Duke University Press
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Beautiful Mystery: Living in a Wordless World
$29.95 Add to cartWhen Danilyn Rutherford and her husband Craig noticed that their six-month-old daughter Millie wasn’t making eye contact, they took her to their pediatrician. And an optometrist. Then a neurologist. L… [more below]
- Author: Rutherford, Danilyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1478029250
- Language: English
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Mavericks of Style: The Seventies in Color
$34.00 Add to cartIn Mavericks of Style, Uri McMillan tells the story of New York City’s downtown art and fashion scene of the 1970s through the lives and careers of experimental Black and Brown artists. McMillan focus… [more below]
- Author: McMillan, Uri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1478032510
- Language: English
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The Sound of Feathers: Attentive Living in a World Beyond Ourselves
$28.95 Add to cartFrom the rustle of a crow’s wings to the cool touch of moss on a stone wall, to the quiet determination of a worm crossing a sidewalk, The Sound of Feathers invites readers to notice the small wonders… [more below]
- Author: Gillespie, Kathryn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1478032863
- Language: English
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Furman University, 1826-2026: A Bicentennial History
$74.99 Read moreFurman University: A Bicentennial History, 1826-2026 is a beautiful, hardbound, full-color coffee table book published in commemoration of Furman’s bicentennial. Featuring a foreword from President El… [more below]
- Author: Tollison, Courtney
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1478033460
- Language: English
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My Studio Is a Dungeon Is the Studio: Writings and Interviews, 1983-2024
$28.95 Add to cartFor four decades, artist, writer, curator, and teacher Nayland Blake has been at the center of discussions of queer aesthetics and contemporary art. Their work has examined racial hybridity, the ins a… [more below]
- Author: Blake, Nayland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1478032502
- Language: English
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Degas at the Gas Station: Essays
$28.95 Add to cartIn his latest collection, Thomas Beller trains his piercing literary eye on how a single, seismic event indelibly shapes the trajectory of the common and mundane experiences of one’s life. Weaving tog… [more below]
- Author: Beller, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1478033037
- Language: English
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Insurgent Visions: Feminism, Justice, Solidarity
$28.95 Add to cartIn a current era marked by carceral logics, authoritarianism, and white supremacy, there has never been a greater need for the tools and inspiration that radical feminism provides. In Insurgent Vision… [more below]
- Series: John Hope Franklin Center Book
- Author: Mohanty, Chandra Talpade
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1478032227
- Language: English
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Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture 1970-1979
$30.95 Add to cartOpening with David Mancuso’s seminal “Love Saves the Day” Valentine’s party, Tim Lawrence tells the definitive story of American dance music culture in the 1970s-from its subterranean roots in NoHo an… [more below]
- Author: Lawrence, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 498
- Publish Date: February 02 2004
- ISBN10: 0822331985
- Language: English
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Beneath the Skin of Sorrow: Improvisations on Loss
$27.95 Add to cartOver a period of just six months, eminent jazz vocalist and composer Nnenna Freelon’s life changed irrevocably. Her soulmate and husband of nearly forty years, the renowned architect Phil Freelon, pas… [more below]
- Author: Freelon, Nnenna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1478029110
- Language: English
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From Forest to Steppe: The Russian Art of Building in Wood
$50.00 Add to cartThroughout Russian history, local craftsmen have shown remarkable skill in fashioning wood into items of daily use, from bridges and street paving to carts and boats to household utensils and combs. R… [more below]
- Author: Brumfield, William Craft
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1478028246
- Language: English
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Unfurl: Survivals, Sorrows, and Dreaming
$23.95 Add to cartA queer disabled love song to trees and beavers, tremors and dreams, Unfurl explores the pulsing core and porous edges of survival, sorrow, and dreaming. Blending poetry and creative nonfiction, emoti… [more below]
- Author: Clare, Eli
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1478032413
- Language: English
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Becoming Trustworthy White Allies
$23.95 Add to cartIn Becoming Trustworthy White Allies, longtime antiracist facilitator Melanie S. Morrison outlines the actions white people must undertake to become partners in the work of racial justice. In this col… [more below]
- Author: Morrison, Melanie S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 19 2025
- ISBN10: 147803243X
- Language: English
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Taking Leave
$19.95 Add to cartDeborah Kapchan’s Taking Leave is a lyrical memoir that encompasses journeys both inner and outer, physical and spiritual. Taking readers from New York, Paris, and Casablanca to Jerusalem and Abu Dhab… [more below]
- Series: Practices
- Author: Kapchan, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1478032820
- Language: English
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We Flew over the Bridge: The Memoirs of Faith Ringgold
$28.95 Read moreIn We Flew over the Bridge, one of the country’s preeminent African American artists–and award-winning children’s book authors–shares the fascinating story of her life. Faith Ringgold’s artworks–st… [more below]
- Author: Ringgold, Faith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 11 2005
- ISBN10: 0822335646
- Language: English
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Abolitionist Intimacies: Queer and Trans Migrants Against the Deportation State
$40.43 Add to cartIn Abolitionist Intimacies, Eithne Luibh?id examines writings by and about queer- and trans-identified migrants and allies who contest pervasive US immigration practices and work toward a future witho… [more below]
- Author: Luibhéid, Eithne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1478031239
- Language: English
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Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds
$43.43 Add to cartIn Designs for the Pluriverse Arturo Escobar presents a new vision of design theory and practice aimed at channeling design’s world-making capacity toward ways of being and doing that are deeply attun… [more below]
- Series: New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century
- Author: Escobar, Arturo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: March 22 2018
- ISBN10: 0822371057
- Language: English
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Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography
$43.43 Read moreIn Camera Geologica Siobhan Angus tells the history of photography through the minerals upon which the medium depends. Challenging the emphasis on immateriality in discourses on photography, Angus foc… [more below]
- Author: Angus, Siobhan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: March 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1478030186
- Language: English
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Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World: The Alchemy Lecture
$37.43 Add to cartThe second annual Alchemy Lecture brought together five artists, thinkers, and writers who proposed new ways of being and discussed radical visions for the future. Five Manifestos for the Beautiful Wo… [more below]
- Author: Boswell, Phoebe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1478032189
- Language: English
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Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters: Black Women, Voice, and the Musical Stage
$41.93 Add to cartIn Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters, songwriter, scholar, and dramatist Masi Asare explores the singing practice of black women singers in US musical theatre between 1900 and 1970. Asare shows how a v… [more below]
- Series: Refiguring American Music
- Author: Asare, Masi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 147803095X
- Language: English
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Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as PRAXIS
$43.43 Add to cartThe Jamaican writer and cultural theorist Sylvia Wynter is best known for her diverse writings that pull together insights from theories in history, literature, science, and black studies, to explore … [more below]
- Author: McKittrick, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 07 2015
- ISBN10: 0822358344
- Language: English
