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Sam Okoth Opondo, Michael J. Shapiro
This book is a multi-genre and transdisciplinary text that invites inquiry into today's apocalyptic narratives, humanitarian reason, and international criminal justice regimes, as well as the precarity generated by citizen…
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Sharae Deckard, Michael Niblett, Stephen Shapiro
Offers new ways to read the relationship between culture, ecology, and capitalism.
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Michael Shapiro has been one of the most important thinkers and writers over the past two decades whose work has been extremely influential in fields as varied as political theory…
This book, which originated as a monograph issue of the Journal for Cultural Research, contains essay/chapters that examine urban politics through readings of film, literature and architecture genres. This book…
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Since the modern founding of the theory of signs by the American philosopher-scientist Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914), the field of semiotics has become increasingly prominent as a method of interdisciplinary…
Michael Shapiro
In My Wife the Metaphysician, or Lady Murasaki’s Revenge, Michael Shapiro devises a storied diary that views the world through the eyes of an inimitable woman whose being and essence…
A fusion of memoir, family chronicle, and author’s commentary that provides a fascinating view into the lives and minds of two passionate scholars, and the rarefied and often treacherous universe…
Cross-dressing in Shakespeare: a context for Elizabethan gender studies
This book aims to explain social variation in language, otherwise the meaning and motivation of language change in its social aspect. It is the expanded and improved 2nd edition of…
A prize-winning investigative journalist illuminates the often problematic relationship between the child’s best interest and the best intentions of child welfare agencies, policymakers, and the courts
In A Sense of Place, journalist/travel writer Michael Shapiro goes on a pilgrimage to visit the world’s great travel writers on their home turf to get their views on their…
The creative spark resides in all of us, but some activate that spark more than others. In 50-plus interviews, musicians, authors, explorers and chefs speak about what drives them, how…
The creative spark resides in all of us, but some activate that spark more than others. In 32 interviews, musicians, authors, explorers and chefs speak about what drives them, how…
This groundbreaking and innovative text demonstrates how method can be understood in much broader and more interesting ways.
Engaging with critical theory, poststructuralist perspectives, cultural studies, film theory and urban studies, the book provides stunning insights into the micropolitics of ethnicity, identity, security, subjectivity and sovereignty.
This book serves as a basis for the exploration of language in a more systematic way. By surveying the several major divisions of language (phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis, tropology) and…
Philosophers and linguists have come together for this volume to provide a glimpse of current thinking about language in a semiotic mode and of the analyses that result from applying…
Marianne Shapiro
This book comprises twenty-two chapters, including previously unpublished material, written over the entire span of Marianne Shapiro’s working life. Its opening section on the European heritage begins with a long…
Constantine Shapiro
In a unique collection of essays and poems written in English, French, German and Russian (with a seasoning of Greek and Japanese), Constantine Shapiro explores fascinating universal questions and connections…
BEATRICE MICHAEL SHAPIRO
Beatrice Michaels Shapiro’s book is a memoir of an extraordinary woman who despite decades of hardship and tragedy, including her unremitting devotion to her two developmentally disabled sons, managed to…
Michael J. Shapiro
Writing Politics is a methods book designed to instruct on politically focused literary inquiry through a series of violence-themed inquiries that emphasize forms of writing as the vehicles for politically…
Michael Shapiro (Jewish Theological Seminary New York)
Shapiro’s compelling narrative tells how, 50 years ago, as baseball faced crises on and off the field, two larger-than-life figures took center stage and reinvented the national pastime.
This work is a critical intervention into the archive of female identity; it reflects on the ways in which the Central and Eastern European female ideal was constructed, represented, and…
The essays in this collection represent key areas of research by some of the world’s most distinguished scholars in their fields. The topics addressed include feminism, transvestism, cross-dressing, cross-gender casting…
When Shakespeare wrote The Merchant of Venice, he couldn’t have anticipated that it would be performed and read in dozens of languages - including German, Yiddish and Hebrew. The play…
Drawing on and engaging with a wide range of political and philosophical theory, as well as a numerous films from established classics like the Deer Hunter and the Fog of…
In this book, Michael J. Shapiro stages a series of pedagogical encounters between political theory, represented as a compositional challenge, and cinematic texts, emphasizing how to achieve an effective research…
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This volume, by Michael Shapiro, is not about Adam Smith in the sense in which about is usually understood, for it is neither a comprehensive explication of his views nor…
Michael R Shapiro
In a world where the economy is collapsing and legitimate businesses are failing to meet people's needs, Raf finds himself out of a job and struggling to keep his head…
Throughout the 20th century, a scientifically oriented social science has dominated as the means for looking at society. This text examines and critiques one of the primary deployments of these…
The highly anticipated new edition of Michael J. Shapiro’s Deforming American Political Thought offers an alternative to American historical imagination from the founding to the present using disparate disciplines and…
Throughout the 20th century, a scientifically oriented social science has dominated as the means for looking at society. This text examines an explanatory comparative politics whose major focus has been…
Michael J. Shapiro formulates a new politics of aesthetics by analyzing the experience of the sublime as rendered by a number of artistic and cultural texts that deal with race…
Michael J. Shapiro examines how the use of punctuation-conceived not as a series of marks but as a metaphor for the ways in which artistic genres engage with intelligibility-in art…
