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Labyrinth Books
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In the decades after the end of slavery, African Americans were committed to southern state mental hospitals at higher rates as white psychiatrists lis ...
From the earliest years of sound film in America, Hollywood studios and independent producers of "race films" for black audiences created stories featuring African American religious practices. In...
How white psychiatrists pathologized African American religionsIn the decades after the end of slavery, African Americans were committed to southern state mental hospitals at higher rates as white...
Winner of the 2017 Albert J. Raboteau Book Prize for the Best Book in Africana ReligionsShows how early 20th-century resistance to conventional racial categorization contributed to broader...
A revelatory, beautifully produced compendium of the influential Japanese commercial design journal, with posters, billboards, shop window displays and moreFrom 1928 to 1930, Tokyo publisher Ars...
"A collection of essays from Judith Thurman, a writer "blessed with intellectual curiosity, a sharp wit and unwillingness to receive opinions" (The New York Times)"--
A thoughtful and intimate portrait of Judith Kerr, the much-loved children’s illustrator behind classics such as The Tiger Who Came to Tea and Mog the Forgetful Cat. This season’s second volume in...
Responding to the US’s perpetual war, Butler explores how mourning could inspire solidarity.In this profound appraisal of post-September 11, 2001 America, Judith Butler considers the conditions of...
Alice, the German writer Judith Hermann’s 2009 short-story collection, was short-listed for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.When someone very close to you dies, your whole life changes...
Longing describes it all: the yearning for a "cradle of molten moonlight" to underpin the vicissitudes of daily life as we seek to watch "silken embers of sun topaz the sky." In lyrical free verse...
One of The Guardian’s “1,000 Books to Read Before You Die”This underrated classic of contemporary Irish literature tells the “utterly transfixing” story of a lonely, poverty-stricken spinster in...
"This probing, nuanced, and insightful analysis of international election monitoring splendidly illuminates and assesses a key area of international democracy support. The book's conclusions about...
On a visit to a Berkshire paper mill, the narrator of a Melville short story views the "wonderful" papermaking machine with awe, calling it a "miracle of inscrutable intricacy." Manifesting a similar...
The newest illustrated poetry collection in beloved author Judith Viorst’s “decade” series (from It’s Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty to Unexpectedly Eighty), exploring, with her signature savvy and...
Now in paperback, an illustrated chapter book from industry legends Judith Viorst and Lane Smith!I’m gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, gonna, get a bronto-bronto-bronto-bronto-saurus for a pet!Lulu is so...
One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial. Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a...
A wise and subtle work that explores the refractive power of memory, and what it means to exist in the lives of others–from one of the most highly regarded writers working in Germany today. When...
Share in fifty years of a really remarkable cat…A special birthday story to celebrate fifty years of MOG, everyone’s favourite family cat!It’s Mog’s Birthday and everyone is excited to celebrate!...
Yoshiaki Shimizu, one of the foremost scholars of Japanese art history, taught at Princeton University for more than twenty-five years, during which time he trained many students who have become...