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Sea Level Rise: A Slow Tsunami on America's Shores - New

Sea Level Rise: A Slow Tsunami on America's Shores

Orrin H. Pilkey and Keith C. Pilkey

“This is a compelling history of the near-future. . . . Read it as a reminder that we must act now to keep things from getting worse than they must.” — Bill McKibben
Disorienting Disability - New

Disorienting Disability

Michele Friedner and Karen Weingarten, issue editors

This issue of South Atlantic Quarterly examines the stakes of orienting toward or away from disability as a category and as a method.
Climate Machines, Fascist Drives, and Truth - New

Climate Machines, Fascist Drives, and Truth

William E. Connolly

“As ever, William E. Connolly writes prophetically timely work. Even for those of us who read most everything he writes, this book installs fresh strategies, thematics, and illustrations in the vibrant assemblage of his oeuvre." — Catherine Keller
Latter-day Screens: Gender, Sexuality, and Mediated Mormonism - New

Latter-day Screens: Gender, Sexuality, and Mediated Mormonism

Brenda R. Weber

“Smart, sassy, and full of provocative insight, this book shines a light on Mormonism, not as a religious tradition but as a ubiquitous cultural trope that is uniquely attuned to queerly mediated notions of sexuality and gender.” — Dana Heller
Self-Devouring Growth: A Planetary Parable from Southern Africa - New

Self-Devouring Growth: A Planetary Parable from Southern Africa

Julie Livingston

“Highly engaging, deeply thoughtful, and beautifully written, Self-Devouring Growth helps us to understand the environmental dangers the planet faces not as something to be avoided or prevented, but as something to expect and to live through. "— James Ferguson
Henry Cow: The World Is a Problem - New

Henry Cow: The World Is a Problem

Benjamin Piekut

"A fascinating and pacey read, stitched together painstakingly from over 90 original interviews and both public and private texts including Hodgkinson's extensive diaries. The combination of narrative background, musical analysis and critical insight should open the door for a new generation of listeners." — Phil England, The Wire
Citizen Science: Practices and Problems - New

Citizen Science: Practices and Problems

Shun-Ling Chen and Fa-ti Fan, issue editors

This EASTS special issue emphasizes different conceptions of citizen and citizenship in how we think about citizen science.
Patriarchy, Protection, and Women’s Agency in Modern France - New

Patriarchy, Protection, and Women’s Agency in Modern France

Elinor Accampo & Venita Datta, issue editors

Collected to honor the work of French women’s history scholar Rachel G. Fuchs, the essays in this issue reflect the methodologies and inquiries of her research.

Best Sellers

Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood - Best Sellers

Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood

James Baldwin

"A brilliant exploration of black childhood with profound emotional depth, drawn from the grace and struggles of community and reinforcing the truth that no one knows Harlem like Baldwin." —Kirkus
Living a Feminist Life - Best Sellers

Living a Feminist Life

Sara Ahmed

"Living a Feminist Life makes visible the continuous work of feminism. … Playful yet methodical, the book tries to construct a living feminism that is neither essentialist nor universalist."—Bookforum
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene - Best Sellers

Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene

Donna J. Haraway

"Staying with the Trouble is Haraway at her most accessible. … This is a work to provoke and inspire. It is a call to arms (or pseudopods as the case may be)!" —Savage Minds
Stolen Life - Best Sellers

Stolen Life

Fred Moten

"At a time when both theory and criticism are frequently and convincingly attacked as exhausted forms, Moten’s trilogy has reinvented both." —Vulture
Questioning the Super-Rich - Best Sellers

Questioning the Super-Rich

Jennifer Smith Maguire and Paula Serafini, issue editors

This Cultural Politics issue uses the super-rich as a lens for exploring the impact of wealth and power on class mentalities, identities, and cultures.
Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure - Best Sellers

Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure

Eli Clare

"A dazzling work of intellectually rigorous and wildly original thinking that challenges our most deeply held beliefs about the nature of cure, exposing its place in the ideologies of domination."—Aurora Levins Morales
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being - Best Sellers

In the Wake: On Blackness and Being

Christina Sharpe

"Christina Sharpe brings everything she has to bear on her consideration of the violation and commodification of Black life and the aesthetic responses to this ongoing state of emergency. … A searing and brilliant work."—Saidiya Hartman
On Chantal Akerman - Best Sellers

On Chantal Akerman

Patricia White, issue editor

The milestone 100th issue of Camera Obscura recognizes the work and legacy of Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman, arguably the most important figure in feminist film culture.

Featured Journals

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - Featured Journals

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law

Eric M. Patashnik, editor

A leading journal in its field, the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law focuses on the initiation, formulation, and implementation of health policy and analyzes the relations between government and health—past, present, and future.
East Asian Science, Technology and Society - Featured Journals

East Asian Science, Technology and Society

Wen-Hua Kuo, editor

Sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, East Asian Science, Technology and Society (EASTS) aims to bring together East Asian and Western scholars from the fields of science, technology, and society.
Critical Times - Featured Journals

Critical Times

Samera Esmeir, editor

Published by the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs, Critical Times is an open-access online journal seeking to present the multiple forms that critical thought takes today.
Hispanic American Historical Review - Featured Journals

Hispanic American Historical Review

Martha Few, Zachary Morgan, Matthew Restall, and Amara Solari, editors

Founded over 100 years ago, Hispanic American Historical Review pioneered the study of Latin American history and culture in the United States and remains the most widely respected journal in the field.

Mathematics

Illinois Journal of Mathematics - Mathematics

Illinois Journal of Mathematics

Steven Bradlow, editor

The Illinois Journal of Mathematics publishes new, peer-reviewed articles in all areas of mathematics research and has published works by many of the world's leading mathematicians.
Duke Mathematical Journal - Mathematics

Duke Mathematical Journal

Richard Hain and Jonathan Wahl, editors

Duke Mathematical Journal is one of the world's top ten mathematics journals, emphasizing the most active and influential areas of current mathematics.
Kyoto Journal of Mathematics - Mathematics

Kyoto Journal of Mathematics

Koji Fujiwara and Atsushi Moriwaki, editors

The Kyoto Journal of Mathematics has a long and distinguished history of publishing high-quality, original mathematics research papers and surveys at the forefront of pure mathematics.
Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic - Mathematics

Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic

Michael Detlefsen and Anand Pillay, editors

Since 1960, the Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic has published original work in all areas of logic and the foundations of mathematics.
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