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Neither cybernetic nor etherised, Encounters in  the Virtual Feminist Museum is a poetic laboratory breaking the museums rigid rules to create encounters with and between images by and about women as they engaged with and were defined by modernity. Tracking the complex relays between femininity, modernity and representation by means of a sequence of virtual exhibitions, this book reframes art in the twentieth century with women in mind....

There is almost no political question in the United States, wrote Alexis de Tocqueville, that is not resolved sooner or later into a judicial question. The U.S. Supreme Court is the ultimate arbiter of judicial questions, weighing the laws enacted by the people's representatives against the inviolable fundamental law embodied in the U.S. Constitution. Virtually every vital political and social issue comes before the Court: abortion, affirmative action, capital punishment, elections and voting, gay rights, gun control, separation of church and state, and more. This book presents living law,...

• Examines psychoanalytic concepts, values, debates and controversies that have been hallmarks of visual representation in the modern and contemporary periods
  
• Covers topics including melancholia, sex, and pathology to the body, and parent-child relations
  
• Advances theoretical debates in art history while...

Quirky, surprising and entertaining - with more than 400 houses, Jutaku is architecture at the speed of Japan.

Frenetic. Pulsating. Disorienting. Japan's contemporary culture is constantly in flux. In stark contrast to the centuries old imperial architecture of Kyoto, recent Japanese architectural practices have ushered in an era of continuous experimentation.

With 400 houses, one house per page, one image per house, Jutaku: Japanese Houses is a fast-paced, "quick hit" shock to the system that shines a Harajuku-bright neon light on the sheer volume,...

A collection of poems written by a woman to express the many lives and experiences of being a woman.  Full of passion, ponderings and the inspiration of one trying to find herself and place in a world full of surprises, pleasures and the occasional frustration. 

These verses will evoke meaning and imagination, inviting the reader to allow self-determination to express itself freely, even at those times when it might be easier to hold back.

Sharing history, culture, and personal truths with secrets hidden in the midst of words, Dream Dreams takes you on a...

"More engaging than any new fiction in years." Chuck Palahniuk
An unforgettable work of fiction that peers into the soul of a tough Midwestern American town to reveal the sad, stunted but resilient lives of its residents. Knockemstiff is a genuine entry into the literature of place.

Spanning a period from the mid-sixties to the late nineties, the linked stories that comprise Knockemstiff feature a cast of recurring characters who are irresistibly, undeniably real. A father pumps his son full of steroids so he can vicariously relive his days as a perpetual runner-up...