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John A. Wiens traces his journeys through several subfields of ecology—and, in so doing, gives readers an inside look at how science actually works.
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The Adoption Plan offers a new history of the rise of global humanitarianism that places the recipients, administrators, and critics of humanitarian aid in China at the center of the story.
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Rob King uses Radley Metzger’s work to explore what taste means and how it works, tracing the evolution of the adult film industry and the changing frontiers of cultural acceptability.
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Just Awakening uncovers a forgotten philosophy of social democracy inspired by Yogacara—an ancient, nondualistic Buddhist philosophy—arguing that it offers new vocabularies with which to reconceptualize equality and freedom.
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The Loyalty Trap explores how civil servants navigated competing pressures and duties amid the chaos of the Trump administration, drawing on in-depth interviews with senior officials in the most contested agencies over the course of a tumultuous term.
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Blending personal narrative with literary criticism, Emily Hodgson Anderson considers what a life spent with books has taught her about loneliness and human connection.
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From the Heart weaves together a personal narrative of a life-threatening ailment with considerations of philosophy, art, and science to contemplate ultimate questions: matters of life and death.
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This book presents essays by Eric R. Kandel. They vary widely in subject matter, but each essay focuses on the interaction of art and science.
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Women working in the sciences face obstacles at virtually every step along their career paths. Women in Science Now examines solutions to this persistent gender gap, offering new perspectives on how to make science more equitable and inclusive for all.
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Paul R. Pillar examines how and why partisanship has undermined U.S. foreign policy, especially over the past three decades.
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Andrew Davison proposes a new philosophy of data modeled on the affective and ethical qualities of the encounter between a reader and a literary text and demonstrates its significance for understanding urgent social and political issues.
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In this theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich book, Jie-Hyun Lim offers a new way to understand nationalism and its political instrumentalization of suffering, developing the concept of “victimhood nationalism” and exploring it in a range of global settings.