Npr

The people who shaped America's public broadcasting system thought it should be "a civilized voice in a civilized community"—a clear alternative to commercial broadcasting. This book tells the story of how NPR has tried to embody this idea. Michael P. McCauley describes NPR's evolution from virtu...

The running flame

Fang Fang’s explosive short novel inspired widespread social debate in China upon its publication in 2001. In exploring the difficulties of one woman shackled by patriarchal tradition against the backdrop of radical social change, The Running Flame bears witness to widespread experiences of gende...

American stories

Nagai Kafu is one of the greatest modern Japanese writers, but until now his classic collection, American Stories, based on his sojourn from Japan to Washington State, Michigan, and New York City in the early years of the twentieth century, has never been available in English. Here, with a detail...

Learning chinese language and culture

Learning Chinese Language and Culture is an intermediate-level textbook intended for students who have completed introductory courses in Chinese as a foreign language. Written in English and in both traditional and simplified Chinese, this book illustrates Chinese-language knowledge and introduce...

Experiencing europeanization in the black sea and south caucasus

This volume investigates forms of interregionalism in the Black Sea–South Caucasus area in the fields of economic cooperation and the Europeanization of energy and environmental policies. Contributors assess questions such as the effect of the EU on civil society development in Armenia and democr...

Tainted witness

Tainted Witness examines how gender, race, and doubt stick to women witnesses as their testimony circulates in search of an adequate witness.

In the company of strangers

In the Company of Strangers shows how a reconception of family and kinship underlies the revolutionary experiments of the modernist novel. While stories of marriage and long-lost relatives were a mainstay of classic Victorian fiction, Barry McCrea suggests that rival countercurrents within these ...

Shakespeare on love and lust

The complex and sometimes contradictory expressions of love in Shakespeare's works—ranging from the serious to the absurd and back again—arise primarily from his dramatic and theatrical flair rather than from a unified philosophy of love. Untangling his witty, bawdy (and ambiguous) treatment of l...

Genes, brains, and human potential

A rigorous critique of how science has promoted an ideology of limited intelligence and social inequality—and how to overcome it.

On company time

On Company Time tells the story of American modernism from inside the offices and on the pages of the most successful and stylish magazines of the twentieth century. Donal Harris draws out the profound institutional, economic, and aesthetic affiliations between modernism and American magazine cul...

Journal of soviet and post-soviet politics and society

This special section deals with Russia’s post-Maidan foreign policy towards the so-called “near abroad,” or the former Soviet states. This is an important and timely topic, as Russia’s policy perspectives have changed dramatically since 2013/2014, as have those of its neighbors. The Kremlin today...

Remembrance in clay and stone

This book explores the memorial and funerary artistic traditions of Southwest China during the Eastern Han dynasty (25–220 CE).

Nazarbayev—our friend the dictator

"Like David, I am battling against a Goliath that has almost immeasurable means and powerful allies. I don't think I can win, I just want to be heard. No dictatorship lasts forever, and if my contribution can sooner or later bring about its downfall, then I will have achieved what I set out to do...

Subversive semantics in political and cultural discourse

This book examines semantic transfer and inversion as rhetorical tactics in right-wing discourses and populist alternative knowledge production.

Writings on psychoanalysis

New frontiers for youth development in the twenty-first century

Practical guide and theoretical manifesto, New Frontiers for Youth Development is a vital roadmap to the problems and prospects of youth development programs today and in the future.In response to an unprecedented array of challenges, policy makers and care providers in the field of youth dvevelo...

Breaking with the past

Between its founding in 1854 and its collapse in 1952, the Chinese Maritime Customs Service delivered one-third to one-half of all revenue collected by China's central authorities. Much more than a tax collector, the institution managed China's harbors, erected lighthouses, and surveyed the Chine...

A semite

An account of what it was like to be Algerian, Jewish, and French at a time when those “identities” were fighting words.

The untimely resurrection of john alexander macneil

After willing himself back to life with sheer stubbornness, ninety-year-old John Alexander MacNeil finds Death sitting at his kitchen table.

The origins of neoliberalism

Dotan Leshem reveals the role of Christian theology in shaping economic and political thought. Beginning with early Christianity engagement with economic knowledge, he follows the secularization of economics in liberal and neoliberal theory. Only by relocating the origins of modernity in late ant...

Nomadic cinema

Nomadic Cinema is a groundbreaking history of early-twentieth-century exhibition films, analyzing them as visual records of colonialism that also offer new possibilities for recognizing Indigenous histories.

Dostoyevsky, or the flood of language

Julia Kristeva embarks on a wide-ranging and stimulating inquiry into Dostoyevsky’s work and the profound ways it has influenced her own thinking.

A coney island reader

Featuring a stunning gallery of portraits by the world's finest poets, essayists, and fiction writers--including Walt Whitman, Stephen Crane, José Martí, Maxim Gorky, Federico García Lorca, Isaac Bashevis Singer, E. E. Cummings, Djuna Barnes, Colson Whitehead, Robert Olen Butler, and Katie Roiphe...

U.s. corporate governance

Corporate governance constitutes the internal and external institutions, markets, policies, and processes designed to help companies maximize their efficiency and value. In this collection of classic and current articles from the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, thought leaders such as Micha...

Tipping point for advanced capitalism

Changes in the class structure and in class consciousness are setting the stage for new class alliances for democratic socialism.

Plants in place

Plants in Place is a collaborative study of vegetal phenomenology at the intersection of Edward S. Casey’s phenomenology of place and Michael Marder’s plant-thinking.

Economic risks of climate change

A landmark, data-driven assessment for decision makers intent on insuring their interests against climate change.

Outward foreign direct investment and us exports, jobs, and r&d

It is not in the US interest to adopt tax and regulatory policies that would discourage global engagement by US multinational corporations (MNCs). Research presented in this book shows that the expansion of foreign affiliates of US MNCs is positively associated with more production, greater emplo...

At war with government

Polling shows that since the 1950s Americans’ trust in government has fallen dramatically to historically low levels. The political scientists Amy Fried and Douglas B. Harris reveal that this trend is no accident—it is fueled by conservative elites who benefit from it.

Shari'a scripts

Sharīʿa Scripts is a work of historical anthropology focused on Yemen in the early twentieth century. Brinkley Messick uses the writings of the Yemeni past to offer a comprehensive view of the sharīʿa as a localized and lived phenomenon in a groundbreaking examination of the interpretative range ...

Russia after the global economic crisis

Russia After the Global Economic Crisis examines this important country after the financial crisis of 2007–09. The second book from The Russia Balance Sheet Project, a collaboration of two of the world's preeminent research institutions, the Peterson Institute for International Economics and the ...

Subterranean fanon

The problem of change recurs across Frantz Fanon’s writings. Gavin Arnall traces an internal division throughout Fanon’s work, contending that there are two Fanons: a dominant Fanon who conceives of change as a dialectical process of becoming and a subterranean Fanon who experiments with an even ...

Segregation, inequality, and urban development

In present-day South Africa, urban development agendas have inscribed doctrines of desirable and undesirable life in city spaces and the public that uses the space. This book studies the ways in which segregated city spaces, displacement of people from their homes, and criminalization practices a...

Into the quiet and the light

This book invites readers to join in reading multiplicity into South Louisiana’s water-ruled landscapes.

Zones of tradition - places of identity

Gerhard Vinken takes readers to twelve cities on three continents and analyses the diverse and contradictory heritage formations that have had a lasting impact on urban life. The vitality of urban heritage, as these vivid and in-depth case studies show, lies in the dynamic and often conflictual p...

Finntopia

What is it about Finland that makes the country so successful and seemingly such a great place to live? Danny Dorling and Annika Koljonen explore what we might learn from Finnish success and what they might usefully learn from us.

The arts of war

This book highlights the ways in which Ukrainians have long explored the meaning of their country and culture through the arts and how the arts have empowered Ukrainians to confront the Russian invaders.

Doing diversity in museums and heritage

This major multi-researcher ethnography provides new insight into how ›diversity‹ is understood and put into action in museums and heritage. The fieldwork is based on the Humboldt Forum, the Museum of Islamic Art, the Museum für Naturkunde, and the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, as well...

The rise of celebrity authorship

Sarah Danielle Allison illuminates the collective creation of celebrity by tracing unexpected connections within the anarchic nineteenth-century literary marketplace.

The alchemy of disease

In The Alchemy of Disease, John Whysner offers an accessible and compelling history of toxicology and its key findings. He details the experiments and discoveries that revealed the causal connections between chemical exposures and diseases.

»we are all activists«

The variety of intersecting positionings in migrant rights activism results in complex inequalities and power dynamics within activist groups. Solidarities are continually challenged, negotiated, and built. Lea Rzadtki develops a conceptual view on claims, challenges, and processes that activists...