University Of Chicago Press, May 1991. Trade Paperback. What is so "primitive" about primitive art? And how do we dare to use our standards to judge it? Drawing on an intriguing mixture of sources--including fashion ads and films, her own anthropological research and even comic strips like "Doonesbury" --Price explores..... More
University of Minnesota Press, July 2003. Trade Paperback. What begins as a meditation on "the museum" by one of the world's leading art historians becomes, in this book, a far-reaching critical examination of how art history and museums have guided and controlled not only the way we look at art..... More
Vintage, September 2020. Paper Back. A riveting, adrenaline-fueled tour of a vast, lawless, and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen: the high seas. There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world's oceans: too big to police, and under..... More
Indiana University Press, June 1994. Trade Paperback. The location of the author's investigations, the body itself rather than the sphere of subjective representations of self and of function in cultures, is wholly new. . . . I believe this work will be a landmark in future feminist thinking. --Alphonso Lingis..... More
Harvard University Press, August 1995. Trade Paperback. In an innovative and invigorating exploration of the complex relations between women and the modern, Rita Felski challenges conventional male-centered theories of modernity. She also calls into question those feminist perspectives that have either demonized the modern as inherently patriarchal, or else assumed..... More
University of California Press, August 1976. Trade Paperback. In the history of Western thought, men have persistently asked three questions concerning the habitable earth and their relationships to it. Is the earth, which is obviously a fit environment for man and other organic life, a purposefully made creation? Have its..... More
Indiana University Press, January 1983. Trade Paperback. More
Columbia University Press, April 1990. Trade Paperback. Addresses the practice of permanent sexual renunciation that developed in Christian circles from the first to the fifth centuries AD. This book describes the early Christians and their preoccupations. It follows the reflection and controversy these notions generated among Christian writers. It is..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, March 2021. Hardcover. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A grounded and expansive examination of the American economic divide . . . It takes a skillful journalist to weave data and anecdotes together so effectively. --Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times An award-winning journalist investigates..... More
Knopf, February 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. From the Pulitzer Prize finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Newjack," " an absorbing book about roads and their power to change the world. Roads bind our world--metaphorically and literally--transforming landscapes and the lives of the people who inhabit them. Roads..... More
Penguin Press HC, The, March 2011. Hardcover. "Highly entertaining." --Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker "Funny, curious, erudite, and full of useful details about ancient techniques of training memory." --The Boston Globe The blockbuster phenomenon that charts an amazing journey of the mind while revolutionizing our concept of memory An instant..... More
