How materials matter

Explores how design and innovation shape people’s lives in the Pacific. Focusing on plant materials from the region, it reveals ways in which a variety of people – from craftswomen and scientists to architects and politicians – work with materials to transform worlds.

The blessing

Hailed on its original publication as “eloquent testimony to the engaging power of art in a man’s life” (Washington Post), this deeply moving memoir, long out of print, is reissued with an illuminating new afterword.

Fashion patternmaking techniques for accessories

This book is an essential and practical tool for designing and creating fashion accessories for men and women. Intended for fashion students and professionals, the book includes different pattern techniques for each type of accessory and explains the production processes for each piece.

Luc besson

Widely taught on Film Studies courses and in French Cultural Studies programmesLuc Besson is a popular and respected filmmaker who has achieved international fameA welcome addition to the French Film Directors series.

Native echoes

From the grandeur of the Great Plains to the solitude of the northern woods, from the intensity of a summer storm to the quiet redemption of a fresh blanket of snow, Kent Nerburn's Native Echoes pays homage to the power of the land to shape our hearts and spirits. An Ojibwe elder once counseled ...

Cat among the pigeons

Fall in love with the hilarious habits of African creatures you thought you knew and those you've never heard of.

The sociogony

Drawing on Hegel, Marx, Weber, and Durkheim, Mark Worrell re-examines the social ontology of "social facts' in the wake of the shift from bourgeois liberalism to global neoliberalism.

Bringing back the social into the sociology of religion

Based on original empirical research, the contributions collected here make possible a fuller sociological understanding of power, emotions, the self, and ethnic relations in religious life.

Learning about language and literacy in preschool

Filled with practical strategies, useful information, and engaging learning experiences around language and literacy for preschoolers.

The revenger's tragedy

This play depicts a morally corrupt world where the desire for justice is contaminated by the obsession for revenge. The characters take pleasure in watching adultery, incest and murder. The play's chief moral spokesman, Vindice, is at the same time enamoured of and disgusted by, the luxury of th...

The last orgasm

The Last Orgasm continues the journey of Nin Andrew’s first collection, The Book of Orgasms, which became a cult classic that has been translated into Turkish, performed in Prague and has readers around the globe. In both books the orgasm is an ethereal presence, puzzled by humanity in general an...

Nicosia beyond barriers

Unique volume of writings from both sides of the divide (Turkish/Cypriot) in Nicosia, the world’s last divided capital

The french revolution and social democracy

The first full-length study of German and Austrian social-democratic readings of the French Revolution, now available in English.

The world of el cid

Makes available, for the first time in English translation, four of the principal narrative sources for the history of the Spanish kingdom of León­-Castile, covering the Reconquest of Spain from the forces of Islam during the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and the story of Rodrigo Díaz, better r...

Christianity and the eastern slavs, volume i

This publication in three volumes originated in papers delivered at two conferences held in May 1988 at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies in Washington, DC. Like many other conferences organized that year in the United States, Europe, an...

In pursuit of godliness and a living judaism

A comprehensive biography about the life and work of Rabbi Harold Shulweis who was essential in the renewal of Jewish life in post-war America.

Speech police

“David Kaye’s book is crucial to understanding the tactics, rhetoric and stakes in one of the most consequential free speech debates in human history.” —Cory Doctorow The internet was designed to be a kind of free-speech paradise, but a lot of the material on it turned out to incite violence, sp...

Amazon

Identifies the unique managerial practices that make Amazon a disruptor in multiple industries.

The story of silver

How silver influenced two hundred years of world history, and why it matters todayThis is the story of silver’s transformation from soft money during the nineteenth century to hard asset today, and how manipulations of the white metal by American president Franklin D. Roosevelt during the 1930s a...

Fragments of hell

In this compelling and engaging book, Dvir Abramovich introduces readers to several landmark novels, poems and stories that have become classics in the Israeli Holocaust canon. Discussed are iconic writers such as Aharon Appelfeld, Dan Pagis, Etgar Keret, Yoram Kaniuk, Uri Tzvi Greenberg and Ka-T...

A brief history of korea

Exploring Korean history from its ancient roots to the present day, A Brief History of Korea is the story of a people with a rich and united culture that has become two Koreas in modern times—one isolated and secretive and the other among the world's most successful economies. Korean culture deve...

Adamantine

From odes to remarkable artists and activists, to a lyrical response to her own breast cancer treatment, Naomi Foyle’s third collection celebrates women’s tenacity and luster. Deploying a dazzle of forms from the sonnet to visual poetry, the book’s opening sequence honours the achievements of wom...

Clive barker

A necessary and timely study of Barker’s influence in dark fantasy, gothic and horror studies. The book features twelve groundbreaking essays on Barker’s creative legacy and influence, and reevaluates his celebrated and lesser known works in fiction, film and visual art, from the Books of Blood (...

Information wars

From former Time editor and Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Richard Stengel, Information Wars is the first and only insider account exploring how the U.S. tried — and failed — to combat the global rise of disinformation that eventually spilled into the 2016 election.

Diane kurys

This is the first book written on Diane Kurys. It is essential for study of women filmmakers in France/Europe. An original and concise reading of Kurys' work.

Javascript: the definitive guide

The crime of aggression

A gripping behind-the-scenes account of the dramatic legal fight to hold leaders personally responsible for aggressive warOn July 17, 2018, starting an unjust war became a prosecutable international crime alongside genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. Instead of collective state res...

A brief history of china

A comprehensive, yet entertaining look at China's history through a modern lens. For millennia, China was the largest and richest nation on earth. Two centuries ago, however, its economy sank into a depression from which it had not fully recovered—until now. China's modern resurgence as the world...

Where we once belonged

A bestseller in New Zealand and winner of the prestigious Commonwealth Prize, Sia Figiel's debut marks the first time a novel by a Samoan woman has been published in the United States. Figiel uses the traditional Samoan storytelling form of su'ifefiloi to talk back to Western anthropological stud...

An invitation from a crab

A collection of surreal short slice of life short stories set in and around modern day Tokyo.

Night and day

Night and Day, an unfinished dilogy by Uzbek author Cho’lpon, follows the terrible fate of a young Uzbek girl condemned to marry a sexual glutton. The novel raises questions about the nature of Russian colonialism, resistance to it, and the intentions of the author, whose life was lost to Stalini...

Soledades. galerías. otros poemas

Presents an alternative reading of this seminal collection of poems, in English for the first time.

Repair, brokenness, breakthrough

We are all repairers. Exploring some of the ways in which repair practices and perceptions of brokenness vary culturally Repair, Brokenness, Breakthrough argues that repair is an attempt to extend the life of things as well as an answer to failures, gaps, wrongdoings and leftovers.

Four white horses and a brass band

A harrowing tale of a teen-age opium addict traveling from town to town selling useless tonics while dodging the law and escaping from her Svengali-like “husband”. A timeless true story!

The lives of thomas becket

This collection tells the story of Thomas Becket's turbulent life, violent death and extraordinary posthumous acclaim in the words of his contemporaries. It provides a valuable glimpse of the late twelfth-century world, and an insight into the minds of those who witnessed the events.

Race man

An inspiring, historic collection of writings from one of America’s most important civil rights leaders.

Www.drawing

What is the role of hand drawing play for architecture in a digital age, as drawing moves off the page and onto the screen? How might computer-generated drawings emulate the ambiguities and nuances of the hand? WWW Drawing: Architectural Drawing from Pencil to Pixel documents the eponymous pr...

Zeina

New edition of classic novel about motherhood and resilience, set against the backdrop of revolution in Egypt, by the leading Arab feminist writer

Bound together

This book examines US gay and lesbian leather archives alongside contemporary artistic practices that reframe and renegotiate historical source material, creating a queer politics of the present.

Toronto reborn

Toronto Reborn covers a decisive period in the city’s evolution, capturing how Toronto truly becomes a new version of itself.

Measuring what counts

A bold agenda for a better way to assess societal well-being, by three of the world's leading economists and statisticians "If we want to put people first, we have to know what matters to them, what improves their well-being, and how we can supply more of whatever that is."—Joseph E. Stiglitz In ...

Silk poems

Silk Poems takes silk as subject and form, exploring its cultural, scientific, and linguistic complexities

Lingerie & beachwear: 1,000 fashion designs

This book features 1,000 lingerie and beachwear designs and drawings

Revolution and its alternatives

In this apposite study, Tom Brass explores the relationship between the political subject and the politics of the radical right in the absence of class-based projects of the left.

Poetaster

Set in Ancient Rome, "Poetaster" offers one of the first and most subtle statements in English of the Augustan cultural ideal. Jonson contrasts Augustus' wise rule with an English polity dominated (like the stage) by malice, intrigue and envy. This text examines these different strands so skilful...

New kings of the world

A lively, inside look at how Bollywood, Turkish soap operas, and K-Pop are challenging America's cultural dominance around the world.

The bird king

A fantastical journey set at the height of the Spanish Inquisition from the award-winning author of Alif the Unseen and writer of the Ms. Marvel series, G. Willow Wilson’s The Bird King is a jubilant story of love versus power, religion versus faith, and freedom versus safety.

Critique of identity thinking

Michael Jackson’s response to our beleaguered age is to ask what forms of speech and action are called for in ‘dark times’. He argues that experiences that fall outside the concepts and categories we habitually deploy in rendering life manageable and intelligible have both critical and redempti...

Non-western responses to terrorism

This book surveys how non-Western states have responded to the threats of domestic and international terrorism in ways consistent with and reflective of their broad historical, political, cultural and religious traditions.

African language structures

Wm. E. Welmers surveys a wide range of structural characteristics, both phonological and grammatical, of the languages of sub-Saharan Africa. Drawing on thirty years of experience in the analysis and teaching of African languages, and on work done on some seventy spoken languages, Welmers has org...