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Literary Criticism
More than a gathering of essays, That Self-Forgetful Perfectly Useless Concentration is part memoir, part literary criticism, and an artful fusion of the two. It is an intimate portrait of a life in poetry that only Alan... See More
Poetry
Poetry about places -- from a supermarket to a strip club to a suburban home -- from a poet who "seeks what lies at the deepest level of the human heart" (Chicago Tribune). In Night of the Republic, Alan Shapiro takes us... See More
Poetry
"Searing, hauntingly sad, often hilarious, these poems... reconnect the circuits of the soul." -- Martha C. Nussbaum, University of Chicago We often ask ourselves what gets lost in translation -- not just between languages... See More
Poetry
Family Life
As a little girl growing up in Boston, Miriam Bluestein fantasized about a life lived on stage, specifically in a musical. Get married, have a family -- sure, maybe she'd do those things, too, but first and foremost there... See More
Poetry
Award-winning poet Alan Shapiro offers a new collection of poems reflecting on mortality and finitude. Alan Shapiro's fourteenth collection of poetry, Proceed to Check Out, is a kind of summing up, or stock-taking, by an... See More
Literature & FictionJim Carlsons most vivid memories of childhood are of his estranged fathers obsession with parring the Savage. Located on the island of Caramus, the 458-yard, par 4, 16th hole at Wild Links has presumably never been parred... See More
Drama & Plays
Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series... See More
Literature & Fiction
Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series... See More
Literature & Fiction
Reel to Reel, Alan Shapiro's twelfth collection of poetry, moves outward from the intimate spaces of family and romantic life to embrace not only the human realm of politics and culture but also the natural world, and even... See More
Science Fiction & FantasyWhat is the meaning of virtual reality and the Holodeck on Star Trek? This ebook by noted science fiction scholar and technologist Alan Shapiro provides detailed explanations of the technology of VR, and of the technology... See More
Science Fiction & FantasyWhat is the meaning of "beaming" on Star Trek? This ebook by noted science fiction scholar and technologist Alan Shapiro explains in detail the science and technology of teleportation. Shapiro also considers in detail the... See More
Science FictionWhat is the meaning of time travel on Star Trek? How could the science and technology of time travel actually work? Noted science fiction scholar and technologist Alan Shapiro answers these questions. He considers in... See More
Science & MathNoted media and technology theorist and sociologist Alan Shapiro writes about the contemporary Information Society which we now inhabit. How Can We Redefine Information in the Age of Social Media? Meaningful Information... See More
Science FictionWhat is the meaning of warp speed or FTL speed on Star Trek? How have theoretical physicists explained the scientific possibility of going faster than the speed of light, beyond what Einstein believed was the limit-speed of... See More
Humor & EntertainmentNoted television series expert Alan Shapiro analyses the TV show "Lost" in relation to famous flights and crashes in the history of aviation: Yuri Gagarin's first manned spaceflight in 1961, John Glenn's first orbital... See More
Science Fiction & FantasyNoted science fiction and technology theorist Alan Shapiro examines Star Trek in relation to the cyborg theory of Donna Haraway. Mr. Spock of The Original Series is a classic cyborg figure, as is Seven of Nine of... See More
Science FictionNoted science fiction scholar and technologist Alan Shapiro examines the meaning of the android Data on "Star Trek: The Next Generation." The android is analyzed in relation to the idea of simulation of Jean Baudrillard... See More
Politics & Social SciencesNoted Baudrillard scholar Alan Shapiro discusses the following books of Baudrillard: "The System of Objects," "The Illusion of the End," "Symbolic Exchange and Death," "In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities... or the End of... See More
Politics & Social SciencesThis volume contains 9 selected interviews with or by the noted media and technology thinker Alan Shapiro: A New Computer Science is Underway: Alan N. Shapiro interviewed by Anja Wiesinger "I Bring Philosophy and... See More
Politics & Social SciencesSix political essays by noted philosopher and sociologist Alan Shapiro. Towards a New Green Politics Twenty Basic Principles of a New Green Politics Play, Don't Work in a Pragmatic-Utopian High-Tech Enterprise My Friend... See More
Engineering & TransportationA collection of essays and lectures on future design. "The Plane of the Future" "Cloud Computing, Teleportation and the New Real" "The Car of the Future" "Towards a Unified Existential Science of Humans and... See More
Politics & Social SciencesAn overview of the work of Alan Shapiro and Alexis Clancy in developing a new unconventional utopian mathematics which corresponds to the new paradigm of "cognitive computing" or right-brain "creative computing," beyond the... See More
Biographies & MemoirsAutobiographical and creative writing by Alan Shapiro. These are also important works for the field of American Studies. "The Wandering Spectacle" "Beginner's Luck (A Casino Gambling Story)" "Jacked Into the Point... See More
Computers & TechnologyNoted philosopher, technology thinker and software developer Alan Shapiro writes about "the software of the future." "Power to the Objects" "Society of the Instance" "New Computer Science, New Mathematics" "Transforming... See More
Literature & FictionThe Summer 1981 issue of Ploughshares, guest-edited by Alan Williamson. Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary... See More