Catherine Porter

53 books

Good Bread Is Back: A Contemporary History of French Bread, the Way It Is Made, and the People Who Make It by Steven Laurence Kaplan, Catherine Porter

Good Bread Is Back: A Contemporary History of French Bread, the Way It Is Made, and the People Who Make It

Steven Laurence Kaplan, Catherine Porter

384 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
An Inquiry Into Modes of Existence: An Anthropology of the Moderns by Bruno Latour

An Inquiry Into Modes of Existence: An Anthropology of the Moderns

Bruno Latour

486 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction philosophy challenging informative medium-paced
The Middle East Under Rome by Maurice Sartre, Catherine Porter, Elizabeth Rawlings

The Middle East Under Rome

Maurice Sartre, Catherine Porter, Elizabeth Rawlings

665 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
On Justification: Economies of Worth by Luc Boltanski, Laurent Thévenot

On Justification: Economies of Worth

Luc Boltanski, Laurent Thévenot

389 pages • first pub 1991 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences Into Democracy by Bruno Latour

Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences Into Democracy

Bruno Latour

320 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction philosophy science challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Queer Turn in Feminism: Identities, Sexualities, and the Theater of Gender by Anne Emmanuelle Berger

The Queer Turn in Feminism: Identities, Sexualities, and the Theater of Gender

Commonalities

Anne Emmanuelle Berger

240 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction feminism gender challenging informative medium-paced
Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity by Catherine Porter, Robert Sayre, Michael Löwy

Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity

Catherine Porter, Robert Sayre, Michael Löwy

328 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Socrates by Sarah Kofman

Socrates

Sarah Kofman

352 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction classics history literary philosophy challenging reflective medium-paced
Theories of the Symbol: Understanding Politics in an Unfamiliar Culture by Catherine Porter, Tzvetan Todorov

Theories of the Symbol: Understanding Politics in an Unfamiliar Culture

Catherine Porter, Tzvetan Todorov

302 pages • first pub 1977 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy politics challenging informative medium-paced
Absent Without Leave: French Literature Under the Threat of War by Denis Hollier

Absent Without Leave: French Literature Under the Threat of War

Denis Hollier

248 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

informative reflective slow-paced