-
The restless cell
An essential introduction to the physics of active matter and its application to questions in biologyIn recent decades, the theory of active matter has emerged as a powerful tool for exploring the differences between living and nonliving states of matter. The Restless Cell provides a self-contain...
Read MoreRegular price $85.00Sale price $85.00 Regular price $85.00Unit price per -
The essential einstein: scientific writings
The ultimate collection of Einstein’s scientific writings on everything from statistical mechanics to general relativityThe Essential Einstein: Scientific Writings presents Einstein’s most important physics papers, spanning his groundbreaking contributions to statistical mechanics, quantum theory...
Read MoreRegular price $35.00Sale price $35.00 Regular price $35.00Unit price per -
Urban power
Why some cities are more effective than others at reducing inequalities in the built environmentFor the first time in history, most people live in cities. One in seven are living in slums, the most excluded parts of cities, in which the basics of urban life—including adequate housing, accessible ...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Sale price $29.95 Regular price $29.95Unit price per -
At home in the city
Uncovers how people aged 60 and older struggle, survive, and thrive in twenty-first-century urban America. To understand elders' experiences of aging in place, sociologist Stacy Torres spent five years with longtime New York City residents as they coped with health setbacks, depression, gentrif...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Sale price $29.95 Regular price $29.95Unit price per -
Not for profit
A passionate defense of the humanities from one of today's foremost public intellectualsIn this short and powerful book, celebrated philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum makes a passionate case for the importance of the liberal arts at all levels of education.Historically, the humanities have been centr...
Read MoreRegular price $18.95Sale price $18.95 Regular price $18.95Unit price per -
Indefensible spaces
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.Indefensible Spaces examines the policing of housing through the story of Black community building in the Antelope Valley, Los An...
Read MoreRegular price $95.00Sale price $95.00 Regular price $95.00Unit price per -
Design and engineering, volume 3
This volume includes high-quality papers on best practice in planning, design, construction and management for large-scale railway infrastructure projects. It is divided into two sections: ground engineering (geotechnics, groundworks and earthworks) and structural engineering (bridges, viaducts, ...
Read MoreRegular price $120.00Sale price $120.00 Regular price $120.00Unit price per -
School shootings
This book analyses the global (media) cultural phenomenon of school shootings in the context of mediatization in contemporary social and cultural life. It explores shootings from different, interconnected perspectives with a focus on the theoretical aspect, the practices of mediatization and an e...
Read MoreRegular price $65.99Sale price $65.99 Regular price $65.99Unit price per -
The right to suburbia
In recent decades, American suburbs have undergone a so-called renaissance as multiple forces have transformed them into denser urban landscapes. Yet at the same time, suburban racial diversity, immigration, and poverty rates have surged. The Right to Suburbia investigates how marginalized commun...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Sale price $29.95 Regular price $29.95Unit price per -
More than play
Tens of millions of children in the United States participate in youth sport, a pastime widely believed to be part of a good childhood. Yet most children who enter youth sport are driven to quit by the time they enter adolescence, and many more are sidelined by its high financial burdens. Until n...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Sale price $29.95 Regular price $29.95Unit price per -
Death, culture & leisure
Death, Culture and Leisure: Playing Dead is an inter- and multi-disciplinary volume that engages with the diverse nexuses that exist between death, culture and leisure. At its heart, it is a playful exploration of the way in which we play with both death and the dead.
Regular price $116.99Sale price $116.99 Regular price $116.99Unit price per -
The economy of algorithms
Welcome to the economy of algorithms. It’s here and it’s growing. In the past few years, we have been flooded with examples of impressive technology. Algorithms have been around for hundreds of years, but they have only recently begun to ‘escape’ our understanding. When algorithms perform certain...
Read MoreRegular price $14.95Sale price $14.95 Regular price $14.95Unit price per -
The conqueror's gift
The essential role of ethnographic thought in the Roman empire and how it evolved in Late AntiquityEthnography is indispensable for every empire, as important as armies, tax collectors, or ambassadors. It helps rulers articulate cultural differences, and it lets the inhabitants of the empire, esp...
Read MoreRegular price $49.95Sale price $49.95 Regular price $49.95Unit price per -
Ai snake oil
From two of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in AI, what you need to know about AI—and how to defend yourself against bogus AI claims and productsConfused about AI and worried about what it means for your future and the future of the world? You’re not alone. AI is everywhere—and few things are ...
Read MoreRegular price $16.95Sale price $16.95 Regular price $16.95Unit price per -
Burial and death in colonial north america
This book explores the relationship and organization of 17th Century burial landscapes within their associated settlements and the wider setting of colonial northeast British North America to provide readers with a more holistic understanding of settlers’ relationship with mortality.
Regular price $61.99Sale price $61.99 Regular price $61.99Unit price per -
How to review scholarly books
A guide to the art of reviewing scholarly books, with strategies and suggestionsScholarly book reviews should be enjoyable—both to write and to read. All too often, though, they offer little more than chapter-by-chapter summaries. In this comprehensive handbook, Steven Gump offers an encouraging ...
Read MoreRegular price $22.95Sale price $22.95 Regular price $22.95Unit price per -
Artificial intelligence
An essential and practical guide to navigate the rapidly evolving laws and policies of Artificial Intelligence. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming our world at a breakneck pace, including the practice of law. The recent rapid development of generative AI, which produces new outputs bas...
Read MoreRegular price $149.95Sale price $149.95 Regular price $149.95Unit price per -
Collaborative r&d and the national research joint venture database
In light of a history of legislative actions in the US to encourage collaborative R&D, this book characterizes US collaborative R&D through the eyes of the National Research Joint Venture Database. Through an original project-based micro database, the author reveals the patterns of compet...
Read MoreRegular price $58.99Sale price $58.99 Regular price $58.99Unit price per -
The long shadow of extraction
How resistance to extraction shaped Indigenous demands for autonomy, integration, or assimilationFrom the onset of colonialism, Indigenous communities have faced seizure of their land, labor, and resources by non-Indigenous actors. In The Long Shadow of Extraction, Christopher Carter argues that ...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Sale price $29.95 Regular price $29.95Unit price per -
The latino threat
News media and pundits too frequently perpetuate the notion that Latinos, both US-born and immigrants, are an invading force bent on destroying the American way of life. Leo R. Chavez challenges the basic tenets of this assumption and other myths of the "Latino threat," providing a critical inves...
Read MoreRegular price $30.00Sale price $30.00 Regular price $30.00Unit price per -
Plantation pedagogy
Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, teachers, administrators, and policymakers fashioned a system of industrial education that attempted to transform Black and Indigenous peoples and land. This form of teaching—what Bayley J. Marquez names plantation pedagogy—was built on the claim...
Read MoreRegular price $85.00Sale price $85.00 Regular price $85.00Unit price per -
Polis
"This is history-writing at its very best."—Times Literary SupplementA definitive new history of the origins, evolution, and scope of the ancient Greek city-stateThe Greek polis, or city-state, was a resilient and adaptable political institution founded on the principles of citizenship, freedom, ...
Read MoreRegular price $49.95Sale price $49.95 Regular price $49.95Unit price per -
Seductive spirits
Pentecostalism, Africa's fastest-growing form of Christianity, has long been preoccupied with the business of banishing demons from human bodies. Among Ghanaian Pentecostals, deliverance is primary among the embodied, experiential gifts—a loud, messy, and noisy experience that ends only when the ...
Read MoreRegular price $30.00Sale price $30.00 Regular price $30.00Unit price per -
Fieldwork handbook
Fieldwork Handbook gives you tips, best practices and activities for using location intelligence in the field to make your work more productive and successful.
Regular price $39.99Sale price $39.99 Regular price $39.99Unit price per -
Heaven looks like us
A love letter to Palestinian ancestors, their descendants, and their land, to all anti-colonial and anti-imperialist struggles, to a history that will never be forgotten, and to a future in which there thrives a free, free Palestine. Poetry has always served as a mode of resistance in Palestinia...
Read MoreRegular price $24.95Sale price $24.95 Regular price $24.95Unit price per -
The sexual contract
Thirty years after its initial publication, The Sexual Contract remains a seminal work that challenges the standard view of the implications of the idea, deeply embedded in Western thought, that we should think of the state as if it were derived from an original contract. This idea lays the found...
Read MoreRegular price $26.00Sale price $26.00 Regular price $26.00Unit price per -
The seven deadly sins of psychology
Why psychology is in peril as a scientific discipline—and how to save itPsychological science has made extraordinary discoveries about the human mind, but can we trust everything its practitioners are telling us? In recent years, it has become increasingly apparent that a lot of research in psych...
Read MoreRegular price $23.95Sale price $23.95 Regular price $23.95Unit price per -
Queer natures, queer mythologies
Queer Natures, Queer Mythologies collects in two parts the scholarly work—both published and unpublished—that Sam See had completed as of his death in 2013.In Part I, in a thorough reading of Darwin, See argues that nature is constantly and aimlessly variable, and that nature itself might be cons...
Read MoreRegular price $36.00Sale price $36.00 Regular price $36.00Unit price per -
Drawing down the moon
An unparalleled exploration of magic in the Greco-Roman worldWhat did magic mean to the people of ancient Greece and Rome? How did Greeks and Romans not only imagine what magic could do, but also use it to try to influence the world around them? In Drawing Down the Moon, Radcliffe Edmonds, one of...
Read MoreRegular price $48.00Sale price $48.00 Regular price $48.00Unit price per -
Familiar futures
Iraq was the first postcolonial state recognized as legally sovereign by the League of Nations amid the twentieth-century wave of decolonization movements. It also emerged as an early laboratory of development projects designed by Iraqi intellectuals, British colonial officials, American moderniz...
Read MoreRegular price $32.00Sale price $32.00 Regular price $32.00Unit price per -
Jailcare
Thousands of pregnant women pass through our nation’s jails every year. What happens to them as they carry their pregnancies in a space of punishment? In this time when the public safety net is frayed, incarceration has become a central and racialized strategy for managing the poor. Using her eth...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Sale price $29.95 Regular price $29.95Unit price per -
Democratic capitalism at the crossroads
An incisive history of the changing relationship between democracy and capitalismThe twentieth century witnessed the triumph of democratic capitalism in the industrialized West, with widespread popular support for both free markets and representative elections. Today, that political consensus app...
Read MoreRegular price $23.95Sale price $23.95 Regular price $23.95Unit price per -
Civilization and capitalism, 15th-18th century, vol. ii
The subject of The Wheels of Commerce is the development of mechanisms of exchange—shops, markets, trade networks, and banking—in the pre-industrial stages of capitalism.
Regular price $47.95Sale price $47.95 Regular price $47.95Unit price per -
World of wonders
“Hands-down one of the most beautiful books of the year.” —NPRFrom beloved, award-winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil comes a debut work of nonfiction—a collection of essays about the natural world, and the way its inhabitants can teach, support, and inspire us.As a child, Nezhukumatathil called m...
Read MoreRegular price $25.00Sale price $25.00 Regular price $25.00Unit price per -
Florentine political writings from petrarch to machiavelli
In the fifteenth-century republic of Florence, political power resided in the hands of middle-class merchants, a few wealthy families, and powerful craftsmen's guilds. The intensity of Florentine factionalism and the frequent alterations in its political institutions gave Renaissance thinkers amp...
Read MoreRegular price $39.95Sale price $39.95 Regular price $39.95Unit price per -
Haj to utopia
In The Haj to Utopia, Maia Ramnath tells the dramatic story of Ghadar, the Indian anticolonial movement that attempted overthrow of the British Empire. Founded by South Asian immigrants in California, Ghadar—which is translated as “mutiny”—quickly became a global presence in East Asia, Europe, th...
Read MoreRegular price $34.95Sale price $34.95 Regular price $34.95Unit price per -
Black land
The first book to explore how African American writing and art engaged with visions of Ethiopia during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuriesAs the only African nation, with the exception of Liberia, to remain independent during the colonization of the continent, Ethiopia has long held...
Read MoreRegular price $32.00Sale price $32.00 Regular price $32.00Unit price per -
Design, typography etc.
Elaborating by means of sketches and explanations on the basics and terminology that are indispensable for the design and production of print media.
Regular price $54.95Sale price $54.95 Regular price $54.95Unit price per -
Punishing places
Punishing Places applies a unique spatial analysis to mass incarceration in the United States. It demonstrates that our highest imprisonment rates are now in small cities, suburbs, and rural areas. Jessica Simes argues that mass incarceration should be conceptualized as one of the legacies of U.S...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Sale price $29.95 Regular price $29.95Unit price per -
Essays on music
Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969), one of the principal figures associated with the Frankfurt School, wrote extensively on culture, modernity, aesthetics, literature, and—more than any other subject—music. To this day, Adorno remains the single most influential contributor to the development of quali...
Read MoreRegular price $41.95Sale price $41.95 Regular price $41.95Unit price per -
Empires of the weak
How the rise of the West was a temporary exception to the predominant world orderWhat accounts for the rise of the state, the creation of the first global system, and the dominance of the West? The conventional answer asserts that superior technology, tactics, and institutions forged by Darwinian...
Read MoreRegular price $21.95Sale price $21.95 Regular price $21.95Unit price per -
The technology trap
"Made me look at the industrial revolution, invention, sleeping beauties, contexts and the forces that shape our societies differently."—David Byrne, New York Times Book ReviewHow the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand economic and political polarization in the age...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Sale price $29.95 Regular price $29.95Unit price per -
When victims become killers
An incisive look at the causes and consequences of the Rwandan genocide"When we captured Kigali, we thought we would face criminals in the state; instead, we faced a criminal population." So a political commissar in the Rwanda Patriotic Front reflected after the 1994 massacre of as many as one mi...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Sale price $29.95 Regular price $29.95Unit price per -
A history of art history
An authoritative history of art history from its medieval origins to its modern predicamentsIn this authoritative book, the first of its kind in English, Christopher S. Wood tracks the evolution of the historical study of art from the late middle ages through the rise of the modern scholarly disc...
Read MoreRegular price $35.00Sale price $35.00 Regular price $35.00Unit price per -
Gilgamesh
Reflections on a lost poem and its rediscovery by contemporary poetsGilgamesh is the most ancient long poem known to exist. It is also the newest classic in the canon of world literature. Lost for centuries to the sands of the Middle East but found again in the 1850s, it is a story of monsters, g...
Read MoreRegular price $16.95Sale price $16.95 Regular price $16.95Unit price per -
Beyond survival
Structural inequality is the root cause of crime; here are some strategies for accountability beyond the criminal justice system.
Regular price $18.00Sale price $18.00 Regular price $18.00Unit price per -
The fruits of empire
The Fruits of Empire is a history of American expansion through the lens of art and food. In the decades after the Civil War, Americans consumed an unprecedented amount of fruit as it grew more accessible with advancements in refrigeration and transportation technologies. This excitement for frui...
Read MoreRegular price $65.00Sale price $65.00 Regular price $65.00Unit price per -
Hidden heretics
A revealing look at Jewish men and women who secretly explore the outside world, in person and online, while remaining in their ultra-Orthodox religious communities What would you do if you questioned your religious faith, but revealing that would cause you to lose your family and the only way of...
Read MoreRegular price $22.95Sale price $22.95 Regular price $22.95Unit price per -
Dmz colony
A powerful work of cultural memory that recovers voices from Korea's heartbreakingly violent postcolonial history.
Regular price $23.00Sale price $23.00 Regular price $23.00Unit price per -
Fifty years of peasant wars in latin america
Informed by Eric Wolf’s Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century, published in 1969, this book examines selected peasant struggles in seven Latin American countries during the last fifty years and suggests the continuing relevance of Wolf’s approach.
Regular price $34.95Sale price $34.95 Regular price $34.95Unit price per
Something went wrong
Please try again
