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How can cinema make us live time?

A playful and provocative call to stop playing videogames and begin making metagames

Proposes a vision of survival and flourishing in the face of economic and environmental catastrophe

Rethinking the philosophical and anthropological basis of our ontology

The stock market is the background of how we begin to deal with the complex imbrication of humans, machines, and noise

The first major English-language study of Japan's most important postwar artists

Inspired by one of Nelson Mandela's recurring nightmares, Mandela's Dark Years offers a political reading of dream-life

Henry Willson was one of the quintessential power brokers in Hollywood during the late 1940s and 1950s when he launched the careers of Rock Hudson, Lana Turner, Tab Hunter, Natalie Wood, and many others. He was also a true casting couch agent, brokering sex for opportunity on the silver screen. While this practice was rampant across Hollywood, for gay actors and film professionals the casting couch was a dangerous cliff: a public revelation could and would ruin a career. The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson is an incredible biography as well as a harrowing look into Hollywood at a time of great sexual oppression, roaming vice squads searching for gay and/or communist activity, and the impossibilities for gay actors of the era.

Anime and manga have longproposed alternative worlds-some created after catastrophe. Mechademia 10revolves around Japan's 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear reactor crisesand considers a propensity for "world renewal."

The evolution and meaning of our love affair with Apple and its devices

Leading critic Ian Bogost posits that gamecritique is both serious cultural currency and selfparody. Noting that the termgames criticism once struck him as preposterous, Bogost observes that the idea,taken too seriously, risks balkanizing games writing from the rest of culture.

On the occasion of its 100th anniversary in 2015, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts asked some of the finest writers, photographers, and illustrators working today to muse about art—the nature of creativity and wonder. No instructions. No rules. The MIA commissioned these imaginative works not as a celebration of itself but of art as inspiration—an anthology of wonder.The contributors rose to the challenge with fiction, essays, photojournalism, and illustrated stories, by turns delightful and reflective, a contemporary argument for art’s ongoing vitality. Interspersed in the book are personal reflections from the museum’s own director, curators, and staff on beloved artworks in its collection.

Animal tracks always tell a story. You just have to recognize the signs. As you follow the marks an animal left behind, you get to know it: where it goes, what it likes to eat, when it runs, and why. There are secrets to be learned in those signs in the snow, mysteries to be explored in the mud along the river’s edge.Tracks in the Wild introduces young naturalists to the tracks of bears, wolves, moose, otters, and other wild animals—thirteen in all. Betsy Bowen’s signature woodcut prints accompany poetic passages about each animal, along with life-size representations of their footprints. As it reveals some of the wonders of the natural world, it will also inspire awe and respect for all the wild, elusive creatures that inhabit Minnesota’s northwoods.Winner of a 1994 Minnesota Book Award, Tracks in the Wild is perfect reading for a family to share before and after a trek through their own woods.

Part travelogue, partnatural and cultural history, Portage is the memoir of one family'sthirty-five-year venture into the watery expanse of the world. Exploring theriver means encountering the inevitable changes that occur as a family canoesthrough time and learns what it means to be human in this natural world.

It was the age of Jim Crow, riddled with racial violence and unrest. But in the world of "Our Gang," black and white children happily played and made mischief together. They even had their own black and white version of the KKK, the Cluck Cluck Klams--and the public loved it.The story of race and "Our Gang," or "The Little Rascals," is rife with th

Originally published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.

Originally published by Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2007.

Since the early 1900s, blues and the guitar havetraveled side by side. From the first reported sightings of blues musicians tothe onset of the Great Depression, this is the most comprehensive and completeaccount ever written of the early stars of blues guitar-an essential chapter inthe history of American music.

From Abronia to Zinnia, Jewels of the Plains describes the natural history and garden merits of more than five hundred Great Plains wildflowers. Considered the authoritative guide by native plant enthusiasts and horticulturists, it captures the unique beauty, resilience, and variety of wildflowers in the Great Plains.Claude A. Barr did not set out to be a writer. In 1910, he homesteaded 160 acres of prairie in the southwest corner of South Dakota, intending to become a farmer. Despite challenging conditions, Barr fell in love with the land and its native flora. He began contributing profiles of plains wildflowers to gardening magazines, which precipitated requests for seed and led him to start a mail-order nursery, Prairie Gem Ranch. What began as a Depression-era sideline eventually gained a worldwide clientele, and Barr became a respected ambassador for the wildflowers of this part of the American landscape.Decades of observing plants in the wild and growing them for his nursery, as well as careful study of scientific sources, gave Barr unequaled knowledge that culminated in this acclaimed book. Wonderfully written and deeply researched, Jewels of the Plains is more than a field guide or how-to manual. It’s a pioneering text on native plant horticulture that details plant life on the prairie in the voice of one with intimate familiarity with the subject. Each description reads like a mini nature essay, giving insight into both the plants and Barr’s engaging personality.Edited to incorporate new scientific information, this edition includes an Introduction and supplemental notes by botanist and horticulturalist James H. Locklear. He places Barr’s remarkable life and work in historic and scientific context, illuminating his accomplishments from a fresh perspective.

After Isabelle's father tragically passes away, she and her mother move from Milwaukee to Minneapolis in the early 1960s, where Isabelle finds herself trying to escape her grief via the lives of her overly attentive landladies, the McCarthy sisters, and new friendships with classmates Margaret and Grace.

In Our Own Image, Barry Barclay details hisviews on the process of filmmaking within his own Maori community and discusseshow his work differed from popular cinema, advocating for indigenous control,participation, and perspectives in media

Elusive Jannah is a remarkable portrait of thevery different experiences of Somali migrants in the UAE, South Africa, and theUnited States. Cawo M. Abdi clearly reveals the importance of immigrationpolicies in the migrant experience.

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 Horner housing complex ushered in the most ambitious urban housing experiment of its kind: smaller, mixed-income, and partially privatized developments that, the thinking went, would mitigate the insecur

All Thoughts AreEqual is both an introductionto the work of French philosopher Francois Laruelle and an exercise in nonhumanthinking. John O Maoilearca examines how philosophy might appear when viewedwith non-philosophical and nonhuman eyes.

What does it mean to be awriter today? Is writing code for an app equivalent to writing a novel? Shouldwe change how we teach writing? Computing as Writing ponders both theimplications and contradictions of the common metaphor that equates computingand writing, from "notebook" computers to "writing" code.