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From and About the Academy

The Culture of Male

Beauty in Britain

From the First Photographs to

David Beckham

    



“Dispels the common myth that beauty is

a historically feminine quality and vividly

demonstrates how ideals of male attractive-

ness have long mattered in shaping values,

identity, sexuality, and social status.”

—Christopher R. Oldstone-Moore, author of

Of Beards and Men

CLOTH $45.

Harold Rosenberg

A Critic‘s Life









“Balken paints Rosenberg as an outsider by

design, and recreates the people, places,

and intellectual movements that infl uenced

the fi ercely independent thinker from his

native Brooklyn to bohemian, left ist Man-

hattan in the 1930s.”—Publishers Weekly

CLOTH $40.

Uncountable

A Philosophical History of Number

and Humanity from Antiquity to the

Present

    

















“Ricardo and David Nirenberg, father and son

scholars of mathematics and history, have

teamed up in a breathtaking voyage examin-

ing the foundations and limits of knowledge

in western thought.”—Joachim Frank, Colum-

bia University, Nobel Prize in Chemistry

CLOTH $30.

On Revision

The Only Writing That Counts





“Interspersed with practical counsel, On

Revision contains a moving vindication of

the importance and the pleasure of scholarly

writing and reading.”—Deidre Lynch, author

of Loving Literature

PAPER $20.

The Pocket Epicurean





“Lucid and scholarly.”—Independent, on the

UK Edition

“A helpful guide to facing the manifold

anxieties of modern life.”—The Idler, on the

UK edition

CLOTH $12.

The Lost Promise

American Universities in the 1960s









“Required reading for anyone eager to

understand the complex forces shaping

American higher education.... Schrecker

presents a clear picture of a tumultuous de-

cade, synthesizing her vast research in the

era’s newspapers and journals and exten-

sive interviews.”—Library Journal (starred

review)

CLOTH $35.

Seneca

Fifty Letters of a Roman Stoic

 







Translated with an Introduction and Commentary by

Margaret Graver and A. A. Long

This selection of fi ft y letters off ers insight

into Seneca’s life and thought in language that

speaks to the modern reader.

PAPER $16.

Permanent Crisis

The Humanities in a Disenchanted

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“The authors suggest that today’s preoccupa-

tion with crisis in the humanities is historically

and conceptually overdetermined, less a re-

sponse to current material realities than baked

into the modern humanities’ self-conception.”

—Chronicle of Higher Education

CLOTH $35.

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