Aerotropolis: The Way We'll Live Next
John Kasarda, Greg Lindsay
Penguin, PB, 9780141035222
From Dubai to Amsterdam, Memphis to South Korea, a new phenomenon is transforming the way we live and work: the aerotropolis. A combination of giant airport, city and business hub, the aerotropolis will be at the heart of the next phase of globalization. Drawing on a decade's worth of cutting-edge research, John Kasarda and Greg Lindsay offer a visionary look at ... More/Buy
Intersections between Feminist and Queer Theory
Diane Richardson et al
Palgrave, PB, 9780230296350
The emergence of queer ideas has unsettled other forms of exploring gender and sexuality, in particular, feminism. In response, feminists have been significant critics of queer ideas. This book, through the contribution of important US and UK writers, explores the debates between feminist and queer theorizing in order to seek out interconnections between the two and identify new directions in thinking ... More/Buy
The Office: A Hardworking History
Gideon Haigh
Miegunyah Press, PB, 9780522855562
In The Office: A Hardworking History, Gideon Haigh traces from origins among merchants and monks to the gleaming glass towers of New York and the space age sweatshops of Silicon Valley, finding an extraordinary legacy of invention and ingenuity, shaped by the telephone, the typewriter, the elevator, the email, the copier, the cubicle, the personal computer, the personal digital assistant. Amid ... More/Buy
Picturing Algeria
Pierre Bourdieu
Columbia University Press, HB, 9780231148429
As a soldier in the French army, Pierre Bourdieu took thousands of photographs documenting the abject conditions and suffering (as well as the resourcefulness, determination, grace, and dignity) of the Algerian people as they fought the Algerian War (1954-1962). Sympathizing with those he was supposed to regard as 'enemies,' Bourdieu instead became deeply and permanently invested in their struggle to overthrow ... More/Buy
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Jonathan Haidt
Penguin, HB, 9780307377906
Why can’t our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people so readily assume the worst about the motives of their fellow citizens? Jonathan Haidt blends his own research findings with those of anthropologists, historians, and other psychologists to draw a map of the moral domain, and he explains why conservatives can navigate that map more ... More/Buy
The Rise of the Creative Class - Revisited: 10th Anniversary Edition--Revised and Expanded
Richard Florida
Basic Books, HB, 9780465029938
In the spring of 2002, a young professor of economic development published a controversial book about the forces that were reshaping our economies and how companies, communities and people could survive and prosper in uncertain times. Weaving storytelling with reams of cutting-edge research, Richard Florida traced the growing role of creativity in the economy. The idea started a fire. Ten years ... More/Buy
The Routledge Queer Studies Reader
Donald Hall, Annamarie Jagose
Routledge, PB, 9780415564113
The volume traces the emergence and development of Queer Studies, presenting reproductions of the key critical essays crucial for any study, alongside more recent essays, exploring exciting new directions. Each section is individually edited and introduced by a prominent scholar, contextualizing the work within its historical, disciplinary and theoretical boundaries. Section subject areas include 'Genealogies', 'Sex', 'Temporalities', 'Kinship', 'Affect', 'Bodies ... More/Buy
Share or Die: Voices of the Get Lost Generation in the Age of Crisis
Malcolm Harris, Neal Gorenflo
New Society Publishers, PB, 9780865717107
From urban Detroit to central Amsterdam, and from worker co-operatives to nomadic communities, an astonishing variety of recent graduates and twenty-something experimenters are finding (and sharing) their own answers to negotiating the new economic order. Their visions of a shared future include:Collaborative consumption networks instead of private ownership; Replacing the corporate ladder with a "lattice lifestyle"; Do-it-yourself higher education As a ... More/Buy
Sodom on the Thames: Sex, Love, and Scandal in Wilde Times
Morris B Kaplan
Cornell University Press, PB, 9780801477928
In 1871, transvestites "Stella" (Ernest Boulton) and "Fanny" (Frederick Park), who had paraded around London's West End followed by enthusiastic admirers, were tried for conspiracy to commit sodomy. In 1889-1890, the "Cleveland Street affair" revealed that telegraph delivery boys had been moonlighting as prostitutes for prominent gentlemen, one of whom fled abroad. In 1871, Eton schoolmaster William Johnson resigned in disgrace, ... More/Buy
Someday All This Will be Yours: A History of Inheritance and Old Age
Hendrik Hartog
Harvard University Press, HB, 9780674046887
From the mid 19th to the mid 20th century, as an explosive economy and shifting social opportunities drew the young away from home, the elderly used promises of inheritance to keep children at their side. Hendrik Hartog tells the riveting, heartbreaking stories of how families fought over the work of care and its compensation. He narrates the legal and emotional strategies ... More/Buy
Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and its Consequences
Sara Schulman
New Press, PB, 9781595588166
In this groundbreaking book, playwright and social critic Sarah Schulman explores the family, the first place where all people - straight, gay, and bisexual - learn homophobia. For it is within the family that homophobia begins to control people's lives, whether as perpetrators or recipients. Written in the tradition of Susan Brownmiller's revolutionary Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape - ... More/Buy
Triumph of the City
Edward Glaeser
Pan, PB, 9780330458078
Understanding the modern city and the powerful forces within it is the life's work of Harvard urban economist Edward Glaeser, who at forty is hailed as one of the world's most exciting urban thinkers. Travelling from city to city, speaking to planners and politicians across the world, he uncovers questions large and small whose answers are both counterintuitive and deeply significant. ... More/Buy