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  • Spanish So White

    Conversations on the Inconvenient Racism of a ‘Foreign’ Language Education

    by Adam Schwartz ...
    Explicit discussions of race and racial identity have traditionally been omitted from Spanish language education in the US – especially in curricula designed for imagined 'native' speakers of English. Consequences of this de-racialization of Spanish language learning include the perpetuation of institutional racisms and missed opportunities to build productive conversations about the ways race and ... Read more

    $9.49 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • THE REST OF THE WORLD

    by Adam Schwartz ...
    Adam Schwartz's debut collection The Rest Of the World introduces a writer whose ear is so pitch-perfectly trained to his characters it seems as if he's an angel eavesdropping from their rooftops. His cast heralds from every walk of life, from street corners and housing projects from dive bars and fishing boats we might otherwise drown out with the noise of our lives, and he listens to them with a ... Read more

    Was $4.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

  • A Stranger on the Planet

    by Adam Schwartz ...
    In the summer of 1969, twelve-year-old Seth lives with his unstable mother, Ruth, and his brother and sister in a two-bedroom apartment in New Jersey. His father lives with his new wife in a ten-room house and has no interest in Seth and his siblings. Seth is dying to escape from his mother’s craziness and suffocating love, her marriage to a man she’s known for two weeks, and his father’s cold ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Language, Identity and Justice

    The Anthropolitical Worlds of Ana Celia Zentella

    Edited by Dr. Ana Celia Zentella, Adam Schwartz, Bonnie Urciuoli, Cristian Aquino-Sterling ...
    With linguistic and cultural diversity increasingly under attack, Ana Celia Zentella’s work becomes more and more poignantNow more than ever, questions of the interplay and interdependency between academic work and activism are crucial. This book traces these questions through the work of one thinker, Ana Celia Zentella, who has made important contributions to the development of both linguistics ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

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    Spanish So White

    Conversations on the Inconvenient Racism of a ‘Foreign’ Language Education

    by Adam Schwartz ...
    Narrated by Adam Schwartz ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 33 min

    Explicit discussions of race and racial identity have traditionally been omitted from Spanish language education in the US – especially in curricula designed for imagined 'native' speakers of English. Consequences of this de-racialization of Spanish language learning include the perpetuation of institutional racisms and missed opportunities to build productive conversations about the ways race and ... Read more

    $12.00 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Tsinghua University Warring States Bamboo Manuscripts: Studies and Translations 7—Milfoil Divination Rules and Other Related Texts

    by Adam Craig Schwartz ...
    In 2008, Tsinghua University of Beijing acquired a corpus of manuscripts written on bamboo slips from China’s Warring States period (c. 300 BCE) and established the Research and Conservation Center for Unearthed Texts directed by renowned scholar Li Xueqin 李學勤(1933–2019) to edit and publish them. A panel of experts convened to evaluate the manuscripts said of them:These Warring States bamboo slips ... Read more

    $25.07 USD

  • The White Man's Guide to White Male Writers of the Western Canon

    by Dana Schwartz, Jason Adam Katzenstein ...
    The White Man's Guide to White Male Writers of the Western Canon is a hilarious exploration of the literary world from Dana Schwartz, aka @GuyInYour MFA.Illustrations by Jason Adam KatzensteinHow do you use 'taraddidle' in a sentence? Is it possible to make a Gin Ricky that's also a metaphor for the American Dream? How can you tell your Faulkner from your Franzen if you haven't actually read ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Electron Backscatter Diffraction in Materials Science

    Edited by Brent L. Adams, David P. Field, Mukul Kumar, Adam J. Schwartz ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    Electron backscatter diffraction is a very powerful and relatively new materials characterization technique aimed at the determination of crystallographic texture, grain boundary character distributions, lattice strain, phase identification, and much more. The purpose of this book is to provide the fundamental basis for electron backscatter diffraction in materials science, the current state of ... Read more

    $296.09 USD

  • High Stakes HORROR: A WATG Press Dark Anthology

    by Dakria, Ryan Colley, Patrícia Sá, Sheri White, Robert Hanover, Amber Willis, Adele Liles, J. Rocky Colavito, John Davis, Charlotte Poitras, Petra F. Bagnardi, Robb White, Conner McAleese, Elisabeth May, Akifa Shazzad Prova, Adam DelRey, Andrea Tillmanns, Demi Michelle Schwartz ...
    High Stakes HORROR: A WATG Press Dark AnthologyWhat would you risk for one more chance?A fortune. Your future. Your identity. Your soul.In High Stakes HORROR, nineteen chilling tales explore the deadly cost of temptation, ambition, greed, desperation, and survival. Every story begins with a wager, a challenge, a gamble, or a choice. And every choice comes with consequences.A gambler wins a cursed ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Institutions of Meaning

    A Defense of Anthropological Holism

    by Vincent Descombes ...
    Translated by Stephen Adam Schwartz ...
    Holism grows out of the philosophical position that an object or phenomenon is more than the sum of its parts. And yet analysis--a mental process crucial to human comprehension--involves breaking something down into its components, dismantling the whole in order to grasp it piecemeal and relationally. Wading through such quandaries with grace and precision, The Institutions of Meaning guides ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

  • Puzzling Identities

    by Vincent Descombes ...
    Translated by Stephen Adam Schwartz ...
    Series series Institute for Human Sciences Vienna Lecture Series
    As a logical concept, identity refers to one and the same thing. So why, Vincent Descombes asks, do we routinely use “identity” to describe the feelings associated with membership in a number of different communities, as when we speak of our ethnic identity and religious identity? And how can we ascribe the same “identity” to more than one individual in a group? In Puzzling Identities, one of the ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Puzzling Identities

    by Vincent Descombes ...
    Translated by Stephen Adam Schwartz ...
    Series Book 4 - Institute for Human Sciences Vienna Lecture Series
    As a logical concept, identity refers to one and the same thing. So why, Vincent Descombes asks, do we routinely use “identity” to describe the feelings associated with membership in a number of different communities, as when we speak of our ethnic identity and religious identity? And how can we ascribe the same “identity” to more than one individual in a group? In Puzzling Identities, one of the ... Read more

    $42.29 USD