The man who couldn't die

In the chaos of early 199s Russia, a paralyzed veteran’s wife and stepdaughter conceal the Soviet Union’s collapse from him in order to keep him—and his pension—alive, until it turns out the tough old man has other plans. Olga Slavnikova’s The Man Who Couldn’t Die is an instant classic of post-So...

Medieval tastes

Italy’s best-known food historian travels back to the birth of “modern” cuisine and reveals the remarkable links between medieval tastes and our own. Massimo Montanari traces the development of medieval tastes—both culinary and cultural—and details how food transformed from a simple staple to a s...

Fictions of legibility

Gabriela Stoicea examines how the incidence and role of physical descriptions in German novels changed between 1771 and 1929 in response to developments in the study of the human face and body. By including discussions from medicine, epistemology, semiotics, and aesthetics, the book draws out the...

Musical composition in the context of globalization

This book discusses the effects of cultural globalization on processes of composition and distribution of art music in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Christian Utz provides the foundations of a global music historiography, building on new models such as transnationalism, entangled hist...

Wronged

In this timely and incisive book, Lilie Chouliaraki shows why claims of victimization are so effective at reinforcing instead of alleviating inequality.

The economics of arms

This book explains how the arms industry makes its money. Keith Hartley offers an authoritative nontechnical introduction to the economics of arms industries and considers future trends, such as whether arms industries are better under state or private ownership, and how they can meet the challen...

The science files

Conventional wisdom has it that science is boring. “The Science Files,” an hourly radio call-in talk show about science, is anything but boring, and certainly none of the listeners, emailers or tweeters who participate in the call-in radio talk show think science is boring either. Richard Zurawsk...

Democracy and islam in indonesia

Indonesia's military government collapsed in 1998, igniting fears that economic, religious, and political conflicts would complicate any democratic transition. Yet in every year since 2006, the world's most populous Muslim country has received high marks from international democracy-ranking organ...

Using assisted negotiation to settle land use disputes

The treblinka death camp

This book is the definitive account of one of history's most infamous death factories, where approximately 800,000 people lost their lives. From the Nazis who ran it to the Ukrainian guards and maids, the Jewish survivors, and the Poles living in the camp's shadow—this text represents every persp...

Species matters

Why has the academy struggled to link advocacy for animals to advocacy for various human groups? Within cultural studies, in which advocacy can take the form of a theoretical intervention, scholars have resisted arguments that add "species" to race, class, gender, sexuality, disability, and other...

Homeschooling the right

Heath Brown provides a novel analysis of the homeschooling movement and its central role in conservative efforts to shrink the public sector. He traces the aftereffects of the passage of state homeschool policies in the 1980s and the results of ongoing conservative education activism on the broad...

Contemporary japanese politics

Tomohito Shinoda tracks slow yet steady changes in the operation of and tensions between Japan’s political parties and the public’s behavior in Japanese elections, as well as in the government’s ability to coordinate diverse policy preferences and respond to political crises.

Designs on empire

Andrew J. Priest offers a new understanding of the roots of American empire that foregrounds the longer history of perceptions of European powers. He traces the development of American thinking about European imperialism in the years after the Civil War, before the United States embarked on its o...

Blood of extraction

Rooted in thousands of pages of Access to Information documents and dozens of interviews carried out throughout Latin America, Blood of Extraction examines the increasing presence of Canadian mining companies in Latin America and the environmental and human rights abuses that have occurred as a r...

The united states and the origins of the cold war, 1941–1947

John Lewis Gaddis' acclaimed history of U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union during and immediately after World War II is now available with a new preface by the author. This book moves beyond the focus on economic considerations that was central to the work of New Left historians, examining the m...

What matters most

This collection of philosophical conversations invite us to think anew about the complexities and challenges involved in living a good life in a world characterized by uncertainty and change.

How does the psychiatrist know?

A new philosophical investigation into how psychiatrists draw diagnostic conclusions.

The values in numbers

Hoyt Long offers both a reinterpretation of modern Japanese literature through computational methods and an introduction to the history, theory, and practice of looking at literature through numbers. He weaves explanations of these methods and their application together with reflection on the kin...

Vineland reread

Vineland is hardly anyone’s favorite Thomas Pynchon novel. However, for Peter Coviello, the oft-overlooked book opens up new ways of thinking about Pynchon’s writing and about how we read and how we live in the rough currents of history.

Holocaust cinema in the twenty-first century

Analyses of twenty-first-century Holocaust films that venture across national and linguistic boundaries and make visible various formal and intertextual relationships within the substantial body of Holocaust cinema.

Putin’s war, russian genocide

Putin’s War—Russian Genocide will provoke intense debate, for it uncovers the latitude of Putin’s violence.

Visitor

Canada’s next major challenge is not economic or political. It’s ethical. On the issue of racism, Canadians tend to compare themselves favourably to Americans and to rely on a concession that Canadian racism, if it exists at all, is more “subtle.” Is there a future time when newcomers and visible...

Unseasonable

In Unseasonable, Sarah Dimick links accounts of shifting seasons across the globe, tracing how knowledge of climate change is constructed, conveyed, and amplified through literature.

Building the worlds that kill us

Through the lens of death and disease, Building the Worlds That Kill Us provides a new way of understanding the history of the United States from the colonial era to the present.

The tibetan history reader

Covering the social, cultural, and political development of Tibet from the seventh century to the modern period, this resource reproduces essential, hard-to-find essays from the past fifty years of Tibetan studies, along with several new contributions.

Wall streeters

Many of Wall Street's contemporary trends can be traced back to the work of fourteen critical figures who wrote, and occasionally broke, the rules of American finance. Edward Morris details Wall Street's transformation from a clubby enclave of financiers to a symbol of vast economic power.

The politics of gender in early american theater

This collection explores the role of gender in the formation of American theatrical culture in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It features essays on well-known early American dramatists such as Susanna Rowson or Judith Sargent Murray, but also sheds light on anonymous authors ...

Exploring agrodiversity

Small farmers are often viewed as engaging in wasteful practices that wreak ecological havoc. Exploring Agrodiversity sets the record straight: Small farmers are in fact ingenious and inventive and engage in a diverse range of land-management strategies, many of them resourcefully geared toward c...

Image and insight

Studios before the system

The first book to retell the history of film studio architecture, Studios Before the System expands the social and cultural footprint of cinema’s virtual worlds and their contribution to wider developments

Of reality

A defense of the critical faculties that keep us from settling for the status quo. Drawing on Nietzsche and Heidegger, Vattimo develops a philosophy to combat the newest enemy of freedom and democracy: complacency toward reality. Resistance to reality becomes our best hope for countering the ongo...

Digital methods in the humanities

This volume offers a unique perspective on digital methods for and in the humanities. It comprises case studies from various fields to illustrate the challenge of matching existing textual research practices and digital tools.

Prophetic maharaja

Rajbir Singh Judge offers new ways to understand loss and the limits of history by considering Maharaja Duleep Singh and his struggle during the 1880s to reestablish Sikh rule, the lost Khalsa Raj, in Punjab.

Azaleas

Available for the first time in English, Azaleas is a captivating collection of poems by a master of the early Korean modernist style. Published in 1925, Azaleas is the only collection Kim Sowol (1902-1934) produced during his brief life, yet he remains one of Korea's most beloved and well-known ...

Queer jewish lives between central europe and mandatory palestine

This volume offers the first collection of studies on queer Jewish lives between Central Europe and Mandatory Palestine (1870–1960). The first section of the book presents queer geographies including Germany, Austria, and Palestine, and the second introduces queer biographies between Europe and P...

What we brought with us

Through a series of scholarly essays and biographical vignettes, this book shines an intimate spotlight on those who are driven from their homes.

The shape of spirituality

The Shape of Spirituality brings together leading sociologists to challenge common notions that spirituality is individualistic, privatized, and apolitical—and to make the definitive case for its social and political significance.

Creating realities

Exploring the complex representation of business in realist, naturalist, and modernist works, Erhan Şimşek reveals its social and aesthetic functions by analyzing how the motif intertwines with social developments, literary movements, and author biographies.