The Secret World of Doing Nothing
Explores the unobserved moments in our daily lives—such as waiting for a bus, daydreaming by the window or performing a routine task—and illuminates these “empty” times as full of significance.
Signs of the Times
A history of Jim Crow signs from their appearance in the later half of the nineteenth century through their destruction in the civil rights movement of the 1960s and 70s.
Absolute Music, Mechanical Reproduction
A book about how recording technology changes the way we hear and think about Western European Absolute music, music that is not explicitly "about" anything.
Drop That Knowledge
A behind the scenes look at Youth Radio, a youth media organization headquartered in Oakland, CA.