The evolutionary and developmental biologist Eric S. Haag explores the two-billion-year history of sex, from the first organisms on Earth to contemporary humans.
The renowned cultural critic Wendy Steiner offers a dazzling new account of aesthetics grounded in female agency. Through a series of linked meditations on canonical and contemporary literature and art, she casts women’s taste as the engine of liberal values.
This book presents a selection of Joe Brainard’s letters stretching from 1959 to 1993, offering an intimate view of his personal and artistic life.
The Lowest Freedom is an intellectual history of how economic dispossession shaped the meaning of freedom in Black thought from antebellum abolitionism to the rise of Jim Crow.
This book—based on interviews with and surveys of hundreds of people and informed by the authors’ many decades of experience as therapists and researchers—explores how intermarried couples build lives together.
This book uncovers the social origins of side effects and their consequences for patients, physicians, and the health care system.
This book uncovers the social origins of side effects and their consequences for patients, physicians, and the health care system.
This book contends that despite shifting trends, the virtual universe remains crucial to the technology of tomorrow—and might arrive sooner than we think.
This book is a primer on the fundamental science of climate change and climate prediction, now updated to reflect the latest research.
This book is a primer on the fundamental science of climate change and climate prediction, now updated to reflect the latest research.
In this ambitious and compelling book, Kristina Lepold challenges the common assumption that recognition is positive, emphasizing its ambivalent role in social life.
In this ambitious and compelling book, Kristina Lepold challenges the common assumption that recognition is positive, emphasizing its ambivalent role in social life.