Climate Changed examines models and their imperfect yet central role in understanding the relationship between global climate dynamics and the human-built environment.
Jodi Summers—an accomplished journalist and passionate fossil collector—guides readers through the entire arc of ammonite history.
This book is an interdisciplinary study of the varied forms of writing found at the Mawangdui tomb site in south-central China, exploring the different roles that texts played in the lives and afterlives of Chinese elites during the Han dynasty.
This field-changing interdisciplinary book brings together three of the leading voices in political theology—a Christian theologian, a critical theorist, and an anthropologist—to offer new entry points to understand religion and politics.
Edward Mendelson explores the deepest questions of Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs. Dalloway, focusing on the core themes of medicine, empire, and love.
A. J. Bauer traces how decades of right-wing criticism of the “liberal media” reshaped US news culture and came to define conservative politics.
Branding as a Cultural Force invites readers to reimagine branding as a force for good, one that shapes culture, sparks movements, and drives meaningful social impact.
In this passionate and timely memoir of her life’s work as a historian and advocate, Diane Ravitch traces her ideological evolution.
This book investigates the fraught pursuit of democratic policing in Brazil, where trust is both a necessity and a precarious gamble.
Inside Data Science examines how data scientists defined their professional role and identity, offering an empirically rich and theoretically grounded account of the emergence of a new field.
This book is a delectable history of macaroni and cheese, tracing an extraordinary journey of cultural exchange and social change.
Classical Indian poetics prized the skillful use of ala?karas, or “ornaments”—literary figures of speech. An Ala?kara Reader is a groundbreaking panoramic overview of this tradition, presenting extensive and accessible translations of key works.