792 results for '"Clément, Michel'

Michel de Montaigne embodies the Humanist ideal. Curious, measured, contemplative yet not unworldly, witty, free of prejudice, and urbane. But what does Montaigne have to tell us about how to think...

"Zero tolerance" began as a prohibition against guns, but it has quickly expanded into a frenzy of punishment and tougher disciplinary measures in American schools. Ironically, as this timely...

What if there were more women in Congress? Providing the first comprehensive study of the policy activity of male and female legislators at the federal level, Michele L. Swers persuasively...

Popular genre fiction written by Asian American women and featuring Asian American characters gained a market presence in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. These “crossover”...

In Beyond the Sovereign Self Grant H. Kester continues the critique of aesthetic autonomy begun in The Sovereign Self, showing how socially engaged art provides an alternative aesthetic with greater...

"Dave Zirin is the best young sportswriter in America."--Robert Lipsyte This much-anticipated sequel to What's My Name, Fool? by acclaimed commentator Dave Zirin breaks new ground in sports writing,...

From the 1990s until just before his death, the legendary art critic and philosopher Arthur C. Danto carried out extended conversations about contemporary art with the prominent Italian critic...

Finalist for the 2018 National Council on Crime & Delinquency’s Media for a Just Society AwardsNominated for the 49th NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Nonfiction)A 2017 Washington...

The young and restless of Yop City just can’t seem to catch a break.Marguerite Abouet and Clement Oubrerie’s world-renowned and critically acclaimed series about ‘80s life in the Ivory Coast...

We know, more intimately than anything else, what it’s like to undergo a rich world of experiences: agonizing pains, dizzying pleasures, heady rage and existential doubts. But, despite the incredible...

The story of art for our times—one with women at the center, brought together for the first time by the creator of @thegreatwomenartists.From Leonardo da Vinci to Jean-Michel Basquiat, the great...

Charting the decline of the French intellectual, from the Dreyfus Affair to IslamophobiaThe best-selling author of The Invention of the Jewish People, Shlomo Sand examines the troublesome figure of...

Henri Lefebvre’s was the major theorist of space and of the urban. This is the definitive book on Lefebvre.Shortlisted for the Deutscher Memorial Prize 2023This book presents an encompassing,...

From the late editor, writer, and critic, one of the great chroniclers of the art, fashion, and celebrity scenes: an expansive collection of thirty-five essays that offer an intimate look into the...

Leading law professors weigh in on key issues in race and the law--collected in honor of one of the originators of critical race theory, Derrick Bell When Derrick Bell, one of the originators of...

This ground-breaking book addresses transformations in the understanding of time and the generation and degeneration of value at the cutting edge of modernity and postmodernity. The book is a...

With an eye for the sensual bloom of young schoolgirls, and the torrid style of the romantic novels of her day, Herculine Barbin tells the story of her life as a hermaphrodite. Herculine was...

"A fascinating book--far-reaching, deeply researched, and probing." --Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White Sky "Outstandingly well-researched and deeply thoughtful . . . An essential read."...

Killing the Black Body remains a rallying cry for education, awareness, and action on extending reproductive justice to all women. It is as crucial as ever, even two decades after its original...

"With unnerving conviction, this novel inhabits the mind, heart and voice of Belgium's 'most hated woman', the ex-wife of murderer Marc Dutroux - the authenticity makes for a compelling narrative."...