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Tim Altenhof
Breathing Space

An illuminating account of how new knowledge about human respiration impacted architectural design in the early twentieth centuryBreathing Space is a compelling and wide-ranging analysis of pneumatic phen…

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Zainab Bahrani
Rituals of War

A groundbreaking analysis of the arts of war in ancient MesopotamiaRituals of War is an investigation into the earliest historical records of violence and biopolitics. In ancient Iraq (ca.3000-500 BC) rit…

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Jean-Christophe Bailly,
A Silent Apostrophe

An exquisite meditation on the mysterious Fayum portraitsJean-Christophe Bailly's A Silent Apostrophe is a lyrical interdisciplinary study of the Fayum mummy portraits from Roman Egypt. This "truly r…

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Shane Butler
The Ancient Phonograph

A groundbreaking exploration of voice in literature, oratory, and songLong before the invention of the phonograph, the written word was unrivaled as a medium of the human voice. In The Ancient Phonograph …

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Anthony J Cascardi
Francisco de Goya and the Art of Critique

An innovative study of Goya's unprecedented elaboration of the critical function of the work of artFrancisco de Goya and the Art of Critique probes the relationship between the enormous, extraordinary, an…

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Melinda Cooper
Counterrevolution

Near Futures

A thorough investigation of the current combination of austerity and extravagance that characterizes government spending and central bank monetary policyAt the close of the 1970s, government treasuries an…

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Judith Farquhar, Qicheng Zhang
Ten Thousand Things

An astounding anthropological study of the myriad ways contemporary residents of Beijing understand and nurture the good lifeTen Thousand Things explores the many forms of life, or, in ancient Chinese par…

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Martha Feldman Martha Feldman
Castrato Phantoms

A new mapping of castrato afterlives in modern RomeAround 1830, opera houses stopped using castrati, and Rome and the Vatican became home to their glorious singing, engineered by surgery and intensive voc…

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Michael Hagner,
Seeing Foucault's Pendulum

An investigation of a cosmic experimentIn 1851, the physicist Léon Foucault performed an unforgettable experiment. By suspending a large pendulum inside the dome of Paris' Pantheon, Foucault provided the …

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Tom Hare
Out of Character

A wide-ranging investigation of the interaction between writing and portraiture across history and culturesPortraits often claim a revered place in worlds remote from their origins, but they also risk ano…

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Daniel Heller-Roazen
Far Calls

"Moving from the divinatory rituals of the ancient world to Freud and Lacan, from Homer and Augustine to Edgar Allan Poe and Mallarmâe, the Surrealists, Yeats, and Proust, Far Calls explores the pers…

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Daniel Heller-Roazen
Far Calls

An inquiry into the theories and practices of overhearingWhen words are not heard but overheard, when phrases are perceived in bits and pieces, and when speakers, failing to do as they intend, state thing…

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Daniel Heller-Roazen
The Fifth Hammer

How the ordering of the sensible world continues to suggest a reality that no notes or letters can fully transcribe.

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Jeremie Koering,
Iconophages

An unprecedented art-historical account of practices of image ingestion from ancient Egypt to the twentieth centuryEating and drinking images may seem like an anomalous notion but, since antiquity, in the…

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Chris Marker
La Jetée

Zone Books

La Jetée is the book version of the legendary 1964 science fiction film about time and memory after a nuclear apocalypse. Chris Marker, the undisputed master of the filmic essay, composed the film almost …

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Annie McClanahan Annie McClanahan
Beneath the Wage

Near Futures

Beneath the Wage retheorizes capitalism from the perspective of the service economy, challenging conventional assumptions about how work is waged, regulated, managed, and automatedToday, 80 percent of U.S…

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Alexander Nagel,
The Life-Scale Revolution in European Painting

A study of the radical transformation of scale in European painting 1300-1600This book brings to light an unchronicled revolution in art---the "life-scale revolution," which was launched at the …

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Andrea Pinotti
At the Threshold of the Image

An exploration of the impact of immersive experiences on visual practices from cave painting to virtual realityIn this groundbreaking book, philosopher Andrea Pinotti explores the impacts of a desire that…

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Marshall Sahlins
Culture in Practice

A collection of essays that span the career of a prominent anthropologist and address the fundamental questions of the field.

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Quinn Slobodian
Hayek's Bastards

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for CriticismHow neoliberals turned to nature to defend inequality after the end of the Cold WarNeoliberals should have seen the end of the Cold War as …

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