-
Preprogrammed
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.How much of your life is preprogrammed? Presets, or default settings on technology, can be found everywhere, from predictive text...
Read MoreRegular price $34.95Sale price $34.95 Regular price $34.95Unit price per -
An academic life worth living
Your guide to a successful academic career that centers joy and avoids burnout.Academic life is often imagined as a straight path—publish, earn tenure, keep producing—but the reality is far messier. In An Academic Life Worth Living, Tanya Maria Golash-Boza draws on decades of experience as a scho...
Read MoreRegular price $21.95Sale price $21.95 Regular price $21.95Unit price per -
What is dark matter?
What we know about dark matter and what we have yet to discoverAstronomical observations have confirmed dark matter’s existence, but what exactly is dark matter? In What Is Dark Matter?, particle physicist Peter Fisher introduces readers to one of the most intriguing frontiers of physics. We cann...
Read MoreRegular price $24.95Sale price $24.95 Regular price $24.95Unit price per -
Die your own death
How Walt Whitman’s philosophy of death prepares the soul for freedom and equalityHumans fantasize about immortality. Billionaires dabble in cryonics, politicians build monuments to themselves, and writers donate their papers to libraries. In Die Your Own Death, Jack Turner argues that the quest f...
Read MoreRegular price $24.95Sale price $24.95 Regular price $24.95Unit price per -
Matter, affect, antinormativity
Caroline Braunmühl shows that there are dualistic patterns in significant contributions to queer theory as well as Foucauldian diagnoses of the present. The book suggests specific alternatives to dualistic as well as identitarian ways of framing conceptual pairs such as matter/mind, affect/discou...
Read MoreRegular price $45.00Sale price $45.00 Regular price $45.00Unit price per -
Fascist mythologies
Federico Finchelstein draws on a striking combination of thinkers—Jorge Luis Borges, Sigmund Freud, and Carl Schmitt—to consider fascism as a form of political mythmaking. At a moment when forces redolent of fascism cast a shadow over world affairs, this book provides a timely critical analysis o...
Read MoreRegular price $28.00Sale price $28.00 Regular price $28.00Unit price per -
Queer resistance
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Queer Resistance examines transformations in intimate lives in post-socialist China through the experiences and resistance of LGB...
Read MoreRegular price $34.95Sale price $34.95 Regular price $34.95Unit price per -
Out of one, many
A sweeping new account of ancient Greek culture and its remarkable diversityCovering the whole of the ancient Greek experience from its beginnings late in the third millennium BCE to the Roman conquest in 30 BCE, Out of One, Many is an accessible and lively introduction to the Greeks and their wa...
Read MoreRegular price $24.95Sale price $24.95 Regular price $24.95Unit price per -
Hermeneutics as critique
Lorenzo C. Simpson offers a persuasive and powerful argument that hermeneutics is a valuable tool not only for critical theory but also for addressing many of the urgent issues of today. He shows its utility for unpacking intractable debates in the philosophy of science, multiculturalism, social ...
Read MoreRegular price $35.00Sale price $35.00 Regular price $35.00Unit price per -
Buried beneath the city
Buried Beneath the City uses urban archaeology to retell the history of New York, from the deeper layers of the past to the topsoil of recent history. The book explores the ever-evolving city and the day-to-day world of its residents through artifacts.
Regular price $45.00Sale price $45.00 Regular price $45.00Unit price per -
Take back what the devil stole
Ms. Donna Haskins is an African American woman who wrestles with structural inequity in the streets of Boston by inhabiting an alternate dimension she refers to as the “spirit realm.” Both ethnographic and personal, Onaje X. O. Woodbine’s portrait of her spiritual life sheds new light on the live...
Read MoreRegular price $28.00Sale price $28.00 Regular price $28.00Unit price per -
Why civil resistance works
For more than a century, from 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving their stated goals. By attracting impressive support from citizens, whose activism takes the form of protests, boycotts, civil disobedience, ...
Read MoreRegular price $28.00Sale price $28.00 Regular price $28.00Unit price per -
Visions of the end
From millenarists to Antichrist hunters, from the Sibyls to the Hussites, Visions of the End is a monumental compendium spanning the literature of the Christian apocalyptic tradition from the period A.D. 400 to 1500, masterfully selected and complete with a comprehensive introduction and new p...
Read MoreRegular price $36.00Sale price $36.00 Regular price $36.00Unit price per -
Translation and violence
Rethinking the ethics and politics of translation in the age of AIThe rapid development of AI-powered translation tools is making translation more accessible than ever before, raising in a dramatic new way the old utopian promise of translation—to allow transparent dialogue across linguistic barr...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Sale price $29.95 Regular price $29.95Unit price per -
Anxious cinephilia
The advent of new screening practices and viewing habits in the twenty-first century has spurred debate over what it means to be a “cinephile.” Sarah Keller places these competing visions in historical and theoretical perspective, tracing how the love of movies intertwines with anxieties over the...
Read MoreRegular price $35.00Sale price $35.00 Regular price $35.00Unit price per -
Holding on to home
Over twenty million Americans live in cities that have passed sanctuary policies to protect the rights of immigrants and their families. However, contentious public conversations surrounding sanctuary obscure what these policies actually mean to the immigrants they purport to serve, making it har...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Sale price $29.95 Regular price $29.95Unit price per -
In the beginning was the state
This book explores God’s use of violence as depicted in the Hebrew Bible. Ophir shows how the Bible’s varied formations of divine violence anticipate the main outlines of the modern European state. A critique of the modern state, the book argues, must begin in unpacking its mostly repressed theol...
Read MoreRegular price $39.00Sale price $39.00 Regular price $39.00Unit price per -
Nationalism
A global perspective on the nature and evolution of nationalism, from the early modern era to the presentThe current rise of nationalism across the globe is a reminder that we are not, after all, living in a borderless world of virtual connectivity. In Nationalism, historian Eric Storm sheds ligh...
Read MoreRegular price $24.95Sale price $24.95 Regular price $24.95Unit price per -
The art of poetry
An authoritative collection of Valéry’s important essays on poetryThis volume collects all of Paul Valéry’s major meditations on the theory and practice of poetry. These pieces range from his first essay, “On Literary Technique” (1889), to his last, “Variations on the Eclogues” (1944). Among them...
Read MoreRegular price $35.00Sale price $35.00 Regular price $35.00Unit price per -
The age of choice
A New York Times Notable Book of the YearWinner of the István Hont Book Prize, Institute of Intellectual HistoryFinalist for the Cundill History PrizeA sweeping history of the rise of personal choice in the modern world and how it became equated with freedomChoice touches virtually every aspect o...
Read MoreRegular price $22.95Sale price $22.95 Regular price $22.95Unit price per -
Monsieur teste
The National Book Award–winning translation of Valéry’s singular novel, a strange and powerful philosophical exploration of human consciousnessPaul Valéry was obsessed with exploring the conscious mind, and it was this preoccupation that produced the unusual masterpiece of modern fiction that is ...
Read MoreRegular price $24.95Sale price $24.95 Regular price $24.95Unit price per -
The third reich of dreams
“This is the kind of book that haunts your dreams. Essential reading for anyone who has known what it is like to live within a totalitarian state—or is worried they’re about to find out.”—Zadie Smith, author of White TeethThe hidden history of a nation sleepwalking its way into evilCharlotte Bera...
Read MoreRegular price $14.95Sale price $14.95 Regular price $14.95Unit price per -
The language of mathematics
A marvelous compendium of mathematical symbols and their fascinating historiesGalileo famously wrote that the book of nature is written in mathematical language. The Language of Mathematics is a wide-ranging and beautifully illustrated collection of short, colorful histories of the most commonly ...
Read MoreRegular price $19.95Sale price $19.95 Regular price $19.95Unit price per -
Hopeful pessimism
Why “hopeful pessimism” is not a contradiction in terms but a powerful source of moral and political commitmentThe climate debate is rife with calls for optimism. While temperatures rise and disasters intensify, we are asked to maintain optimism and hope, as if the real threat is pessimism and de...
Read MoreRegular price $21.95Sale price $21.95 Regular price $21.95Unit price per -
Iran's grand strategy
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Shia RevivalNow with a new afterword by the author, this gripping account overturns simplistic portrayals of Iran as a theocratic pariah state, revealing how its strategic moves on the world stage are driven by two pervasive threats—external aggre...
Read MoreRegular price $22.95Sale price $22.95 Regular price $22.95Unit price per -
Continent in crisis
Written by leading historians of the mid–nineteenth century United States, this book focuses on the continental dimensions of the U.S. Civil War. It joins a growing body of scholarship that seeks to understand the place of America’s mid-nineteenth-century crisis in the broader sweep of world hist...
Read MoreRegular price $39.00Sale price $39.00 Regular price $39.00Unit price per -
Best practices for social work with refugees and immigrants
The second edition of Best Practices for Social Work with Refugees and Immigrants offers an update to this comprehensive guide to social work with foreign-born clients and an evaluation of various helping strategies and their methodological strengths and weaknesses. It incorporates the latest res...
Read MoreRegular price $45.00Sale price $45.00 Regular price $45.00Unit price per -
Writing empire and self
Tracing the evolution of poetry’s role in Chinese society, Writing Empire and Self uncovers the profound cultural changes that took place in the early medieval era.
Regular price $40.00Sale price $40.00 Regular price $40.00Unit price per -
Sound formations
Rémy Bocquillon reflects on the process-oriented character of sociology as an experimental science by including aesthetic practices of sounding and listening as constitutive for the making of sociological theory. Featuring an audio chapter, »feeding-back« the sonic experimentations at the core of...
Read MoreRegular price $45.00Sale price $45.00 Regular price $45.00Unit price per -
Sexistence
Sexistence develops a new philosophical account of sexuality that troubles our conceptions of existence.
Regular price $34.00Sale price $34.00 Regular price $34.00Unit price per -
Midden
WINNER OF THE MAINE LITERARY AWARD FOR POETRY!FINALIST FOR THE JULIE SUK AWARD!SELECTED AS ONE OF NPR'S 2018 GREAT READS!ONE OF BOOK RIOT'S 50 MUST READ POETRY COLLECTIONS OF 2019!In 1912 the State of Maine forcibly evicted an interracial community of roughly forty-five people from Malaga Island,...
Read MoreRegular price $26.95Sale price $26.95 Regular price $26.95Unit price per -
Pre-code hollywood
Pre-Code Hollywood explores the fascinating period in American motion picture history from 1930 to 1934 when the commandments of the Production Code Administration were violated with impunity in a series of wildly unconventional films—a time when censorship was lax and Hollywood made the most of ...
Read MoreRegular price $26.95Sale price $26.95 Regular price $26.95Unit price per -
Forms of poetic attention
Identifying a crucial link between poetic form and the forming of attention, Lucy Alford offers a new terminology for how poetic attention works and how attention becomes a subject and object of poetry. She combines close readings of a wide variety of poems with research in the philosophy, aesthe...
Read MoreRegular price $40.00Sale price $40.00 Regular price $40.00Unit price per -
How the suburbs were segregated
Focusing on Baltimore’s wealthiest, whitest neighborhoods, Paige Glotzer offers a new understanding of the deeper roots of suburban segregation. She argues that the mid-twentieth-century policies that favored exclusionary housing were the culmination of a long-term effort by developers to use rac...
Read MoreRegular price $35.00Sale price $35.00 Regular price $35.00Unit price per -
The classic of changes
The I Ching has been used in China as a book of divination and source of wisdom for more than three thousand years, This translation presents the classic book of changes for the world today, including one of the major Chinese philosophical commentaries by Wang Bi (226-249), who interpreted the I ...
Read MoreRegular price $34.95Sale price $34.95 Regular price $34.95Unit price per -
What is japanese cinema?
What Is Japanese Cinema? is a concise and lively history of Japanese film that shows how cinema tells the story of Japan’s modern age. Discussing popular works alongside auteurist masterpieces, Yomota Inuhiko considers films in light of both Japanese cultural particularities and cinema as a world...
Read MoreRegular price $26.00Sale price $26.00 Regular price $26.00Unit price per -
Measuring culture
Written collectively by a team of leading qualitative and quantitative sociologists of culture, Measuring Culture provides both the definitive introduction to the sociological literature on culture as well as a critical set of case studies for methods courses across the social sciences.
Regular price $26.00Sale price $26.00 Regular price $26.00Unit price per -
Stone
“Invaluable. . . . [What] comes across in these translations is the verve and immediacy of the poems’ occasions.”—Seamus HeaneyA groundbreaking translation of the brilliant first book by one of the twentieth century’s most important poetsStone—Osip Mandelstam’s 1913 debut—marked the arrival of pe...
Read MoreRegular price $19.95Sale price $19.95 Regular price $19.95Unit price per -
Radical political theology
In the 1960s, the strict opposition between the religious and the secular began to break down, blurring the distinction between political philosophy and political theology. This collapse contributed to the decline of modern liberalism, which supported a neutral, value-free space for capitalism. I...
Read MoreRegular price $32.00Sale price $32.00 Regular price $32.00Unit price per -
Words on screen
A poetic investigation into the many ways that the written word is used in cinema
Regular price $32.00Sale price $32.00 Regular price $32.00Unit price per -
The platform sutra of the sixth patriarch
The Platform Sutra records the teachings of Hui-neng, the Sixth Patriarch, who is revered as one of the two great figures in the founding of Ch'an (Zen) Buddhism. This translation is the definitive English version of the eighth-century Ch'an classic.Phillip B. Yampolsky has based his translation ...
Read MoreRegular price $37.00Sale price $37.00 Regular price $37.00Unit price per -
Making democracy count
How we can repair our democracy by rebuilding the mechanisms that power itWhat’s the best way to determine what most voters want when multiple candidates are running? What’s the fairest way to allocate legislative seats to different constituencies? What’s the least distorted way to draw voting di...
Read MoreRegular price $21.95Sale price $21.95 Regular price $21.95Unit price per -
Counterpoint in composition
Regular price $55.00Sale price $55.00 Regular price $55.00Unit price per -
Film comedy
What exactly is film comedy and what is the basis for its widespread appeal? Film Comedy uses formal, socio-historical and industrial perspectives to answer this question. What, for example, is the basis of the appeal of gross-out comedy in films such as There's Something About Mary and American ...
Read MoreRegular price $21.00Sale price $21.00 Regular price $21.00Unit price per -
A rasa reader
This book is the first in any language to follow the evolution of rasa, or taste, the word Indian intellectuals chose to describe art's aesthetics. A Rasa Reader ranges from rasa's origins in dramaturgical thought—a concept for the stage—to its flourishing in literary thought—a concept for the page.
Regular price $40.00Sale price $40.00 Regular price $40.00Unit price per -
When god was a bird
2019 NAUTILUS GOLD WINNERIn a time of rapid climate change and species extinction, what role have the world’s religions played in ameliorating—or causing—the crisis we now face? Religion in general, and Christianity in particular, appears to bear a disproportionate burden for creating humankind’s...
Read MoreRegular price $33.00Sale price $33.00 Regular price $33.00Unit price per -
Making space for justice
Michele Moody-Adams explores what social movements have shown about the nature of justice and what it takes to create space for justice in the world. She argues that these insights are critical to bridging the gap between discerning theory and effective practice—and should be transformative for p...
Read MoreRegular price $35.00Sale price $35.00 Regular price $35.00Unit price per -
States and the masters of capital
Today, states’ ability to borrow private capital depends on stringent evaluations of their creditworthiness. While many presume that this has long been the case, Quentin Bruneau argues that it is a surprisingly recent phenomenon—the outcome of a pivotal shift in the social composition of financia...
Read MoreRegular price $35.00Sale price $35.00 Regular price $35.00Unit price per -
Classless politics
Classless Politics offers a counterintuitive account of the relationship between neoliberal economics and Islamist politics in Egypt. Hesham Sallam examines why Islamist movements have gained support at the expense of the left, even amid conflicts over the costs of economic reforms.
Regular price $40.00Sale price $40.00 Regular price $40.00Unit price per -
Sources of korean tradition
Drawn from Peter H. Lee's Sourcebook of Korean Civilization, Volume I, this abridged introductory collection offers students and general readers primary readings in the social, intellectual, and religious traditions of Korea from ancient times through the sixteenth century. Sources of Korean Trad...
Read MoreRegular price $50.00Sale price $50.00 Regular price $50.00Unit price per
Something went wrong
Please try again
