Film diplomacy

Ayşehan Jülide Etem offers a powerful new account of how film shaped international relations and national identity, demonstrating how the United States and Turkey used educational films to align institutional agendas and geopolitical interests.

Colette

The final volume of Julia Kristeva’s trilogy on “female genius,” Colette interlaces commentary on the life and work of the notorious French novelist who made it possible for women to write erotic literature.

Bulldozed

Jessie Speer interweaves an ethnographic account of the lives of unhoused people in Fresno, California, with an investigation of why cities across the United States have turned to what she calls the “bulldozer approach” to homelessness.

Differential privacy in artificial intelligence

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. This book delves into the theoretical underpinnings of differential privacy, its use in machine learning systems, practical implementation details, and its broader social and legal ramifications

Betrayal of the homeland

Samer Abboud argues that the Syrian regime sought to entrench its rule during wartime through bifurcating society into “loyal” and “disloyal” subjects—and punishing those it deemed treacherous.

Theorizing fallism

A. Kayum Ahmed tells the powerful story of Rhodes Must Fall, tracing the emergence of a new decolonial framework, Fallism, and its trajectory from Africa to empire.

How film became history

Thomas Doherty tells the story of the archival documentary, spotlighting the first films that set out deliberately to preserve history on screen.

The cinema of jonathan demme

This book offers an in-depth look at Jonathan Demme’s four decades of filmmaking, tracing the core elements that unite the disparate strands of his work.

Eyes of the sky

Syaman Rapongan is a chronicler of his people, the Tao, an Indigenous community who live on Orchid Island near the island of Taiwan. In Eyes of the Sky, he invites readers to learn the ways of this oceanic world—and to learn to see their own worlds anew through a Tao lens.

The race for universal monarchy

Ebru Turan explores the emergence of the Habsburg and Ottoman empires and the early phase of their rivalry within the broader Mediterranean world.

Dogs save

Katharine Mershon examines the unacknowledged religious underpinnings of stories about dogs, revealing deeply rooted cultural assumptions about who can be saved and how redemption ought to occur.

Sustainability metrics and management

This book is a comprehensive guide to sustainability metrics and management, introducing readers to key concepts and techniques.

Online museum collections and social media

How are digital museum images curated, shared, and transformed across platforms? Shaping new ways of knowing about and with artefacts.

Make china great again

Rongbin Han examines the production and consumption of online alt-history fiction in China, offering new insight into how authoritarian rule gains popular consent.

Does trust matter?

This book provides a fresh perspective by demonstrating how the desire to increase trust in the news can be weaponized against journalists.

Marginality

This groundbreaking book reimagines marginality as a transformative force, interweaving personal narratives with cultural, literary, and philosophical analysis to reveal how perspectives from the margins can catalyze social change.

Ambivalent recognition

In this ambitious and compelling book, Kristina Lepold challenges the common assumption that recognition is positive, emphasizing its ambivalent role in social life.

Social learning

This book explores how agents in complex systems—like social networks, robotic swarms, or biological networks—interact and learn through information diffusion and decision-making over graphs. It examines dynamic behaviors shaped by cooperation, environment, and network structure.

Technology in healthcare

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. This book captures the learnings from the BigMedilytics project. The project aimed to transform Europe’s healthcare sector by using state-of-the-art Big Data technologies delivering better access to healthcare fac...

From equity to growth

From Equity to Growth presents specific policy choices that can reconcile social demands with macroeconomic stability, providing a road map to escape the middle-income trap without sacrificing fairness.

The usefulness of crime

In this incendiary fragment, Karl Marx turns bourgeois morality on its head.

Moscow’s mercenaries

This book traces the Wagner Group’s violent ascent and descent, exposing how a shadow army built an empire until it turned on its masters.

Truly tribal

Nineteen Indigenous ancestral skin markers from fifteen Nations and cultures around the world discuss their reclamation of traditional tattooing practices.

Teaching writing as journey, not destination

This volume collects essays by P.L. Thomas, examining enduring questions for writing teachers, such as grammar instruction, student choice, citation, plagiarism, grading, and the five-paragraph essay. It reflects Thomas's journey and experiences in teaching writing across various educational levels.

The melville effect

Charting how a vast variety of writers, filmmakers, and artists channel Herman Melville, Joseph Allen Boone offers new insights into the author, his works, and his many legacies.

The myths that made america

Myths play a vital role in the process of American »nation building«. On the basis of a critical analysis of central American myths this textbook offers an introduction to the field of American (Culture) Studies.

I hear freedom

Based on interviews with dozens of musicians, I Hear Freedom tells the story of free jazz and its connection to the broader Black experience.

The goddess chronicle

A fantastical retelling of the Japanese myth of Izanami and Izanagi from the internationally bestselling author of Out

Land cinema in an age of extraction

Land Cinema in an Age of Extraction considers nonfiction filmmakers and film collectives whose work advances an understanding of land as a locus of social and environmental responsibility. Diving into little-known archives to explore films that resonate across geographies, Becca Voelcker unearths...

Pure excess

Todd McGowan forges a new theory of capitalism as a system based on the production of more than what we need: pure excess.

Inventing america's first immigration crisis

Why have Americans expressed concern about immigration at some times but not at others? In pursuit of an answer, this book examines America’s first nativist movement, which responded to the rapid influx of 4.2 million immigrants between 1840 and 1860 and culminated in the dramatic rise of the Nat...

Empire of manners

It is easy to believe that manners are empty gestures, little more than social artifice or practiced etiquette whose sole purpose is to project civility and facilitate social interaction. But if we look more closely, they can tell us much more than we might first suppose, revealing what conventio...

Enduring hostility

A timely and rigorous analysis of a half-century of American policymakers' shifting perceptions of Iran, and how they have driven US-Iran relations.  US–Iran hostility has endured for longer than the Cold War. Momentous geopolitical shifts, changing leaderships, and evolving domestic priorities h...

American freethinker

The first comprehensive biography of Elihu Palmer, who was at the heart of the early United States' protracted contest over religious freedom and free speechWhen the United States was new, a lapsed minister named Elihu Palmer shared with his fellow Americans the radical idea that virtue required ...

Wrap it up

A new approach on packaging design, which includes materials, structure and an appendix with die cut patterns to inspire one’s own projects.

Advocacy, inc.

The contemporary movement to fight "modern slavery" has increasingly turned its attention to issues of forced labor, child labor and labor trafficking in a wide variety of industries and supply chains. At the same time, businesses have become more involved with the movement and their leadership h...

The california field atlas

A new classic gets the deluxe treatment!Following the success of Obi Kaufmann’s bestselling The California Field Atlas, this Deluxe Edition features a larger format showcasing Kaufmann’s sumptuous watercolors and lettering. In addition to its larger size, the Deluxe Edition has illustrated endpap...

In search of radical theology

This sparkling collection of essays invites readers to join a seasoned scholar on his journey to catch “radical theology” in action, both in the Church and our culture at large.Capturing a career’s worth of thought and erudition, this rich volume treats readers to creative thought, careful argume...

Dissimilar similitudes

From an acclaimed historian, a mesmerizing account of how medieval European Christians envisioned the paradoxical nature of holy objectsBetween the twelfth and the sixteenth centuries, European Christians used a plethora of objects in worship, not only prayer books, statues, and paintings but als...

Ethiopia in theory

A wide-ranging and compelling account of the interplay between social theory and social change in the Ethiopian student movement, and its enduring impact.

Worthy of justice

Over the past three decades, jurisdictions across the United States have developed alternatives to traditional criminal procedures and punishments for adults accused of crimes that are associated with substance use and mental health disorders. The Veterans Treatment Court (VTC) is one example of ...

Smuggling law

The Kurdish-populated Wan/Van Province is a major smuggling hub between Turkey and Iran. Kurdish smugglers cross this 180-mile-long land border, transporting everyday consumer goods—fuel, tobacco, sugar, and tea—as well as more illicit goods, and the province supports the financial, technical, an...

Wollstonecraft

A compelling portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft that shows the intimate connections between her life and workMary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, first published in 1792, is a work of enduring relevance in women's rights advocacy. However, as Sylvana Tomaselli shows, a full un...

Privilege and punishment

How the attorney-client relationship favors the privileged in criminal court—and denies justice to the poor and to working-class people of colorThe number of Americans arrested, brought to court, and incarcerated has skyrocketed in recent decades. Criminal defendants come from all races and econo...

The perfect nine

A dazzling, genre-defying novel in verse from the author Delia Owens says “tackles the absurdities, injustices, and corruption of a continent” Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s novels and memoirs have received glowing praise from the likes of President Barack Obama, the New Yorker, the New York Times Book Rev...

Birds of edo

How logic works

A concise introduction to logic that teaches you not only how reasoning works, but why it worksHow Logic Works is an introductory logic textbook that is different by design. Rather than teaching elementary symbolic logic as an abstract or rote mathematical exercise divorced from ordinary thinking...

Chekhov: stories for our time

The Restless Classics edition of Chekhov: Stories for Our Time presents a must-have collection by the great Russian author who captured humanity in all its complexity, and reintroduces Chekhov as a funny, playful, deeply human, and thoroughly modern writer.The great 19th-century Russian author an...

The visionary director, third edition

Create a larger vision in your child care program and perform your job as a center director with motivation and creativity.