All the World in Thee presents a selection of poems about LGBTQ+ experiences.
Taking readers on a journey from tropical rainforests to the darkness of deep ocean trenches, James O’Hanlon explores how animals and plants use deception to avoid predators, lure in prey, and even reproduce.
Venkat Venkatasubramanian shows that a novel paradigm—statistical teleodynamics—can explain emergence. This unified theory represents a transdisciplinary synthesis integrating concepts from various fields.
Drawing on extensive multilingual research, Christopher Carothers traces the forces undermining democracy in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.
This book presents an engaging overview of Alfred Hitchcock’s life and work along with close studies of ten films spanning nearly five decades of his remarkable career.
The Art of Not Governing offers a fresh analysis of Lebanon’s political challenges that foregrounds local elections and institutions—and delivers a new account of how local politics influence broader patterns of state-building and democratization.
Face to Face with the CIA is the gripping firsthand account of the highest-ranking North Vietnamese officer taken captive during the war.
Blending natural history with science memoir, Bird on the Street traces how starlings illuminate the mechanisms of evolution and the relationship between humans and wildlife.
This book is a biography of New York City in the year before the Civil War, from the moment the telegraph brought news of John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry in October 1859 to the first shots on Fort Sumter in the spring of 1861.
Sarah Stanford-McIntyre shows how Permian Basin oil production reshaped Texas’s environment, economy, and political culture, with major consequences for American understandings of health, wealth, and the social safety net.
Cosmic Missions reveals the deep yet unacknowledged relationships between religion and the exploration of outer space.
Jill Stauffer identifies the way certain experiences of time are valued over others as “temporal privilege” and shows how this concept helps illuminate injustices that are often hidden in plain sight.