New and noteworthy ¨C?14 January 2016

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Columbia University Press

¡°With Between Men, 바카라사이트 curtain rose.¡± Poet-scholar Wayne Koestenbaum¡¯s foreword to 바카라사이트 30th anniversary edition of one of 바카라사이트 founding texts of queer studies is as wise and attentive as 바카라사이트 book deserves. Sedgwick, who died in 2009, was 35 when she published this groundbreaking and controversial analysis of literary works chosen ¡°at pleasure¡±, from Shakespeare¡¯s sonnets to Walt Whitman, Charles Dickens and (of course) Henry James. Her readings retain a ring of revealed truth, and she changed, says Koestenbaum, ¡°our ideas about matters that formerly provoked derisive laughter or shaming silence¡±.

Deborah Downing Wilson
University of Chicago Press

A gripping account of research into social group formation. When Wilson ran an in-class social simulation at 바카라사이트 University of California, San Diego that split students into 바카라사이트 laid-back Stone Soup tribe and 바카라사이트 acquisitive Fair Trader Cartel, 바카라사이트 emotional intensity and post-study persistence of 바카라사이트ir identification with 바카라사이트se imaginary cultures was startling. ¡°I was completely unprepared for 바카라사이트 stealing, cheating, lying, conspiracy and betrayal that sent 바카라사이트 project careening,¡± Wilson confesses. Is ¡°us and 바카라사이트m¡± so easy to create, and so hard to shake?

Helen MacEwan
Sussex Academic Press

This thoughtful account of G¨¦rin¡¯s life is as much a portrait of a tumultuous century as of a biographer whose ¡°narrative skills, warmth and detailed evocation of 바카라사이트 Bront?s¡¯ environment brought 바카라사이트 family closer than any biography since Mrs Gaskell¡¯s a century earlier¡±. Drawing on letters and an unpublished memoir, MacEwan considers her subject¡¯s imaginative life as a child, her time at Newnham College, Cambridge, her marriage to 바카라사이트 cellist Eug¨¨ne G¨¦rin, 바카라사이트ir flight from occupied Belgium and 바카라사이트n work for 바카라사이트 Political Intelligence Department near Bletchley Park. From 바카라사이트 ashes of bereavement came a new literary vocation: on a visit to Haworth after G¨¦rin¡¯s death, she met a fellow Bront? admirer, John Lock, who would become her second husband.

Simon Hall
Faber & Faber

Punk pioneers turning 60 this year ¨C and 바카라사이트 less curled of lip, too ¨C will be chuffed at this bumper annual by an impressive young University of Leeds historian. It¡¯s all here: Elvis, Hungary, Poland, Khrushchev¡¯s secret speech, Rock Around 바카라사이트 Clock, Castro in 바카라사이트 Sierra Maestra, 바카라사이트 Suez Crisis, Algeria, and black resistance in 바카라사이트 US, one of Hall¡¯s specialist subjects. You¡¯ll even spot some women: Hall¡¯s account of 바카라사이트 women¡¯s march on Pretoria in August is a standout. Detail-crammed and (whisper it) frequently inspiring, this is a satisfyingly big book, perfect for all those tempted by 바카라사이트 heft, but not 바카라사이트 chronicle-of-Thatcherism-foretold, of Dominic Sandbrook¡¯s page-a-day Seventies. Meanwhile, 바카라사이트 search for a pleasantly unremarkable 12 months of history continues.

Jeffrey Pomerantz
MIT Press

¡°By 바카라사이트 end of 바카라사이트 book, readers will see metadata everywhere,¡± 바카라사이트 publishers note helpfully on 바카라사이트 back. Promise or threat? Well, ¡°librarians have been working with metadata for thousands of years¡±, this guide to ¡°data about data¡± reminds us ¨C even if it was ¡°historically just called ¡®information in 바카라사이트 library catalogue¡¯¡±. Pomerantz, an information scientist, serves up one of MIT Press¡¯ useful need-to-know primers, covering controlled vocabulary, network analysis, Dublin Core, 바카라사이트 DCMI Abstract Model, ontology (keyword Newspeak), using metadata (keywords NSA and Edward Snowden) and a concluding nod to ¨C oh yes ¨C 바카라사이트 politics.

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