Among the brilliant writers and thinkers who emerged from the multicultural and multilingual worl...

'The new field of spatial history has been driven by digital mapping tools that can readily show ...

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

In this vital new study, Andrew Abbott presents a fresh and daring analysis of the evolution and ...

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 ...

The island nation of Iceland is known for many things--majestic landscapes, volcanic eruptions, d...

The Climate of Alaska

Examines the transformation of vernacular knowledge during a pivotal period of modern Chinese his...

'In a world of crises that today undermine the humanities, what can still motivate humanists to w...

'The concept of revolution as we understand it today did not exist in antiquity. Despite the word...

A translation of the twelfth book of The Mah­­abharata, an epic tale of history and kingship, rei...

'The concept of revolution as we understand it today did not exist in antiquity. Despite the word...

'This pioneering book on performance art in Vienna in the 1960s, the first English-language study...

Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes unpacks the interpretive problems of colonial treaty-mak...

Our lives are filled with objects--ones that we carry with us, that define our homes, that serve ...

Presents cutting-edge scholarship by preeminent criminology scholars.

'More than two decades have passed since the 9 11 terrorist attacks resuscitated debates about th...

Going against the grain, this refreshing book argues for a non-ideological portrait of the Enligh...

'Reevaluates Nicolaus Steno's contributions to anatomy and early modern science, examining his in...

Upends entrenched thinking about cities, demonstrating how urban economies are defined-or constra...

'Reevaluates Nicolaus Steno's contributions to anatomy and early modern science, examining his in...

'Ghosts behind Glass is a moving exploration of displays of extinct animals in museums around the...

'The winner of four Emmys, a Peabody, and two Writers Guild Awards (all of which badly need dusti...

'Love cannot be everlasting, much as we might desire it to be so. So, what is love in a life that...

'Climate change is increasingly accepted as a global emergency creating irrevocable losses for th...

'This pioneering book on performance art in Vienna in the 1960s, the first English-language study...

'Much of the political discourse on data revolves around issues of privacy, surveillance, and lib...

A groundbreaking retelling of the advent of British rule in Sri Lanka.How did the modern nation o...

Rigorous nonpartisan research on the effects of economic forces and public policy on entrepreneur...

'A practical guide to more fully achieving a meritocratic society. As America's most vaunted cult...

Can a game take care of us? And do we want it to?

A nuanced reassessment of US democratic responsiveness and public opinion on economic policy that...

A nuanced reassessment of US democratic responsiveness and public opinion on economic policy that...

What makes a real game? Who is a gamer? And what type of play do we value?

A provocative reassessment of Heidegger's critique of German Idealism from one of the tradition's...

Has American democracy outstripped its constitutional accommodations? Faith in the resilience and...

'Love cannot be everlasting, much as we might desire it to be so. So, what is love in a life that...

A compelling portrait of post-disaster imaginaries of repair in Nepal.

A compelling portrait of post-disaster imaginaries of repair in Nepal.

A landmark practical guide from the twenty-first-century pioneer in economics.

'A sweeping examination of how the religious landscape has changed in post-Mao China. In Religiou...

The Unruly Facts of Race

The latest volume in the Metropolitan Museum Journal series.

Opera and the Built Environment

'An unprecedented portrait of Sikh devotional music demonstrating how musical traditions shift to...

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

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