Another person’s poison

Another Person's Poison traces the trajectory of the debate over food allergies and its effect on public-health policy and the production, manufacture, and consumption of food. Matthew Smith illuminates society's troubled relationship with food, disease, nature, and the creation of medical knowle...

Cryopreservation

This book discusses the state of cryobiology, which is currently developing into an important and innovative field of medicine.

Collective bargaining and gender equality

Collective bargaining has been a major force in delivering social justice and decent work in the workplace. However, the role of collective bargaining in achieving gender equality in the workplace is relatively under-researched.In this book, Jane Pillinger and Nora Wintour investigate the complex...

Youth and the state in guinea: meandering lives

By combining an ethnographic study of youth with an analysis of the local state in the making, this monograph introduces the perspective of “meandering lives” to grasp being young and growing up in the Guéckédou borderland, a remote space approximately 700 kilometers southeast of Conakry, Guinea’...

Jews against prejudice

America's dark history of anti-Semitism, racism, and ethnic bigotry—and many of the efforts to combat such prejudice—has received growing attention in recent years. Yet one of the most important stories in America's struggle to overcome ethnic and religious hatred has gone largely untold. From th...

Good white queers?

How do white queer people portray their own whiteness? Close readings of Dykes To Watch Out For and Stuck Rubber Baby by queer comic icons Alison Bechdel and Howard Cruse as well as Jaime Cortez’s graphic novel Sexile/Sexilio trace the intersections of queerness and racism.

The same moon shines on all

The Same Moon Shines on All explores the world of Seigan and Kōran, pairing an in-depth account of their lives and times with an inviting selection of their poetry.

Dramatic disgust

Aesthetic disgust is a key component of most classic works of drama. This extensive study on dramatic disgust places this sensation among pity and fear as one of the core emotions that can achieve catharsis. Sarah Ablett explains how revulsion allows theater to dig deeper into what it means to be...

Healthcare as a human rights issue

This book deals with various facets of the human right to health: its normative profile as a universal right, current political and legal conflicts and contextualized implementation in different healthcare systems. The authors come from different countries and disciplines – law, political science...

British social realism

Ottawology

Ottawology offers an original, accessible sociological account of social structures, socialities, ecologies, and everyday life in Ottawa.

Tom holland's beowulf

In this unique work, acclaimed historian, Tom Holland takes up Beowulf with his pen at the ready.

Journal of soviet and post-soviet politics and society

The special issue offers an interdisciplinary approach to exploring the questions of agency of less mainstream groups in protest movements in patriarchal and authoritarian societies. The themes covered include the place of feminist and gender equality movements in democratically restricted enviro...

Civil war? interstate war? hybrid war?

This volume considers the war in eastern Ukraine’s Donets Basin (Donbas) between April 2014 and mid-2020. It provides an introduction to the conflict and illustrates the key point of contention in academic debate—whether this war is primarily an internal Ukrainian phenomenon or the result of a co...

Situating existentialism

This anthology provides a history of the systemization and canonization of existentialism, a quintessentially antisystemic mode of thought. Situating existentialism within the history of ideas, it features new readings on the most influential works in the existential canon, exploring their format...

Andererseits – yearbook of transatlantic german studies

In this book, Andererseits provides a forum for research and reflection on topics related to the German-speaking world and the field of German Studies.

Between words and sounds

This book's aim is to shed new light on cultural misunderstanding, examining both the obstacles and outcomes it can entail.

Writing romantic climate change

Anya Heise-von der Lippe draws on intersectional feminist and ecocritical approaches to highlight gender as a complicating category in Romantic engagements with these topics.

The taliban in texas

Joey Torino has quit his dangerous life. But when a message from his past arrives, he must face a ruthless enemy hidden in the mountains of Afghanistan.

Practicing religion in the age of the media

Increasingly, the religious practices people engage in and the ways they talk about what is meaningful or sacred take place in the context of media culture—in the realm of the so-called secular. Focusing on this intersection of the sacred and the secular, this volume gathers together the work of ...

Contemplative science

Science has long treated religion as a set of personal beliefs that have little to do with a rational understanding of the mind and the universe. However, B. Alan Wallace, a respected Buddhist scholar, proposes that the contemplative methodologies of Buddhism and of Western science are capable of...

Europe in the caucasus, caucasus in europe

This volume emphasizes the movements of ideas in both directions—from Europe to the Caucasus and from the Caucasus to Europe. This illuminates a variety of issues, including rivalries between different systems, interaction between the South Caucasus and the European Union, and different ways of u...

Making a home

This book documents Jen Powley’s fight for young disabled people to live in the community rather than being institutionalized in nursing homes.

Social democracy

A short history of one of the most successful European political ideologies and movements.

Why america misunderstands the world

Paul R. Pillar ties the American public's misconceptions about foreign threats and behaviors to the nation's history and geography, arguing that success occurs in spite of, not because of, the public's worldview. By exposing this longstanding challenge, Pillar hopes the United States can develop ...

Erasure by design

Erasure by Design tracks the methods, terms, and racial protocols that continue to do the work of displacement, demolition, and extraction into the present day.

After eunuchs

Howard Chiang traces the genealogy of sexual knowledge in China from the demise of eunuchism to the emergence of transsexuality, showing its role in the formation of Chinese modernity. Theoretically sophisticated and far-reaching, After Eunuchs is an innovative contribution to the history and phi...

Appropriating history

Popular media plays an important role in collective imaginations of history. The volume investigates this phenomenon by examining examples from Belarusian, Russian, and Ukrainian popular cultures.

Climate change – handbook of the anthropocene in latin america iii

This book discusses the genealogy of the Anthropocene in Latin America with critical perspectives from the social sciences and the humanities.

The front

The story of a nameless figure who refers to himself only as a “man-tree.”

The theme of the three caskets

Freud demonstrates through literary, mythical, and folktale examples the extraordinary way that wishes manifest themselves in people’s dreams.

Scotch verdict

Award-winning author Lillian Faderman recreates the events surrounding this notorious case, which became the basis for Lillian Hellman’s famous play, The Children’s Hour.

Experiencing music video

Music videos have ranged from simple tableaux of a band playing its instruments to multimillion dollar, high-concept extravaganzas. Born of a sudden expansion in new broadcast channels, music videos continue to exert an enormous influence on popular music. They help to create an artist's identity...

Body and reality

Is materialism right to claim that the world of everyday-life experience – the phenomenal world – is nothing but an illusion produced in physical reality, notably in the brain? Or is Merleau-Ponty right when he defends the fundamental character of the phenomenal world while rejecting physical rea...

The culmination of conflict

As Germany fought the Soviet Union during World War II, a much smaller but equally vicious struggle was unfolding in southeastern Poland, fueled by longstanding ethnic and territorial conflicts between Poles and Ukrainians. Both sides organized large partisan armies and sought control over territ...

Randall jarrell and his age

Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) was the most influential poetry critic of his generation. He was also a lyric poet, comic novelist, translator, children's book author, and close friend of Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, Hannah Arendt, and many other important writers of his time. Jarrell won the 196...

City tech

In this book, Rob Walker investigates the new technologies afoot and their implications for planners, policymakers, residents, and the virtual and literal landscapes of the cities we call home.

The dao of the military

Master Sun's The Art of War is by no means the only ancient Chinese treatise on military affairs. One chapter in the Huainanzi, an important compendium of philosophy and political theory written in the second century BCE, synthesizes the entire corpus of military literature inherited from the Chi...

Chinatown, honolulu

This book offers a critical account of the history of Chinese in Hawai‘i from the mid-nineteenth century to the present in this context of U.S. empire, settler colonialism, and racialization.

The political economy of the asian financial crisis

The Asian crisis has sparked a thoroughgoing reappraisal of current international financial norms, the policy prescriptions of the International Monetary Fund, and the adequacy of the existing financial architecture. To draw proper policy conclusions from the crisis, it is necessary to understand...

Singular pasts

Singular Pasts offers a critical account of the emergence of authorial subjectivity in historical writing, scrutinizing both its achievements and its shortcomings. Enzo Traverso considers a group of contemporary historians who reveal their emotional ties to their subjects and give their writing a...