Amphibian declines

This benchmark volume documents in comprehensive detail a major environmental crisis: rapidly declining amphibian populations and the disturbing developmental problems that are increasingly prevalent within many amphibian species. Horror stories on this topic have been featured in the scientific ...

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

Dr. Regina Moss has built herself a successful career as a psychiatrist in Boston: she enjoys a lucrative private practice, hefty consultation fees, and a reputation that inspires colleagues and patients alike. Why then, is Regina haunted by her past? Why does her own daughter barely speak to her...

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...

An alaṅkāra reader

Classical Indian poetics prized the skillful use of alaṅkāras, or “ornaments”—literary figures of speech. An Alaṅkāra Reader is a groundbreaking panoramic overview of this tradition, presenting extensive and accessible translations of key works.

An all-consuming century

The unqualified victory of consumerism in America was not a foregone conclusion. The United States has traditionally been the home of the most aggressive and often thoughtful criticism of consumption, including Puritanism, Prohibition, the simplicity movement, the '60s hippies, and the consumer r...

An american anarchist

The legendary biography of America's fiery feminist iconoclast. In paperback for the first time.

An american cakewalk

The profound economic and social changes in the post-Civil War United States created new challenges to a nation founded on Enlightenment and transcendental values, religious certainties, and rural traditions. Newly-freed African Americans, emboldened women, intellectuals and artists, and a polygl...

An american icon in puerto rico

Since her creation in 1959, Barbie has become an icon of femininity to girls all over the world. In this monograph, author Emily R. Aguiló-Pérez explores the ways through which women and girls in Puerto Rico construct their own identities in relation to femininity, body image, race, and nationa...

An american language

"This is the most comprehensive book I’ve ever read about the use of Spanish in the U.S. Incredible research. Read it to understand our country. Spanish is, indeed, an American language."—Jorge RamosAn American Language is a tour de force that revolutionizes our understanding of U.S. history. It...

An american problem

The rise and fall of the Voting Rights Act, from the triumph of its passage in 1965 to its evisceration by the Supreme Court in their 2013 decision in Shelby County v. HolderThe Voting Rights Act of 1965 finally made good on the promise of the Fifteenth Amendment, which nearly a century before ha...

An amorous discourse in the suburbs of hell

A love song between an angel and an accountant in the suburbs of London from Man Booker shortlisted Levy.

An analogy of grace

An Analogy of Grace proposes a deeply grounded investigation of grace and a robustly balanced impetus for advancing the gospel in the twenty-first century.Amid the present decline in religious affiliation, a pervasive question for many is “why bother” with faith and its practices. An Analogy of G...

An anarchist faq

Volume 2 of the indispensable guide to the world of anarchist ideas.

An annotated catalog of the type material of aphytis (hymenoptera: aphelinidae) in the entomology research museum, university of california at riverside

The catalog provides information on the type of material of 75 valid species of the genus Aphytis Howard (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) in the collection of the Entomology Research Museum, University of California, Riverside. 7,390 specimens were remounted from Hoyer's medium into Canada balsam, incl...

An anthology

A compelling selection of Valéry’s poetry and proseDrawn from the authoritative Collected Works of Paul Valéry, this anthology offers an introduction to the diverse genius of this important poet and essayist. The volume features “The Evening with Monsieur Teste” (1896), from Jackson Mathews’s Nat...

An anthology of bilingual child phonology

This book is an edited collection of phonological development studies that pertain to themes in child bilingualism. It comprises studies on protolanguage phonology, referring to the development of children’s autonomous linguistic systems from their first meaningful forms to complete cognitive and...

An anthropological toolkit

Presenting 60 theoretical ideas, David Zeitlyn asks, ‘How to write about anthropological theory without making a specific theoretical argument?’ and ‘Is it possible to practice anthropology without arguing for a single specific approach?’ To answer, he gives a series of mini-essays about an ecl...

An anthropology of images

A compelling theory that places the origin of human picture making in the bodyIn this groundbreaking book, renowned art historian Hans Belting proposes a new anthropological theory for interpreting human picture making. Rather than focus exclusively on pictures as they are embodied in various med...

An anthropology of the subject

An Anthropology of the Subject rounds out the theoretical-philosophical cosmos of one of the twentieth century's most intellectually adventurous anthropologists. Roy Wagner, having turned "culture" and "symbols" inside out (in The Invention of Culture and Symbols That Stand for Themselves, respe...

An anthropology of war

As we move deeper into the twenty-first century, power, lethal force, and injustice continue to explode violently into war, and the prospects for lasting peace look even bleaker. The horrors of modern warfare - the death, dehumanization, and destruction of social and material infrastructures - ...

An anti-history about transgender inclusion in the brazilian labor market

An ANTi-History about Transgender Inclusion in the Brazilian Labor Market answers repeated calls to correct the neglect of voices from the global south and the scarcity of work on gender and transgender peoples in organizational history.

An aquinas reader

Available in a new digital edition with reflowable text suitable for e-readersThis new edition of An Aquinas Reader contains in one closely knit volume representative selections that reflect every aspect of Aquinas’s philosophy. Divided into three section – Reality, God, and Man – this anthology ...

An archaeology of greece

Classical archaeology probably enjoys a wider appeal than any other branch of classical or archaeological studies. As an intellectual and academic discipline, however, its esteem has not matched its popularity. Here, Anthony Snodgrass argues that classical archaeology has a rare potential in the ...

An archaeology of the political

Elías José Palti argues that the dimension of reality known as the political is not a natural, transhistorical entity. Instead, the horizon of the political arose in the context of a series of changes that affirmed the power of absolute monarchies in seventeenth-century Europe and was successivel...

An archaeology of yearning

The moving story of a father's bond with his autistic son embodies powerful themes of family relationships and human connections.

An architecture of education

Examines material culture and the act of institution creation, especially through architecture and landscape, to recount a deeper history of the lives of African American women in the post-Civil War South.This volume focuses broadly on the history of the social welfare reform work of nineteenth-c...

An archive of hope

Harvey Milk was one of the first openly and politically gay public officials in the United States, and his remarkable activism put him at the very heart of a pivotal civil rights movement reshaping America in the 1970s. An Archive of Hope is Milk in his own words, bringing together in one volume ...

An archive of skin, an archive of kin

What was the longest and harshest medical quarantine in modern history, and how did people survive it? In Hawaiʻi beginning in 1866, men, women, and children suspected of having leprosy were removed from their families. Most were sentenced over the next century to lifelong exile at an isolated se...

An army of lovers

In the age of Occupy, An Army of Lovers reasks the question, what is the relationship between poetry and politics?

An asian american a to z

A comprehensive and spirited exploration of Asian American history—its movements, cultures, and key figures—beautifully illustrated and compellingly told for readers of all ages. Co-authors Cathy Linh Che and Kyle Lucia Wu take us on a journey through stories of celebration and resistance: the Th...

An australian indigenous diaspora

The first full-length ethnography applying the concept of diaspora to indigenous migration within the nation state. The first full-length account to provide a double perspective (both home and away) of the migration of Australian Indigenous people from remote settlements to towns and cit...