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The way out
The Way Out explores how conflict resolution and complexity science provide guidance for dealing with seemingly intractable political differences. This updated edition includes practical plans and exercises for changing individual, social, and systemic practices.
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Frivolity
Jehanne Dubrow offers a defense of the pursuits, objects, and people denigrated as frivolous, asking why we so readily scorn them and why, in particular, the label is so often tied to femininity and queerness.
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Professing architecture
Bryan E. Norwood tells the story of how a small group of architects built a profession amid the powerful forces of capitalism and religious faith in the antebellum United States.
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Experimental junctures
Mary Kaldor introduces a new concept, “experimental junctures,” to account for what happens when political institutions are out of kilter with far-reaching economic, social, and technological change.
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Unendurable freedom
Unendurable Freedom contends that postcolonial literature after 9/11 both invites and deflects global imperial interest by developing paradoxical narrative forms.
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The films of alfred hitchcock
This book presents an engaging overview of Alfred Hitchcock’s life and work along with close studies of ten films spanning nearly five decades of his remarkable career.
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Fast culture, slow justice
Drawing on social media posts, digital stories, and book reviews collected in real time, Richard Jean So shows how BLM’s online surge was shaped and ultimately constrained by platform logics that prize entertainment and pleasure, not accountability.
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Sera khandro
This book presents the unabridged translation of the Buddhist visionary Sera Khandro Dewé Dorjé’s extraordinary autobiography—one of only a handful of life stories written by women in Tibetan literature.
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Dreams of global science
Through the case of precision medicine, Larry Au shows how global and national forms of science cooperate, compete, and come into conflict with one another, producing what he calls hybrid science.
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The cinema of wes anderson
Whitney Crothers Dilley explores the filmic and literary influences that have shaped Wes Anderson’s distinctive voice, revealing what makes him one of today’s most significant filmmakers. This second edition adds discussion of the films Anderson has released since the book’s original publication ...
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Face to face with the cia
Face to Face with the CIA is the gripping firsthand account of the highest-ranking North Vietnamese officer taken captive during the war.
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The black sojourner press
The Black Sojourner Press traces the travels of multiple generations of itinerant Black editors, demonstrating how they transformed Black political and literary culture in the United States, West Africa, and Britain.
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The complexity paradigm
In this groundbreaking book, Doug Garnett shows how complexity science reveals a new understanding of how business works that is as useful on the front lines as in the C-suite.
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I'm glad i'm not me
I’m Glad I’m Not Me explores Bob Dylan’s appearances and depictions on screen, offering a new view of the life and work of one of the most influential yet least knowable celebrities in American history.
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The people's paper
Drawing on never-before-cited documents and more than sixty interviews, The People’s Paper tells the story of the New York Daily News through the eyes of the owners, journalists, and readers who defined it.
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Inside china's secret prisons
In 1991, Orville Schell worked on an in-depth 60 Minutes investigation of China’s vast prison camp system, revealing that products made with forced labor were being surreptitiously sold to the United States. Inside China’s Secret Prisons is his gripping account of this milestone exposé—and how it...
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Liars, cheats, and copycats
Taking readers on a journey from tropical rainforests to the darkness of deep ocean trenches, James O’Hanlon explores how animals and plants use deception to avoid predators, lure in prey, and even reproduce.
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Natural risk
Sarah Stanford-McIntyre shows how Permian Basin oil production reshaped Texas’s environment, economy, and political culture, with major consequences for American understandings of health, wealth, and the social safety net.
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Mary kay
This book tells the story of Mary Kay Ash and the cosmetics firm that bears her name, from its founding and growth to the distinctive gendered corporate culture she cultivated.
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Crowd control
Crowd Control tells the story of how efforts to contain Black resistance led to the invention of American literary excellence.
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Puppet masters of evolution
Andrew A. Davinack reveals that parasites are far more than agents of disease or grotesque passengers along for the ride: They are powerful forces that have shaped the course of evolution.
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The young turk international
Alp Yenen tells the story of a group of exiled “Young Turk” leaders—fugitive Ottoman statesmen wanted as war criminals for the Armenian Genocide—who sought to capitalize on the global moment of Muslim internationalism after World War I to challenge European hegemony.
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Listening
Miriam Rasch offers a philosophical and personal exploration of the ethics of listening, understanding it not as a passive act but as a relationship between the self and the world.
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The camphor war
Examining an obscure conflict, the Camphor War of 1868, Ronald C. Po shows how the Qing and British empires evolved during a period of imperial reconfigurations and border realignments.
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All the world in thee
All the World in Thee presents a selection of poems about LGBTQ+ experiences.
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Big american writer
Big American Writer recasts Jack Kerouac as an ethnic, bilingual author, demonstrating that his French Canadian upbringing and background were formative to his breakthrough literary achievements.
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The resilient pediatric brain
The Resilient Pediatric Brain explores how children—and the families and clinicians who care for them—respond when the developing brain is disrupted by disease or injury.
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East asia’s troubled democracies
Drawing on extensive multilingual research, Christopher Carothers traces the forces undermining democracy in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.
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Bird on the street
Blending natural history with science memoir, Bird on the Street traces how starlings illuminate the mechanisms of evolution and the relationship between humans and wildlife.
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The future of the nuclear order
The Future of the Nuclear Order explores the difficulties facing nuclear nonproliferation and arms-control efforts today, from the immediate consequences of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to deeper tensions that have been growing in significance.
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New york, 1860
This book is a biography of New York City in the year before the Civil War, from the moment the telegraph brought news of John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry in October 1859 to the first shots on Fort Sumter in the spring of 1861.
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Valuing nature at the ends of the world
Patrick M. Gallagher explores how Belize’s precarious coastal environment has become a site for a new kind of capitalist value production, in which landscapes and ecosystems derive worth from their vulnerability or looming destruction in the era of climate change.
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A madhyamaka reader
An anthology of original translations of Sanskrit philosophical works, A Madhyamaka Reader traces the arc of the Middle Way school over the course of its history.
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Napoleon's closet
Margaret Waller’s fresh account of the paradoxical history of male clothing centers on an unlikely pair: Napoleon Bonaparte, the Corsican upstart who crowned himself emperor of France, and Pierre Antoine Le Boux La Mésangère, the defrocked priest who became Europe’s premier fashion editor.
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If i am right, and i know i am
If I Am Right, and I Know I Am provides a powerful portrait of the pioneering Danish scientist Inge Lehmann (1888–1993) while guiding readers through the fascinating history of earth science.
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The story of the mammals in 25 discoveries
Donald R. Prothero takes readers on a journey through the history of mammals, opening a window onto the worlds of some of the most incredible and peculiar animals that ever lived.
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I did it for my country
I Did It for My Country is a revelatory account of Sirhan Sirhan and the political dimensions of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.
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Malaysian crossings
Malaysian Chinese (Mahua) literature is marginalized on several fronts. Cheow Thia Chan demonstrates that Mahua authors’ grasp of their marginality in the world-Chinese literary space has been the impetus for—rather than a barrier to—aesthetic inventiveness.
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Women in power
Linda Robinson—an award-winning journalist and foreign policy expert—tells the powerful stories of the women on the frontlines of the battle between democracy and authoritarianism.
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Resource nationalism and energy policy
David R. Mares develops a powerful new account of the relationship between state resource ownership and energy policy. He considers the history of Latin American oil and gas policies and provides an in-depth analysis of Venezuela from 1989 to 2016—before, during, and after the presidency of Hugo ...
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Terror in transition
This book provides a groundbreaking analysis of how religious terrorist groups manage and adapt to major shifts in leadership. It argues that how successors position themselves in terms of the founder shapes a terrorist group’s future course and examines how and why different types of successors ...
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Fighting for new york
Fighting for New York is a pragmatic account of health-focused social movements over the past several decades.
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Diasporic connections
Reighan Gillam shows how Afro-Brazilians draw on African American history and culture to argue that Brazil is typical, not exceptional, emphasizing common experiences across the African diaspora.
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The racial unfamiliar
John Brooks examines a range of abstractionist, experimental, and genre-defying works by Black writers and artists that challenge how audiences perceive and imagine race. He argues that literature and visual art that exceed the confines of familiar conceptions of Black identity can upend received...
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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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To the stars and other stories
This book brings together remarkable short stories by the Russian Symbolist Fyodor Sologub that explore the lengths to which people will go to transcend the mundane. Renowned as one of late imperial Russia’s finest stylists, Sologub bridges the great nineteenth-century novel and the fin-de-siècle...
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What world is this?
Judith Butler shows how COVID-19 and all its consequences—political, social, ecological, economic—challenge us to develop a new account of interdependency. Butler argues for a radical social equality and advocates modes of resistance that seek to establish new conditions of livability and a new s...
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The black aerial imagination
Delali Kumavie examines how aviation and flight have shaped Black lives and the global Black cultural imagination, arguing that representations of air travel reveal the structures circumscribing Black existence.
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The future of seeing
Daniel K. Sodickson—a physicist and biomedical imaging innovator—explores the rich history and surprising future of vision, from the evolution of eyes to emerging high-tech devices.
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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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