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Aesthetics
A collection of Valéry’s writings on the making of “works of the mind”—in art, philosophy, history, and scienceFor Paul Valéry, art consisted of all that the mind makes for its own pleasure and use, not only works of art in the usual sense but also philosophy, history, and the pure sciences—in hi...
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Scenes of affliction
How people with illness and disability in China take to city streets to publicize their suffering and seek helpOn the streets of every major city in China, people perform stories of poverty, illness, and disability, singing or sitting with written signs to solicit public charity. In Scenes of Aff...
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Uncovering dinosaur behavior
A revelatory, up-to-date account of everything we now know about dinosaur behavior, from a renowned global expertOur understanding of dinosaur behavior has long been hampered by the inevitable lack of evidence from animals that went extinct more than sixty-five million years ago and whose daily b...
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Critical perspectives on educational policy and change
This edited collection offers critical and creative explorations of leadership through the lenses of ideology, history, economics, and politics. Diverse scholars, from early career researchers to established academics, interrogate how power relations operate within educational leadership amid shi...
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Security governance in times of complexity
This book uses the prism of security sector reform (SSR) to trace the co-evolution of the Western Balkans as part of the EU/Europe security community and the European Union (EU) as a security actor.
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In the maze of media
Internationally renowned scholars, curators, and artists gathered in the present volume map and interrogate this intimate nexus by forging diverse pathways through the political force fields, technological milieus, and ecological environments in which both art and media are situated and interwove...
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Governing global emotions
What goes wrong when emotions get turned into digital data to be measured, monitored and managedData from facial emotion recognition, brain-computer interfaces, virtual reality, global emotion surveys and sentiment analysis offer an extraordinary new terrain for scientific exploration. Emotion se...
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A catalog of such stuff as dreams are made on
Dung Kai-cheung’s A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On is a playful and imaginative glimpse into the consumerist dreamscape of late-nineties Hong Kong. First published in 1999, it comprises ninety-nine sketches of life just after the handover of the former British colony to China.
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The real economy
A provocative new theory of “the economy,” its history, and its politics that better unites history and economics What is the economy, really? Is it a “market sector,” a “general equilibrium,” or the “gross domestic product”? Economics today has become so preoccupied with methods that economists ...
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The measure of progress
Why do we use eighty-year-old metrics to understand today’s economy?The ways that statisticians and governments measure the economy were developed in the 1940s, when the urgent economic problems were entirely different from those of today. In The Measure of Progress, Diane Coyle argues that the f...
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Care and the pluriverse
A perennial debate in the field of global ethics revolves around the possibility of a universalist ethics as well as arguments over the nature, and significance, of difference for moral deliberation. Decolonial literature, in particular, increasingly signifies a pluriverse – one with radical onto...
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Meeting the mushrooms of los angeles
Enter a fungal wonderland to reconnect with nature.Welcome to the Mycoverse of Los Angeles! In this wondrous guide to common local mushrooms, Aaron Tupac opens Angelenos' eyes to the mycelial ties that bind us all together. From the San Gabriel Mountains, across the sprawling metropolis, and clea...
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Quasiperiodic solutions of the generalized sqg equation
New, broadly applicable, parameter-free techniques for constructing stable quasiperiodic solutions of quasilinear evolution equationsThis monograph addresses an important problem in mathematical fluid dynamics: constructing stable, long-term solutions to certain quasilinear evolution equations. T...
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The civil condition in world politics
Bringing together an international team of contributors, this volume draws on international political theory and intellectual history to rethink the problem of a pluralistic world order. Inspired by the work of international political theorist Nicholas Rengger, the book focuses on three main are...
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In statu nascendi vol. 5, no. 2 (2022)
Statu Nascend Issue 2022:2 deals with issues related to Gender Equality in Politics, International Relations and Philosophy, Feminism in the Global Landscape, and Women’s Engagement in International Peace and Security.
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Critical political theory
How can political theory advance democracy and emancipatory social change while remaining critical of its own norms and foundations?
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Tiberius and his age
A radical new portrait of the infamous Roman emperorRome’s second emperor, Tiberius (42 BCE–CE 37), has traditionally been seen as a villainous hypocrite—treacherous, grasping, vindictive, and depraved. But in Tiberius and His Age, Edward Champlin draws on vast and diverse evidence to show that T...
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Zhu xi
Zhu Xi (1130–1200) was the preeminent Confucian thinker of the Song dynasty. This book presents the essential teachings of the new Confucian (“Neo-Confucian”) philosophical system that he forged. Daniel K. Gardner’s translation renders these discussions and sayings in an accessible, conversationa...
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The sonic surrogate
Interrogating the recent proliferation of audio apps, smart speakers, sleep aids, and prenatal sound systems that promise a better life through sound, this book explores how these technologies came to be promoted as a cheap solution for capitalism’s inevitable crisis of reproduction. Marie Thomps...
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Leonardo, poe, mallarmé
A collection of Valéry’s essays on three artists who were of central importance to himPaul Valéry had an enduring fascination with Leonardo, Poe, and Mallarmé and his essays on these fellow artists are among his most important writings. This volume presents those essays along with extensive selec...
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Toward a free economy
The unknown history of economic conservatism in India after independenceNeoliberalism is routinely characterized as an antidemocratic, expert-driven project aimed at insulating markets from politics, devised in the North Atlantic and projected on the rest of the world. Revising this understanding...
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Look round for poetry
Poetry is dead. Poetry is all around us. Both are trite truisms that this book exploits and challenges. By placing tropes and figures common to Romantic and Post-Romantic poems in conjunction with contemporary discourse, Look Round for Poetry identifies poetry’s untimely echoes in discourses not ...
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Psychology at the heart of social change
We live in troubled times: climate crisis, war and authoritarian ‘populism’ are just some of the challenges we are currently facing. Never has there been such a need for a new approach to politics – nor such an opportunity for one. To create a world in which people thrive, we need to know what th...
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Grounding digitalization
An analysis of digitalization from a »grounding« perspective that explores involved cultural practices, materialities, and spaces.
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Dealing in human flesh
In the wake of World War I, the League of Nations and numerous investigative journalists went undercover to infiltrate sex-trafficking rings, conduct clandestine interviews with men and women participating in the vice trade, and identify the weak links in their operations in order to destroy this...
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Only daughters
An innovative examination of how talent, virtue and gendered expectations are negotiated in post-reform ChinaUnder China’s one-child policy, a generation of only daughters in the 1980s grew up with unprecedented access to university education and careers in high-paying fields. Often dubbed “littl...
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Children's dreams
A penetrating account of Jung’s insights into children’s dreams and the psychology of childhoodIn the 1930s, C. G. Jung embarked on a bold investigation into childhood dreams as remembered by adults to better understand their significance to the lives of the dreamers. Jung presented his findings ...
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A new perspective on employee benefits
This volume of Research in Human Resource Management draws on foundational work in Strategic HRM and compensation strategy, highlighting emerging research and insights that position employee benefits as a vital component of organizational success.
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Praxis as a perspective on international politics
This collection brings together leading figures in the study of International Relations to explore praxis as a perspective on international politics and law. With its focus on competent judgements, the praxis approach holds the promise to overcome the divide between knowing and acting that marks ...
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Prescriptions for virtuosity
Prescriptions for Virtuosity documents how Chinese medicine has been transformed by the postcolonial encounter with biomedicine. It shows how doctors of Chinese medicine have responded to their postcolonial predicament through hybrid innovation, developing new forms of virtuosity to keep their cl...
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Instrumentalizing russia’s literary heritage
How did the Russian state instrumentalize its literary canon during Vladimir Putin’s third term (2012–2018)? This study analyzes top-down identity politics, showing how classical literature was mobilized across education, media, and public rituals to shape national identity and legitimize politic...
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Reimagining collaboration
A new direction for collaborative climate science, grounded in Indigenous concepts of togetherness, sharing, and generative convergenceAcross universities, labs, NGOs, and public agencies, collaboration has become a compulsory virtue, especially in climate and environmental science. Many such par...
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The college handbook
An invaluable guide for every step of the college experience, from deciding if and where to go to maximizing academic, social, personal, and professional opportunitiesThe College Handbook shows how college is a journey rather than simply a destination, guiding undergraduates and their families th...
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Adolescent arrivals
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.Unfamiliar with both the English language and the cultural norms of their new host country, immigrant teenagers in the United Sta...
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Aging moderns
What happens when the avant-garde grows old? Examining a group of writers and artists who continued the modernist experiment into later life, Scott Herring reveals how their radical artistic principles set out a new path for creative aging.
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What makes a good mathematics lesson
American educators Douglas Corey and Blake Peterson and Japanese colleagues Hiroyuki Ninomiya, Kazuhiko Soma, and Susumu Kunimune explored what makes a good math lesson, leading to the development of key considerations for planning and criteria for evaluating lesson quality.
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The beauty of falling
A world-renowned physicist seeks gravity’s true nature and finds wisdom in embracing its force in her lifeClaudia de Rham has been playing with gravity her entire life. As a diver, experimenting with her body’s buoyancy in the Indian Ocean. As a pilot, soaring over Canadian waterfalls on dark mor...
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Lunacy
Why we shouldn’t colonize Mars or the Moon, or even vacation thereIf certain business titans, corporations, and governments have their way, humans will someday be living, working, and vacationing in space. This is the much-vaunted New Space Age, and in Lunacy, philosopher Ben Bramble explains why...
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Against redemption
WINNER, HELEN AND HOWARD R. MARRARO PRIZE IN ITALIAN HISTORYDiscloses the richness of ideas and sheds light on the controversy that characterized the transition from fascism to democracy, examining authors, works and memories that were subsequently silenced by Cold War politics.How a shared me...
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Erich fromm and global public sociology
Erich Fromm was one of the most influential and creative public intellectuals of the twentieth century. He was a mentor to David Riesman and an inspiration for the New Left. As the rise of global right-wing populism and Trumpism creates new interest in the kind of psycho-social writing and popul...
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The empire of climate
How the specter of climate has been used to explain history since antiquityScientists, journalists, and politicians increasingly tell us that human impacts on climate constitute the single greatest threat facing our planet and may even bring about the extinction of our species. Yet behind these a...
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Climatic subjects
Who, or what, is the contemporary climatic subject? And where do we find the stories, the imaginations, the relationships of future climatic subjects?
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Robert pinsky: the first two books of poems
The remarkable first two books of poetry by the Pulitzer Prize finalist and former U.S. poet laureate—now combined in a single volume with a new preface by the authorAward-winning poet Robert Pinsky’s first two collections—Sadness And Happiness and An Explanation of America—announced the arrival ...
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Navigating academia as a neurodivergent academic
Navigating Academia as a Neurodivergent Academic sheds light on the various emotional and physical tolls that navigating an unsupportive academic landscape can take on neurodivergent researchers, with calls for systemic changes to better support neurodivergent people within higher education insti...
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Nietzsche's zarathustra
Volume two of Jung’s seminar on the book that moved him profoundly and had a lifelong influence on his thoughtNietzsche’s infamous work Thus Spake Zarathustra is filled with a strange sense of religiosity that seems to run counter to the philosopher’s usual polemics against religious faith. For s...
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Contrastive analysis and error typology in teaching persian as a foreign language
Groundbreaking 3-year study (2023–2025) at Ilam Univ. AZFA Center on Persian acquisition by Iraqi Arabic speakers. Offers SLA insights, evidence-based pedagogy for instructors, & tailored curriculum guidance for Arabic L1 learners.
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Three roads back
From their acclaimed biographer, a final, powerful book about how Emerson, Thoreau, and William James forged resilience from devastating loss, changing the course of American thoughtIn Three Roads Back, Robert Richardson, the author of magisterial biographies of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David T...
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Cross bronx
In his inimitable prose, master storyteller Peter Quinn chronicles his odyssey from the Irish Catholic precincts of the Bronx to the arena of big-league politics and corporate hardball.Cross Bronx is Peter Quinn’s one-of-a-kind account of his adventures as ad man, archivist, teacher, Wall Street ...
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The minneapolis reckoning
An urgent account of why it’s so difficult to reform the policeThe eruption of Black Lives Matter protests against police violence in 2014 spurred a wave of police reform. One of the places to embrace this reform was Minneapolis, Minnesota, a city long known for its liberal politics. Yet in May 2...
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The power of hope
Why hope matters as a metric of economic and social well-beingIn a society marked by extreme inequality of income and opportunity, why should economists care about how people feel? The truth is that feelings of well-being are critical metrics that predict future life outcomes. In this timely and ...
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