Nicole Seymour, "Glitter" (Bloombury, 2022)

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Martin Heidegger, "Being and Time: An Annotated Translation" (Yale UP, 2026)

A full century ago, a young and relatively unknown philosophy instructor in a small town in Germany would publish a book that would be swiftly picked up and radically reshape the intellectual landscape around it. Everything published before could now be reread in a new light, whi ...  Show more

Michelle Jackson, "The Division of Rationalized Labor" (Harvard UP, 2025)

How have jobs changed in the last 150 years? In The Division of Rationalized Labor (Harvard UP, 2025) Michelle Jackson, an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Stanford University examines the original theories about the division of labour and explains why many ...  Show more

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