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Sources of chinese tradition
A collection of seminal primary readings on the social, intellectual, and religious traditions of China, Sources of Chinese Tradition, Volume 1 has been widely used and praised for almost forty years as an authoritative resource for scholars and students and as a thorough and engaging introductio...
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Reimagining assessment in social work
Social work assessment is political. How we understand its power is at the heart of ethical social work practice.
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Rumbles of thunder
Steve Chan examines a range of international relations theories and popular narratives that suggest an elevated risk of Sino-American confrontation. Bringing together expertise in IR theory and keen political acumen, Rumbles of Thunder challenges conventional wisdom on the likelihood of war betwe...
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Initial teacher education in england
This timely examination maps the evolving landscape of Initial Teacher Education – reaccreditation processes, shifting partnerships, and the emergence of the National Institute for Teaching – while critically assessing England’s unique approach to teacher preparation.
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Integrating land use and water management
This report the overall benefits and connection points between land use and water management; explores existing regulations related to integrated planning, both within comprehensive land use and water management plans; provides case studies of successful integrated planning; and provides policy r...
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The cinema of richard linklater
In this second edition of The Cinema of Richard Linklater, Rob Stone shows how Linklater’s latest films have redefined our understanding of his work, offering critical analysis of films including Before Midnight (2013) and Everybody Wants Some!! (2016), as well as new interviews with Linklater an...
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Worldmaking in the long great war
This book offers a new account of how the Great War unmade and then remade the political order of the Middle East. Ranging from Morocco to Iran and spanning the eve of the war into the 1930s, it demonstrates that the modern Middle East was shaped through complex and violent power struggles among ...
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Sanctuary
Faulkner's novel, Sanctuary exposes a system that continues to function even as it ceases to protect.
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The crossing of the boars
Set in a forgotten theater of World War II, The Crossing of the Boars is a gripping magical-realist tale of a multiethnic village fighting for survival.
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Rapture
A man tests the limits of what is possible in life and love in this early twentieth-century novel.
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Essays on the essay film
This anthology of fundamental statements on the essay film offers a range of crucial historical and philosophical perspectives. It provides early critical articulations of the essay film as it evolved through the 1950s and 1960s, key contemporary scholarly essays, and a selection of writings by e...
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Russian influence operations
This volume analyzes Russian influence operations and intelligence tactics worldwide, including activities in the U.S. and Ukraine. It examines evolving covert strategies, especially amid the war against Ukraine, and shows how these operations aim to disrupt aid, divide NATO, and expand global im...
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Education
This book calls for a new global approach to education to enrich and enhance the lives of children everywhere. Contributors emphasize the centrality of education to social and environmental justice, as well as the philosophical foundations of education. The book features a foreword by Pope Francis.
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Background matters
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. This wide-ranging intellectual and media history traces China’s emergence as a modern state in which boundaries blur between art...
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From state capitols to city halls
This work examines the crucial relationships between states and their constituent cities, illustrates how states have hindered equitable revitalization, and offers principles to guide state policy reform with an intentional focus on racial equity.
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Appointment in samarra
Appointment in Samarra is a novel about pressure and about how little it takes for a life built on appearances to come apart.
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The plebeian experience
How do people excluded from political life achieve political agency? Through a series of historical events that have been mostly overlooked by political theorists, Martin Breaugh identifies fleeting yet decisive instances of emancipation in which people took it upon themselves to become political...
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Nurturing ai-powered hr analytics and virtual reality in employee psychology and workplace happiness, part a
Nurturing AI-Powered HR Analytics and Virtual Reality in Employee Psychology and Workplace Happiness explores how AI and VR technologies can transform HR practices, enhance employee well-being, and foster workplace happiness through data-driven insights and immersive experiences.
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The revolution to come
How an event once considered the greatest of all political dangers came to be seen as a solution to all social problemsPolitical thinkers from Plato to John Adams saw revolutions as a grave threat to society and advocated for a constitution that prevented them by balancing social interests and fo...
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Rabindranath tagore and his discourses on politics, nationalism and decolonization
This book recovers Rabindranath Tagore’s overlooked role in early anti-imperialist thought. Through annotated translations of twelve political essays (1890–1910), it makes his Bengali writings accessible in English, highlighting their vital contribution to postcolonial and decolonial debates on n...
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Burmese haze
Burmese Days, Burmese Haze provides a unique—and personal—perspective on the historical events and foreign ties that shaped Myanmar and its relationship with the United States. Former intelligence analyst Erin Murphy tells the story of a remarkable political transition and subsequent collapse, ex...
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The problem with pleasure
A revealing study of the sensual tensions powering the period’s formal and ideological innovations.
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A story to save your life
Through powerful firsthand accounts, A Story to Save Your Life offers new insight into the harrowing realities of seeking protection in the United States. Sarah C. Bishop argues that cultural differences in communication shape every stage of the asylum process, playing a major but unexamined role.
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The salt stones
Now in Paperback!Longlisted for the National Book AwardWinner of the Vermont Book AwardsA New Yorker Best Book of the YearFinalist for the New England Book AwardFeatured on NPR's Fresh Air and PBS NewsHour“Revelatory. . . magical. . . Whybrow beautifully explores interconnectedness and disruption...
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The maltese falcon
The Maltese Falcon strips the detective story to its core: not the solving of a crime, but the negotiation of a world where nothing is binding and everything has a price.
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A survival guide to the misinformation age
A step-by-step strategy for protecting ourselves against the phony claims, trendy pseudoscience, and sloppy thinking that permeate our world.
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Democratizing participation
Democratizing Participation presents a critical examination of voter participation in the Citywide and Community Education Council (CCEC) elections of New York City, revealing deep disparities and systemic shortcomings in democratic engagement.
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From bomba to hip-hop
Neither immigrants nor ethnics, neither foreign nor "hyphenated Americans" in the usual sense of that term, Puerto Ricans in New York have created a distinct identity both on the island of Puerto Rico and in the cultural landscape of the United States. Juan Flores considers the uniqueness of Puer...
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The insider
Virginia C. Gildersleeve was the most influential dean of Barnard College, which she led from 1911 to 1947. In this biography, historian Nancy Woloch explores Gildersleeve’s complicated career in academia and public life.
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The paradox of belonging despite systematic human rights violations
Melih Uğraş Erol explores how Alevis in Anatolia negotiate religious and cultural identity across generations. The book highlights ongoing inequalities and the “paradox of belonging” between marginalization and attachment to the Turkish state.
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The philology of life
The Philology of Life retraces the outlines of the philological project developed by Walter Benjamin in his early essays on Hölderlin, the Romantics, and Goethe. This philological program, McLaughlin shows, provides the methodological key to Benjamin’s work as a whole. According to Benjamin, Germ...
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Educating young people for a sustainable future
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. Focusing on issues affecting young people in educational contexts using an inclusivity lens, chapters delve into causes, consequences & proposed interventions of inequal...
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Probability and evidence
A. J. Ayer was one of the foremost analytical philosophers of the twentieth century, and was known as a brilliant and engaging speaker. In essays based on his influential Dewey Lectures, Ayer addresses some of the most critical and controversial questions in epistemology and the philosophy of sci...
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Afterplace
In this exquisitely crafted ethnography, Charline Kopf examines how and why railway workers in Senegal and Mali care for a suspended railway. Trains rarely run, yet men continue to attend to the everyday practices that keep the railway alive as a social and political space: they sweep floors, rep...
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The black sojourner press
The Black Sojourner Press traces the travels of multiple generations of itinerant Black editors, demonstrating how they transformed Black political and literary culture in the United States, West Africa, and Britain.
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How much inequality is fair?
How Much Inequality Is Fair? synthesizes concepts from economics, political philosophy, game theory, information theory, statistical mechanics, and systems engineering into a mathematical framework for a fair free-market society. Venkat Venkatasubramanian compares his theory’s predictions to actu...
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Designed leadership
The strategic-design scholar and urban-systems designer Moura Quayle shares her plan for integrating design and leadership, translating processes, principles, and practices from years of experience into tools of change for professional leaders. Designed Leadership uses field-tested examples to te...
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American religion
A completely updated and expanded third edition of the most authoritative resource on religious trends in AmericaSince it was first published, American Religion has established itself as the essential source on key developments in American religion. Now fully revised, it provides the best and mos...
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Métis methodologies
Foregrounded by Métis epistemologies, ontologies, and axiologies, Métis Methodologies provides transformative frameworks for Métis research.
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Village life in hong kong revisited
An anthropological study of how the structure of village life explored in this book is a fading memory for the village residents.
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Monkey borrows the palmleaf fan
Tripitaka and his three disciples, Monkey, Pigsy, and Sandy were chosen to undertake a pilgrimage to India, during which they came across all sorts of dangers and difficulties. From a collection of three Chinese stories selected and retold in English for young readers.
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Critical perspectives on educational policy and change
This edited collection offers critical and creative explorations of leadership through the lenses of ideology, history, economics, and politics. Diverse scholars, from early career researchers to established academics, interrogate how power relations operate within educational leadership amid shi...
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Religion, the secular, and the politics of sexual difference
Global struggles over women's roles, rights, and dress increasingly cast the secular and the religious in tense if not violent opposition. When advocates for equality speak in terms of rights and modern progress, or reactionaries ground their authority in religious and scriptural appeals, both te...
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Animal diaspora
A breathtaking journey into the deep history of animal migration and the lessons it holds for life on a rapidly warming planetIn 2020, Inuit hunters of Canada’s Central Arctic made an intriguing discovery. They came across the massive frozen carcasses of eleven beached bowhead whales, killed by a...
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The arts of japan
This exciting new volume focuses on the arts of Japan through the lens of creativity and innovation.
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The musha incident
This book brings together leading scholars to provide new perspectives on one of the most traumatic episodes in Taiwan’s modern history and its fraught legacies. Contributors from a variety of disciplines revisit the Musha Incident and its afterlife in history, literature, film, art, and popular ...
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The origins of life and the universe
The Origins of Life and the Universe is the culmination of a university science professor's search for understanding and is based on his experiences teaching the fundamental issues of physics, chemistry, and biology in the classroom. What is life? Where did it come from? How can understanding the...
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Sacred kingship in world history
Sacred kingship has been the core political form, in small-scale societies and in vast empires, for much of world history. This collaborative and interdisciplinary book recasts the relationship between religion and politics by exploring this institution in long-term and global comparative perspec...
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The real economy
A provocative new theory of “the economy,” its history, and its politics that better unites history and economics What is the economy, really? Is it a “market sector,” a “general equilibrium,” or the “gross domestic product”? Economics today has become so preoccupied with methods that economists ...
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Mary kay
This book tells the story of Mary Kay Ash and the cosmetics firm that bears her name, from its founding and growth to the distinctive gendered corporate culture she cultivated.
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