A Good and Dignified Life: The Political Advice of Hannah Arendt and Rosa Luxemburg
(Yale University Press)
Joke J Hermsen, tr. Brendan...
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August 5th, 2022
A Good and Dignified Life: The Political Advice of Hannah Arendt and Rosa Luxemburg
(Yale University Press)
Joke J Hermsen, tr. Brendan...
Posted in: Front Table
July 29th, 2022
On this week's Front Table, examine a striking blend of nature writing, scientific literature, and art to delve into the subconscious minds of animals, learn from the maternal wisdom of whales, and sway with the rumbustious history of jazz. Find the following and more at semcoop.com
Blue Note
(Thames & Hudson)
Richard Havers
Blue Note is not only known as the purveyor of extraordinary jazz but is also famous as an arbiter of cool. The superb...
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July 22nd, 2022
On this week's Front Table, trace the evolution of cultures through texts: from examining translated Chinese literary works of pre-modern China to exploring the ancient monastic texts of Egypt, Sinai, & Palestine following how noise offered desert monks wisdom on inner quietude. Find the following and more at semcoop.com
A Haven and a Hell
(Columbia University Press...
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July 13th, 2022
On this week's Fiction & Poetry Front Table, find stories from the road: from poems that move through landscapes of culture, memory, Nigeria, and the American Midwest, to a coming-of-age telling featuring a trans woman who treks cross-country and finds herself in the awkward position of becoming a role model. Find the following and more at semcoop.com
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July 6th, 2022
On our Front Table this week, find forms of movement: from letters exchanged between old friends during our first pandemic lockdown, to thoughtful perspectives on the Great Migration, new and old. Find the following titles and more at semcoop.com
Exporting Capitalism: Private Enterprise and US Foreign Policy...
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July 1st, 2022
On our Front Table this week, ring the edges of encompassing visions, from a whole-Earth perspective on organic life to 3,000 years of imagining the human circulatory system. Find the following titles and more at semcoop.com
Against Constitutionalism (Harvard University Press)
Martin Loughlin
Constitutionalism is universally commended because it has never been...
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June 30th, 2022
On this special episode of Open Stacks, we hear from Jeff Deutsch, the Director of the Seminary Co-op Bookstores. Jeff's book, In Praise of Good Bookstores, came out from Princeton University Press this Spring, and Jeff has been traveling the country visiting other independent bookstores to talk about it, and about the value of bookselling and bookstores in the 21st century. Jeff spoke at the Seminary Co-op with Ydalmi Noriega, a member of the Co-op's board of directors, and director of programs and community engagement at the...
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June 24th, 2022
On our Front Table this week, look for middle grounds and middle ways, from a sexual history of the US border to the double binds of digital life. Find the following titles and more at semcoop.com
Border Bodies (The University of North Carolina Press)
Bernadine Marie Hernández
In this study of sex, gender, sexual violence, and power along the border, Bernadine Marie Hernández brings to light under-heard stories of women who lived in a critical era of American history....
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June 17th, 2022
On our Front Table this week, inspect symbols with multiple meanings, from the multifaceted realities of testosterone to variegated memories of the 1989 Tiananmen protests. Find the following titles and more at semcoop.com
Old Truths and New Clichés: Essays by Isaac Bashevis Singer (Princeton University Press)
Isaac Bashevis Singer, ed. David Stromberg
Old Truths and New Clichés...
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June 10th, 2022
On our Front Table this week, reckon with critical encounters, from confronting corporate power games to a comparative analyses across literature and film. Find the following titles and more at semcoop.com
Biblical and Pastoral Poetry (Harvard University Press)
Alcimus Avitus, tr. Michael Roberts
Alcimus Ecdicius Avitus, bishop of Vienne and a vigorous defender of Christian orthodoxy, was born into the senatorial aristocracy in southern Gaul in the mid-fifth century and lived until 518. The verse in ...
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