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Duke University Press Bob Hoover of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette takes along Steven Kaplan's book Good Bread is Back when he travels to Paris. He encounters both Kaplan's friends and foes along the way.
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PARIS -- Spring in this renowned city means rainy and gray and then suddenly, the glare of sunshine from the tall apartment windows when the clouds break. It also means keeping the baguettes dry.
Duke University Press We're packing up our offices for a major painting project and have to get rid of some stuff, so more giveaways today! Check out The Intimate University: Korean American Students and the Problems of Segregation by Nancy Abelmann. It's an ethnography of students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. To win an ARC, tell us about your campus. Is segregation a problem?
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The Intimate University: Korean American Students and the Problems of Segregation Nancy Abelmann 216 pages (November 2009) 0
Duke University Press Today's giveaway is The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader, edited by AnaLouise Keating. We hope you'll use it in your women's studies classes, your Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies classes, and in many other disciplines. To win an advance copy, please share something you've learned from Anzaldúa's writings or in person or something you hope to teach.
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Born in the Río Grande Valley of south Texas, independent scholar and creative writer Gloria Anzaldúa was an internationally acclaimed cultural theorist. As the author of Borderlands / La ...
Duke University Press Tim Lawrence's Hold On to Your Dreams is reviewed in the new issue of Bookforum. Reviewer John Rockwell says you should read it even if you aren't an Arthur Russell fan.
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A sister publication of Artforum, Bookforum brings incisive reviews of the latest titles, author interviews, and commentary about current and coming trends and ideas being debated by some of the most interesting writers of our time.
Duke University Press The war crimes trial of Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has begun in The Hague. Check out our blog to read an exclusive excerpt of our forthcoming book on the Slobodan Milosevic trial, Twilight of Impunity by Judith Armatta (Fall 2010).
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The trial of Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader who stands accused of genocide, began yesterday in The Hague. But the accused refused to appear, claiming he needed more time to prepare his defense. Karadzic's recalcitrance will remind many...
Duke University Press Karen Ho's Liquidated is featured in The Guardian's "Brain Food" column. That's some delicious anthropology you're reading!
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Aditya Chakrabortty: A new ethnographic study reveals the inner life of American bankers
Duke University Press Catch Arnold Bauer, author of The Search for the Codex Cardona, on The Story with Dick Gordon today. Check it out at 1 pm or 8 pm on WUNC, or check the webpage for airings in other places or to listen online.
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Last winter, Seth Best searched high and low for a job in Ann Arbor, but the Michigan economy had sunk too low. Seth ended up on the street and found a homeless shelter that would take him, but as a transgender man he ran into many challenges there. ...
Duke University Press Today at 5 pm Diana Taylor, author of The Archive and the Repertoire and Disappearing Acts, gives the Provost's Lecture here at Duke. Her talk is titled "The Digital as Anti-Archive?"
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The Digital As Anti-Archive? Monday, October 26, 2009, 5-6:30 p.m.Love Auditorium, Levine Science Research CenterDiana Taylor, University Professor of Performance Studies and Spanish and Founding Director of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics at the Tisch School of the Arts
Duke University Press Today at noon PT you can listen to Jodi Dean, author of Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies, on KPFA's Against the Grain. The show will be archived online so check it out later if you can't listen live.
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Jodi Dean, a political scientist at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, discusses her new book Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies: Communicative Capitalism and Left Politics.
Duke University Press Deborah Paredez's Selenidad: Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory is reviewed in the San Antonio Express-News, and if you're in San Antonio tonight, you can check out her reading at Our Lady of the Lake University.
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The San Antonio Express-News reviews Deborah Paredez's Selenidad: Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory. Reviewer Yvette Benavides writes, "What is certain and undeniable about Corpus Christi's most famous daughter is this: What we can now never know about Selena's...
Duke University Press The Columbia Daily Spectator has a nice piece on Monica Miller's Slaves to Fashion.
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The weekly features and arts magazine of The Columbia Daily Spectator.
Duke University Press Karen Ho, author of Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street, was on public radio's Marketplace tonight, talking about Wall Street bonuses.
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Will the clampdown on bonuses work? : Does this government clampdown on top Wall Street executives' pay do anything to discourage the behavior that landed us in this mess to begin with? Ashley Milne-Tyte explores who's really making money for these firms.
Duke University Press Ariel Dorfman, author of several Duke Press books including the forthcoming reissue of The Empire's Old Clothes, is celebrating his 25th anniversary at Duke.
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DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke University’s Center for International Studies (DUCIS) hosts a year-long series of events celebrating playwright and human rights activist Ariel Dorfman’s 25th anniversary at Duke.
Duke University Press Bob White and his book Rumba Rules get a nice shout-out in this Village Voice piece about the new Francophonic compilation.
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Duke University Press Brenda Weber's Makeover TV is featured in the Chronicle of Higher Ed's "Nota Bene" section this week.
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The Biggest Loser is part of a steady diet of “makeover” shows on television. The desires of their enthusiasts should not be discounted, writes a professor at Indiana U.
