Selected poems of du fu

Du Fu (712–777) has been called China's greatest poet, and some call him the greatest nonepic, nondramatic poet whose writings survive in any language. Du Fu excelled in a great variety of poetic forms, showing a richness of language ranging from elegant to colloquial, from allusive to direct. Hi...

A cry of despair

This book showcases and provides context for Danylo Movchan’s art in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Tradition matters

Creating learning spaces

What can we learn from a teacher’s journal about working with challenging youth? What experiences transpire during a train trip to the sea with an unruly crew of school boys? What happens when children plan a trip on their own? This book illustrates formative and inspirational moments from the au...

An ethos of blackness

This book is a groundbreaking account of Rastafari, demonstrating that it provides a normative conception of Blackness for people of African descent that resists Eurocentric and colonial ideas.

Human misunderstanding

Human Misunderstanding is the latest work by award-winning poet Kathy Mac. The first of the book’s three long poems compares a fictional child soldier (a hero) with a real child soldier (a victim). The second juxtaposes eighteenth century philosophy with one person’s search for another in downtow...

How to read chinese drama in chinese

This book is at once a guided primer on Chinese drama and an innovative textbook. A companion to How to Read Chinese Drama designed for Chinese-language learners, it provides a versatile introduction to traditional Chinese plays for readers who want to experience Chinese drama in the original lan...

Ukraine vis-à-vis russia and the eu

This book investigates the making of Ukraine’s foreign policy towards the European Union and Russia between February 2014 and February 2015.

The sounds of poetry viewed as music

Poets, literary critics, and lovers of poetry often speak of the “music of poetry.” This book gives substance to the metaphor by building on recent research in linguistics and music theory to propose a theory of the sounds of poetry conceived in musical terms.

The epigenetics revolution

Epigenetics can potentially revolutionize our understanding of the structure and behavior of biological life on Earth. It explains why mapping an organism's genetic code is not enough to determine how it develops or acts and shows how nurture combines with nature to engineer biological diversity....

Staging the ottoman turk

In the wake of the fear that gripped Europe after the fall of Constantinople in 1453, English dramatists, like their continental counterparts, began representing the Ottoman Turks in plays inspired by historical events. The Ottoman milieu as a dramatic setting provided English audiences with a co...

The politics of passion

Gloria Wekker analyzes the phenomenon of mati work, an old practice among Afro-Surinamese working-class women in which marriage is rejected in favor of male and female sexual partners. Wekker vividly describes the lives of these women, who prefer to create alternative families of kin, lovers, and...

The unbuilt bench

In The Unbuilt Bench, David Peterson argues that the scientific study of the mind and human behavior is a different sort of epistemic activity than the work of the natural sciences.

From post-yugoslavia to the female continent

Women’s writing from the former/post-Yugoslavia recollects but also produces the links among the post-Yugoslav present and the Yugoslav past. Drawing attention to an uninterrupted marginalization of women authors, Tijana Matijevic reconceptualizes contemporary literary production from Bosnia and ...

Programs to reduce teen dating violence and sexual assault

Arlene Weisz and Beverly Black interview practitioners from more than fifty dating violence and sexual assault programs across the United States to provide a unique resource for effective teen dating violence prevention. Enhancing existing research with the shared wisdom of the nation's preventio...

Nietzsche versus paul

A fresh interpretation of Nietzsche's engagement with the work of Paul the Apostle, reorienting the relationship between the two thinkers while embedding modern philosophy within early Christian theology.

The rover

Joseph Conrad’s last completed novel is a masterpiece of narrative tension and psychological insight.

The unknown in design, art, and technology

An invitation to question the presumed certainties in design, art, and technology.

Family in crisis?

Scholars of cultural, gender, and media studies, lawyers, sociologists, and historians discuss how today’s families cross borders and how cultural texts—sitcoms, films, novels, short stories, and political magazines from Europe and the U.S.—(de-)construct, take part in, and mirror family discourses.

Art and economics in the city

Emerging forms of alternative economic frameworks are changing the structure of society, redefining the relationship between centre and periphery, and the social dynamics in the urban fabric. In this context, the arts can play a crucial role in formulating a concept of complex and plural citizens...

The stroller of paris

A masterwork of poetic urban observation, The Stroller of Paris is Léon-Paul Fargue’s luminous love letter to the city he wandered, savored, and immortalized in prose.

Faster, pussycat! kill! kill!

Russ Meyer's Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965) is an enigma. A box-office failure when initially released on the grindhouse circuit, it has since been embraced by art-house audiences, and referenced in countless films, television series, and songs. A riot of styles and story clichés lifted fro...

Playing dystopia

Gerald Farca explores the genre of dystopian video games and the player’s aesthetic response to their nightmarish gameworlds. Players, he argues, will gradually come to see similarities between the virtual dystopia and their own offline environment, thus learning to stay wary of social and politi...

The ethical soundscape

Charles Hirschkind's unique study explores how a popular Islamic media form—the cassette sermon—has profoundly transformed the political geography of the Middle East over the last three decades. An essential aspect of what is now called the Islamic Revival, the cassette sermon has become omnipres...

Records of the grand historian

Research techniques for clinical social workers

This volume has long been an invaluable resource for students and practitioners of social work. It thoroughly and clearly presents research concepts and skills, uniquely organizing them according to assessment and treatment formulation, treatment implementation and monitoring, and evaluation. Als...

Latino small businesses and the american dream

Latino small businesses provide social, economic, and cultural comfort to their communities. They are also excellent facilitators of community capacity—a major component of effective social work practice. Social work practitioners have a vested interest in seeing such businesses grow, not only am...

Narrating the multispecies world

International artists and scholars share their stories of loss and hope regarding today's polycrises and their effects on animals, plants, and humans all over the world.

Framing prior consultation in brazil

This book is a rich ethnographic and historic account of the juridification of prior consultation in Brazil. In her case study on the national regulation of ILO Convention 169, Charlotte Schumann critically examines the dynamic conflicts over competence and interpretation of this paramount safegu...

The quest for the cure

After more than fifty years of blockbuster drug development, skeptics are beginning to fear we are reaching the end of drug discovery to combat major diseases. In this engaging book, Brent R. Stockwell, a leading researcher in the exciting new science of chemical biology, describes this dilemma a...

Management fundamentals

This book is a succinct handbook of the essentials of management for current and future practitioners. Leadership experts Steven Cohen and William Eimicke concisely explain management best practices, aiming to equip managers with the tools of the trade and prepare them to tackle decision making.

Reds at the blackboard

The New York City Teachers Union shares a deep history with the American left, having participated in some of its most explosive battles. Established in 1916, the union maintained an early, unofficial partnership with the American Communist Party, winning key union positions and advocating a numb...

General equilibrium

Written by one of the key pioneers in the field, this book offers an accessible introduction to general equilibrium theory. Written for undergraduates taking courses in economic theory and modelling who have limited mathematical proficiency, the book fills a gap between forbidding technical expos...

Who ate up all the shinga?

Park Wan-suh’s Who Ate Up All the Shinga? is an extraordinary account of growing up during the Japanese occupation of Korea and the Korean War, a time of great oppression, deprivation, and social and political instability. With acerbic wit and brilliant insight, Park describes the characters and ...

Contemporary performemory

This book looks at dance works created in the twenty-first century by choreographers identifying as Afro-European, Jewish, Black, Palestinian, and Taiwanese-Chinese-American. It explores how contemporary dance-makers engage with historical traumas to reimagine how the past is remembered and how t...

Multilingual construction of identity

Reporting on a linguistic ethnographic study, Işıl Erduyan explores multilingual identity construction of high school students of Turkish descent enrolled in a downtown high school (Gymnasium) in Berlin. She focuses on naturally occurring classroom interactions across German, Turkish, and Englis...

City of the queen

From its beginnings as a pestilent port and colonial backwater, Hong Kong became the "pearl" of a declining British empire, and then ascended to its present status as a gleaming city of commerce. Throughout its history, Hong Kong has been steeped in drama, intrigue, and seismic social shifts. Shi...

The book of swindles

The Book of Swindles, a seventeenth-century story collection, offers a panoramic guide to the art of deception. Ostensibly a manual for self-protection, it presents a tableau of criminal ingenuity in late Ming China. Each story comes with commentary by the author, who expounds a moral lesson whil...