-
Red dirt
How material conditions and social contradictions remake indigeneity Indigenous studies struggles to analyze class, yet class reshapes the cultural, political, and economic terrain of indigeneity. In Red Dirt, Ikaika Ramones goes beyond the usual conceptual frameworks of resistance and domination...
Read MoreRegular price $35.00Sale price $35.00 Regular price $35.00Unit price per -
Selected poems
Authoritative English translations of Goethe’s major poetic worksGoethe created a body of poetry that is unsurpassed in lucidity of speech and imagery and in instinct for melody and rhythm. The founder of the poetry of experience, he reintroduced intimacy to the public world, and his poems have s...
Read MoreRegular price $27.95Sale price $27.95 Regular price $27.95Unit price per -
The right way
Why supporting big government, trade barriers, and unchecked executive power is still conservative—and why MAGA’s worldview is far more coherent than its critics thinkWhen Donald Trump surged to the lead in the 2015 fight for the GOP presidential nomination, bewildered political watchers struggle...
Read MoreRegular price $32.00Sale price $32.00 Regular price $32.00Unit price per -
They came to the holy land
A multifaceted cultural history of pilgrimage and travel to the Holy Land from the Middle Ages to the dawn of the twentieth centuryFor countless pilgrims throughout history, the Holy Land was a destination unlike any other. Traveling there could free you of your sins, get you knighted or offer ho...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Sale price $29.95 Regular price $29.95Unit price per -
Islam
A concise new narrative history of Islam that draws on the transformative insights of recent research to emphasize the diversity and dynamism of the traditionToday’s Muslim world is in upheaval: legalists and mystics engage in intense debates, radical groups invoke Sharia, Muslim immigrants in th...
Read MoreRegular price $21.95Sale price $21.95 Regular price $21.95Unit price per -
Begetting
An investigation of what it means to have children—morally, philosophically and emotionally“Do you want to have children?” is a question we routinely ask each other. But what does it mean to create a child? Is this decision always justified? Does anyone really have the moral right to create anoth...
Read MoreRegular price $21.95Sale price $21.95 Regular price $21.95Unit price per -
How to find happiness
Does happiness come from the pursuit of pleasure or moral virtue? A vivid new translation of Cicero’s exploration of a timeless question“Of course, we all want to be happy.” So wrote the Roman statesman, orator, and philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero. He and his fellow Greek and Roman philosophers...
Read MoreRegular price $18.95Sale price $18.95 Regular price $18.95Unit price per -
Animals matter
From The New York Times bestselling author, a bold new account of animal rights, why they may be on the verge of mass popularity, and why animals need a Bill of RightsIn Animals Matter, Cass Sunstein offers a pathbreaking new argument for why we must change our practices to reduce the unjustified...
Read MoreRegular price $24.95Sale price $24.95 Regular price $24.95Unit price per -
Worse than war
An empirically powerful account of why interpersonal violence across the globe exacts a far greater cumulative cost on society than war and terrorism combinedCivil wars, interstate wars, and terrorism receive a great deal of media and policy attention, for good reasons. By contrast, the major for...
Read MoreRegular price $35.00Sale price $35.00 Regular price $35.00Unit price per -
Brain flows
A pioneering theory of how brain network flows compose the neural symphonies that make us who we areWhat enables us not only to comprehend the world but also to find meaning in it? How does a brain engender a mind? In Brain Flows, cognitive neuroscientist Michael Cole argues that movements (flows...
Read MoreRegular price $49.95Sale price $49.95 Regular price $49.95Unit price per -
The capitalist era
A sweeping history of global interdependence from the late eighteenth to the twenty-first century—with essential lessons for todayIn The Capitalist Era, leading global historian Jeremy Adelman puts the world’s current unwinding in much-needed historical perspective. Combining political, economic,...
Read MoreRegular price $35.00Sale price $35.00 Regular price $35.00Unit price per -
The heart of the wild
Timely and provocative reflections on the future of the wild in an increasingly human worldThe Heart of the Wild brings together some of today’s leading scientists, humanists, and nature writers to offer a thought-provoking meditation on the urgency of learning about and experiencing our wild pla...
Read MoreRegular price $19.95Sale price $19.95 Regular price $19.95Unit price per -
Yi jing: the illustrated book of changes
A delightful full-color graphic adaptation of the beloved Yi Jing—or I Ching—by bestselling comic-artist C. C. TsaiIn this volume, acclaimed comic-artist C. C. Tsai uses his virtuosic skill and sly humor to create an entertaining and enlightening full-color illustrated version of the Yi Jing—the ...
Read MoreRegular price $23.95Sale price $23.95 Regular price $23.95Unit price per -
Where paralytics walk and the blind see
An exploration of early modern accounts of sickness and disability—and what they tell us about our own approach to bodily differenceIn our age of biomedicine, society often treats sickness and disability as problems in need of solution. Phenomena of embodied difference, however, have not always b...
Read MoreRegular price $24.95Sale price $24.95 Regular price $24.95Unit price per -
Shakespeare's scholars
What Love’s Labor’s Lost, Hamlet, and The Tempest can teach us about discovery, growth, and changeShakespeare was a keen and discerning reader who was mocked by writers who, unlike him, had been to university—so it’s not surprising that his portrait of scholarly life is critical. As Sean Keilen s...
Read MoreRegular price $24.95Sale price $24.95 Regular price $24.95Unit price per -
Alexander von humboldt
An engaging account of the life and work of the legendary polymath Alexander von HumboldtIn this lucid biography, Andreas Daum offers a succinct and novel interpretation of the life and oeuvre of Alexander von Humboldt (1769―1859). A Prussian nobleman born into the age of European Enlightenment, ...
Read MoreRegular price $16.95Sale price $16.95 Regular price $16.95Unit price per -
Social influence and the logic of collective action
An integrated quantitative framework for understanding the dynamics of collective action Collective action has been a fundamental aspect of human societies throughout history, from building irrigation systems and defenses in Neolithic times to coordinated disaster relief and scientific collaborat...
Read MoreRegular price $45.00Sale price $45.00 Regular price $45.00Unit price per -
Thinking ai
Can a computer program think like a human?“Can machines think?” Ever since Alan Turing posed this question in an influential 1950 paper, it has been central to research in artificial intelligence. More than seventy-five years after Turing’s paper, we grapple with it every time we wonder if Watson...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Sale price $29.95 Regular price $29.95Unit 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 -
The hidden history of conspiracy theory
Tracing the genealogy of conspiracy theory, from Machiavelli through the “paranoid style” to QAnonTruthers, birthers, flat-Earthers, the deep state, crisis actors, chemtrails, the Epstein files, Pizzagate, the Plandemic—it seems as though there’s a conspiracy theory for every situation. But what ...
Read MoreRegular price $42.95Sale price $42.95 Regular price $42.95Unit price per -
The writer’s room
A journey into the unique spaces where some of literature’s greatest writers created their most memorable worksVirginia Woolf famously wrote in A Room of One’s Own that “it is necessary to have five hundred a year and a room with a lock on the door if you are to write fiction or poetry.” Writers ...
Read MoreRegular price $26.95Sale price $26.95 Regular price $26.95Unit price per -
Equal under the algorithm
Seeing fairness through a computational lensMore and more of the decisions that shape our lives are driven by algorithms: what healthcare we receive, what loans we are offered, whom we date, the news we read, the schools we attend, and the jobs we get. These systems do not merely assist human dec...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Sale price $29.95 Regular price $29.95Unit price per -
Demos
A compelling reinterpretation of ancient Greek democracy showing that the people ruled by securing mass control over leadersIn ancient Greece, demokratia meant “rule by the people”—but what people, and how did they rule? Scholars have long argued that demokratia signified the rule of all adult ma...
Read MoreRegular price $45.00Sale price $45.00 Regular price $45.00Unit price per -
A third path
How Brazil and Portugal experimented with corporatism as a “third path” between laissez-faire capitalism and communism Following the Great Depression, as the world searched for new economic models, Brazil and Portugal experimented with corporatism as a “third path” between laissez-faire capitalis...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Sale price $29.95 Regular price $29.95Unit price per -
Creative man
An essential exploration of creativity by one of the twentieth century’s foremost Jungian psychologistsThough said to be C. G. Jung’s favorite and most innovative student, Erich Neumann provoked controversy within the Jungian community. While his work presents a wealth of material illustrating Ju...
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 -
Discrete choice models
A foundational treatment of discrete choice models, with a focus on random utility modelsDiscrete choice models are essential tools for understanding decision-making when individuals must choose among alternatives. They have applications across the social sciences, notably in economics, marketing...
Read MoreRegular price $60.00Sale price $60.00 Regular price $60.00Unit price per -
Beyond banks
How new technology is rapidly changing the nature of money and the way we payA diverse and growing range of financial institutions and platforms—from PayPal and Venmo to WeChat, Alipay, and the brave new world of stablecoins—has harnessed new technology to disrupt the system of money and payments...
Read MoreRegular price $27.95Sale price $27.95 Regular price $27.95Unit price per -
The qur’an, surahs 1–2
A detailed commentary with a new translation that integrates intertextual, theological, literary, and historical perspectivesThis historical and literary commentary on the Qur’an’s first two surahs provides a structural analysis of the two texts, advances a novel theory of Surah 2’s intricate red...
Read MoreRegular price $65.00Sale price $65.00 Regular price $65.00Unit price per -
The prison-house of language
A groundbreaking critical introduction to Structuralism and Russian Formalism by the acclaimed literary theoristIn The Prison-House of Language, Fredric Jameson, one of the most important literary and cultural critics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, provides a thorough historical and...
Read MoreRegular price $22.95Sale price $22.95 Regular price $22.95Unit price per -
Art and the creative unconscious
A landmark account of how artistic expression arises from the collective unconsciousThis book brings together four essays by analytical psychologist Erich Neumann, who explores the connections between creativity and the unconscious mind. The archetypes of the collective unconscious, he argues, ar...
Read MoreRegular price $24.95Sale price $24.95 Regular price $24.95Unit price per -
Thinking through shakespeare
How Shakespeare’s exploration of central human questions—about identity, politics, religion and right and wrong—explains his lasting power, popularity and relevanceIn the eighteenth century, Samuel Johnson famously argued that Shakespeare is enduringly popular because he “is above all writers, at...
Read MoreRegular price $35.00Sale price $35.00 Regular price $35.00Unit price per -
The sorrows of young werther, elective affinities, and novella
The definitive English version of three landmark works of world literatureContaining three of Goethe’s major prose works, this volume explores a range of themes: unfulfilled love, infidelity, divorce, tragic love, fantasy, and moral rebirth. One of Goethe’s best-known works, The Sorrows of Young ...
Read MoreRegular price $27.95Sale price $27.95 Regular price $27.95Unit price per -
Sixty miles upriver
An unvarnished portrait of gentrification in an underprivileged, majority-minority small cityNewburgh is a small postindustrial city of some twenty-eight thousand people located sixty miles north of New York City in the Hudson River Valley. Like many other similarly sized cities across America, i...
Read MoreRegular price $24.95Sale price $24.95 Regular price $24.95Unit price per -
A fire in her brain
A profound and moving sequence of poems exploring genius and mental illness through the lives of Lucia Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Sylvia Plath A Fire in Her Brain examines the porous boundary between the spark of genius and a mind in conflagration in the lives and works of Lucia Joyce, Virginia W...
Read MoreRegular price $17.95Sale price $17.95 Regular price $17.95Unit price per -
Long problems
Political strategies for tackling climate change and other “long problems” that span generationsClimate change and its consequences unfold over many generations. Past emissions affect our climate today, just as our actions shape the climate of tomorrow, while the effects of global warming will la...
Read MoreRegular price $24.95Sale price $24.95 Regular price $24.95Unit price per -
A life lived like a storm
The definitive biography of Enver Pasha, the larger-than-life Young Turk revolutionary who bent the arc of history and reshaped the modern Middle East and EurasiaEnver Pasha (1881–1922) is a hotly contested figure whose career spanned the Young Turk Revolution, the First World War, the collapse o...
Read MoreRegular price $45.00Sale price $45.00 Regular price $45.00Unit price per -
Wagner
Wagner as revolutionary philosopher: a new reading of a trilogy of texts written by the composer in the aftermath of the failed Dresden UprisingForced into exile to avoid arrest after taking part in the failed Dresden Uprising in 1849, Richard Wagner turned to philosophical writing, producing in ...
Read MoreRegular price $35.00Sale price $35.00 Regular price $35.00Unit 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 -
The question of antisemitism
A nuanced and authoritative account of what constitutes antisemitism—and when criticizing Israel or supporting Palestine becomes antisemiticSince the October 7, 2023, attack by Hamas on Israel and Israel’s ensuing war in Gaza, difficult questions about when criticism of Israel or support for Pale...
Read MoreRegular price $35.00Sale price $35.00 Regular price $35.00Unit price per -
The book everyone read
How an all-but-forgotten medieval astronomy book ushered in the modern age of scienceFew people today have heard of Johannes de Sacrobosco, yet his textbook was the most widely read astronomy book ever written. For five hundred years, from when it was first written in the Middle Ages to the dawn ...
Read MoreRegular price $35.00Sale price $35.00 Regular price $35.00Unit price per -
The princeton history of american political thought
The ultimate guide to the thinkers and ideas that have shaped the United States, featuring essential primary sources introduced by leading scholarsThe Princeton History of American Political Thought showcases the defining voices and debates in U.S. political history, spanning from the 1600s to th...
Read MoreRegular price $55.00Sale price $55.00 Regular price $55.00Unit price per -
I, wandering jew
Combining history, detective story, and memoir, a surprising and revealing account of the antisemitic myth of “the Wandering Jew”The story behind the mythical figure of “the Wandering Jew” is one of the most fascinating tales in European history. In I, Wandering Jew, National Jewish Book Award–wi...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Sale price $29.95 Regular price $29.95Unit price per -
Making money in the early middle ages
An examination of coined money and its significance to rulers, aristocrats and peasants in early medieval EuropeBetween the end of the Roman Empire in the fifth century and the economic transformations of the twelfth, coined money in western Europe was scarce and high in value, difficult for the ...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Sale price $29.95 Regular price $29.95Unit price per -
Conversations of german refugees and wilhelm meister's journeyman years
The definitive English version of two landmark works of world literatureGoethe was a master of the short prose form. His two narrative cycles, Conversations of German Refugees and Wilhelm Meister’s Journeyman Years, both written during a high point of his career, address various social issues and...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Sale price $29.95 Regular price $29.95Unit price per -
How to listen
A lively new translation of Plutarch’s charming and timeless essay on how to be a good listener—and why listening is essential to learning and living wellListening is a skill—even an art—and it’s essential to learning and to life. Indeed, as Plutarch writes in How to Listen, “listening well is th...
Read MoreRegular price $18.95Sale price $18.95 Regular price $18.95Unit price per -
Tempting fate
A leading philosopher explains how risk-taking can help us live authentic and flourishing livesWe take risks every day—perhaps not the extreme, dangling-off-the-side-of-a-mountain kind of risks, but risks nonetheless, in decisions about careers, marriage, children, moving house, and other matters...
Read MoreRegular price $27.95Sale price $27.95 Regular price $27.95Unit price per -
Post-imperial possibilities
A history of three transnational political projects designed to overcome the inequities of imperialismAfter the dissolution of empires, was the nation-state the only way to unite people politically, culturally, and economically? In Post-Imperial Possibilities, historians Jane Burbank and Frederic...
Read MoreRegular price $27.95Sale price $27.95 Regular price $27.95Unit price per -
Dares paradise
Two long poems by eighteenth-century Scottish Gaelic poet, Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair, revived and reintroduced for twenty-first century Anglophone readersLittle of Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair’s biography can be confirmed other than his work as a teacher in Scotland’s Ardnamurchan Peni...
Read MoreRegular price $19.95Sale price $19.95 Regular price $19.95Unit price per -
The last animal
From the acclaimed author of The Fate of Rome and Plagues upon the Earth, a monumental history of the world that lays bare the devastating human toll on animal lifeHumans are a force of nature like no other animal on the planet. For thousands of years, we have radically altered the destiny of oth...
Read MoreRegular price $39.95Sale price $39.95 Regular price $39.95Unit price per
Something went wrong
Please try again
