Aids at 30: A History
Victoria A Harden
Potomac Books, HB, 9781597972949
This history of HIV/AIDS is the first written for a general audience that approaches the AIDS virus from philosophical & intellectual perspectives in the history of medical science. Forgoing the usual narrative about who ‘discovered’ the AIDS virus, it discusses the process of scientific discovery, scientific evidence, and how laboratories found the cause of AIDS & developed therapeutic interventions. Similarly, this ... More/Buy
China: A New Cultural History
Cho-yun Hsu
Columbia University Press, PB, 9780231159210
An internationally recognized authority on Chinese history and a leading innovator in its telling, Cho-yun Hsu constructs an original portrait of Chinese culture that resonates with all disciplines. Unlike most historians, Hsu resists centering his narrative on China's political evolution, focusing instead on the country's cultural sphere and its encounters with successive waves of globalization. Beginning long before China's written history ... More/Buy
Debates in the Digital Humanities
Matthew K Gold (ed)
Minnesota University Press, PB, 9780816677955
Encompassing new technologies, research methods, and opportunities for collaborative scholarship and open-source peer review, as well as innovative ways of sharing knowledge and teaching, the digital humanities promise to transform the liberal arts—and perhaps the university itself. Indeed, at a time when many academic institutions are facing austerity budgets, digital humanities programs have been able to hire new faculty, establish new ... More/Buy
Exit: The Endings That Set Us Free
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, HB, 9780374151195
Sociologist Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot has interviewed more than a dozen women & men in states of major change: a gay man who finds home & wholeness after coming out; a 16 year-old boy forced to leave Iran in the midst of the violent civil war; a Catholic priest who leaves the church he has always been devoted to, the life he has ... More/Buy
The Golden Door: Letters to America
A A Gill
Orion, PB, 9780297868521
Where were you when John F. Kennedy was shot? Today the answer more often than not is going to be 'not born'. You have to be some way past 45 to know where you were when Kennedy was shot in Dallas in 1963. A generation later, you could ask the same question about the World Trade Centre. Where were you when ... More/Buy
Reinvention
anthony Elliott
Routledge, PB, 9780415682848
Ours is the era of 'reinvention'. Today's "cultures of reinvention" seem, for many, definitive of the perfect lifestyle. From psychotherapy to life coaching, from reality television to cosmetic surgery: the art of reinvention is inextricably interwoven with the lure of the next frontier, the breakthrough to the next boundary - especially boundaries of the self. For others, however, the twenty-first century ... More/Buy