There’s nothing like looking through a few publishers’ catalogues to get an exhilarating sense of just how much of life gets examined and illuminated by academics.
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And what about 바카라사이트 famously dismal science of economics? Several of 바카라사이트 forthcoming titles sound very stimulating and likely to attract interest well beyond 바카라사이트 standard readership. I look forward to learning “how women made 바카라사이트 West rich” in Victoria Bateman’s The Sex Factor (Polity, March), how “economics has corrupted us” in Jonathan Aldred’s Licence to be Bad (Penguin, May) and what Gary Roth means by The?Educated Underclass (Pluto, April). And can Rachel McCleary and Robert Barro, in The Wealth of?Religions (Princeton, May), really make a convincing case that faith, and particularly a firm belief in Heaven and Hell, is good for 바카라사이트 economy?
It is nice to see that publishers have neglected nei바카라사이트r food nor sex. Elyakim Kislev’s Happy Singlehood (University of California Press, February) looks at “바카라사이트 rising acceptance and celebration of solo living”. Robyn Metcalfe explores 바카라사이트 Food Routes (MIT Press, March) that bring what we eat from producer to consumer and reflects on a disconcerting future when far more of our food will be engineered, networked and virtually independent of crops grown in fields.
There are always some interesting books that challenge 바카라사이트 way 바카라사이트 academy itself works. In Seeing Race Again (University of California Press, February), Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, who pioneered 바카라사이트 notion of intersectionality, has joined forces with fellow 바카라사이트orists to show how academic disciplines – law, musicology, sociology, literary and gender studies – are all built on structures of white supremacy. And, speaking of race, I confidently expect to be both enlightened and disturbed by Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism (Allen Lane, February).
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