Joan of arc

A collection of documents on the historical figure Joan of Arc, some of which published in modern English for the first time, and contextualised by an extended intorduction and and useful contextualising passages

Pipeline (tcg edition)

A riveting new play from an award-winning playwright.

Exploding data

A powerful argument for new laws and policies regarding cyber-security, from the former Secretary of Homeland Security

50 miles

Fifty Miles is of addiction and alcoholism; recovery; grief; healing; the challenges of living with a son who is a substance abuser.

Christianity and the eastern slavs, volume iii

This publication in three volumes originated in papers delivered at two conferences held in May 1988 at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies in Washington, DC. Like many other conferences organized that year in the United States, Europe, an...

Another fine mess

We've gotten into another fine mess, destroying the planet and all. So where will we go next? Is it time to colonize outer space? Acclaimed essayist Pope Brock takes us on a vivid satirical journal to learn just what life might look like living on tomorrow's moon.

The collected plays of chaim potok

First publication of the complete plays of Chaim Potok. With the exception of the The Chosen, none have been previously available.

Why not cbt?

A new, updated edition of our best-selling critical analysis of the dominance of CBT in psychological therapy services

Dante in china

In John Barr's poems, the ancient masters encounter the modern world. Dante on a beach in China beholds the Inferno: “Flaring well gas night and day, / towers rise as if to say, / Pollution can be beautiful.” Bach’s final fugue informs all of nature. Villon is admonished by an aging courtesan. Ar...

What is culture for?

What is culture really for? How to find compassion, hope and perspective in the arts. Many people search for the meaning of life through music, film, literature and the visual arts. But how can we synthesize the emotions we feel through art? This book looks at how works of culture were made - tha...

Tokyo sweet gwendoline

Hinges

Hinges: Sakaki Hyakusen and the Birth of Nanga Painting is the first US exhibition focusing on the art of Sakaki Hyakusen (1697–1752), the founding father of the Nanga school of painting in Japan. The exhibition, together with a fully illustrated catalog and extensive public programs, will demon...

Out of earshot

Out of Earshot offers a reconfiguration of three of the nineteenth century’s most prolific painters: Winslow Homer (1836–1910), Thomas Eakins (1844–1916), and Thomas Dewing (1851–1939). Asma Naeem considers how these painters turned, in ways significant for their individual artistic ventures, to...

Comrade haldane is too busy to go on holiday

John Burdon Sanderson Haldane F.R.S. (1892–1964) was one of the leading scientists of the twentieth century, renowned for helping, through statistical wizardry, to reconcile Darwin’s theory of natural selection with Mendel’s discovery of genes. The product of a distinguished family of scientists ...

Future real

God, justice, love, beauty

The four talks collected here transcribe lectures delivered to an audience of children between the ages of ten and fourteen, under the auspices of the “little dialogues” series at the Montreuil’s center for the dramatic arts. Modeled on Walter Benjamin’s “Aufklärung für Kinder” radio talks, this ...

Making bodies kosher

Integrates archival and ethnographic material to explore healthcare concerns over time  Original study of Haredi Jews in the UK, whereas most focus on Israel or the USA  Explores the continuum of maternity care & child health in a ‘hard to reach’ minority

Stet

A fascinating collection of serious and playful poems that tap the inventive possibilities of the anagram and other constraining formsIn Stet, poet Dora Malech takes constraint as her catalyst and subject, exploring what it means to make or break a vow, to create art out of a life in flux, to rec...

Cyborg mind

The new wounded

This book addresses the issue of trauma and psychic wounds to stage a confrontation between psychoanalysis and contemporary neurobiology. In so doing, it reevaluates the brain as an organ that is not separated from psychic life but rather appears as its very locus. A philosophical approach of the...

The dead go to seattle

In an Alaskan island's oral traditions, a baby's cry sucks in the northern lights, a man marries a tree, the muskeg swallows a restaurant, and the dead go to Seattle: discover forty-three linked tales in a story-cycle of life, death, and climate catastrophe in the frigid cold of Alaska.

How materials matter

Explores how design and innovation shape people’s lives in the Pacific. Focusing on plant materials from the region, it reveals ways in which a variety of people – from craftswomen and scientists to architects and politicians – work with materials to transform worlds.

China smart

Essential essays on all things Chinese that inform and entertain travelers, students, and anyone working or living in China

Death threat

A comic book that explores the real-life death threat against writer/musician Vivek Shraya after she came out as transgender.

Postcards from rio

New Postcards from Rio de Janeiro examines the interconnections between notions of citizenship and space in the works of favela-based cultural producers. It argues that the emphasis on the favela daily life generates an aesthetic of representation involved in the rewriting of the city as part of ...

Learning about language and literacy in preschool

Filled with practical strategies, useful information, and engaging learning experiences around language and literacy for preschoolers.

Women and the american labor movement

A comprehensive account of the women who organized for labor rights and equality from the early factories to the 1970’s.

Lifesaving for beginners

When her mother suddenly drowns at age sixty-eight, Anne Edelstein, caring for two small children of her own, must grapple with her family’s history of tragic death and mental illness and her unresolved relationship with a distant and criticizing parent she could never really embrace.

The french revolution and social democracy

The first full-length study of German and Austrian social-democratic readings of the French Revolution, now available in English.

Doing conceptual history in africa

Focuses on the complex role of language in Africa’s historical development. An emphasis on pragmatics and semantics. Engages with a distinctively African intellectual tradition while analyzing the regional and global contexts in which categories like “work,” “marriage,” and “land” ta...

The white review no. 14

The White Review is an arts and literature quarterly magazine, with triannual print and monthly online editions. The magazine launched in London in February 2011 to provide ‘a space for a new generation to express itself unconstrained by form, subject or genre’, and publishes fiction, essays, int...

Speech police

“David Kaye’s book is crucial to understanding the tactics, rhetoric and stakes in one of the most consequential free speech debates in human history.” —Cory Doctorow The internet was designed to be a kind of free-speech paradise, but a lot of the material on it turned out to incite violence, sp...

Searching for a better life

It is the only book (in English) dedicated to the study of Thai youth growing up in poverty. It contributes to debates on agency and structure by suggesting a conceptual framework for understanding agency in a holistic way and recognizing the unintended consequences that can ensue when e...

The benefit of the gift

Archaeological data from the Late Archaic (4000-2000 years ago) in the Western Great Lakes are analyzed to understand the production and movement of copper and lithic exchange materials. Also considered in this volume are access to and benefits from exchange networks, as well as social changes ...

Adamantine

From odes to remarkable artists and activists, to a lyrical response to her own breast cancer treatment, Naomi Foyle’s third collection celebrates women’s tenacity and luster. Deploying a dazzle of forms from the sonnet to visual poetry, the book’s opening sequence honours the achievements of wom...

Race, work, and leadership

Rethinking How to Build Inclusive OrganizationsRace, Work, and Leadership is a rare and important compilation of essays that examines how race matters in people's experience of work and leadership. What does it mean to be black in corporate America today? How are racial dynamics in organizations ...

Class, party, revolution

An expertly selected collection of articles on class, party, and revolution from one of the world’s most important socialist journals

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...

Southern tongues leave us shining

Winner of the 2016 Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award, Southern Tongues Leave Us Shining explores the South and its history through the eyes of the living, the dead, and the inbetween.

Where we once belonged

A bestseller in New Zealand and winner of the prestigious Commonwealth Prize, Sia Figiel's debut marks the first time a novel by a Samoan woman has been published in the United States. Figiel uses the traditional Samoan storytelling form of su'ifefiloi to talk back to Western anthropological stud...

Shakespeare and the arab world

Ron timehin: london fog

London Fog captures the moody, atmospheric side of London architecture and street life through the lens of Ron Timehin, an emerging London-based photographer and former jazz musician.

The white review no. 13

The White Review is an arts and literature quarterly magazine, with triannual print and monthly online editions. The magazine launched in London in February 2011 to provide ‘a space for a new generation to express itself unconstrained by form, subject or genre’, and publishes fiction, essays, int...

Troublemaker for justice

This biography of Bayard Rustin for young readers depicts his life of nonviolent activism and resistance.