Andrew A. Davinack reveals that parasites are far more than agents of disease or grotesque passengers along for the ride: They are powerful forces that have shaped the course of evolution.
The Black Sojourner Press traces the travels of multiple generations of itinerant Black editors, demonstrating how they transformed Black political and literary culture in the United States, West Africa, and Britain.
Maha Rafi Atal blends investigative journalism and historical research to tell the gripping four-hundred-year story of company rule over daily life.
Charting how a vast variety of writers, filmmakers, and artists channel Herman Melville, Joseph Allen Boone offers new insights into the author, his works, and his many legacies.
China’s Environmental History presents translations of hundreds of texts spanning more than three thousand years, displaying the diversity of how humans have related to the world around them.
Set in a forgotten theater of World War II, The Crossing of the Boars is a gripping magical-realist tale of a multiethnic village fighting for survival.
This book develops a critical theory of racial capitalism and argues that it is indispensable to understanding and contesting the neoliberal present.
Departing from traditional approaches, this book presents an anti-oppressive model to help social workers make ethical decisions that adhere to professional mandates while pursuing systemic social change.
Based on more than a year of in-depth fieldwork in France, Mental States shows that, beneath the chaotic trajectories of people with mental illness... Læs mere
Margaret Waller’s fresh account of the paradoxical history of male clothing centers on an unlikely pair: Napoleon... Læs mere
This book presents the unabridged translation of the Buddhist visionary Sera Khandro Dewé Dorjé’s extraordinary autobiography—one of only a handful of life stories written by women in Tibetan literature.
The Resilient Pediatric Brain explores how children—and the families and clinicians who care for them—respond when the developing brain is disrupted by disease or injury.