War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has nonethe...

The Roman statesman and philosopher Seneca (4 BCE-65 CE) recorded his moral philosophy and reflec...

Our oceans are becoming increasingly inhospitable to life--growing toxicity and rising temperatur...

Between 1948 and 1955, nearly two-thirds of all American families bought a television set--and a ...

Johann Wilhelm Weinmann was an apothecary who established a botanic garden in Regensburg and set ...

From leading cetacean biologists, an up-to-date, comprehensive collection exploring advancements ...

A study of the transformation of the realist novel in the hands of early-twentieth-century Americ...

An experiment in criticism that explores Henry James's late works through the lens of minimalism.

Lyric Personhood

Pragmatics of Democracy

A new, naturalistic theory of consciousness and sensory experience.

Framing infrastructure as the expression of a state's care for its population, White Care explore...

Acclaimed author and translator Sophus Helle considers an ancient creation story with themes of h...

The definitive portrait of independent filmmaker Robert Kramer that traces the revolutionary drea...

A sweeping work on China that interrogates how states gain, maintain, and lose legitimacy.

Upends current thinking about how early modern people started to conceptualize human beings in te...

An engaging look at the encounter between Jane Addams, Hull House settlement co-founder and Progr...

'Why institutional neutrality is nothing but an illusion. Can a university ever truly be neutral ...

The story of a bold political experiment in nineteenth-century France to establish power through ...

An insightful examination of Latin America's contemporary democratic landscape and how it is mark...

A look at twentieth-century Chinese writers and intellectuals who used the material remains of th...

Joining the unfinished conversation between the satirist Jonathan Swift and the critic Edward Sai...

Upends the 'broken systems' myth and reveals how the law deliberately criminalizes and punishes B...

How did we get to this point in American politics? Drawing on insights from an unprecedented deca...

A sweeping account of how we are at our most human when we turn away from the pains of the world.

Argues that engineers influenced by French Enlightenment science built much of the machinery of A...

A fresh perspective revealing how ethnographic thinking shaped the sociocultural landscape of the...

The Neighborhood

An on-the-ground study of junior police academies--contentious school-police partnerships that pr...

An insightful rethinking of political socialization within Latino immigrant households.

A lively compendium of musical practices and compositions that upend notions of creativity and ex...

A study of how Latin poetry shaped colonial aspirations in sixteenth- to eighteenth-century South...

A masterful, nuanced, and novel examination of Nietzsche's Zarathustra.

Collects critical essays by the author of Making the Second Ghetto.

Dedicated to discussing writings of the European Renaissance that dissented from the dominant val...

Provides a forum for leading economists to participate in important debates in macroeconomics and...

What is the end of the story after a lifetime in gangs?

How France integrated the seafloor into its national territory through an interplay of science, t...

A critical analysis of African Americans' collective efforts to obtain educational equality befor...

A history of human rights that places writers and their ideas at its center.

'A novel epistemology of science contends that good science need not attain its aims, but it must...

'A philosophical engagement with Bresson's many films, attentive to more than their religiosity. ...

A sweeping study that reveals how conservation science does more than simply protect by inadverte...

Joining the unfinished conversation between the satirist Jonathan Swift and the critic Edward Sai...

A sweeping account of how we are at our most human when we turn away from the pains of the world.

How evangelical businessmen in the 1930s and 1940s joined their religious and business lives.

A revealing, data-rich exploration of how American legislators transformed from active policymake...

Writings on black men's cultural production and black masculinity by one of today's leading histo...