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The confucius chronicles
This book explores enduring narratives about Confucius, shedding light on his role as a symbol of cultural ideals and a fulcrum of ideological debates across eras.
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Climate change science
This book is a primer on the fundamental science of climate change and climate prediction, now updated to reflect the latest research.
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A taiwanese ecoliterature reader
This anthology showcases cutting-edge works on ecological themes by essential and emerging Taiwanese authors, revealing the vitality of their engagements with environmental crises.
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Inside terrorism
Bruce Hoffman's Inside Terrorism has remained the seminal work for understanding the evolution of terrorism and the terrorist mind-set. In this revised third edition, Hoffman analyzes the latest developments, offering insight into new adversaries, motivations, strategies, and tactics. He focuses ...
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Social work values and ethics
For decades, teachers and practitioners have turned to Frederic G. Reamer’s Social Work Values and Ethics as the leading introduction to ethical decision making, dilemmas, and professional conduct in practice. This sixth edition incorporates significant updates to the National Association of Soci...
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In the ruins of neoliberalism
Wendy Brown explains the hard-right turn in Western politics. She argues that neoliberalism’s intensification of nihilism coupled with its accidental wounding of white male supremacy generates an apocalyptic populism willing to destroy the world rather than endure a future in which this supremacy...
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The elements of academic style
Eric Hayot teaches graduate students and faculty in literary and cultural studies how to think and write like a professional scholar. From granular concerns, such as sentence structure and grammar, to big-picture issues, such as adhering to genre patterns for successful research and publishing an...
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Film studies, second edition
Film Studies is a concise and indispensable introduction to the formal study of cinema. The second edition to this best-selling textbook adds two new chapters: “Film and Ideology” and “Film Studies in the Age of Digital Cinema.”
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Afterlives of the plantation
Jarvis C. McInnis charts a new account of Black modernity by centering Tuskegee’s vision of agrarian worldmaking.
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Empire by law
Aimee M. Genell reveals the importance of the Ottoman Empire’s autonomous provinces, both within the empire and in the history of international relations.
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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.
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Supervision in social work
First published in 1976, Supervision in Social Work has become an essential text for social work educators and students, detailing the state of the field and the place, function, and challenges of supervision in social work practice. This fifth edition takes into account the sizable number of art...
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What is political theology?
This field-changing interdisciplinary book brings together three of the leading voices in political theology—a Christian theologian, a critical theorist, and an anthropologist—to offer new entry points to understand religion and politics.
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The edges of cinema
Bringing together a decade of criticism, The Edges of Cinema roams across an array of styles to take account of how some of the most important contemporary filmmakers are engaging the world.
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Climate justice now
This book offers a comprehensive exploration of debates on climate justice across the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities, developing a new conceptual framework that transcends disciplinary divides.
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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.
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The lowest freedom
The Lowest Freedom is an intellectual history of how economic dispossession shaped the meaning of freedom in Black thought from antebellum abolitionism to the rise of Jim Crow.
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Democracy and beauty
Robert Gooding-Williams reconstructs W. E. B. Du Bois’s defense of the political potential of beauty to challenge oppressive systems and foster an inclusive democracy.
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Powers of horror
Julia Kristeva offers an extensive and profound consideration of the nature of abjection. Drawing on Freud and Lacan, she analyzes the nature of attitudes toward repulsive subjects and examines the function of these topics in the writings of Celine, Proust, Joyce, and other authors.
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Lacan
The transcript of Alain Badiou’s year-long seminar on the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan, this book offers a forceful reading of an enigmatic yet foundational thinker and sheds light on the crucial role that Lacan plays in Badiou’s own thought. It is the first volume of Badiou’s seminars ...
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Can the subaltern speak?
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's original essay "Can the Subaltern Speak?" transformed the analysis of colonialism through an eloquent and uncompromising argument that affirmed the contemporary relevance of Marxism while using deconstructionist methods to explore the international division of labor a...
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The danger imperative
With unprecedented access to three police departments and drawing on more than 100 interviews and 1,000 hours on patrol, The Danger Imperative provides vital insight into how police culture shapes officers’ perception and practice of violence.
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The generation of postmemory
Can we remember other people's memories? The Generation of Postmemory argues we can: that memories of traumatic events live on to mark the lives of those who were not there to experience them. Children of survivors and their contemporaries inherit catastrophic histories not through direct recolle...
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Queer social work
This collection of case studies offers real-life scenarios from a range of social work scholars, educators, and practitioners, representing diverse sexualities, genders, and intersectional identities. Together, they demonstrate contemporary, multilevel, queer-affirming social work practice with L...
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Reckoning with racial capitalism
This book develops a critical theory of racial capitalism and argues that it is indispensable to understanding and contesting the neoliberal present.
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Histories of racial capitalism
This book brings together for the first time distinguished and rising scholars to consider the utility of the concept of racial capitalism across historical settings. By theorizing and testing racial capitalism in different circumstances, this book shows its analytical and political power for tod...
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China's weaponization of trade
This groundbreaking book explores the weaponization of economic interdependence and its implications for the international order through a wealth of new and original data on China’s economic statecraft.
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Nietzsche
This book presents Badiou’s seminar on Nietzsche’s late works, which for the first time addresses what would become one of his central concepts: anti-philosophy and its adversarial yet intimate relationship with philosophy.
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Cities in action
Christof Brandtner shows that city climate action is not simply a matter of political will: It is an organizational problem.
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Muslim environmentalisms
Anna M. Gade explores the religious and cultural foundations of Islamic environmentalisms. She blends textual and ethnographic study to offer a comprehensive and interdisciplinary account of the legal, ethical, social, and political principles underlying Muslim commitments to the earth.
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Between men
Introducing a new generation to the book that changed humanities scholarship.
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Scattered and fugitive things
Scattered and Fugitive Things tells the stories of the Black collectors who dedicated themselves to documenting the history of African American life, traveling from the parlors of the urban north to HBCU reading rooms and branch libraries in the Jim Crow south.
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The age of sustainable development
Jeffrey D. Sachs presents a compelling and practical framework to address the seemingly intractable worldwide problems of persistent extreme poverty, environmental degradation, and political-economic injustice: sustainable development. Sachs explains how modern societies can develop economically,...
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The fox spirit, the stone maiden, and other transgender histories from late imperial china
This book is a groundbreaking study of transgender lives and practices in late imperial China. Through close readings of court cases, as well as Ming and Qing fiction and nineteenth-century newspaper accounts, Matthew H. Sommer examines the social, legal, and cultural histories of gender crossing.
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The documentary audit
Pooja Rangan develops a framework for understanding how documentary practices have, under the mantle of accountability, provided a moral cover for listening habits that are used to profile, exclude, and incarcerate.
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Poetry after barbarism
Against a backdrop of xenophobic and ethnonationalist fantasies of linguistic purity, Poetry After Barbarism uncovers a stateless, polyglot poetry of resistance—the poetry of motherless tongues.
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Curricular injustice
Lauren D. Olsen argues that the way medical students encounter humanities and social sciences material in practice has served to reinforce the status quo by teaching them to individualize systemic problems.
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The social work interview
The only textbook to outline the skills social workers need to conduct effective client interviews, this volume synthesizes recent research on interviewing and demonstrates its value in unique settings and with a variety of clients and issues. Connecting evidence-based approaches to the quality o...
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Stitch, unstitch
In Stitch, Unstitch, Kristin Grogan argues that modernist poetry was deeply shaped by ordinary labor and the people who performed it. This relationship provoked powerful political and aesthetic experiments—and allowed modernist poets to imagine ways of life beyond the demand to earn a living.
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Irreparable evil
Irreparable Evil explores the legacy of slavery and its moral and political implications, offering a nuanced intervention into debates over reparations.
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The call of character
Should we feel inadequate when we fail to be healthy, balanced, and well-adjusted? Is it realistic or even desirable to strive for such an existential equilibrium? Condemning our current cultural obsession with cheerfulness and "positive thinking," Mari Ruti calls for a resurrection of character ...
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Theory for the working sociologist
A playbook for sociologists looking to understand the theoretical underpinnings of the discipline
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Intelligence work
Intelligence Work establishes a new genealogy of American social documentary, proposing a fresh critical approach to the aesthetic and political issues of nonfiction cinema and media. Jonathan Kahana argues that the use of documentary film by intellectuals, activists, government agencies, and com...
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For a just republic
In this magisterial account of Indian politics over the past seventy-five years, the renowned scholar Partha Chatterjee challenges common notions of “state” and “nation,” arguing for a more capacious understanding of “the people.”
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Monstrous conceptions
Miriam Rich explores the history of monstrosity as a modern scientific category, tracing the practices that transformed newborn bodies into medical specimens across the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century United States.
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Archives of conjure
Solimar Otero explores how Afrolatinx spirits guide collaborative spiritual-scholarly activist work through rituals and the creation of material culture. By examining spirit mediumship through a Caribbean cross-cultural poetics, she shows how divinities and ancestors serve as active agents in sha...
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The african diaspora
Patrick Manning refuses to divide the African diaspora into the experiences of separate regions and nations. Instead, he follows the multiple routes that brought Africans and people of African descent into contact with one another and with Europe, Asia, and the Americas. In weaving these stories ...
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Reform as process
This book takes a fresh perspective on building an effective civil service by documenting and analyzing the implementation of more than one hundred reforms initiated by six African countries over the last thirty years.
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Ecologies of ecstasy
Ecologies of Ecstasy recasts religious contemplation as a form of vegetal being, arguing that spiritual practice is rooted in the generation of life on earth.
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Solidarity in journalism
Anita Varma offers a bold defense of reporting for social justice, showing what journalistic solidarity looks like in principle and in practice.
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