By more than providence

Soon after the American Revolution, certain of the founders began to recognize the strategic significance of Asia and the Pacific and the vast material and cultural resources at stake there. Over the coming generations, the United States continued to ask how best to expand trade with the region a...

The natural history of the bible

Traversing river valleys, steppes, deserts, rain-fed forests, farmlands, and seacoasts, the early Israelites experienced all the contrasting ecological domains of the ancient Near East. As they grew from a nomadic clan to become a nation-state in Canaan, they interacted with indigenous societies ...

Installation and the moving image

Traces the lineage of moving-image installation through architecture, painting, sculpture, performance, expanded cinema, film history, and countercultural film and video

Higher education research – what else?

The founder of higher education research in Germany, Ulrich Teichler, looks back on more than five decades of higher education research.

How green is the city?

This book deals with practical ways to reach a more sustainable state in urban areas through such tools as strategic environmental assessment, sustainability assessment, direction analysis, baseline setting and progress measurement, sustainability targets, and ecological footprint analysis.

Time, history, and philosophy in the works of wilson harris

Gianluca Delfino's encounter with one of the Caribbean's most controversial authors illuminates Wilson Harris's imaginative approach to history and time. Delfino references several novels, with a special focus on The Infinite Rehearsal (1987), Jonestown (1996), and The Dark Jester (2001). His ana...

Carried away

Asserting that a history of shopping was, until recently, a history of women, Rachel Bowlby trains her eye on the evolution of the modern shopper. She uses a compelling blend of history, literary analysis, and cultural criticism to explore the rise of department stores and supermarkets of the Uni...

Moving images

Bridging artistic practice and academic inquiry, the essays and artworks gathered in Moving Images interrogate the mediation of migration and refugeeism in the contemporary European conjuncture, asking how images, discourses, and data are involved in shaping visions of migration in increasingly g...

Defending the faith

Freedom of religious expression and assembly has never been under greater threat in post-Soviet Russia. Behind the curtain, the influence of the Russian Orthodox Church looms large. Lincoln E. Flake explains the church’s hostility to nontraditional groups as a consequence of historical-structural...

Becoming donor-conceived

While it has been argued that anonymity in gamete donation has been brought to an end, Amelie Baumann suggests that this is in fact still in transformation. By focusing on the narratives of those who were conceived with anonymously donated gametes, she examines this transformative process and the...

Imaginaries of migration

How do Mexican migrants in Germany perceive themselves and their lives? Innovatively combining theories of interculturality and social imaginaries, Yolanda López García uses the anthropological method of life stories to investigate the understudied area of Mexican migration to Germany.

Unjust transition

The worker lockout at Regina’s Co-op Refinery Complex shows that, left unchecked, corporations will transfer the costs and burdens of the necessary transition to a fossil fuel–free future to workers.

Prose of the world

Everyday life in the far outposts of empire can be static, empty of the excitement of progress. A pervading sense of banality and boredom are, therefore, common elements of the daily experience for people living on the colonial periphery. Saikat Majumdar suggests that this impoverished affective ...

In defence of philanthropy

An impassioned defence of the role of philanthropy in society.

Inequality and mobility

This book investigates the erosion of capabilities and aspirations in post-revolutionary Tunisia

Militarizing the nation

Zeinab Abul-Magd examines both the visible and often invisible efforts by Egypt’s semi-autonomous military to hegemonize the country’s politics, economy, and society over the past six decades to show how it gains and maintains control.

Political categories

Michael Marder proposes a new methodology for political science and philosophy, one which he terms “categorial thinking.” Under this lens, the political appears not as a singular concept but as a family of categories, allowing room for new, plural, and often antagonistic ideas about the state, th...

Binswanger and existential analysis

This book presents Michel Foucault’s unpublished manuscript on the Swiss psychiatrist Ludwig Binswanger for the first time in English, offering crucial insight into his intellectual development.

The economics of oil and gas

This book examines the economics of the entire value chain of the oil and gas industry, from exploration, development, and production, to transportation, refining, and marketing. At each stage, the key economic costs, considerations, and appropriate business strategies are explored.

Notes of a desolate man

Winner of the coveted China Times Novel Prize, this postmodern, first-person tale of a contemporary Taiwanese gay man reflecting on his life, loves, and intellectual influences is among the most important recent novels in Taiwan.The narrator, Xiao Shao, recollects a series of friends and lovers, ...

Property tax circuit breakers

This report presents the rationale for providing property tax relief to those who have a high relative tax burden, compares the fairness of various criteria used by states for eligibility, and illustrates types of property tax circuit breakers. It also presents guidelines for elected representati...

Humans

This book brings together more than a hundred top experts, who share their insights on the study of human evolution and what it means for understanding our past, present, and future.

Toward a vision of land in 2015

A conference co-hosted by the Lincoln Institute and the International Center for Land Policy Studies and Training (ICLPST) in Taiwan in October 2006 explored land-related topics that would be important between the present time and the year 2015, the target date to which United Nations member stat...

Challenging the right, augmenting the left

This book provides suggestions for working with popular disaffection, taking the rich, fragmented, conflicted history of refusals and defeats as a starting point for next steps in the struggle against capitalism and the far right, rather than as the basis for more conflict or defeatism.

Wittgenstein, a one-way ticket, and other unforeseen benefits of studying chinese

This is a collection of essays by some of the world’s most renowned China experts, who share recollections of their time in China and reflect on what learning Chinese has meant to them. They share how Chinese has removed barriers, built rapport, opened doors, and led them down entirely unexpected...

Zen past and present

Zen Past and Present provides readers with a concise but comprehensive survey of the history of Zen Buddhism. Because it examines Zen from historical, religious, literary, artistic, and political standpoints, it is an ideal supplemental text for a wide variety of disciplines. Zen Past and Present...

Lived-body experiences in virtual reality

Zeynep Akbal explores the impact of virtual reality (VR) technology on the subjective experience of the body.

Raphaela vogel

In this conversation, Rafael and Vogel contemplate the potential of putting artistic mediums in dialogue with one another, proffering a new vision of what form can achieve.

The archival exhibition

This book collects thirteen exhibitions that read architecture as a field coordinated by documents with distinct historical, mediatic, and disciplinary registers.

Rethinking the politics of labour in canada, 2nd ed.

This updated multidisciplinary collection of essays explores the strategic political possibilities and challenges facing the Canadian labour movement in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Kitchen mysteries

An international celebrity and founder of molecular gastronomy, or the scientific investigation of culinary practice, Hervé This is known for his ground-breaking research into the chemistry and physics behind everyday cooking. His work is consulted widely by amateur cooks and professional chefs a...

Bollywood

While we have become familiar with the idea of "Bollywood" here in the West, we know little about the industry's films beyond a certain celebration of kitsch. Bollywood, the latest in Wallflower Press's Short Cuts introductory series, surveys this style of filmmaking from its origins in colonial ...

Martin heidegger and european nihilism

Aiming for diversity

This book argues that two different logics of diversity dominate political and educational spaces – one inclusive and one exclusive.

Critical datafication literacy

In this book Ina Sander develops a framework for critical datafication literacy.

Trans-pacific partnership

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) between 12 Pacific Rim countries has generated the most intensive political debate about the role of trade in the United States in a generation. The TPP is one of the broadest and most progressive free trade agreements since the North American Free Trade Agreem...

Fantasies of the new class

America's post–World War II prosperity created a boom in higher education, expanding the number of university-educated readers and making a new literary politics possible. Writers began to direct their work toward the growing professional class, and the American public in turn became more open to...

An address in paris

Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye examines the changing roles that foyers have played in the lives of generations of West African migrants, weaving together rich ethnographic description with a critical historical account.

Animal rights without liberation

Alasdair Cochrane introduces an entirely new theory of animal rights grounded in their interests as sentient beings. He then applies this theory to different and underexplored policy areas, such as genetic engineering, pet-keeping, indigenous hunting, and religious slaughter. In contrast to other...