 1962 Algerian settlement.

The book begins by plunging us into what is in many ways the heart of the story. Thus for the reader browsing in the bookstore, the opening pages are as...

The Burdens of Brotherhood

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The decisive context for Jewish-Muslim relations in France is France's own empire, above all the 1962 Algerian settlement.

I first became interested in this topic because of a few long-standing interests: French history, Jewish history, and the past and present of the struggle between Jews and Arabs in...

The Burdens of Brotherhood

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Jewish-Muslim relations in France are shaped above all by France's own empire, not Israel and Palestine.

Today, headlines from France depict the country’s Muslims and Jews as ever, inevitably in conflict. Numerous commentators suggest Muslim attacks against Jews are the newest chapter in an age-old anti-Jewish...

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The fight inside organic agriculture is between two rival visions of virtue, and the expansionary one is winning.

Organic farming is inspired by visions of harmony between human beings and the natural world. These days, however, many people who reflect about organic foods think instead of struggle. Activists and...

Organizing Organic

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The fight inside organic agriculture is between two rival visions of virtue, and the expansionary one is winning.

A unique and compelling feature of my book is its use of interviews and archival documents to explore how people understand organic foods and farming in very different ways. The...

Organizing Organic

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The fight inside organic farming is not virtue against money but two rival visions of virtue.

C. Wright Mills argued that sociological research often springs from the intersection of personal biography and history. My book is no exception. I come from a family that bought organic foods...

Organizing Organic

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Campers now choose between reservation-website photographs, not between campsites.

There is a satisfying immediacy about the prospect of establishing an encampment for the night—clearing the site, erecting the tent, chopping wood, building a fire and cooking over the live...

Thirtyfour Campgrounds

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Campers now choose between reservation-website photographs, not between campsites.

Thirtyfour Campgrounds is a large volume featuring an eye-popping 6,200 individual illustrations, most of them in color. The systematic arrangement of the campsite photographs in grids across the book (6,500...

Thirtyfour Campgrounds

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Campers now choose between reservation-website photographs, not between campsites.

Thirtyfour Campgrounds examines the standardization and modernization of the contemporary campground as a familiar setting in the American landscape. Campgrounds celebrate a unique form of American ingenuity in which intersecting narratives...

Thirtyfour Campgrounds

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