Taken for Granted links semiotics, social theory, and contemporary issues with great facility, yielding wonderful insights."--Ari Adut, author of Reign of Appearances: The Misery and Splendor of the Public Sphere

A little book about a very big idea, Taken for Granted draws our attention to what we implicitly assume to be normal—and in the process unsettles the very notion of normality.

Puchner ranges across four thousand years of world literature to draw vital lessons about how we put ourselves on the path of climate change.

This book is an introduction to the Seiberg-Witten invariants. The work begins with a review of the classical material on Spin c structures and their associated Dirac operators.

This book is an introduction to the Seiberg-Witten invariants. The work begins with a review of the classical material on Spin c structures and their associated Dirac operators.

This is a study of the history of the formulation of the notion of 'survivor guilt' after Auschwitz, the debates over the usefulness of the notion of survivor guilt, and its recent displacement by notions of shame.

This book starts with the elementary theory of Lie groups of matrices and arrives at the definition, elementary properties, and first applications of cohomological induction, which is a recently discovered algebraic construction of group ...

If we are to avoid environmental disaster, we must learn to tell the story of humans as a species responsible for global warming.

This book starts with the elementary theory of Lie groups of matrices and arrives at the definition, elementary properties, and first applications of cohomological induction, which is a recently discovered algebraic construction of group ...

The book is a delight."--Val Fitch, Princeton University, 1980 Nobel laureate in physics "Opinionated and well-informed, this is a lucid promotion of rationality in a world of rising superstition.