Tender buttons

Centennial edition of a classic work of cubist prose poetry with over 100 never before seen corrections by Stein herself.

Black britain

The first photographic history of black people in the British Isles by a distinguished academic.

187 reasons mexicanos can't cross the border

The collected performance poetry from a progenitor of Chicano spoken word, spanning thirty-seven years.

Nervous device

With Nervous Device, Catherine Wagner explores the boundary the poem marks between poet and audience on the map of desire.

Ronald dworkin

An up-to-date, clear, and comprehensive introduction to the complexities and depth of Ronald Dworkin's entire philosophical work, including a discussion of Dworkin's monumental work Justice for Hedgehogs.

Cultural intelligence

In a global market where international teams, initiatives, and joint ventures are increasingly common, it is extremely important for people to integrate themselves quickly in new cultures. Effective strategies for selecting and training people on global perspectives are critical for managing busi...

Crazy for kanji

A passionate and playful guide to kanji that examines characters from every angle for an in-depth understanding.

Coeur de lion

A reissue of the instant cult-classic love poem—an investigation of poetic address—by Ariana Reines, a commanding young poet.

Departures

As usual, Isabelle Eberhardt's stormy love affair with the Algerian desert sets the physical and emotional scene in this collection of short stories. Written in French in the late 1800s and translated by Karim Hamdy and Laura Rice, her characters live, love, work, and die with passions as fierce ...

Culinary nostalgia

This book argues that regional food culture is intrinsic to how Chinese connect to the past, live in the present, and imagine their future. It focuses on Shanghai—a food lover's paradise—and identifies the importance of regional food culture at pivotal moments in the city's history, and in Chine...

Snip snip

These sometimes scatological, often buoyant poems juxtapose squalid fact with incandescent images.

Projections

When Art Spiegelman's Maus won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992, it marked a new era for comics. Comics are now taken seriously by the same academic and cultural institutions that long dismissed the form. And the visibility of comics continues to increase, with alternative cartoonists now published by ...

Life as we show it

Collection of writings about the influence of film on the cultural and individual imagination.

The stupefying flashbulbs

These are occasion-stained lyrics, im- rather than compulsive. Their pretensions are few, their presumptions, endearing. We all laugh last.

Private management and public policy

Private Management and Public Policy is a landmark work at the intersection of business and society. First published in 1975, it focuses on the management processes that companies use to respond to social issues. The text develops the "principle of public responsibility" as an alternative to th...

Anarchy and art

A fascinating study of anarchist artists confronting pivotal historical moments over the past 140 years.

Our ecological footprint

Our Ecological Footprint presents an internationally-acclaimed tool for measuring and visualizing the resources required to sustain our households, communities, regions and nations, converting the seemingly complex concepts of carrying capacity, resource-use, waste-disposal and the like into a gr...

Swallows

Swallows uses the metaphor of the House to explore the uncanny presence and absence of self, and world, in poetry.

Private life under socialism

For seven years in the 1970s, the author lived in a village in northeast China as an ordinary farmer. In 1989, he returned to the village as an anthropologist to begin the unparalleled span of eleven years' fieldwork that has resulted in this book—a comprehensive, vivid, and nuanced account of f...

The last genet

A critical reading of Jean Genet’s last eighteen years, through his politics, writings, and personal experience.

Copts and the security state

Copts and the Security State combines political, anthropological, and social history to analyze the practices of the Egyptian state and the political acts of the Egyptian Coptic minority. Laure Guirguis considers how the state, through its subjugation of Coptic citizens, reproduces a political or...

Portrait of an artist

From the western edge of Lake Superior, thirty-five inspiring artists are honored with portraits by the dynamic, original Sarah Brokke.

I am a red dress

A collection of essays about identity: gender, culture, class, and sexuality.

Practice, restraint

Sims’s poems exhibit an attenuation not unlike devotion. This is the work of one practiced in the art of listening.

Convulsing bodies

By using religion to get at the core concepts of Michel Foucault's thinking, this book proposes and models a major shift in the way that the philosopher's work is read across the humanities and social sciences.

Song of the loon

A classic, sexually explicit gay novel out of print for 30 years.

Beloved on the earth

150 poems that respond to the experience of death, mourning, and gratitude for lost loved ones.

The prince of this world

The most enduring challenge to traditional monotheism is the problem of evil, which attempts to reconcile three incompatible propositions: God is all-good, God is all-powerful, and evil happens. The Prince of This World traces the story of one of the most influential attempts to square this circl...

Parable of hide and seek

Chad Sweeney’s imaginative poems embark on a tour of magical realism both breathtaking and slightly awry.

Water

The winner of the 2006 Mary McCarthy Prize, selected by Norman Rush.

Twelve below zero

From "the ultimate chronicler of the Polish American experience," a new edition of his first book.

Busted sanctions

Powerful countries like the United States regularly employ economic sanctions as a tool for promoting their foreign policy interests. Yet this foreign policy tool has an uninspiring track record of success, with economic sanctions achieving their goals less than a third of the time they are impos...

Pier

Called ‘a truly masterful first book’ by Cole Swenson, Pier is the inaugural winner of the Kundiman Poetry Prize.

The preacher

The sixth edition in the Quarternote Chapbook series by chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

Politics of deconstruction

The book offers a new introduction to Jacques Derrida and to Deconstruction as an important strand of Continental Philosophy. From his early writings on phenomenology and linguistics to his later meditations on war, terrorism, and justice, Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) achieved prominence on an int...

Tipping the sacred cow

A collection of essays and ephemera that proves politics minus fun equals banal zealotry.

The long and short of it

Brevity may be the soul of wit, but it is also much more. In this exploration of the shortest literary works—wise sayings, proverbs, witticisms, sardonic observations about human nature, pithy evocations of mystery, terse statements regarding ultimate questions—Gary Saul Morson argues passionate...

Learning from a disaster

This book—the culmination of a truly collaborative international and highly interdisciplinary effort—brings together Japanese and American political scientists, nuclear engineers, historians, and physicists to examine the Fukushima accident from a new and broad perspective. It explains the compl...

Volando bajito

Vision

Becoming asia

At the conclusion of World War II, Asia was hardly more than a geographic expression. Yet today we recognize Asia as a vibrant and assertive region, fully transformed from the vulnerable nation-states that emerged following the Second World War. The transformation was by no means an inevitable on...

Crowds

Crowds explores the key role assumed by human multitudes in modern life by means of a graphically innovative, multi-author volume in which essays, word histories, and personal testimonies are woven together into a multiperspectival and multilayered group portrait. The portrait in question include...