A place to call home

What makes some cities successful in integrating immigrants while others fail? Using ethnographic observation, original survey data, and interviews conducted in New York, Paris, and Barcelona, Ernesto Castañeda compares the experiences of Latino and North African migrants and sets out to answer h...

A place to stand

Jimmy Santiago Baca's harrowing, brilliant memoir of his life before, during, and immediately after the years he spent in a maximum-security prison garnered tremendous critical acclaim and went on to win the prestigious 2001 International Prize. Long considered one of the best poets in America to...

A plague of prisons

The public health expert and prison reform activist offers “meticulous analysis” on our criminal justice system and the plague of American incarceration (The Washington Post).   An internationally recognized public health scholar, Ernest Drucker uses the tools of epidemiology to demonstrate that ...

A planet for rent

“A Planet for Rent is the English-language debut of Yoss, one of Cuba's most lauded writers of science fiction. Translated by David Frye, these linked stories craft a picture of a dystopian future: Aliens called xenoids have invaded planet Earth, and people are looking to flee the economically an...

A pocket dictionary of the spoken arabic of cairo

Whether you are newly arrived in Egypt and need to know the words for ‘bread’ and ‘apartment,’ or a long-term resident who suddenly needs to know how to ask for a picture frame or complain of a sore throat, this dictionary is for you. Fully revised and expanded, the third edition of this unique a...

A poem at the right moment

A Poem at the Right Moment collects, and preserves, poems—called catus—that have circulated orally for centuries in South India. The poems are remarkable for their wit and precision, their lyrical insight on the commonplace, their fascination with sensual experience, and their exploration of the...

A poet's revolution

This first full-length biography of Anglo- American poet and activist Denise Levertov (1923-1997) brings to life one of the major voices of the second half of the twentieth century, when American poetry was a powerful influence worldwide. Drawing on exhaustive archival research and interviews wit...

A poetics of hiroshima

William Heyen is one of America's most prolific and respected poets.

A poetics of neurosis

While psychiatry and the neurosciences have dismissed the concept of neurosis as too vague for medical purposes, in recent years literary studies have adopted the term by virtue of its abstractness. This volume investigates the verbalization of neurosis in literary and cultural texts. As opposed ...

A poetics of resistance

How to market a new and better world...and win!

A poisoned chalice

A Poisoned Chalice tells the story of a long-forgotten criminal case: the poisoning of the communion wine in Zurich's main cathedral in 1776. The story is riveting and mysterious, full of bizarre twists and colorful characters--an anti-clerical gravedigger, a hard-drinking drifter, a defrocked mi...

A policy travelogue

It is the first full-length ethnographic study of policy movement that combines both horizontal (across states) and vertical (within states) movement. It complements the focus on key players (e.g., the United States) by focusing on players not considered central (e.g., Aotearoa/New Zeala...

A political economy of the senses

Revives the key concept of reification from Marx and the Frankfurt School to spotlight the resistance to neoliberal capitalism now forming

A politics of melancholia

Why melancholia is a vital form of social critique and a catalyst for political renewalMelancholia is wrongly condemned as a condition of withdrawal and despair that alienates its sufferer from community. Countering that misconception, A Politics of Melancholia reclaims an understanding of melanc...

A polyamory devotional

Digestible snippets of advice and thought-provoking prompts on ethical nonmonogamy for every day of the year. Polyamory can be fun, sweet and even liberating. But ethical nonmonogamy can also take work. In A Polyamory Devotional, relationship coach Evita “Lavitaloca” Sawyers streamlines the vast ...

A portrait of america

Portrait of America describes our nation’s changing population and examines through a demographic lens some of our most pressing contemporary challenges, ranging from poverty and economic inequality to racial tensions and health disparities. Celebrated authorJohn Iceland covers various topics, i...

A portrait of the artist as a young man

After a scandal breaks out involving a famous Irish Nationalist politician, Stephen Dedalus finds his family being torn apart over their differing opinions of the matter. Shaken by all the fighting and animosity, Stephen begins to wonder where he can place his faith. Questioning the Irish and Cat...

A possible peace between israel and palestine

In 2003, after two years of negotiations, a group of prominent Israelis and Palestinians signed a model peace treaty. The document, popularly called the Geneva Initiative, contained detailed provisions resolving all outstanding issues between Israel and the Palestinian people, including drawing a...

A possible trust

A Possible Trust is a selection of Ronna Bloom's poetry by poet and editor Phil Hall. The book includes an introduction by Hall, and an afterword by Bloom that traces the relevance of photography, psychotherapy, and meditation in her work.

A postmodern accounting theory

Drawing upon frameworks employed in the human sciences, Breton builds a multi-faceted theory of accounting, conceiving it as a fundamentally social activity that puts preparers of financial statements in contact with users in order to help them make economic decisions, and analyzing the behavior ...

A power governments cannot suppress

Zinn's upbeat look at our political moment and inspiring flashes of democracy, resistance, and hope.

A practical companion to the constitution

This is the most comprehensive and readable one-volume reference book in print, accessible to lay readers and specialists alike, on the meaning of the American Constitution as the Supreme Court has interpreted it. It is an indispensable tool for students and lay persons who want to understand tod...

A practical education

The liberal arts major is often lampooned: lacking in "skills," unqualified for a professional career, underemployed. But studying for the joy of learning turns out to be surprisingly practical. Unlike career-focused education, liberal education prepares graduates for anything and everything—and ...

A practical guide for edtpa implementation

This book is a practical guide for edTPA implementation, written by experienced teacher educators. It addresses challenges and provides strategies for effective implementation. Organized into four sections, it explores different aspects of edTPA, offering guidance for faculty and teacher candidates.

A practical guide to commercial real estate transactions

A practical guide to exemplary professional development schools

This book shares stories of 8 successful Professional Development Schools (PDS), offering practical ideas for new and existing partnerships. It highlights clinical preparation, teacher development and professional growth. It's a valuable resource for academic faculty transitioning to a PDS model,...

A practitioner's guide to data governance

Data governance looks simple on paper, but in reality it is a complex issue facing organizations. In this practical guide, data experts Uma Gupta and San Cannon look to demystify data governance through pragmatic advice based on real-world experience and cutting-edge academic research.

A preface to economic democracy

Tocqueville pessimistically predicted that liberty and equality would be incompatible ideas. Robert Dahl, author of the classic A Preface to Democratic Theory, explores this alleged conflict, particularly in modern American society where differences in ownership and control of corporate enterpris...

A prelude to quantum field theory

A concise, beginner-friendly introduction to quantum field theoryQuantum field theory is a powerful framework that extends quantum mechanics in ways that are essential in many modern applications. While it is the fundamental formalism for the study of many areas of physics, quantum field theory r...

A pretty sight

David O'Meara finds defiance amid decay and oblivion, with guest appearances from Sid Vicious, Socrates, and Sophie Scholl.

A primer in biological data analysis and visualization using r

This text is an engaging, practical, and lab-oriented introduction to R for students in the life sciences. This second edition has been revised to be current with the versions of R software released since the book’s original publication. It features updated terminology, sources, and examples thro...

A primer on business analytics

This book offers a comprehensive overview of business analytics for both technical and business backgrounds. It covers the field in the context of the 4th Industrial Revolution, focusing on financial institutions and data science techniques. It also discusses building data-driven teams, executive...

A primer on critical thinking and business ethics

Encapsulating new developments in Critical Thinking skills for MBA students, in the form of a broad-based cross disciplinary primer in business management, with a special focus on business ethics.

A primer on mapping class groups

The study of the mapping class group Mod(S) is a classical topic that is experiencing a renaissance. It lies at the juncture of geometry, topology, and group theory. This book explains as many important theorems, examples, and techniques as possible, quickly and directly, while at the same time g...

A private history of happiness

*A Private History of Happiness* offers a fresh look at happiness that belonged to particular days as they were lived by real people—across many centuries and from around the world—and shows how these women and men experienced their varied moments of joy. From many written sources, notably person...

A private life

From one of China's most celebrated contemporary novelists comes this riveting tale of a young woman's emotional and sexual awakening. Set in the turbulent decades of the Cultural Revolution and the Tian'anmen Square incident, A Private Life exposes the complex and fantastical inner life of a you...