Goods

Claims advertising is nothing but a metaphysical hypothesis about the moral nature of things: objects aren't purely physical or economical entities. Any object, regardless of its nature, can become a complex of possible happiness—not just an object of value, but a moral source of perfection f...

Unintended revolution

War in worcester

War in Worcester explores the experiences of the young in taking a stand against the apartheid regime in the 1980s at the height of the struggle for freedom. It combines an analysis of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s process and findings with a close ethnographic study in ...

Our country

Our Country explores northern evangelical thought and sentiment regarding the concept of Union during the Civil War and Reconstruction. A primary aim of the book is to shift our focus back toward the Union’s importance in relation to northern understanding during the Civil War-era.

Undocumented and in college

This book chronicles the experiences of undocumented students at Jesuit institutions of higher education. Based on an extensive study that incorporated survey research and in-depth interviews, the study presents the perspectives of students, staff, and the institutions, and is framed within immig...

Erebus

“Beyond terrific. I didn’t want it to end.” —Bill BrysonDriven by a passion for travel and history and a love of ships and the sea, former Monty Python stalwart and beloved television globe-trotter Michael Palin explores the world of HMS Erebus, last seen on an ill-fated voyage to chart the North...

Dictionary of 1000 chinese proverbs, revised edition

The ethics of seeing

The Ethics of Seeing brings together an international group of scholars to explore the complex relationship between the visual and the historic in German history. These revealing case studies illustrate photography’s multilayered role as a new form of representation, a means to subjective exper...

Fighting authoritarianism

Calling into question the Cold War perspective that continued to permeate analyses of radicalism long after the fall of the Soviet Union, this study examines young Depression-Era radicals’ worldview—a worldview developed from the epicenter of young radical activism and ideology: New York City co...

Five european plays

Five iconic plays by Arthur Schnitzler, Ferenc Molnár, Johann Nestroy, and Václav Havel in celebrated adaptations by Tom Stoppard

Vital diplomacy

Focusing on the major ceremonial cycle of the Enawene-nawe people, Vital Diplomacy sheds new light on classic Amazonian themes such as manioc cultivation and cuisine, predatory relations with non-humans, and the interplay of myth and practice, and to consider dynamics of kin, clan, and gender r...

A doll's house, part 2 (tcg edition)

An incendiary new play that picks up fifteen years after the conclusion of Henrik Ibsen’s legendary portrait of a marriage in crisis.

Compliments of chicagohoodz

An artfully arranged collection of a rarely seen piece of Chicago gang history.

Wilderness in america

The purpose of this book is to remove the philosophical writings of Henry Bugbee from relative obscurity, making them more accessible to the wider public. Beginning with an introductory account of Bugbee’s “experiential naturalism,” the development of his thought is traced from his student writin...

Seven practices of a mindful leader

A master of business and Zen distills his experiences in both arenas into practices for everyone seeking to lead, and live, consciously and effectively

The near and the far

From 21 of the best writers in the Asia-Pacific region comes a collection about finding connections where you least expect them.

A marxist education

A critical analysis of the state of public education under capitalism and the prospects for radical pedagogy and reform.

Brave new arctic

An insider account of how scientists unraveled the mystery of the thawing ArcticIn the 1990s, researchers in the Arctic noticed that floating summer sea ice had begun receding. This was accompanied by shifts in ocean circulation and unexpected changes in weather patterns throughout the world. The...

Straight talk on trade

An honest discussion of free trade and how nations can sensibly chart a path forward in today’s global economyNot so long ago the nation-state seemed to be on its deathbed, condemned to irrelevance by the forces of globalization and technology. Now it is back with a vengeance, propelled by a grou...

After difference

The first major English-language ethnography of LGBT life in Italy An account of how understandings of ‘difference’ have become vital both to contemporary forms of political activism and to social scientific knowledge practice A uniquely critical perspective on ethnography as a metho...

Sars in china

The SARS epidemic of 2003 was one of the most serious public health crises of our times. The event, which lasted only a few months, is best seen as a warning shot, a wake-up call for public health professionals, security officials, economic planners, and policy makers everywhere. SARS in China ad...

Through the looking glass

The writing of spirit

Contemporary thought has been profoundly shaped by the early-twentieth-century turn toward synchronic models of explanation, which analyze phenomena as they appear at a single moment, rather than diachronically as they develop through time. But the relationship between time and system remains une...

Impeaching the president

An historical look at the practice of impeachment, how it impacted the terms of Presidents Johnson, Nixon, and Clinton, and how it may affect Donald Trump.

Bishkek boys

Pioneering: 1st long-term ethnographic study on an urban neighbourhood in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan Unique embedding of author: linking detailed micro-level insights from everyday encounters in a particular urban neighbourhood to larger-scale changes in Kyrgyz society, such as migration, econo...

To float in the space between

A rare glimpse inside the mind of a National Book Award–winning, Guggenheim, and MacArthur fellow poet as he considers his influences and larger surrounding poetic history.

Blackpentecostal breath

Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility investigates the relationship of aesthetic productions to modes of collective, social intellectual practice. Engaging black studies, queer theory, sound studies, literary theory, theological studies, continental philosophy and visual studies,...

Hezbollah

Featuring a new prologue and conclusion and two new chapters on recent developmentsWith Hezbollah’s entry into the Lebanese government in 2009 and forceful intervention in the Syrian civil war, the potent Shi‘i political and military organization continues to play an enormous role in the Middle E...

Cultural topographies of the new berlin

Offers an interdisciplinary investigation of the New Berlin Provides culturally-focused considerations of the New Berlin in a globalizing Europe and as a pillar of the European Union. Highlights the tensions between Berlin’s Creative City identification and its urban challenges.

Nazism, the holocaust, and the middle east

Focus on the diversity of responses from different elements in the Arab states and Turkey Chapters written by noted scholars in the field of Middle East Studies Offers responses to Nazism and the Holocaust that readers can compare to European responses Substantial bibliography on...

Disappointment

Possibilities responds to recent calls to imaginatively and creatively theorize an otherwise by showing how collaboration between an anthropologist and a political movement of marginalized peoples – the anti-drug war movement – can disclose new possibilities for being and acting politically.

Dictionary of 1000 chinese idioms, revised edition

The age of questions

A groundbreaking history of the Big Questions that dominated the nineteenth centuryIn the early nineteenth century, a new age began: the age of questions. In the Eastern and Belgian questions, as much as in the slavery, worker, social, woman, and Jewish questions, contemporaries saw not interroga...

Xoeteox

Electric poems from a long-time performance and visual poet delivered through innovative layouts and designs.

Money at the margins

Technology for the Poor / in the developing world Social studies of monetary behavior Human Design centered with a focus on context Rethinking technological development / financial inclusion solutions

Rights in rebellion

An anthropological examination of the globalized discourse of human rights and the local production of cultural identities and forms of resistance in indigenous communities of Chiapas, Mexico.

Expectation

Expectation is a collection of critical texts on literature written between 1977 and 2012 and now made available for the first time in English.

The infinite desire for growth

Why society’s expectation of economic growth is no longer realisticEconomic growth—and the hope of better things to come—is the religion of the modern world. Yet its prospects have become bleak, with crashes following booms in an endless cycle. In the United States, eighty percent of the populati...

A shameful life

A new, definitive translation of the postwar classic know to the west as No Longer Human—a tortured vision inspiring the likes of Junji Ito and Bungo Stray Dogs

Zonas peligrosas

Zonas Peligrosas: The Challenge of Creating Safe Neighborhoods in Central America examines indicators of orderliness and security in El Salvador, shows how policies and programs based on disorganization theory have been used, and why they might not make Salvadoran urban dwellers safer. In Latin ...

Extended heredity

There is much more to heredity than genesFor much of the twentieth century it was assumed that genes alone mediate the transmission of biological information across generations and provide the raw material for natural selection. Yet, it's now clear that genes are not the only basis of heredity. I...

A nation unmade by war

From the election from hell to the future according to Donald Trump, A Nation Unmade by War surveys American exceptionalism in the age of absurdity.

Dari-english/english-dari practical dictionary, second edition

<p><b>The essential resource for Dari, a language of Afghanistan!</b></p><p>Dari is spoken by over 20 million people and is one of the official languages of Afghanistan. Though closely related to the Persian (Farsi) of Iran and the Tajik of Tajikistan, Dari has been ...

A worldly affair

For more than seven decades, New York City and the United Nations have shared the island of Manhattan, living and working together in a bond that has been likened to a long marriage—both tempestuous and supportive, quarrelsome and committed. A Worldly Affair tells the story of this hot and cold r...

Exporting caravaggio

Recounts the complex history of this understudied masterwork and its important, and influential, position in Caravaggio's oeuvre.

Forgetting lot's wife

Can looking at disaster and mass death destroy us? Forgetting Lot’s Wife provides a theory and a fragmentary history of destructive spectatorship in the twentieth century. Its subject is the notion that the sight of historical catastrophe can destroy the spectator. The fragments of this history a...