Methods to improve our field

Offering innovative ideas that explore how strategy and management methodology can be developed, Methods to Improve Our Field considers approaches that range from the re-imagining of secondary data in the digital age and Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) to Machine Learning and Artific...

Métis methodologies

Foregrounded by Métis epistemologies, ontologies, and axiologies, Métis Methodologies provides transformative frameworks for Métis research.

Metric culture

Data and metrics play an unmistakably powerful role in today’s society. Over the years, their use has expanded to cover almost every sphere of everyday life. This book provides a critical investigation into what we can call a “metric culture” in which practices of self-tracking and quantification...

Metrics at work

The starkly different ways that American and French online news companies respond to audience analytics and what this means for the future of newsWhen the news moved online, journalists suddenly learned what their audiences actually liked, through algorithmic technologies that scrutinize web traf...

Metrics of modernity

In this vivid portrait of the art world of 1950s Turkey, Sarah-Neel Smith offers a new framework for analyzing global modernisms of the twentieth century: economic development. After World War II, a cohort of influential Turkish modernists built a new art scene in Istanbul and Ankara. The entrepr...

Metrics, mapping, and modelling for masterful management in higher education

More than just a book, Metrics, Mapping, and Modelling for Masterful Management in Higher Education is a collaborative initiative to enrich management and communication within HEIs across the globe, reduce reduplication, and create an environment for shared knowledge and resources to benefit inst...

Metropole

Geoffrey G. O’Brien’s third collection opens with a set of lyric experiments whose music and mutable syntax explore the social relations concealed in material things. O’Brien’s poems measure the “vague cadence” of daily life, testing both the value and limits of art in a time of vanishing publics...

Metropolis berlin

Metropolis Berlin: 1880-1940 reconstitutes the built environment of Berlin during the period of its classical modernity using over two hundred contemporary texts, virtually all of which are published in English translation for the first time. They are from the pens of those who created Berlin as...

Metropolis in the making

Los Angeles came of age in the 1920s. The great boom of that decade gave shape to the L.A. of today: its vast suburban sprawl and reliance on the automobile, its prominence as a financial and industrial center, and the rise of Hollywood as the film capital of the world. This collection of origina...

Metropolitan governance in the federalist americas

This volume provides research and analysis of the principal metropolitan areas and governmental structures in federalist countries of the Americas.

Metropolitan research

This book provides a scholarly and accessible overview of key methods and approaches in metropolitan research from a uniquely broad range of disciplines.

Mexican american fastpitch

In Mexican American communities in the central United States, the modern tradition of playing fastpitch softball has been passed from generation to generation. This ethnic sporting practice is kept alive through annual tournaments, the longest-running of which were founded in the 1940s, when soft...

Mexican americans and the catholic church, 1900-1965

With Mexican Americans composing one of the nation’s largest minority groups, this book examines the legacy and future of these communities and the Catholic Church.Mexican Americans have a long legacy within the Catholic Church. While not always accepted by the Church, these communities developed...

Mexican ballads, chicano poems

Mexican Ballads, Chicano Poems combines literary theory with the personal engagement of a prominent Chicano scholar. Recalling his experiences as a student in Texas, José Limón examines the politically motivated Chicano poetry of the 60s and 70s. He bases his analyses on Harold Bloom's theories ...

Mexican lives

On the eve of the most significant trade agreement in recent Mexico-U.S. history, Judith Adler Hellman, a leading authority on Mexican politics, went into the homes and workplaces of a variety of Mexicans, from rich industrialists to poor street vendors. In bringing us their stories, Hellman put...

Mexican muralism

In this comprehensive collection of essays, three generations of international scholars examine Mexican muralism in its broad artistic and historical contexts, from its iconic figures—Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siquieros—to their successors in Mexico, the United States, ...

Mexican poetry

The renowned Mexican poet and critic Octavio Paz assembled this important anthology—the first of its kind in English translation—with a keen sense of what is both representative and universal in Mexican poetry. His informative introduction places the thirty-five selected poets within a literary a...

Mexicana encounters

meXicana Encounters charts the dynamic and contradictory representation of Mexicanas and Chicanas in culture. Rosa Linda Fregoso's deft analysis of the cultural practices and symbolic forms that shape social identities takes her across a wide and varied terrain. Among the subjects she considers ...

Mexico

Mexico

Explicitly focusing on the malaise of underdevelopment that has shaped the country since the Spanish conquest, Ramón Eduardo Ruiz offers a panoramic interpretation of Mexican history and culture from the pre-Hispanic and colonial eras through the twentieth century. Drawing on economics, psycholog...

Mexico

This engaging book provides a broad and accessible analysis of Mexico's contemporary struggle for democratic development. Now completely revised, it brings up to date issues ranging from electoral reform and accountability to drug trafficking, migration, and NAFTA. It also considers the rapidly c...

Mexico

Longlisted for the 2026 Cundill History PrizeA Washington Post Best Nonfiction Book of 2025From acclaimed and prize-winning historian Paul Gillingham, a rich and vibrant history of one of the world’s most diverse, politically ground-breaking, and influential of countriesAt the beginning of his ma...

Mexico at the world's fairs

This intriguing study of Mexico's participation in world's fairs from 1889 to 1929 explores Mexico's self-presentation at these fairs as a reflection of the country's drive toward nationalization and a modernized image. Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo contrasts Mexico's presence at the 1889 Paris fair—wh...

Mexico city blues

One of the renowned Beat writer’s most formally inventive books, Mexico City Blues is Jack Kerouac’s essential work of lyric verse, now reissued following his centenary celebrationWritten between 1954 and 1957, and published originally by Grove Press in 1959, Mexico City Blues is Kerouac’s most i...

Mexico set

When disaffected KGB major Erich Stinnes is spotted in Mexico City, British intelligence agent Bernard Samson must entice him to take the final step and defect. With his domestic life in shambles and his career heading towards disaster, Bernard needs to prove his reliability. And he knows Stinnes...

Mexico unconquered

A young journalist's chronicles of Mexican social movements and the powers attempting to repress them

Mexico's political awakening

True democracy has been long in coming to Mexico, but citizen rebellion and the work of social leaders helped bring about dramatic changes at the end of the twentieth century. The traditional dominance of the one-party state has yielded to a more democratic structure marked by growing decentraliz...

Mexico's resilient journalists

Julieta Brambila provides a ground-level view of how Mexican journalists have navigated a perilous environment, offering insight into how they protect themselves while reporting on the most critical and sensitive subjects.

Mexico’s mandarins

This groundbreaking study marks the culmination of over twenty years of research by one of this country's most prominent Mexico scholars. Roderic Ai Camp provides a detailed, comprehensive examination of Mexico's power elite—their political power, societal influence, and the crucial yet often ove...

Mi maría: surviving the storm

Puerto Rican voices share their stories of surviving Hurricane María and its aftermath.

Mi raza primero, my people first

¡Mi Raza Primero! is the first book to examine the Chicano movement's development in one locale—in this case Los Angeles, home of the largest population of people of Mexican descent outside of Mexico City. Ernesto Chávez focuses on four organizations that constituted the heart of the movement: T...

Michael haneke's cinema

Existing critical traditions fail to fully account for the impact of Austrian director, and 2009 Cannes Palm d'Or winner, Michael Haneke’s films, situated as they are between intellectual projects and popular entertainments. In this first English-language introduction to, and critical analysis ...

Michael psellos on literature and art

The ambition of Michael Psellos on Literature and Art is to illustrate an important chapter in the history of Greek literary and art criticism and introduce precisely this aspect of Psellian writing to a wider public.

Michaelmas term

Michaelmas Term is one of five satiric city comedies that the young playwright Thomas Middleton wrote for the boy players of St Paul's Cathedral, sometime before 1607. Set in a vividly detailed, realistic urban milieu at the start of London's social season, the play comes alive through the centr...

Michelangelo, god's architect

The untold story of Michelangelo’s final decades—and his transformation into the master architect of St. Peter’s BasilicaAs he entered his seventies, Michelangelo despaired that his productive years were over. Anguished by the death of friends and discouraged by the loss of commissions to younger...

Microbial biotechnology in the laboratory and practice

This book examines fundamental issues in microbial biotechnology, such as microorganism culturing and uses in industry and environmental protection. It details modern analytical techniques, known as omics, as well as digital techniques used to record adverse changes in the environment resulting f...

Microbial life history

A powerful framework for understanding how natural selection shapes adaptation and biological designDesign and diversity are the two great challenges in the study of life. Microbial Life History draws on the latest advances in microbiology to describe the fundamental forces of biological design a...

Microbial machines

Around 2004, members of governmental and nongovernmental organizations, science institutes, and private companies throughout India began brainstorming and then experimenting with small-scale treatment systems that could produce usable water from wastewater. Through detailed case studies, Microbia...

Microbial processes in environmental engineering

Microbial Processes in Environmental Engineering explores recent developments in microbial biotechnology and environmental engineering, serving as an essential resource for researchers, practitioners and students seeking to contribute to environmental sustainability through microbial applications.

Microcelebrity around the globe

This anthology uses in-depth interdisciplinary case studies from across the globe to examine the practice and concept of microcelebrity. Taking account of highly contextualized cultural settings and social histories, the chapters present scholarly interpretations of microcelebrity as it has proli...

Microcosmos

"Microcosmos is nothing less than the saga of the life of the planet. Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan have put it all together, literally, in this extraordinary book, which is unlike any treatment of evolution for a general readership that I have encountered before. A fascinating account that we h...

Microeconomic foundations i

A guide to mastering microeconomic theoryMicroeconomic Foundations I develops the choice, price, and general equilibrium theory topics typically found in first-year theory sequences, but in deeper and more complete mathematical form than most standard texts provide. The objective is to take the r...