Nova express

The most ferociously political and prophetic book of Burroughs's "cut-up" trilogy, Nova Express fires the reader into a textual outer space the better to see our burning planet and the operations of the Nova Mob in all their ugliness. As the new edition demonstrates, the shortest of the three boo...

Nova scotia house

Winner of the 2026 Lambda Literary Award in Gay FictionShortlisted for the 2025 Goldsmiths PrizeNamed a 2025 Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post and The Guardian Nova Scotia House takes us to the heart of a relationship, a community and an era, both a love story and a lament.In this prof...

Novel palestine

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. Palestinian writing imagines the nation, not as a nation-in-waiting but as a living, changing structure that joins people, place...

Novel relations

The first comprehensive look at how Victorian fiction and British psychoanalysis shaped each otherNovel Relations engages twentieth-century post-Freudian British psychoanalysis in an unprecedented way: as literary theory. Placing the writing of figures like D. W. Winnicott, W. R. Bion, Michael an...

Novel shocks

Throughout the 1950s, a coalition of developers, politicians, and planners bulldozed vast areas of land deemed “slums” or “blighted” to make way for freeways, public and private housing projects, cultural centers, and skyscrapers. While the program was national, New York was ground zero, and the ...

Novel sounds

Novel Sounds shows how Southern writers turned to rock music and its technologies—tape, radio, vinyl—to develop the “rock novel.” Florence Dore considers the work of writers like William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, and William Styron alongside Bessie Smith, Lead Belly, and Bob Dylan to uncover d...

Novelists

Never has the short story seen so much long wind.

Now

Now is a fast and frenzied meditation on time, ageing, alienation and the pressures of living in the modern city. Each triplet in this book-length poetry sequence addresses the question: What is 'now'? With the brevity of a proverb, each three-liner offers a short, sharp perception which tries to...

Now and at the hour of our death

A moving exploration of families facing death, in the voices of those affected in one rural corner of Portugal.

Now comes good sailing

From twenty-seven of today’s leading writers, an anthology of original pieces on the author of WaldenFeatures essays by Jennifer Finney Boylan • Kristen Case • George Howe Colt • Gerald Early • Paul Elie • Will Eno • Adam Gopnik • Lauren Groff • Celeste Headlee • Pico Iyer • Alan Lightman • James...

Now hiring

Now Hiring allows readers to consider their individual biases - as well as organizational employment practices and processes - and assess how these factors may be altered to increase hiring for individuals with a criminal history, prompting conversations surrounding current hiring systems.

Now that we're men

Compassionate and insightful, this play and guidebook razes rape culture, interrogates masculinity, and breeds accountability without sacrificing boys.

Now we are citizens

The book traces current Indian activism in Bolivia, arguing that a new social formation is emerging to challenge racism and the harsh effects of the dominant neoliberal economic model.

Now we shall be entirely free

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2019 “Mr. Miller strikes an impressive balance between adventure and atmosphere.”—The Wall Street Journal When Captain John Lacroix returns home from Spain, wounded, unconscious, and alone, he believes that he has seen the worst of what men may do. It is 1809, and...

Now what?

A profound and affecting meditation on art and revolution

Now, voyager

The captivating novel of a woman's self-realization that inspired the Bette Davis 1943 cult classic film.

Nowhere

The fall of the Berlin wall, the uprising at Tiananmen Square, the war in the Persian Gulf, the conflict in Bosnia—such events have been fundamentally affected by modern technology. As we become instant spectators of war, famine, and revolution, time and space assume new global meanings. This pro...

Nowhere people

A prize-winning novel expresses the complexities of race, class and relationships and gives voice and visibility to an indigenous Brazilian

Nowhere to be home

Nowhere to Be Home is an eye-opening collection of oral histories exposing the realities of life under military rule. In their own words, men and women from Burma describe their lives in the country that Human Rights Watch has called “the textbook example of a police state.”

Nowtopia

The future is now! Practical rebels reshape our assumptions about science, technology, and human potential.

Npr

The people who shaped America's public broadcasting system thought it should be "a civilized voice in a civilized community"—a clear alternative to commercial broadcasting. This book tells the story of how NPR has tried to embody this idea. Michael P. McCauley describes NPR's evolution from virtu...

Nta’tugwaqanminen

Nta’tugwaqanminen provides evidence that the Mi’gmaq of the Gespe’gewa’gi (Northern New Brunswick and the Gaspé Peninsula) have occupied their territory since time immemorial. They were the sole occupants of it prior to European settlement and occupied it on a continuous basis. This book was writ...

Nubian ceremonial life

The building of Egypt’s High Dam in the 1960s erased innumerable historic treasures, but it also forever obliterated the ancient land of a living people, the Nubians. In 1963–64, they were removed en masse from their traditional homelands in southern Egypt and resettled elsewhere. Much of the lif...

Nubian encounters

In the 1960s the construction of the Aswan High Dam occasioned the forced displacement of a large part of the Nubian population. Beginning in 1960, anthropologists at the American University in Cairo’s Social Research Center undertook a survey of the Nubians to be moved and those already outside ...

Nuclear country

Militarization and nuclearization were the historical developments most essential to the creation of the rural New RightBoth North Dakota and South Dakota have long been among the most reliably Republican states in the nation: in the past century, voters have only chosen two Democrats, Franklin R...

Nuclear disarmament

This volume presents a range of views on the current state of global nuclear disarmament from eminent scholars from India, Israel and France. Chapters present and analyse the relationships between India, Pakistan and the USA, Russia and the USA, the position of the EU and of Israel.

Nuclear ghost

"There is a nuclear ghost in Minamisōma." This is how one resident describes a mysterious experience following the 2011 nuclear fallout in coastal Fukushima. Investigating the nuclear ghost among the graying population, Ryo Morimoto encounters radiation’s shapeshifting effects. What happens if st...

Nuclear logics

Nuclear Logics examines why some states seek nuclear weapons while others renounce them. Looking closely at nine cases in East Asia and the Middle East, Etel Solingen finds two distinct regional patterns. In East Asia, the norm since the late 1960s has been to forswear nuclear weapons, and North ...

Nuclear nightmares

The thinking and leadership we need to avoid an irreversible tragedy.

Nuclear north korea

Nuclear North Korea was first published in 2003 amid the outbreak of a lasting crisis over the North Korean nuclear program. With a new chapter on the way forward for the international community in light of continued nuclear tensions, this book is of lasting relevance to understanding the state o...

Nuclear physics in a nutshell

Nuclear Physics in a Nutshell provides a clear, concise, and up-to-date overview of the atomic nucleus and the theories that seek to explain it. Bringing together a systematic explanation of hadrons, nuclei, and stars for the first time in one volume, Carlos A. Bertulani provides the core materia...

Nuclear strategy in the modern era

The world is in a second nuclear age in which regional powers play an increasingly prominent role. These states have small nuclear arsenals, often face multiple active conflicts, and sometimes have weak institutions. How do these nuclear states—and potential future ones—manage their nuclear force...

Nudge, nudge, think, think

This book builds on the 'nudge' idea proposed by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, proposing an alternative 'think' strategy that calls on citizens to decide their own priorities as part of a process of civic and democratic renewal. It sets out the different approaches in theory and presents a se...

Nudging

Whitehead and Jones examine the history and use of nudging as a policy tool and consider when and where they are best deployed, if at all.

Nudities

Encompassing a wide range of subjects, the ten masterful essays gathered here may at first appear unrelated to one another. In truth, Giorgio Agamben's latest book is a mosaic of his most pressing concerns. Take a step backward after reading it from cover to cover, and a world of secret affinitie...

Number theory

An introductory textbook with a unique historical approach to teaching number theoryThe natural numbers have been studied for thousands of years, yet most undergraduate textbooks present number theory as a long list of theorems with little mention of how these results were discovered or why they ...

Numbers

Numerical analysis

Computational science is fundamentally changing how technological questions are addressed. The design of aircraft, automobiles, and even racing sailboats is now done by computational simulation. The mathematical foundation of this new approach is numerical analysis, which studies algorithms for c...

Numerical brain teasers

Numerical methods

A rigorous and comprehensive introduction to numerical analysisNumerical Methods provides a clear and concise exploration of standard numerical analysis topics, as well as nontraditional ones, including mathematical modeling, Monte Carlo methods, Markov chains, and fractals. Filled with appealing...

Nuns as artists

Jeffrey F. Hamburger's groundbreaking study of the art of female monasticism explores the place of images and image-making in the spirituality of medieval nuns during the later Middle Ages. Working from a previously unknown group of late-fifteenth-century devotional drawings made by a Benedictine...

Nursing the spirit

Don Grant investigates the subtle ways that nurses at an academic medical center incorporate spirituality into their care work. Developing a new understanding of the social significance of religion, Nursing the Spirit recasts the intersection of science and spirituality by centering the perspecti...

Nurturing a daoist-inspired classroom pedagogy through the contemplative lenses of teacher diaries

This book explores the relevance of Daoist philosophy in global education through teacher diaries. It introduces classical Daoist texts and principles, emphasizing meditation and intuitive insights. The book highlights how Daoist-inspired pedagogies foster a balanced, contemplative classroom envi...

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.

Nurturing creativity

Tap into children’s natural curiosity and scaffold their creative abilities across all domains of learning—and nurture your own creativity!