American studies

American Studies has long been a home for adventurous students seeking to understand the culture and politics of the United States. This welcoming spirit has found appeal around the world, but at the heart of the field is an identity crisis. Nearly every effort to articulate an American Studies m...

American trade politics

In this comprehensive revision of the most influential, widely read analysis of the US trade policymaking system, Destler addresses how globalization has reshaped trade politics, weakening traditional protectionism but intensifying concern about trade's societal impacts. Entirely new chapters tre...

American tuna

In a lively account of the American tuna industry over the past century, celebrated food writer and scholar Andrew F. Smith relates how tuna went from being sold primarily as a fertilizer to becoming the most commonly consumed fish in the country. In American Tuna, the so-called “chicken of the s...

American universities abroad

Across the globe, American-style and liberal arts universities are being established. However, these universities operate in a distinctive dynamic that must learn to bridge one culture with another, and leadership of such institutions must by its nature focus on such complexities and tensions. Th...

American visa

1996 Book for the Teen Age, The New York Public Library. Seaweed's story, from Maoist China to her New York emigration. "In this first collection of 11 linked stories, the intimate drama of one traditional Chinese family plays against the

American whiskey bar

A remarkable memoir about the unmaking of a film.

American wine economics

The U.S. wine industry is growing rapidly and wine consumption is an increasingly important part of American culture. American Wine Economics is intended for students of economics, wine professionals, and general readers who seek to gain a unified and systematic understanding of the economic orga...

American yiddish poetry

This remarkable volume introduces to the large English-speaking audience what is probably the most coherent segment of twentieth-century American literature not written in English. The range of American Yiddish Poetry runs the gamut from individualistic verse of alienation in the modern metropoli...

American zealots

In American Zealots, Arie Perliger provides a wide-ranging and rigorously researched overview of right-wing domestic terrorism. He analyzes its historical roots, characteristics, tactics, rhetoric, and organization, assessing the current and future trajectory of the use of violence by the far right.

American zion

American Zion is the story of the Bundys, a Mormon family famous for their armed conflicts on western public lands.

American zoo

A close-up look at the contradictions and wonders of the modern zooOrangutans swing from Kevlar-lined fire hoses. Giraffes feast on celebratory birthday cakes topped with carrots instead of candles. Hi-tech dinosaur robots growl among steel trees, while owls watch animated cartoons on old televis...

America’s most famous catholic (according to himself)

This book investigates the religious identity and authority of Stephen Colbert and his character Stephen Colbert. By exploring Colbert’s position as a lay catechist and televised comedian, this book examines how Catholicism shapes Colbert’s experiences, and how Colbert and his persona nuance Ame...

Americo castro and the meaning of spanish civilization

Americo Castro and the Meaning of Spanish Civilization offers a systematic exploration of Castro's ideas, organized to trace the evolution and impact of his theories on Spanish history and culture. More than a typical Festschrift or homage, the book brings together contributions from scholars, fr...

Amharic student dictionary

Amnesty international and women's rights

Miriam Ganzfried offers a comprehensive look at Amnesty International’s work on women’s rights. Through interviews with staff members and activists and unprecedented access to archival material from the Swiss and the German sections, she shows how women activists strategized to make AI increase i...

Amnh the dinosaur hunters

Illustrated with 30 rare documents, photographs and hand-drawn maps, The Dinosaur Hunters explores the unearthing of Iguanodon teeth, the discovery of the first flying dinosaur, the infamous Bone Wars and Mark Norell's radical study of feathered dinosaurs, and much more.

Among african apes

These compelling stories and photographs take us to places like Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda, Ivindo National Park in Gabon, and the Taï National Park in Côte d’Ivoire for an intimate and revealing look at the lives of African wild apes—and at the lives of the humans who study them...

Among murderers

What is it like for a convicted murderer who has spent decades behind bars to suddenly find himself released into a world he barely recognizes? What is it like to start over from nothing? To answer these questions Sabine Heinlein followed the everyday lives and emotional struggles of Angel Ramos ...

Among prisoners

In the tradition of Flannery O'Connor, Manley presents a cultural snapshot that is poignant, grotesque, ironic, fascinating.

Among the goddesses

Among the islands

Tim Flannery is one of the world’s most influential scientists, credited with discovering more species than Darwin. In Among the Islands Flannery recounts a series of expeditions he made at the dawn of his career to the strange tropical islands of the South Pacific, a great arc stretching nearly ...

Among the walking wounded

This is a Canadian veteran’s experience of PTSD delivered in an intimate personal account that is as visceral as it is blunt — a courageous story of dark descent and painful triumph that stands as a testament for many Canadian soldiers who still fight and suffer in the shadows.

Amor and psyche

The renowned tale of Amor and Psyche, from Apuleius's second-century Latin novel The Golden Ass, is one of the most charming fragments of classical literature. Neumann chose it as the exemplar of an unusual study of feminine psychology. Unfolding the spiritual and mythical background of the pagan...

Ampersand organ

A fearless, expansive collection that blurs the boundary between body and poem, wielding a liberatory lyric impulse that revels from neuron to nebula and back.Here is a book of many hearts, a revolutionary tide pool, a mycelial space and sensorium where our neural pathways are “always shared, col...

Amphibious subjects

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.Amphibious Subjects is an ethnographic study of a community of self-identified effeminate men—known in local parlance as sasso—residing in coastal Jamestown, a suburb of Accra, Ghana's capital. Drawing on the ...

Amplifying management research for the common good

This book bridges the gap between management research and real-world application, making empirical insights accessible to non-academic audiences. Experts expand on research to offer practical lessons for individuals and organizations. Covering topics from supply chains to workplace changes, it pr...

Amplifying voices of first generation black college students

A vital resource for scholars, educators, policymakers, and advocates, this book deepens understanding of equity and inclusion in education and offers actionable strategies to support Black first‑generation students, driving meaningful institutional and cultural change.

Amrita

“Entering Banana Yoshimoto’s fictional world is a little like living as an expatriate in Tokyo—everyday things are disconcertingly different. The exotic lurks around every corner. . . . Amrita is difficult to forget.” —San Francisco ChronicleBanana Yoshimoto’s warm, witty, and heartfelt depictio...

Amsterdam

Amy's guide to best behavior in japan

Going to Japan? This unfussy modern guide guarantees you keep it polite and get it right!

An academic life worth living

Your guide to a successful academic career that centers joy and avoids burnout.Academic life is often imagined as a straight path—publish, earn tenure, keep producing—but the reality is far messier. In An Academic Life Worth Living, Tanya Maria Golash-Boza draws on decades of experience as a scho...

An accented cinema

In An Accented Cinema, Hamid Naficy offers an engaging overview of an important trend--the filmmaking of postcolonial, Third World, and other displaced individuals living in the West. How their personal experiences of exile or diaspora translate into cinema is a key focus of Naficy's work. Althou...

An account of the manners and customs of the modern egyptians

First published in 1836, this classic book of an English observer’s impressions of a nineteenth-century Egypt has never gone out of print, continuously providing material and inspiration for generations of scholars, writers, and travelers, who have praised its comprehensiveness, detail, and perce...

An act of genocide

During the 1900s eugenics gained favour as a means of controlling the birth rate among “undesirable” populations in Canada. Though many people were targeted, the coercive sterilization of one group has gone largely unnoticed. An Act of Genocide unpacks long-buried archival evidence to begin docum...

An address in paris

Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye examines the changing roles that foyers have played in the lives of generations of West African migrants, weaving together rich ethnographic description with a critical historical account.

An afterlife for the khan

In the Mongol Empire, the interfaith court provided a contested arena for a performance of the Mongol ruler’s sacred kingship, and the debate was fiercely ideological and religious. At the court of the newly established Ilkhanate, Muslim administrators, Buddhist monks, and Christian clergy all at...

An age of madness

An agenda for the western balkans

The Western Balkan countries have been both a popular subject matter for diachronic analysis and a 1990s favorite. The significant changes that followed the most recent times of conflict in the region mostly evolve around the process of Europeanization. Despite the plethora of analyses, most appr...