Pacific passage

Preventing the greenlash

We have almost everything we need to tackle climate change, except political determination. Lorenzo Forni dissects the net-zero challenge and offers a clear-sighted strategy for policymakers, who need to enact complex green policies while keeping voters on board with the net-zero agenda.

Travels in manchuria and mongolia

Yosano Akiko (1878-1942) was one of Japan's greatest poets and translators from classical Japanese. Her output was extraordinary, including twenty volumes of poetry and the most popular translation of the ancient classic The Tale of Genji into modern Japanese. The mother of eleven children, she w...

Ruth beckermann

Viennese filmmaker Ruth Beckermann, who has been making films since the 1970s, has created an exciting and widely recognized body of essay and documentary films. This is the first English-language publication on Beckermann’s oeuvre, including an original essay by Nick Pinkerton, an in-depth conve...

Said on opera

This book presents Edward W. Said’s insightful and elegant analyses of four major operas—originally delivered as the Empson Lectures at Cambridge University in 1997—showcasing the power of his critical acumen to unsettle canonical interpretations.

China's environmental policy and urban development

This volume tackles a range of ecological issues caused by rapid urban growth in China and examines the policies meant to protect the environment. It features discussions from leading scholars on current regulations, government decentralization and environmental protection, urban development, ind...

The fight for the republic

This book of three essays by Sitaram Yechury, the topmost leader of the Community Party in India, introduced by Prabhat Patnaik.

Cosmos and republic

Inspired by Hannah Arendt's analysis of crisis-ridden modernity, Wolfgang Heuer addresses exemplary aspects of depoliticization and the loss of politics - and thus of freedom - in 20 essays.

Geographia literaria

This collection seeks to negotiate with and react to the underlying principle of geopoetics that cuts across varied and at times conflicting schools. From reading geopoetical texts to understanding the idea of the earth in Humboldt and Marx-Engels to the geography of exile, the volume tries to un...

The logic of japanese politics

Widely recognized both in America and Japan for his insider knowledge and penetrating analyses of Japanese politics, Gerald Curtis is the political analyst best positioned to explore the complexities of the Japanese political scene today. Curtis has personally known most of the key players in Jap...

Intimate revolt

A thorough examination of the manner in which three of the most unsettling modern writers—Aragon, Sartre, and Barthes—affirm their personal rebellion followed by Kristeva's own ideas on the future of rebellion.

On depiction

In this collection of essays that arikha wrote between 1965 and 1994, he expounds on art, technique, seeing, and the state of culture in his day.

Oil powers

Victor McFarland challenges the view that the U.S.-Saudi alliance is the inevitable consequence of American energy demand and Saudi Arabia’s huge oil reserves. Oil Powers traces the growth of the alliance through a dense web of political, economic, and social connections that bolstered royal and ...

Trees without wind

Unfolding in the tense years of the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), Trees Without Wind takes place in a remote Shanxi village in which a rare affliction has left the residents physically stunted. Director Liu, an older revolutionary and local commune head, becomes embroiled in a power struggle w...

Hollywood and israel

Hollywood has long enjoyed a “special relationship” with Israel. This book offers a groundbreaking account of this relationship, both on and off the screen. Tony Shaw and Giora Goodman investigate the many ways in which Hollywood’s moguls, directors, and actors have supported or challenged Israel...

A year without a winter

This book brings together science fiction, history, visual art, and exploration to reframe the relationship among climate, crisis, and creation. A Year Without a Winter presents stories by four renowned science fiction authors alongside critical essays, extracts from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, ...

Wild things

Wild Things is a book about loss and about the radical clarity that comes when everything falls away.

Okinawa and the u.s. military

In 1995, an Okinawan schoolgirl was brutally raped by several U.S. servicemen. The incident triggered a chain of protests by women's groups, teachers' associations, labor unions, reformist political parties, and various grassroots organizations across Okinawa prefecture. Reaction to the crime cul...

The taste of apples

From the preeminent writer of Taiwanese nativist fiction and the leading translator of Chinese literature come these poignant accounts of everyday life in rural and small-town Taiwan. Huang is frequently cited as one of the most original and gifted storytellers in the Chinese language, and these ...

The rural voter

This pathbreaking book pinpoints forces behind the rise of the “rural voter”—a new political identity that combines a deeply felt sense of place with an increasingly nationalized set of concerns.

The bodies we are (not)

Antje Velsinger develops choreographic strategies for becoming unfamiliar to the own self and play as two means for emancipating the body from the neo-liberal imperative of optimization and control.

Inventing the church

Bénédicte Sère explores how the Catholic Church has repeatedly invented and reinvented itself through a constant back-and-forth between narratives of the Middle Ages and modernity, excavating and traces this history through seven pivotal concepts.

Realizing a good life

Criminalized men tell us how they overcame trauma, racism, poverty, and abuse. Personal and institutional supports of caring are key – being cared for and caring for others.

Curating contemporary music festivals

Brandon Farnsworth lays out a theory for understanding curatorial practices in contemporary music and how they could be a solution to the field’s diminishing social relevance. He focuses on two case studies, the Munich Biennale for New Music Theatre, and the Maerzmusik Festival at the Berliner Fe...

Parental monitoring of adolescents

The close supervision of adolescents dramatically reduces the incidence of risky sexual behavior, drug and alcohol use, and other activities that could negatively affect one's health and well-being. Because of the strong correlation between parental monitoring and a child's welfare, social worker...

Aspects of behavioral strategy

In today's dynamic business world, the intersection of traditional strategy and human behavior is more relevant than ever. This volume explores the subtleties of this integration.

Genuine pretending

This book presents an innovative reading of Daoist philosophy that highlights the critical and therapeutic functions of satire and humor. Moeller and D’Ambrosio show how the Zhuangzi expounds the Daoist art of “genuine pretending”: the paradoxical skill of enacting social roles without submitting...

The vice of reading

Edith Wharton offers a scathing attack on “mechanical” readers who are having a disastrous impact on the world of letters.

In search of ultimate reality

Using contemporary physics, narrated at a popular science level, Chris Ransford shows why full nothingness—a nothingness within which even the disembodied laws of mathematics would not exist—cannot possibly exist, and what most likely underpins and enables reality.

People's choice literature

People’s Choice Literature presents two novels based on a nationwide poll about literary taste—one featuring the story elements Americans most desire and another containing everything Americans despise.

Moves - spaces - places

This ethnography leads the reader into the lives of five Jamaican women in Montreal; their daily practices and experiences, their spaces of communion, their memories and projections for the future. Lisa Johnson sheds light on the mobile biographies and migratory agency of her interlocutors.

Mothers in academia

Featuring forthright testimonials by women who are or have been mothers as undergraduates, graduate students, academic staff, administrators, and professors, Mothers in Academia intimately portrays the experiences of women at various stages of motherhood while theoretically and empirically consid...

Subject to change

Politics, gender, and the islamic past

In this extraordinary study, D. A. Spellberg examines the life of 'A'isha bint Abi Bakr, Muhammad's most beloved and controversial wife, and a central figure in Islamic cultural history. Instead of employing the traditional chronological technique of the biographer, however, Spellberg uses 'A'ish...

Reforming the imf for the 21st century

Based on a conference held in September 2005 on the future of the International Monetary Fund, this important new book includes an overview of the challenges facing the IMF today. In addition, the authors offer a wide range of views on four areas: the international monetary system and the IMF (wi...

Theos bernard, the white lama

In 1937, Theos Casimir Bernard (1908–1947), the self-proclaimed "White Lama," became the third American in history to reach Lhasa, the capital city of Tibet. During his stay, he amassed the largest collection of Tibetan texts, art, and artifacts in the Western hemisphere at that time. He also doc...

Thinking in transit

Megan Craig and Edward S. Casey provide a collaborative phenomenological exploration of thought in motion, interspersing lively first-person accounts with broader philosophical inquiry.

Queer studies

Queer Studies is designed as an advanced undergraduate textbook in queer studies for this rapidly growing field. It is also appropriate as a required or recommended graduate textbook. The author uses the overarching concept of queering as a way of looking at the lives of queer people across a ran...

Bridging the pacific

The terrain of the world trading system is shifting as countries in Asia, Europe, and North America negotiate new trade agreements. However, none of these talks include both China and the United States, the two biggest economies in the world. In this pathbreaking study, C. Fred Bergsten, Gary Cly...

The cinema of istván szabó

The first English-language study of all Szabó's feature films and uses material from interviews with him and his collaborators

Fantasy aesthetics

This book explores the patterns and paradigms of a specific medievalist iconography and book design of fantasy which can be traced from the 19th century to the present.