The Serpent’s Tale traces the intricate global histories of Ku??alini, from its Sanskrit origins to its popularity in the West.
Emilio J. Castilla analyzes the structure and culture of meritocracy inside organizations, providing a practical, research-backed framework to help achieve true fairness and opportunity for all.
The research psychologist Barbara Blatchley interweaves an engaging and reader-friendly look at the research on grief with her powerful personal narrative of losing her husband.
Examining aesthetic criticism, popular literature, avant-garde art, cinema, and political theory, Patrick Noonan argues that cultural producers in 1960s Japan cultivated what he calls an “ethos of disaffection” toward revolutionary politics and postwar society.
This book examines how writers of the Republican era (1912–1949) came to recognize and respond to “information.”
Climate Changed examines models and their imperfect yet central role in understanding the relationship between global climate dynamics and the human-built environment.
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.
A groundbreaking quantitative and qualitative investigation of police violence, Justice Required argues that while police shootings are typically treated as a criminal justice issue, they should be understood as a public health problem.
The Remarkable Madame Pandit is the definitive biography of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (1900–1990), India’s greatest modern diplomat.
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.
Dictating Reality shows how states are battling to control and shape the news in order to entrench their power, evade scrutiny, and ensure that their political narratives are accepted.