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The Screwball Asses

The Screwball Asses
By Guy Hocquenghem
Translated by Noura Wedell

A founder of Queer theory contends that the ruling classes have invented homosexuality as a sexual ghetto, splitting and mutilating desire in the process.
January 2010 ISBN-13 978-1-58435-081-1 $12.95/£9.95 (PAPER)

Innovation in Cultural Systems: Contributions from Evolutionary Anthropology

Innovation in Cultural Systems: Contributions from Evolutionary Anthropology
Edited by Michael J. O'Brien and Stephen J. Shennan

Leading scholars offer a range of perspectives on the roles played by innovation in the evolution of human culture.
December 2009 ISBN-13 978-0-262-01333-8 $40.00/£29.95 (CLOTH)
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Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media

Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media
By Mizuko Ito, Sonja Baumer, Matteo Bittanti, danah boyd, Rachel Cody, Becky Herr-Stephenson, Heather A. Horst, Patricia G. Lange, Dilan Mahendran, Katynka Z. Martinez, C. J. Pascoe, Dan Perkel, Laura Robinson, Christo Sims and Lisa Tripp

An examination of young people's everyday new media practices—including video-game playing, text-messaging, digital media production, and social media use.
November 2009 ISBN-13 978-0-262-01336-9 $35.00/£25.95 (CLOTH)
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The Violence of Financial Capitalism

The Violence of Financial Capitalism
By Christian Marazzi
Translated by Kristina Lebedeva

An innovative analysis of financialization in the context of postfordist cognitive capitalism.
January 2010 ISBN-13 978-1-58435-083-5 $12.95/£9.95 (PAPER)

Why Agree? Why Move?: Unifying Agreement-Based and Discourse Configurational Languages

Why Agree? Why Move?: Unifying Agreement-Based and Discourse Configurational Languages
By Shigeru Miyagawa

An argument that not only do movement and agreement occur in every language, they also work in tandem to imbue natural language with enormous expressive power.
December 2009 ISBN-13 978-0-262-01361-1 $50.00/£37.95 (CLOTH)
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Why Agree? Why Move?: Unifying Agreement-Based and Discourse Configurational Languages

Why Agree? Why Move?: Unifying Agreement-Based and Discourse Configurational Languages
By Shigeru Miyagawa

An argument that not only do movement and agreement occur in every language, they also work in tandem to imbue natural language with enormous expressive power.
December 2009 ISBN-13 978-0-262-51355-5 $25.00/£18.95 (PAPER)
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Bad Reputation: Performances, Essays, Interviews

Bad Reputation: Performances, Essays, Interviews
By Penny Arcade

An autobiographical trilogy by a cultural icon of Downtown New York.
October 2009 ISBN-13 978-1-58435-069-9 $19.95/£14.95 (CLOTH)

The Power of Inclusive Exclusion: Anatomy of Israeli Rule in the Occupied Palestinian Territories

The Power of Inclusive Exclusion: Anatomy of Israeli Rule in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Edited by Adi Ophir, Michal Givoni and Sari Hanafi

An analysis of Israeli power in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, with essays by leading Palestinian and Israeli scholars, a comprehensive chronology, photographs, and original documents.
December 2009 ISBN-13 978-1-890951-92-4 $38.95/£28.95 (CLOTH)

Human Footprints on the Global Environment: Threats to Sustainability

Human Footprints on the Global Environment: Threats to Sustainability
Edited by Eugene A. Rosa, Andreas Diekmann, Thomas Dietz and Carlo C. Jaeger

State-of-the-art assessments of current research into the human dimensions of global environmental change and promising directions for future advancements.
December 2009 ISBN-13 978-0-262-51299-2 $27.00/£19.95 (PAPER)
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Human Footprints on the Global Environment: Threats to Sustainability

Human Footprints on the Global Environment: Threats to Sustainability
Edited by Eugene A. Rosa, Andreas Diekmann, Thomas Dietz and Carlo C. Jaeger

State-of-the-art assessments of current research into the human dimensions of global environmental change and promising directions for future advancements.
December 2009 ISBN-13 978-0-262-01315-4 $54.00/£39.95 (CLOTH)
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Exchange Rate Regimes in the Modern Era

Exchange Rate Regimes in the Modern Era
By Michael W. Klein and Jay C. Shambaugh

An analysis of the operation and consequences of exchange rate regimes in an era of increasing international interdependence.
January 2010 ISBN-13 978-0-262-01365-9 $40.00/£29.95 (CLOTH)
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Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear

Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear
By Steve Goodman

An exploration of the production, transmission, and mutation of affective tonality—when sound helps produce a bad vibe.
December 2009 ISBN-13 978-0-262-01347-5 $35.00/£25.95 (CLOTH)
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New Digital Media and Learning as an Emerging Area and "Worked Examples" as One Way Forward

New Digital Media and Learning as an Emerging Area and "Worked Examples" as One Way Forward
By James Paul Gee

A proposal to move the academic area of digital media and learning toward more coherence.
March 2010 ISBN-13 978-0-262-51369-2 $14.00/£10.95 (PAPER)
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