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The Surprising Design of Market Economies

University of Texas Press

Bringing a fresh perspective to current debates over the “free market,” this wide-ranging look at how market economies are designed and constructed helps us understand how “the market” works and how we can build fairer and more effective markets.

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Woman with a Movie Camera

My Life as a Russian Filmmaker

By Marina Goldovskaya; Translated by Antonina W. Bouis; Introduction by Robert Rosen
University of Texas Press

A fascinating autobiography that tells the intertwining stories of one of Russia’s best-known documentary filmmakers and the eventful half century of Russian history she has recorded.

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The Summer of Her Baldness

A Cancer Improvisation

University of Texas Press

In this irreverent and moving memoir, Lord draws on the e-mail correspondence of her online persona Her Baldness to offer an unconventional look at life with breast cancer and the societal space occupied by the seriously ill.

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How Cities Work

Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Roads Not Taken

University of Texas Press

A hard-hitting, highly readable look at what makes cities work -- or not work.

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The Forgetting of Air in Martin Heidegger

By Luce Irigaray; Translated by Mary Beth Mader
University of Texas Press

In this complex, lyrical, meditative engagement with the later work of the eminent German philosopher, Irigaray critiques Heidegger's emphasis on the element of earth as the ground of life and speech and his "oblivion" or forgetting of air.

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e-mail trouble

love and addiction @ the matrix

University of Texas Press

In this daring, postmodern autobiography, S. Paige Baty recounts her search for love and community on the Internet.

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