Targeting top terrorists

Bryan C. Price offers a data-driven examination of leadership decapitation tactics in counterterrorism. Analyzing hundreds of cases of leadership turnover from over two hundred terrorist groups, Price demonstrates that the loss of top leaders significantly reduces terror groups’ life spans.

What we owe one another

Simone Weil argues that justice does not begin with claims, but with what we owe to the vulnerable core in every human being. Against entitlement and abstraction, she offers something rarer: attention, restraint, and moral seriousness.

Dimensions. journal of architectural knowledge

Dimensions is a journal in, on and from the discipline of architecture, addressing the creation, constitution and transmission of architectural knowledge. Issue 2 investigates lived experience as source for the constitution of knowledge.

The capitalist era

A sweeping history of global interdependence from the late eighteenth to the twenty-first century—with essential lessons for todayIn The Capitalist Era, leading global historian Jeremy Adelman puts the world’s current unwinding in much-needed historical perspective. Combining political, economic,...

The price of collapse

How climate change ushered in the collapse of one of history’s mighty empiresIn 1644, after close to three centuries of relative stability and prosperity, the Ming dynasty collapsed. Many historians attribute its demise to the Manchu invasion of China, but the truth is far more profound. The Pric...

Latter-day pamphlets, part i

The final volume of the Norman and Charlotte Strouse Edition of the Writings of Thomas Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets, situates the Victorian philosopher, social critic, and essayist’s most contentious works within the social context of mid-nineteenth-century crises, including the revolutions of 1...

Biohacking, bodies and do-it-yourself

Biohacking brings biology, medicine, and the material foundation of life into the sphere of “do-it-yourself.” Covering a broad range of examples, this book explores practices and representations of biohacking in popular culture, discussing their ambiguous position between empowerment and requirem...

After the flush

Looking beyond current sanitation models in the US to develop new ways of managing human waste as a resource.What happens when you flush the toilet? Where does the waste go?In this engagingly written ethnographic study, Nick Kawa follows the trail of human bodily excrement as it travels through m...

The power of tolerance

We invoke the ideal of tolerance in response to conflict, but what does it mean to answer conflict with a call for tolerance? Is tolerance a way of resolving conflicts or a means of sustaining them? Does it transform conflicts into productive tensions, or does it perpetuate underlying power relat...

An anthology

A compelling selection of Valéry’s poetry and proseDrawn from the authoritative Collected Works of Paul Valéry, this anthology offers an introduction to the diverse genius of this important poet and essayist. The volume features “The Evening with Monsieur Teste” (1896), from Jackson Mathews’s Nat...

When the garden isn’t eden

Through poignant and sometimes painful stories from their personal and professional lives, three practicing psychoanalysts demonstrate the richness of psychodynamic thinking. Each chapter offers an illustrative and powerful personal vignette followed by an analytical reflection that explicates ke...

Discovery at rosetta

Philosophy in turbulent times

For Elisabeth Roudinesco, a historian of psychoanalysis and one of France's leading intellectuals, Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, and Derrida represent a "great generation" of French philosophers who accomplished remarkable work and lived incredible lives. These troubled and in...

From the 20th to the 21st century

Unsentimental, rigorous, and newly urgent, From the 20th to the 21st Century demands to be read not as a document of its time, but as a work that clarifies ours—and one that will shape how it is understood.

Origins of the just war

A groundbreaking history of the ethics of war in the ancient Near EastOrigins of the Just War reveals the incredible richness and complexity of ethical thought about war in the three millennia preceding the Greco-Roman period, establishing the extent to which ancient just war thought prefigured m...

How the new world became old

How the idea of deep time transformed how Americans see their country and themselvesDuring the nineteenth century, Americans were shocked to learn that the land beneath their feet had once been stalked by terrifying beasts. T. rex and Brontosaurus ruled the continent. North America was home to sa...

Nbc goes to war

The diary of radio correspondent James Cassidy presents a unique view of World War II as this reporter followed the Allied armies into Nazi Germany.James Joseph Cassidy was one of 362 American journalists accredited to cover the European Theater of Operations between June 7, 1944, and the war’s e...

Gastropolis

Whether you're digging into a slice of cherry cheesecake, burning your tongue on a piece of fiery Jamaican jerk chicken, or slurping the broth from a juicy soup dumpling, eating in New York City is a culinary adventure unlike any other in the world.An irresistible sampling of the city's rich food...

The state and your hard-earned money

How fiscal and economic policy choices reflect moral points of viewHow much of your hard-earned money is it fair for the state to tax? What public services should the state finance with that money? Surveys show that people care more about fairness than efficiency in fiscal and economic matters, a...

Refiguration of cyberspace

An exploration of the spatial refiguration of the Internet from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Jewish-ukrainian relations and the birth of a political nation

This selection of essays and dispatches examines Ukrainian-Jewish relations in the context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and charts the events that took place in Ukraine after the 2013-2014 Euromaidan Revolution.

Why the assembly disbanded

Pushing the boundaries of Latinx literature and what constitutes a borderlands poetics.Throughout Roberto Tejada’s body of work, the renowned poet and celebrated critic has explored themes of Latinx culture, politics, history, language, and ecologies. In his latest collection, Why the Assembly Di...

How to read chinese poetry in context

How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context is an introduction to the golden age of Chinese poetry, spanning the earliest times through the Tang dynasty. Presenting poems in Chinese along with English translations and commentary, it is a pioneering and versatile text for the study of Chinese language, ...

Analects

A collection of Valéry’s shorter prose writingsThis book brings together smaller volumes and booklets in which Paul Valéry published selections of his shorter prose writings: aphorisms, moral reflections, poetic observations, flashes of wit or fancy, even jokes—a variety of remarks and impression...

Warzone ecology

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Following its 2003 invasion of Iraq, the US government partnered with Iraqi exiles, global environmental institutions, donor stat...

Understanding language use in the classroom

A proper understanding of academic English and how to use it is crucial for success in college, and yet students face multiple obstacles in acquiring this new 'code'. In this expanded edition, PowerPoint presentations and instructor materials are included to help educators engage students in this...

Political exercise

Lawrence D. Brown presents five case studies of cities that have promoted active living with varying success through a range of approaches. He shows how and why the transformation of a call for public intervention into projects, programs, and policies is inescapably political.

Climate change

This second edition of Climate Change is an accessible and comprehensive guide to the science behind global warming. Edmond A. Mathez and Jason E. Smerdon provide a broad, informative introduction to the science that underlies our understanding of the climate system and the effects of human activ...

The racial unfamiliar

John Brooks examines a range of abstractionist, experimental, and genre-defying works by Black writers and artists that challenge how audiences perceive and imagine race. He argues that literature and visual art that exceed the confines of familiar conceptions of Black identity can upend received...

Hidden in the heavens

An insider’s account of the NASA mission that changed our understanding of planets, planetary systems, and the stars they orbitAre we alone in the universe? It’s a fundamental question for Earth-dwelling humankind. Are there other worlds like ours, out there somewhere? In Hidden in the Heavens, J...

Profitably healthy companies

Profitably Healthy Companies lays out ten essential principles of organizational development for sustained success. Bringing together practical and academic expertise, W. Warner Burke and Michael O’Malley detail proven methods for every organization at each level.

Reconstruction in a globalizing world

As one of the most complexly divisive periods in American history, Reconstruction has been the subject of a rich scholarship. Historians have studied the period’s racial views, political maneuverings, divisions between labor and capital, debates about woman suffrage, and of course its struggle be...

Queer god de amor

Queer God de Amor explores the mystery of God and the relationship between divine and human persons. It does so by turning to the sixteenth-century writings of John of the Cross on mystical union with God and the metaphor of sexual relationship that he uses to describe this union. Juan’s mystical...

Sacred language

A grand tour of some of the most influential thinkers and enduring practices of Islam, exploring ideas about language that continue to shape scholarship, life, and art.While Islam is almost as varied as its nearly two billion adherents, most Muslims embrace the truth of divine revelation and the ...

Horror film and otherness

Adam Lowenstein offers a new account of horror and why it matters for understanding social otherness. He argues that horror films reveal how the category of the other is not fixed. Instead, the genre captures ongoing metamorphoses across “normal” self and “monstrous” other.

Dialogues

A collection of Valéry’s dialogues, which are among his most important works of the imagination in proseDialogues came naturally to Paul Valéry, providing the common ground between imagination and philosophy that he was always seeking. He called the dialogue “the most supple of the forms of expre...

Neurotheology

Andrew Newberg explores the latest findings of neurotheology, the multidisciplinary field linking neuroscience with religious and spiritual phenomena. He investigates some of the most controversial—and potentially transformative—implications of a neurotheological approach.

Making war on the world

Mark Shirk examines historical and contemporary state responses to transnational violence to develop a new account of the making of global orders. He considers a series of crises that plagued the state system: piracy in the eighteenth century, anarchist “propagandists of the deed” at the turn of ...

The complexity paradigm

In this groundbreaking book, Doug Garnett shows how complexity science reveals a new understanding of how business works that is as useful on the front lines as in the C-suite.

Shadows of being

In a review of the work of Karl Jaspers, Martin Heidegger suggested that his philosophical orientation had skirted by the fundamental path of thought. This book delves into the philosophical sources of this influence and raises the question whether Heidegger indeed made good on the promise to rev...

Members of his body

Framing the Christian defense of marital monogamy against Ephesians 5’s suggestion that all believers are married in Christ, this book argues for the presence of competing marriage theologies in four Shakespeare plays: The Comedy of Errors, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, and The Winter’s Tale.

Social influence and the logic of collective action

An integrated quantitative framework for understanding the dynamics of collective action Collective action has been a fundamental aspect of human societies throughout history, from building irrigation systems and defenses in Neolithic times to coordinated disaster relief and scientific collaborat...

Hot locations

This book examines how vast, arid environments have become a coveted natural resource for American and European film and media producers. Seeking to sustain the colonial imaginary of the uninhabited frontier, the screen industries increasingly depend on states in the former colonies, transforming...

Serving the wealthy

The invisible relationship between the ultra-rich and their domestic workersBehind the facades of luxurious Parisian buildings, the immense gates of châteaux, and the bay windows of vast villas on the Côte d'Azur, live the invisible workers who serve the ultra-wealthy of France. Housekeepers, but...

Common image

Ingrid Hoelzl and Rémi Marie develop the notion of the common image—a multisensory perception and common ethics that transcend species-bound ways of living. Highlighting the notion of the common as opposed to the immune, the authors ultimately advocate otherness as a common ground for a larger th...

The tale of cho ung

The Tale of Cho Ung is one of the most widely read and beloved stories of Chosŏn Korea. The anonymously written tale recounts the adventures of protagonist Cho Ung as he overcomes obstacles and grows into a heroic young man. This first translation into English offers a glimpse into early modern K...

Stravaging “strange”

This book presents three tales that encapsulate Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s gift for creating philosophical, satirical, and lyrical phantasmagorias. It also includes excerpts from his notebooks—aphoristic glimpses of his worldview, moods, humor, and writing methods—and reminiscences of Krzhizhanov...

Vasyl stus

Vasyl Stus’s son and literary scholar Dmytro Stus masterfully combines a cultural and biographical study with private recollections and observations of his father. The book offers a sometimes-paradoxical merger of genres mixing academic analysis with novelistic narration. It shows Vasyl Stus thro...