In Stitch, Unstitch, Kristin Grogan argues that modernist poetry was deeply shaped by ordinary labor and the people who performed it. This... Læs mere
Daniel K. Sodickson—a physicist and biomedical imaging innovator—explores the rich history and surprising future of vision, from the evolution of eyes to emerging high-tech devices.
Chinese Songs in a French Key tells the extraordinary story of the birth, rebirth, and rich afterlife of Judith Gautier’s The Book of Jade, which introduced readers throughout Europe to classical Chinese poetry.
In this deeply interdisciplinary and poetically written book, Jamall A. Calloway explores the presence of Eden and the aftermath of the Fall in works by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Richard Wright, and Alice Walker.
Interweaving canonical nineteenth-century authors with Black and Indigenous thinkers who transformed their work, this book is a bold new account of Romanticism for today’s deeply entrenched crises.
Andrew L. Oros offers an expert analysis of how rapid aging and population shifts are transforming the military strategies and capabilities of regional powers in Asia.
Santiago Zabala asks us to think of philosophy as a warning, a call to heed ominous “signs from the future.”
Designed for independent learners and classrooms alike, this textbook offers an in-depth and immersive introduction to Sanskrit, exploring a wide range of narrative, philosophical, and poetic texts from the Buddhist tradition.
This is the first English-language book to explore the rich and fascinating archaeological site of Tharros in western Sardinia.
Yanbing Er reveals how a literary mode of enchantment fundamentally transforms feminist theory and praxis, imagining new and surprising possibilities that had once been foreclosed by dominant paradigms of progress.
The Senegalese Muslim scholar Shaykh Musa Kamara wrote a monumental history of West Africa in a time when colonial discourses asserted that... Læs mere
This book is a groundbreaking intellectual biography of Kenneth Waltz, shedding new light on the development and significance of his key contributions.