A treasury of hadith

This treasury of hadith is as a short introduction to foundational Islamic principles through the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad.

The problem of distraction

Rejecting the current conflation of distraction with diversion, this book presents the first genealogy of the concept from Aristotle to Kafka, Heidegger, and Benjamin's early twentieth-century use of distraction to revolutionize the humanities.

Making the chinese mexican

Making the Chinese Mexican presents a fresh perspective on immigration, nationalism, and racism through the experiences of Chinese migrants in the U.S.-Mexico borderlandsduring the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.

The power of life

A study of Giorgio Agamben's philosophy of life within the field of political theory and beyond.

Can green sustain growth?

Green growth has proven to be politically popular, but economically elusive. Can Green Sustain Growth? asks how we can move from theoretical support to implementation, and argues that this leap will require radical experimentation. But systemic change is costly, and a sweeping shift cannot be acc...

Broke

Broke explores the consequences of recent unprecedented growth in consumer debt and shows how excessive borrowing undermines the prosperity of middle class America.

Keep your eye on the wall

Powerful, unique and beautifully produced - an insightful and thought-provoking critique of the Wall around Palestine.

Chiura obata

Chiura Obata (1885–1975) was one of the most significant Japanese American artists working on the West Coast in the last century. Born in Okayama, Japan, Obata emigrated to the United States in 1903 and embarked on a seven-decade career that saw the enactment of anti-immigration laws and the mass...

Teotihuacan

Founded in the first century BCE near a set of natural springs in an otherwise dry northeastern corner of the Valley of Mexico, the ancient metropolis of Teotihuacan was on a symbolic level a city of elements. With a multiethnic population of perhaps one hundred thousand, at its peak in 400 CE, i...

Arthur szyk

An indispensable and timely publication on the life and work of the great Polish-Jewish-American artist-activist Arthur Szyk.

A dictionary of japanese buddhist terms

<p>The return of a vital resource for students of Japanese culture, revised and expanded.</p>

Tamayo

Explores the influences between Mexican modernist Rufino Tamayo and the American art world at a time of unparalleled cross-cultural exchange.

Audubon's last wilderness journey

A new presentation of J.J Audubon's final great natural history work, the first volume to document America's animals.

In plain sight

A major addition to the study of American colonial and post-colonial furniture, and to the scholarship on Nathaniel Gould.

Renoir and friends

A 'who's-who' guide to Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s iconic Luncheon of the Boating Party.

Lebanon 1860-1960

Insightful and extensively researched, Lebanon 1860-1960 explores the differing mythologies of the Maronite, Druze and Sunni communities that led to a brief but brutal clash in Lebanon in 1958.

Glory goes and gets some

An ironic, streetwise journey through disease, despair, sex, and addiction.

Maliheh afnan

Spans the 50-year career of Maliheh Afnan, recognised as one of the most important contemporary artists from the Middle East.

Oman's insurgencies

A detailed look at the crises that have tested Oman and accelerated its development.

Dynamics of arab foreign policy-making in the twenty-first century

In this balanced and discerning study, Hassan Hamdan al-Alkim examines the dynamics of Arab foreign policy-making in the twenty-first century.

Madam atatürk

A surprising and controversial portrait of Latife Hanim – the First Lady of modern Turkey.

The literary heritage of the arabs

A landmark anthology of Arabic literature, covering the past 1,500 years from the Pre-Islamic through to contemporary work.

The power of economists within the state

Why have some countries gone farther than others in adopting public policies that rely heavily on the free-market? Johan Christensen offers a new explanation: these policies are correlated with the entrenchment of U.S.-trained, neoclassical economists within that state. Comparing the cases of New...

The freedoms we lost

A brilliant and original examination of American freedom as it existed before the Revolution, from the Smithsonian’s curator of social history.   The American Revolution is widely understood—by schoolchildren and citizens alike—as having ushered in “freedom” as we know it, a freedom that places v...

Managing for the long run

Conventional thinking holds that family-controlled businesses are beset by inherent weaknesses from "clan" cultures to stable ownership that hobble success and erode competitive advantage. This book argues that those very traits are part of what has ensured the sustained success of some of the wo...

Graphicstudio

Features over one hundred modern artworks by forty-five Graphicstudio artists, including Louise Bourgeois, Chuck Close, Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg.

Don't tread on me

Adaptable autocrats

Comparing Egypt and Syria, this book argues that Arab states where executive power is more centralized are better at adapting to prevent regime change than states where decentralized relationships prevails.

Uncommon service

Most companies treat service as a low-priority business operation, keeping it out of the spotlight until a customer complains. Then service gets to make a brief appearance – for as long as it takes to calm the customer down and fix whatever foul-up jeopardized the relationship.In Uncommon Service...

The innovator's method

Have you ever come up with an idea for a new product or service but didn’t take any action because you thought it would be too risky? Or at work, have you had what you thought could be a big idea for your company—perhaps changing the way you develop or distribute a product, provide customer servi...

The pursuit of liberty

Stories in sterling

The first comprehensive survey of the New-York Historical Society’s superb collection of early American silver.

Daniel

The renowned poet, priest, and activist brings to life his namesake and role model, the biblical prophet Daniel.Daniel Berrigan’s powerful, poetic commentary on the biblical book of Daniel brings to life a prophet who has as much to say to our hedonistic, warring world as he did to the people of ...

Of dogs and other people

Roy De Forest’s brightly hued, crazy-quilted paintings and sculptures are dotted with nipples of color and inhabited by a cast of characters uniquely his own, a perennial favorite being his instantly recognizable, wild-eyed and pointy-eared dogs. Published in conjunction with a retrospective exhi...

Business networks in syria

This book examines how state officials and select businessmen come together informally to shape economic development in Syria.

Corporate culture

Organizational culture is a quiet, but driving, influence on our perception of a company, whether as a consumer or as an employee. For instance, we know Southwest Airlines as laid back and friendly. We think of Google as innovative. To almost every well-known company we can assign a character. I...

Beyond great powers and hegemons

This book adds a new dimension to the discussion of the relationship between the great powers and the weaker states that align with them—or not. Previous studies have focused on the role of the larger (or super) power and how it manages its relationships with other states, or on how great or maj...

Anxious wealth

Who exactly are China's new rich? This pioneering investigation introduces readers to the private lives—and the nightlives—of the powerful entrepreneurs and managers redefining success and status in the city of Chengdu. Over the course of more than three years, anthropologist John Osburg accompan...

An american cakewalk

The profound economic and social changes in the post-Civil War United States created new challenges to a nation founded on Enlightenment and transcendental values, religious certainties, and rural traditions. Newly-freed African Americans, emboldened women, intellectuals and artists, and a polygl...

Towards understanding the qur'an

A masterful translation of the Qur'an which includes a selection of notes to aid understanding by Abul A'la Mawdudi.

Essays

Probing essays and observations by acclaimed actor and playwright Wallace Shawn, in his first nonfiction collection.

Minimal conditions

Minimal Conditions explores the expansion of sculpture into phenomenal and perception-based practices in and around the Los Angeles area in the 1970s, a time when California Light and Space art played a key role in the evolution of minimal art toward dematerialization. Focusing on the contingent...

British drawings

A rare chance to see masterworks from an exceptional collection of British drawings dating from the 18th to 20th centuries.

A glossary of zen terms

Of special interest to scholars and students of Zen classics, a glossary of specialized vocabulary to aid understanding and practice

Sublime beauty

Celebrates one of Raphael’s most beguiling and enigmatic paintings, Woman with a Unicorn of 1506-9

Bright lights in the dark ages

Full of shining artistic gems from a dark period of early medieval history

Radical eroticism

In the 1960s, the fascination with erotic art generated a wave of exhibitions and critical discussion on sexual freedom, visual pleasure, and the nude in contemporary art. Radical Eroticism examines the importance of women’s contributions in fundamentally reconfiguring representations of sexualit...

On purpose

A brief, accessible history of the idea of purpose in Western thought, from ancient Greece to the presentCan we live without the idea of purpose? Should we even try to? Kant thought we were stuck with purpose, and even Darwin’s theory of natural selection, which profoundly shook the idea, was una...