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New Acquisitions

Here you can see the items that have been recently acquired by the library and made available on the shelves, both physical and electronic.

New Books - MARCH 2024

A companion to contemporary art since 1945
San Marco, Byzantium, and the myths of Venice
Un oceano di stile : produzione e consumo di made in Italy negli Stati Uniti del dopoguerra
Transatlantic visions : culture cinematografiche italiane negli Stati Uniti del secondo dopoguerra
Art in the age of the Internet : 1989 to today
Bellini and the East
Venice : a documentary history, 1450-1630
Performance art : from futurism to the present
The identity trap : a story of ideas and power in our time
Cold War cities : history, culture and memory
Listening, community engagement, and peacebuilding : international perspectives
Wanted, Byzantium : the desire for a lost empire
Queering philosophy
Beauty in African thought : critical perspectives on the Western idea of development
Imperial cults : religion and politics in the early Han and Roman empires
A history of nihilism in the nineteenth century : confrontations with nothingness
The afterlives of Frankenstein : popular and artistic adaptations and reimaginings
Art and artifact : the museum as medium
David Bowie is the subject
Zanele Muholi
Neo-existentialism : how to conceive of the human mind after naturalism's failure
On Earth we're briefly gorgeous
Girl zines : making media, doing feminism
Purging the odious scourge of atrocities : the limits of consent in international law
Memento : the obsession with the visible
Insurgent feminisms : writing war
Theater of exhibitions
The tombs of the doges of Venice : from the beginning of the Serenissima to 1907
The Earth transformed : an untold history
The religious architecture of Islam
Women, race and class
Psychoanalytic literary criticism
Stardom, Italian style : screen performance and personality in Italian cinema
Conscious capitalism : liberating the heroic spirit of business
Global activism : art and conflict in the 21st century
Living black history : how reimagining the African-American past can remake America's racial future
Furious flower : seeding the future of African American poetry
Who owns this sentence? : a history of copyrights and wrongs
Renato Guttuso : painter of modern life
The horses of San Marco & the quadriga of the lord
Artrage! : the story of the BritArt Revolution
Steinbeck in Vietnam : dispatches from the war
Human compatible : artificial intelligence and the problem of control
Daughters of Hecate : women and magic in the ancient world
British literature in transition : 1920-1940 futility and anarchy
D.H. Lawrence and Psychoanalysis
Ransom kidnapping in Italy : crime, memory, and violence
Streaming video : storytelling across borders
Cleopatra : a sourcebook
Behind the search box : Google and the global internet industry
Gendering green criminology
Austerity from the left : social democratic parties in the shadow of the great recession
Misogynoir transformed : black women's digital resistance
Girls make media
The mind of modernism : medicine, psychology, and the cultural arts in Europe and America, 1880-1940
Decentering whiteness in libraries : a framework for inclusive collection management practices
Africa and Byzantium
Compassionomics : the revolutionary scientific evidence that caring makes a difference
Emergent feminisms : complicating a postfeminist media culture
Literature and psychoanalysis