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  Outside Literary Studies - Black...

  Andy Hines

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  A timely reconsideration of the history of the profession, Outside Literary Studies investigates how midcentury Black writers built a critical practice tuned to the struggle against racism and colonialism. 
    
  This striking contribution to Black literary studies examines the practices of Black writers in the mid-twentieth century to revise our understanding of the institutionalization of literary studies in America. Andy Hines uncovers a vibrant history of interpretive resistance to university-based New Criticism by Black writers of the American left. These include well-known figures such as Langston Hughes and Lorraine Hansberry as well as still underappreciated writers like Melvin B. Tolson and Doxey Wilkerson. In their critical practice, these and other Black writers levied their critique from “outside” venues: behind the closed doors of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, in the classroom at a communist labor school under FBI surveillance, and in a host of journals. From these vantages, Black writers not only called out the racist assumptions of the New Criticism, but also defined Black literary and interpretive practices to support communist and other radical world-making efforts in the mid-twentieth century. Hines’s book thus offers a number of urgent contributions to literary studies: it spotlights a canon of Black literary texts that belong to an important era of anti-racist struggle, and it fills in the pre-history of the rise of Black studies and of ongoing Black dissent against the neoliberal university.

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  Invasion

  Mike Monsoon

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  The honeymoon is over. Newlyweds Jack and Kristian are just back from their honeymoon, and their idyllic life is about to be rocked by some unwelcome guests. 
  What conspires will test their relationship to the absolute limits. Do they really even know each other at all? And what will they do when faced with a choice of following their heart or giving in to their deepest and darkest desires? 
  Mike Monsoon's new book takes the darkness and naughtiness up a notch in this tale of depravity and betrayal.

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  The Resilient Investor - A Plan...

  Christopher Peck, Hal Brill,...

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  Socially responsible investors try to avoid putting their assets in companies that do damage in the world. Resilient investing goes further. The authors redefine the very meaning of "assets" and "investing" and show how to design a strategy to give you, and the planet, the best possible chance of thriving. After all, we're in this together!

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  Soundseeing Rome - audioguide Rome

  Sander Hamburger, : Wendy Caris

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   SoundSeeing Rome 
  Experience Rome with your personal audio guide. Experience ancient Rome with your personal SoundSeeing audioguide. SoundSeeing gives you extensive information about this centuries-old monumental city's 15 greatest places of interest. Listen to the exciting and authoritative description of the attractions on your MP3 or CD player. You are presented with a fascinating explanation complete with sound effects and music. The stories provide you with detailed cultural, historical, and architectural information. You can listen to SoundSeeing Rome at your own pace, whenever you like. So listen and let yourself be carried away by this unique listening guide to Rome. You can listen to the SoundSeeing high points, listed below, while you are at each location.

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  The Invisible War - Episode 1 -...

  Null Prophet

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  There is a war going on, but you cannot see it. 
   It’s not fought with bullets or bombs, but with words, desires, and information. 
   Every day, your time, your attention, and your choices are under attack — and most people don’t even realize it. 
  The Invisible War is the first manifesto in a series by Null Prophet, a journey into the weapons of modern manipulation and the path to mental self-defense. 
   Through history, philosophy, and psychology, this short but powerful text reveals how the market, technology, and media have turned humanity into a battlefield — and how you can take back control. 
  Concise. Direct. Provocative. 
   Read it in one sitting. Remember it for life.

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  This is Not New - Art Culture...

  David Balzer

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  Praise for Curationism: "Balzer writes with zest, skepticism, and sly humor" —Sheila Heti, author of Pure Colour 
   
   
   
  What does it mean to call something "new"? Why is Western art and culture, even after postmodernism, still so obsessed with the concept? What are the consequences of relying on culture to bring about social change? 
   
   
   
  In this provocative book, David Balzer argues that Western culture was never designed to produce truly new or original artifacts. Rather, we move from fixation to fixation, trend to trend—a cycle of creation and destruction with deep origins in Judeo-Christianity and the paganism that preceded it. The culture industry promises its own form of change while preserving existing systems of power exactly as they are. 
   
   
   
  From the New Jerusalem to the New Left, from Vannevar Bush to Kate Bush, This is Not New asks difficult questions about the role of culture not in making change, but in delaying—even preventing—it.

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