Product Description: Why have local authorities responded relatively poorly to climate change to date? Why do most of them remain nervous of giving more power to citizens? This book asks whether a fresh approach to climate change that explicitly involves citizens in making policy decisions could help local authorities establish a more positive relationship with members of their community...read more

Product Description: Sure, it's easy to love a cute puppy with adorable eyes. But there's just something about those dogs with old man faces, with mugs weathered by experience and wisdom. Dogs with Old Man Faces combines heartwarming photos with humorous captions, sure to make anyone laugh and love their old dogs even more...read more

Product Description: Paul de Man is often associated with an era of ‘high theory’, an era it is argued may now be coming to a close. This book, written by three leading contemporary scholars, includes both a transcript and facsimile print of a previously unpublished text by de Man of his handwritten notes for a lecture on Walter Benjamin...read more

Product Description: Cohen (American literary, critical, and cinematic studies; U. of Albany) uses the term secret agents not to refer to film characters involved in espionage, but as an allusion to visual elements, graphic riddles, letteration, and cryptonomies found in all of Alfred Hitchcock's films...read more

Product Description: For Cohen (American literary, critical, and cinematic studies; U. of Albany), Alfred Hitchcock's films are war machines in the way they undermine Enlightenment-era ways of representation and subvert traditions of home, the family, and the state...read more

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Product Description: Tom Cohen questions the way history, ideology and politics are invoked in contemporary cultural studies. Enlisting the work of three seminal figures in literary theory--Walter Benjamin, Paul de Man, and M. Bakhtin--Cohen argues for a new politics of memory that moves beyond what he sees as our current paralyzing preoccupation with the present, and also for a new approach to the reading and analysis of cultural texts that breaks with the mimetic premises of traditional criticism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The material elements of writing have long been undervalued; but analysis of these elements--sound, signature, letters--can transform our understanding of major texts. Tom Cohen argues in this book that in an era of representational criticism the role of close reading has been overlooked...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Describes the activities of three young men who risked their lives to participate in the Freedom Marches and Civil Rights Movement of the early 1960's.