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26 produkter
The Ex-Human
Science Fiction and the Fate of Our Species
Inbunden, 2024
1188 kr
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Facing threats like climate change and nuclear warfare, science fiction authors have conjured apocalyptic scenarios of human extinction. Can such gloomy fates help us make sense of our contemporary crises? How important is the survival of our species if we wind up battling for an Earth that has …
The Ex-Human
Science Fiction and the Fate of Our Species
Häftad, 2024
303 kr
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Facing threats like climate change and nuclear warfare, science fiction authors have conjured apocalyptic scenarios of human extinction. Can such gloomy fates help us make sense of our contemporary crises? How important is the survival of our species if we wind up battling for an Earth that has …
What's Liberal About the Liberal Arts?
Classroom Politics and "Bias" in Higher Education
Häftad, 2007
305 kr
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Described as one of the "101 Most Dangerous Academics in America" by right-wing critic David Horowitz, Michael Bérubé has become a leading liberal voice in the ongoing culture wars. This "smooth and swift read" (New Criterion) offers a definitive rebuttal of conservative activists' most incendiary …
Frankenstein (The Norton Library)
Av Mary Shelley, Michael Bérubé
Häftad, 2021
132 kr
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The Norton Library edition of Frankenstein features the complete text of the first (1818) edition and Mary Shelley’s preface to the third (1831) edition. An introduction by Michael Bérubé situates the work in its historical and literary contexts, and, drawing on his pioneering work in disability …
Higher Education Under Fire
Politics, Economics, and the Crisis of the Humanities
Av Michael Berube, Cary Nelson
Inbunden, 1994
2442 kr
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The contributors to this collection explore why--and how--higher education in America under attack.
Higher Education Under Fire
Politics, Economics, and the Crisis of the Humanities
Av Michael Berube, Cary Nelson
Häftad, 1994
870 kr
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The contributors to this collection explore why--and how--higher education in America under attack.
Aesthetics of Cultural Studies
Av Berube, Michael Bérubé
Inbunden, 2004
1448 kr
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The subject of the aesthetic has returned to cultural and literary debates with a vengeance. The Aesthetics of Cultural Studies is a timely and authoritative collection of essays that analyze the role of aesthetics in American and British cultural studies, and reflect on its recuperation in the …
Aesthetics of Cultural Studies
Av Berube, Michael Bérubé
Häftad, 2004
524 kr
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The subject of the aesthetic has returned to cultural and literary debates with a vengeance. The Aesthetics of Cultural Studies is a timely and authoritative collection of essays that analyze the role of aesthetics in American and British cultural studies, and reflect on its recuperation in the …
Life as Jamie Knows It
An Exceptional Child Grows Up
E-bok, 2016
215 kr
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The story of Jamie Bérubé’s journey to adulthood and a meditation on disability in American life Published in 1996, Life as We Know It introduced Jamie Bérubé to the world as a sweet, bright, gregarious little boy who loves the Beatles, pizza, and making lists. When he is asked in his preschool …
Rhetorical Occasions
Essays on Humans and the Humanities
Häftad, 2006
446 kr
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A nationally known scholar, essayist, and public advocate for the humanities, Michael Berube has a rapier wit and a singular talent for parsing complex philosophical, theoretical, and political questions. ""Rhetorical Occasions"" collects twenty-four of his major essays and reviews, plus a sampling …
Rhetorical Occasions
Essays on Humans and the Humanities
E-bok, 2007
518 kr
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A nationally known scholar, essayist, and public advocate for the humanities, Michael Bérubé has a rapier wit and a singular talent for parsing complex philosophical, theoretical, and political questions. Rhetorical Occasions collects twenty-four of his major essays and reviews, plus a sampling of …
Employment of English
Theory, Jobs, and the Future of Literary Studies
Inbunden, 1997
1113 kr
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What sorts of cultural criticism are teachers and scholars to produce, and how can that criticism be "employed" in the culture at large?In recent years, debates about the role and direction of English departments have mushroomed into a broader controversy over the public legitimacy of literary …
Employment of English
Theory, Jobs, and the Future of Literary Studies
Häftad, 1997
492 kr
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What sorts of cultural criticism are teachers and scholars to produce, and how can that criticism be "employed" in the culture at large?In recent years, debates about the role and direction of English departments have mushroomed into a broader controversy over the public legitimacy of literary …
Left at War
Inbunden, 2009
1013 kr
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The terrorist attacks of 9/11 and Bush's belligerent response fractured the American left—partly by putting pressure on little-noticed fissures that had appeared a decade earlier.In a masterful survey of the post-9/11 landscape, renowned scholar Michael Bérubé revisits and reinterprets the major …
Left at War
Häftad, 2011
428 kr
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The terrorist attacks of 9/11 and Bush's belligerent response fractured the American left—partly by putting pressure on little-noticed fissures that had appeared a decade earlier.In a masterful survey of the post-9/11 landscape, renowned scholar Michael Bérubé revisits and reinterprets the major …
Public Access
Literary Theory and American Cultural Politics
Häftad, 1994
374 kr
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In the years of the Reagan-Bush era, the controversy over 'political correctness' erupted on American campuses, spreading to the mainstream media as right-wing pundits like Dinesh D'Souza and Roger Kimball prosecuted their publicity campaign against progressive academics. Michael Bérubé's brilliant …
Higher Education Under Fire
Politics, Economics, and the Crisis of the Humanities
Av Cary Nelson, Michael Berube
E-bok, 2020
1027 kr
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The contributors to this collection explore why--and how--higher education in America under attack.
Higher Education Under Fire
Politics, Economics, and the Crisis of the Humanities
Av Cary Nelson, Michael Berube
E-bok, 2020
1027 kr
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The contributors to this collection explore why--and how--higher education in America under attack.
Humanities, Higher Education, and Academic Freedom
Three Necessary Arguments
Inbunden, 2015
568 kr
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This book is a lively, passionate defence of contemporary work in the humanities, and, beyond that, of the university system that makes such work possible. The book's stark accounts of academic labour, and its proposals for reform of the tenure system, are novel, controversial, timely, and very …
Humanities, Higher Education, and Academic Freedom
Three Necessary Arguments
Häftad, 2015
377 kr
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This book is a lively, passionate defence of contemporary work in the humanities, and, beyond that, of the university system that makes such work possible. The book's stark accounts of academic labour, and its proposals for reform of the tenure system, are novel, controversial, timely, and very …
Humanities, Higher Education, and Academic Freedom
Three Necessary Arguments
E-bok, 2015
565 kr
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This book is a lively, passionate defence of contemporary work in the humanities, and, beyond that, of the university system that makes such work possible. The book''s stark accounts of academic labour, and its proposals for reform of the tenure system, are novel, controversial, timely, and very …
It's Not Free Speech
Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom
Av Michael Bérubé, Jennifer Ruth
Inbunden, 2022
344 kr
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How far does the idea of academic freedom extend to professors in an era of racial reckoning?The protests of summer 2020, which were ignited by the murder of George Floyd, led to long-overdue reassessments of the legacy of racism and white supremacy in both American academe and cultural life more …
Secret Life of Stories
From Don Quixote to Harry Potter, How Understanding Intellectual Disability Transforms the Way We Read
Inbunden, 2016
1283 kr
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How an understanding of intellectual disability transforms the pleasures of readingNarrative informs everything we think, do, plan, remember, and imagine. We tell stories and we listen to stories, gauging their "well-formedness" within a couple of years of learning to walk and talk. Some argue that …
Secret Life of Stories
From Don Quixote to Harry Potter, How Understanding Intellectual Disability Transforms the Way We Read
Häftad, 2018
343 kr
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How an understanding of intellectual disability transforms the pleasures of readingNarrative informs everything we think, do, plan, remember, and imagine. We tell stories and we listen to stories, gauging their "well-formedness" within a couple of years of learning to walk and talk. Some argue that …
Rhetorical Occasions
Essays on Humans and the Humanities
E-bok, 2007
493 kr
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A nationally known scholar, essayist, and public advocate for the humanities, Michael Bérubé has a rapier wit and a singular talent for parsing complex philosophical, theoretical, and political questions. Rhetorical Occasions collects twenty-four of his major essays and reviews, plus a sampling of …
