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Many critics have explored the homoerotic message in the early portraits of the baroque painter Michelangelo Caravaggio (1573-1610). In Caravaggio's Secrets, Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit emphasize instead the impenetrability of these portraits. The tension between erotic invitation and self-concealing retreat leads Bersani and Dutoit to conclude that the interest of these works is in their representation of an enigmatic address that solicits intimacy in order to block it with a secret. Bersani and Dutoit offer a psychoanalytic reading of the enigmatic address as initiating relations grounded in paranoid fascination. They study Caravaggio's attempts to move beyond such relations, his experiments with a space no longer circumscribed by the mutual and paranoid, if erotically stimulating, fascination with imaginary secrets.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD - A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulnerable student at an elite college, forced to navigate an opaque past, an uncertain future, tragedies on two continents, and the tantalizing possibilities of love and freedom

"[A] sparkling fiction debut."--The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)
"[A] fresh and unflinching take on the campus novel."--People (Ten Best Books of the Year)
"Diabolically charming and magnetic."--Ira Glass

FINALIST FOR THE PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD - A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time, The Washington Post, NPR, The Boston Globe, them

When Catalina is admitted to Harvard, it feels like the fulfillment of destiny: a miracle child escapes death in Latin America, moves to Queens to be raised by her undocumented grandparents, and becomes one of the chosen. But nothing is simple for Catalina, least of all her own complicated, contradictory, ruthlessly probing mind. Now a senior, she faces graduation to a world that has no place for the undocumented; her sense of doom intensifies her curiosities and desires. She infiltrates the school's elite subcultures--internships and literary journals, posh parties and secret societies--which she observes with the eye of an anthropologist and an interloper's skepticism: she is both fascinated and repulsed. Craving a great romance, Catalina finds herself drawn to a fellow student, an actual budding anthropologist eager to teach her about the Latin American world she was born into but never knew, even as her life back in Queens begins to unravel. And every day, the clock ticks closer to the abyss of life after graduation. Can she save her family? Can she save herself? What does it mean to be saved?

Brash and daring, part campus novel, part hagiography, part pop song, Catalina is unlike any coming-of-age novel you've ever read--and Catalina, bright and tragic, circled by a nimbus of chaotic energy, driven by a wild heart, is a character you will never forget.

The authors persuasively argue that the present cascade of reforms to public education is a consequence of a larger intention to shrink government. The startling result is that more of public education's assets and resources are moving to the private sector and to the prison industrial complex. Drawing on various forms of evidence-structural, economic, narrative, and youth-generated participatory research-the authors reveal new structures and circuits of dispossession and privilege that amount to a clear failure of present policy. Policymaking is at war with the interests of the vast majority of citizens, and especially with urban youth of color. In the final chapter the authors explore democratic principles and offer examples essential to mobilizing, in solidarity with educators, youth, communities, labor, and allied social movements, the kind of power necessary to contest the present direction of public education reform.

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO THE PRINCIPLES OF NEW URBANISM--FULLY REVISED

The Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) is the leading organization promoting walkable, mixed-use neighborhood development, sustainable communities, and healthier living conditions. Thoroughly updated to cover the latest environmental, economic, and social implications of urban design, Charter of the New Urbanism, Second Edition features insightful writing from 62 authors on each of the Charter's principles. Real-world case studies, plans, and examples are included throughout.

This pioneering guide explains how to restore urban centers, reconfigure sprawling suburbs, conserve environmental assets, and preserve our built legacy. It examines communities at three separate but interdependent levels:

The region: Metropolis, city, and town

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Featuring new photos and illustrations, this practical, up-to-date resource is invaluable for design professionals, developers, planners, elected officials, and citizen activists.

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Urban-to-Rural Transect

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Canons of Sustainable Architecture and Urbanism

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Essays by:
Randall Arendt
G. B. Arrington
Jonathan Barnett
Stephanie Bothwell
Peter Calthorpe
Thomas J. Comitta
Victor Dover
Andrés Duany
Douglas Farr
Geoffrey Ferrell
Ray Gindroz
Ken Greenberg
Jacky Grimshaw
Douglas Kelbaugh
Léon Krier
Walter Kulash
Bill Lennertz
William Lieberman
Wendy Morris
Elizabeth Moule
John O. Norquist
Myron Orfield
Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk
Stefanos Polyzoides
Shelley R. Poticha
Mark M. Schimmenti
Daniel Solomon
Laurie Volk
Robert D. Yaro
Todd Zimmerman

Commentaries by:
Laurence Aurbach
Kaid Benfield
Phillip Bess
Howard Blackson
Hazel Borys
Patrick Condon
Ann Daigle
Ellen Dunham-Jones
Ethan Goffman
Richard Allen Hall
Tony Hiss
Jennifer Hurley
James Howard Kunstler
Gianni Longo
Tom Low
Michael Lydon
John Massengale
Michael Mehaffy
Anne Vernez Moudon
Steven Mouzon
Paul Murrain
Nathan Norris
Russell Preston
Henry R. Richmond
Daniel Slone
Sandy Sorlien
Robert Steuteville
Galina Tachieva
Emily Talen
Dhiru Thadani
Marc A. Weiss
June Williamson