Wall streeters

Many of Wall Street's contemporary trends can be traced back to the work of fourteen critical figures who wrote, and occasionally broke, the rules of American finance. Edward Morris details Wall Street's transformation from a clubby enclave of financiers to a symbol of vast economic power.

A brief history of entrepreneurship

A Brief History of Entrepreneurship charts how the pursuit of profit by private individuals has been a prime mover in revolutionizing civilization. Entrepreneurs circumvent, innovate, and violate to obtain what they want. This creative destruction has brought about a host of revolutionary technol...

Angela su

Angela Su: Melancholia is published in conjunction with the artist's eponymously titled first solo exhibition in the Western Hemisphere.

Image and insight

Eco-disasters in japanese cinema

Eco-Disasters in Japanese Cinema explores disaster as a powerful means for addressing environmental crises. It is the first book dedicated to a multi-genre analysis of environmental themes in Japanese cinema.

The class politics of law

For nearly fifty years, Professor Harry Glasbeek has been at the forefront of legal scholars and public intellectuals challenging assumptions and understandings about the injustices embedded in the economic, social, political and legal orders of Western capitalist democracies. His writings and te...

Cotton, climate, and camels in early islamic iran

A boom in the production and export of cotton made Iran the richest region of the Islamic caliphate in the ninth and tenth centuries. Yet in the eleventh century, Iran's impressive agricultural economy entered a steep decline, bringing the country's primacy to an end.Richard W. Bulliet advances s...

Negotiating governance on non-traditional security in southeast asia and beyond

Mely Caballero-Anthony examines how non-traditional security challenges have changed state behavior and security practices in Southeast Asia and the wider East Asia region. She analyzes how non-state actors are engaging with states, regional organizations, and institutional frameworks to address ...

Azaleas

Available for the first time in English, Azaleas is a captivating collection of poems by a master of the early Korean modernist style. Published in 1925, Azaleas is the only collection Kim Sowol (1902-1934) produced during his brief life, yet he remains one of Korea's most beloved and well-known ...

Talking about torture

When the photographs depicting torture at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison were released in 2004, U.S. politicians attributed the incident to a few bad apples in the American military, exonerated high-ranking members of the George W. Bush administration, promoted Guantánamo as a model prison, and dismiss...

Desire and fate

Brilliant and unsparing essays on the blind spots and maladies of contemporary culture.

The columbia anthology of traditional chinese literature

Governance in the new global disorder

Has globalization made the world ungovernable?

Mark twain: tom sawyer and huckleberry finn

In Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain presented for the first time the vernacular of the Mississippi River region, explored the myths and fables of the nation's past, and looked to the choices facing a rapidly changing society. Moving from a discussion of the novels' early receptions, th...

Whose body?

Judith Jarvis Thomson’s “A Defense of Abortion” is a cornerstone of modern moral philosophy, widely taught, fiercely debated, and endlessly cited.

Tibetan buddhists in the making of modern china

Over the past century and with varying degrees of success, China has tried to integrate Tibet into the modern Chinese nation-state. In this groundbreaking work, Gray Tuttle reveals the surprising role Buddhism and Buddhist leaders played in the development of the modern Chinese state and in foste...

Common boundaries

How do we – and how should we – engage with the natural environment through the concepts of rights and responsibilities? Michael Cox develops a theory and practice of environmental property rights, moving beyond simplistic assumptions that do not reflect the diversity of arrangements we see in th...

The met

New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world’s greatest cultural institutions. Its holdings encompass a vast range—including paintings, sculptures, costumes, instruments, and arms and armor—and span millennia, from ancient Egypt and Greece to Islamic art to European Old Masters ...

The horror genre

A comprehensive introduction to the history and key themes of the genre. The main issues and debates raised by horror, and the approaches and theories that have been applied to horror texts are all featured. In addressing the evolution of the horror film in social and historical context, Paul Wel...

Electric dreamland

Amusement parks were the playgrounds of the working class in the early twentieth century, combining numerous, mechanically-based spectacles into one unique, modern cultural phenomenon. Lauren Rabinovitz describes the urban modernity engendered by these parks and their media, encouraging ordinary ...

Robert n. butler, md

Robert Neil Butler was a scholar, psychiatrist, and Pulitzer Prize–winning author who revolutionized the way the world thinks about aging and the elderly. One of the first psychiatrists to engage with older men and women outside of institutional settings, Butler coined the term “ageism” to draw a...

Freedom and the self

Contemporary philosophers assess the late author’s ideas on fatalism, free will, and art.

Loveknowledge

Since its inception, philosophy has struggled to perfect individual understanding through discussion and dialogue based in personal, poetic, or dramatic investigation. The positions of such philosophers as Socrates, Spinoza, Rousseau, Nietzsche, Foucault, and Derrida differ in almost every respec...

“i hate feminists!”

A people's history of india 30

This book considers the first phase of Indian popular resistance to colonial rule, including the Revolt of 1857–58, its nature and legacy; the rise of national consciousness; the movement for social reform and political awakening among the middle classes, and, finally, Gandhiji’s arrival and the ...

The still good times

Born in Hannover in 1905 as a German Jew, Fred Harry Meyer (1905–1969) and his new Christian bride fled to the U.S. in the nick of time in 1937. His autobiography provides a vivid and detailed yet flowing picture of the life left behind in Germany and the events that led to Nazism, World War II, ...

My ukraine

A collection of Leonid Finberg's writings and a testament to his reflections on culture, history, and the present.

The portable kristeva

As a linguist, Julia Kristeva has pioneered a revolutionary theory of the sign in its relation to social and political emancipation; as a practicing psychoanalyst, she has produced work on the nature of the human subject and sexuality, and on the "new maladies" of today's neurotic. The Portable K...

Beginner's finnish with online audio

Narratives of the russo-ukrainian war

This book presents a collection of selected essays and interviews with scholars and experts that were published by the Forum for Ukrainian Studies in the first two years after Russia’s full-scale invasion.

Accidents and the state

The beginning of the twentieth century saw a reinterpretation of the concept of the accident. The contributions in this volume explore social, cultural, political, administrative, and medical responses to accidents in modern states. The case studies include British, French, German, Italian, Chine...

Becoming an ally, 4th edition

Becoming an Ally explores the role of allies in the struggle against structural oppressions like racism, sexism and heterosexism.

The diagnostic system

The sociologist Jason Schnittker looks at the multiple actors involved in crafting the DSM and the many interests that the manual hopes to serve. The Diagnostic System urges us to become comfortable with the socially constructed nature of categorization and accept that a perfect taxonomy of menta...

Music for bamboo strings

A new Collection of haunting prose and poetry from Carlos Pintado.

Bullshit jobs: a work rant

Bullshit Jobs is part polemic, part social theory, and part cathartic scream—a razor-sharp diagnosis of a system that rewards appearance over substance, and a call to imagine something radically better.

Karl polanyi's political and economic thought

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to Karl Polanyi’s work by examining the key themes that run throughout his work. Each chapter introduces the relevant aspects of Polanyi’s writings and highlights the connections that Polanyi has with contemporary issues and debates.

Opening access to scenario planning tools

In the face of increasing complexity and uncertainty, planners, public officials, and community residents need new tools to anticipate and shape the future. Opening Access to Scenario Planning Tools examines the current state of scenario planning and scenario planning tools that can help communit...

Voice assistants in private homes

This book discusses voice assistants and how they have transformed everyday linguistic, media, and data practices thanks to platformized conditions and new interfaces.

Scoundrels and shirkers

This book integrates a sophisticated analysis of contemporary poverty with a full historical account of capitalism.

The nose and other stories

The tales collected in The Nose and Other Stories are among the greatest achievements of world literature. They showcase Nikolai Gogol’s vivid, haunting imagination: an encounter with evil in a darkened church, a downtrodden clerk who dreams only of a new overcoat, a nose that falls off a face an...

River of becoming

A lavishly illustrated volume is the authoritative biography of a consummate self-portraitist and a riveting depiction of a paradoxical personality.