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A rasa reader
This book is the first in any language to follow the evolution of rasa, or taste, the word Indian intellectuals chose to describe art's aesthetics. A Rasa Reader ranges from rasa's origins in dramaturgical thought—a concept for the stage—to its flourishing in literary thought—a concept for the page.
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Addressing racial disproportionality and disparities in human services
The first book to examine disproportionality across various systems of care and multiple ethnic populations.
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The boxer
In The Boxer, Gabriele Tinti returns to the ancient bronze known as the Boxer at Rest, a figure seated, battered, unvanquished, and draws from it a sequence of poems as spare and unrelenting as the object itself.
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On the pulse of time
This book brings together, for the first time, the bilingual collection of journalistic writings on India by the Nobel Prize-awarded Guatemalan-Spanish writer, Miguel Ángel Asturias.
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Who is the asianist?
Who Is the Asianist? reconsiders the past, present, and future of Asian studies through the lens of positionality and an analysis of race with an emphasis on Blackness in Asia. This book insists that change within Asian studies will occur only when it reckons with the entirety of the scholars, ge...
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Extinction studies
Extinction Studies focuses on the entangled ecological and social dimensions of extinction, exploring the ways in which extinction catastrophically interrupts life-giving processes of time, death, and generations. The volume opens up important philosophical questions about our place in, and oblig...
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An american problem
The rise and fall of the Voting Rights Act, from the triumph of its passage in 1965 to its evisceration by the Supreme Court in their 2013 decision in Shelby County v. HolderThe Voting Rights Act of 1965 finally made good on the promise of the Fifteenth Amendment, which nearly a century before ha...
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The anarchical society
In this fundamental text, Hedley Bull explores three key questions: What is the nature of order in world politics? How is it maintained within the contemporary states system? And do desirable and feasible alternatives to the states system exist? Contrary to common claims, Bull asserts that the so...
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New york, 1860
This book is a biography of New York City in the year before the Civil War, from the moment the telegraph brought news of John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry in October 1859 to the first shots on Fort Sumter in the spring of 1861.
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The question of antisemitism
A nuanced and authoritative account of what constitutes antisemitism—and when criticizing Israel or supporting Palestine becomes antisemiticSince the October 7, 2023, attack by Hamas on Israel and Israel’s ensuing war in Gaza, difficult questions about when criticism of Israel or support for Pale...
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The concept of social class in contemporary marxist theory
This book reconsiders theorists who represent the backbone of Marxist thought: Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Antonio Gramsci, E. P. Thompson, Nicos Poulantzas, Erik O. Wright, Antonio Negri, and John Holloway, with references to Rosa Luxemburg, Georg Lukács, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Ralph Miliband.
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Evidence-based policy making in the social sciences
Drawing on the insights of some of the world’s leading authorities in public policy analysis, this important book offers a distinct and critical showcase of emerging forms of discovery for policy-making. Chapter by chapter this expert group of social scientists showcase their chosen method or app...
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Demystifying international public procurement
Demystifying International Public Procurement offers a comprehensive exploration of procurement processes funded by leading international development agencies, demystifying a system that generates trillions of dollars in business opportunities but remains inaccessible to many practitioners.
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What slaveholders think
Drawing on fifteen years of work in the antislavery movement, Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick examines the systematic oppression of men, women, and children in rural India. Through frank and unprecedented conversations with slaveholders, Choi-Fitzpatrick reveals the condescending and paternalistic though...
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The new pragmatist sociology
In The New Pragmatist Sociology, Neil Gross, Isaac Ariail Reed, and Christopher Winship assemble a range of sociologists to address essential ideas in the field and their historical and theoretical connection to classical pragmatism.
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States and the masters of capital
Today, states’ ability to borrow private capital depends on stringent evaluations of their creditworthiness. While many presume that this has long been the case, Quentin Bruneau argues that it is a surprisingly recent phenomenon—the outcome of a pivotal shift in the social composition of financia...
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What makes a good mathematics lesson
American educators Douglas Corey and Blake Peterson and Japanese colleagues Hiroyuki Ninomiya, Kazuhiko Soma, and Susumu Kunimune explor What Makes a Good Mathematics Lesson, leading to the development of key considerations for planning and criteria for evaluating lesson quality.
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Living with gandhi
Living with Gandhi: Experiments in Utopia tells the story of everyday life at four of Gandhi’s communities in India and South Africa.
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Social justice and the urban obesity crisis
A number of economic, cultural, and contextual factors are driving urban America's obesity crisis, which can create chronic health conditions for those least able to manage them. Considering urban obesity through a social justice lens, this book is the first to help social workers and others deve...
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Building the new american economy
Jeffrey D. Sachs shows how the United States can find a path to renewed economic progress that is fair and environmentally sustainable. Sachs explores issues including infrastructure, trade deals, energy policy, and income inequality, providing illuminating and accessible explanations of the forc...
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The arts of war: ukrainian artists confront russia
The stories presented here from the war’s fourth year highlight the ways in which Ukrainians have explored the meaning of their country and culture through the arts; and the way the arts and their creators have empowered Ukrainians to confront the Russian invaders.
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Anti-oppressive social work ethics
Departing from traditional approaches, this book presents an anti-oppressive model to help social workers make ethical decisions that adhere to professional mandates while pursuing systemic social change.
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Ice manual of health and safety in construction
ICE Manual of Health and Safety in Construction: Safety Hazard Control is a valuable guide to the safety issues that can arise on construction projects, and the requirements for effective health and safety practices.
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Cloud of the impossible
A progressive reading of the history of the unknown that projects a hopeful future.
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Peripheral creativities
Peripheral Creativities examines the intersection of urban segregation, creative practices, and public policy in understanding marginalised youth living in peripheral territories.
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Global domestic workers
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Drawing from the EU-funded DomEQUAL research project across 9 countries in Europe, South America and Asia, this comparative study explores the conditions of domestic workers around the world and the campaigns they are conducting to impro...
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Manifestations of male image in the world’s cultures
Manifestations of Male Image in the World’s Cultures shows a single cultural phenomenon from a number of diverse perspectives. Methods used to analyze the titular male image range from Literary Studies and Cultural Studies to Media Studies.
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Turning points
We live in a complex and rapidly changing world that demands effective leadership more than ever before; Turning Points examines the profound connection between pivotal historical events and the evolution of leadership practices.
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Worlds of journalism
Based on a landmark study that has collected data from more than 27,500 journalists in 67 countries, Worlds of Journalism offers a groundbreaking analysis of the different ways journalists perceive their duties, their relationship to society and government, and the nature and meaning of their work.
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The story of america
From Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Jill Lepore, a history of American origin storiesIn The Story of America, Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore investigates American origin stories—from John Smith's account of the founding of Jamestown in 1607 to Barack Obama's 2009 inau...
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The well-rounded life
An engaging and enlightening book about why having many different pursuits can vastly improve our well-beingIt’s good to be well-rounded. When you do a lot of different things, when you work on expanding your horizons, when you dive into the fascinating diversity of the world around you, your lif...
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Enhancing inclusive practices, teacher development and institutional capacities in the caribbean
Within the context of developing nations, the chapters explore policies, practices, and institutional frameworks which exist or can be developed to foster the provision of equitable quality education at multiple levels within education delivery.
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Linguistic response to the taboo of death in egyptian arabic
This book examines the linguistic and pragmatic response to the taboo of death in Egypt. It demonstrates the significance of the role that religion plays in everyday social interactions of Egyptians as a regulator of human relations.
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Classless politics
Classless Politics offers a counterintuitive account of the relationship between neoliberal economics and Islamist politics in Egypt. Hesham Sallam examines why Islamist movements have gained support at the expense of the left, even amid conflicts over the costs of economic reforms.
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Pierogi
Anna D. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann explores the surprising history of pierogi, tracing how Polish cuisine evolved amid the multiethnic landscape of the United States
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Literature in motion
Ellen Jones offers a new framework for understanding literary multilingualism, emphasizing how authors and translators can use its defamiliarizing and disruptive potential. She examines the connection between translation and multilingualism and considers its significance for the theory, practice,...
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Rethinking innovation
How corporations have increasingly embraced the sharing of knowledge as a competitive strategyInnovation is more important than ever, yet breakthroughs are becoming harder to achieve. Modern technologies, from artificial intelligence and 5G networks to biotech, are so complex that they require co...
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The watchdog that didn’t bark
How mainstream business news failed its readers and what it means for the future of the profession.
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The diversity gap in uk yoga
Situating contemporary yoga within wider debates on health inequality and wellness cultures, Sally SJ Brown foregrounds “outsider” perspectives in UK yoga spaces, rather than established insiders, exposing the power relations shaping participation and belonging.
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Eight years after the revolution of dignity
This book views the Ukrainian Revolution of Dignity from a broad systemic perspective as an ongoing process in which social, economic, political, and institutional developments are intertwined.
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Frederick douglass's american founding
The remarkable story of how Frederick Douglass went from condemning the Constitution as a proslavery pact to celebrating it as a “glorious liberty document” that promises freedom to everyoneThe speeches and writings of Frederick Douglass contain some of the most probing examinations ever of the r...
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Military veterans transitioning to higher education and the civilian workforce
Military Veterans Transitioning to Higher Education and the Civilian Workforce: Challenges, Opportunities, Supports, and Resources offers a thorough exploration of how veterans navigate academic and professional transitions after leaving military service.
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Searching for the body
In the early fifteenth century, two Tibetan monks debated how to transform the body ritually into a celestial palace inhabited by buddhas. Searching for the Body demonstrates the significance of this debate for understandings of Tibetan Buddhism as well as conversations on representation and embo...
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Reading popular romance in early modern england
With the expansion of the publishing industry between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, reading for pleasure became possible for an increasing number of people, not just the wealthy and educated. The growth of the book trade produced, alongside elite literature, a parallel popular literatur...
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Vile bodies
Vile Bodies is comedy at speed, but its subject is exhaustion: a generation living as if permanence were optional, and discovering that it is not.
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The armed truth
This volume traces Ukraine’s media transformation since 1991 into a resilient defense against Russian hybrid warfare. It shows how a whole-of-society approach—civil society, fact-checkers, and the state—can protect democratic discourse without censorship, offering policy roadmaps for Germany and ...
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Between realism and revolt
Leading governance theorist Jonathan S. Davies develops a rich comparative analysis of austerity governance and resistance in eight cities, to establish a conjunctural perspective on the rolling crises of neoliberal globalism. Drawing on a major international study of eight cities, Davies employ...
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Animal care in japanese tradition
This book provides a historical overview of Japan’s relationship with animals from ancient times to the 1950s. Departing from existing scholarship on the subject, the book also connects Japan’s much-maligned record of animal exploitation with its strong adherence to contextual, needs-based moral ...
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