The Tourist State

Margaret Werry

• Paperback | Engels | Quadrant Book
• No longer the dreary sheep farm at the end of the world, the New Zealand of the new millennium is a hot global ticket, heralded for its bicultural dyn... Lees meer

Restaurant Republic

Kelly Erby

• Paperback | Engels | Quadrant Book
• Before the 1820s, the vast majority of Americans ate only at home. As the nation began to urbanize and industrialize, home and work became increasingl... Lees meer

The Interface

John Harwood

• Paperback | Engels | Quadrant Book
• " In February 1956 the president of IBM, Thomas Watson Jr., hired the industrial designer and architect Eliot F. Noyes, charging him with reinventing ... Lees meer

The Folklore of the Freeway

Eric Avila

• Paperback | Engels | Quadrant Book
• When the interstate highway program connected America's cities, it also divided them, cutting through and destroying countless communities. Affluent a... Lees meer

Improper Names

Marco Deseriis

• Paperback | Engels | Quadrant Book
• Improper Names offers a genealogy and theory of the "improper name," which author Marco Deseriis defines as the adoption of the same pseudonym by orga... Lees meer

Seizing Jerusalem

Alona Nitzan-Shiftan

• Hardcover | Engels | Quadrant Book
• After seizing Jerusalem's eastern precincts from Jordan at the conclusion of the Six-Day War in 1967, Israel unilaterally unified the city and plunged... Lees meer

More Than Shelter

Amy L Howard

• Paperback | Engels | Quadrant Book
• In the popular imagination, public housing tenants are considered, at best, victims of intractable poverty and, at worst, criminals. More Than Shelter... Lees meer

HIV Exceptionalism

Adia Benton

• Paperback | Engels | Quadrant Book
• WINNER, 2017 RACHEL CARSON PRIZE, SOCIETY FOR THE SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE In 2002, Sierra Leone emerged from a decadelong civil war. Seeking interna... Lees meer

Removing Mountains

Rebecca R Scott

• Paperback | Engels | Quadrant Book
• A coal mining technique practiced in southern West Virginia known as mountaintop removal is drastically altering the terrain of the Appalachian Mounta... Lees meer

The Nature of the Path

Marcus Filippello

• Paperback | Engels | Quadrant Book
• The Nature of the Path reveals how a single road has shaped the collective identity of a community that has existed on the margins of larger societies... Lees meer

The Slumbering Masses

Matthew J Wolf-Meyer

• Paperback | Engels | Quadrant Book
• Americans spend billions of dollars every year on drugs, therapy, and other remedies trying to get a good night's sleep. Anxieties about not getting e... Lees meer

Landscape of Discontent

Andrew Newman

• Paperback | Engels | Quadrant Book
• On a rainy day in May 2007, the mayor of Paris inaugurated the Jardins d'Éole, a park whose completion was hailed internationally as an exemplar of su... Lees meer

Fiery Cinema

Weihong Bao

• Paperback | Engels | Quadrant Book
• What was cinema in modern China? It was, this book tells us, a dynamic entity, not strictly tied to one media technology, one mode of operation, or on... Lees meer

Lifeblood

Matthew T Huber

• Paperback | Engels | Quadrant Book
• If our oil addiction is so bad for us, why don't we kick the habit? Looking beyond the usual culprits--Big Oil, petro-states, and the strategists of e... Lees meer

Rebirth of the Clinic

• Paperback | Engels | Quadrant Book
• From physical location to payment processes to expectations of both patients and caregivers, nearly everything surrounding the contemporary medical cl... Lees meer

Made to Hear

Laura Mauldin

• Paperback | Engels | Quadrant Book
• A mother whose child has had a cochlear implant tells Laura Mauldin why enrollment in the sign language program at her daughter's school is plummeting... Lees meer

Made to Hear

Laura Mauldin

• Hardcover | Engels | Quadrant Book
• A mother whose child has had a cochlear implant tells Laura Mauldin why enrollment in the sign language program at her daughter's school is plummeting... Lees meer

Hot Spotter's Report

Shiloh R Krupar

• Paperback | Engels | Quadrant Book
• Many nuclear and other U.S. military facilities from World War II and the Cold War are now being closed and remediated. Some of these sites have even ... Lees meer

Spectacular Mexico

Luis M Castañeda

• Paperback | Engels | Quadrant Book
• In the wake of its early twentieth-century civil wars, Mexico strove to present itself to the world as unified and prosperous. The preparation in Mexi... Lees meer

Improper Names

Marco Deseriis

• Hardcover | Engels | Quadrant Book
• Improper Names offers a genealogy and theory of the "improper name," which author Marco Deseriis defines as the adoption of the same pseudonym by orga... Lees meer

Life, Emergent

Yasmeen Arif

• Paperback | Engels | Quadrant Book
• How does an inquiry into life as it lives (or dies) amid mass violence look like from the perspective of the "social"? Taking us from Sierra Leone to ... Lees meer

Last Project Standing

Catherine Fennell

• Hardcover | Engels | Quadrant Book
• In 1995 a half-vacant public housing project on Chicago's Near West Side fell to the wrecking ball. The demolition and reconstruction of the Henry Hor... Lees meer

Last Project Standing

Catherine Fennell

• Paperback | Engels | Quadrant Book
• In 1995 a half-vacant public housing project on Chicago's Near West Side fell to the wrecking ball. The demolition and reconstruction of the Henry Hor... Lees meer

Brand Aid

Lisa Ann Richey, Stefano Ponte

• Paperback | Engels | Quadrant Book
• "Has there ever been a better reason to shop?" asks an ad for the Product RED American Express card, telling members who use the card that buying "cap... Lees meer