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In The Craft of Creativity Matthew A. Cronin and Jeffrey...
In The Craft of Creativity Matthew A. Cronin and Jeffrey Loewenstein present a new way to understand how we innovate. They emphasize the importance of the journey and reveal the limitations of focusing on outcomes.
Contemporary art is the object of inflated and widely divergent...
Contemporary art is the object of inflated and widely divergent claims. But what kind of discourse can open it up effectively to critical analysis?
Underscoring this complex continuity, Alison J. Bruey offers a...
Underscoring this complex continuity, Alison J. Bruey offers a compelling history of the struggle for social justice and democracy during the Pinochet dictatorship and its aftermath.
It is easier for politicians to get away with abusing power,...
It is easier for politicians to get away with abusing power, wasting public funds, and making poor decisions if the press is not shining its light with what is termed “accountability reporting.” This need has become especially clear in recent months, as the American press has come under virulent direct attack for carrying out its watchdog duties.
Challenging current definitions of trauma, Kevin L. Nadal...
Challenging current definitions of trauma, Kevin L. Nadal distills the latest research on the effects of microaggressions, looking at how regular exposure to subtle discrimination can, over time, elicit similar symptoms to severe trauma.
This story sheds new light on the African American experience...
This story sheds new light on the African American experience in Appalachia, and in it Coggeshall documents the community’s 150-year history of resistance to white oppression, while offering a new way to understand the symbolic relationship between residents and the land they occupy, tying together family, memory, and narratives to explain this connection.
Now, a group of leading scholars examines how this...
Now, a group of leading scholars examines how this groundbreaking work hinged on relationships with a global circle of Indigenous thinkers who used Boasian anthropology as a medium for their ideas.
Through the centuries, people on both sides of the Atlantic...
Through the centuries, people on both sides of the Atlantic became increasingly dependent on whale oil and other cetacean products. To meet this growing demand, whaling became ever more sophisticated and intense, leading to the collapse of what was once a seemingly inexhaustible supply of large cetaceans.
It is only a slight exaggeration to say that the British...
It is only a slight exaggeration to say that the British mathematician Alan Turing (1912-1954) saved the Allies from the Nazis, invented the computer and artificial intelligence, and anticipated gay liberation by decades–all before his suicide at age forty-one.
James Huffman draws on newspaper articles, official surveys,...
James Huffman draws on newspaper articles, official surveys, and reminiscences to recreate for readers life as experienced by the poor themselves–something not attempted before in scholarship on this era.
In Drift, Jeff Ferrell shows how dislocation and disorientation...
In Drift, Jeff Ferrell shows how dislocation and disorientation can become phenomena in their own right.
Today, America’s communities are experiencing increasing...
Today, America’s communities are experiencing increasing racial tensions and inequality, working-class resentment over the unfulfilled American Dream, white supremacy violence, toxic inaction in Washington, and the decline of the nation’s example around the world.
This pioneering book provides a comprehensive survey of ancient...
This pioneering book provides a comprehensive survey of ancient Chinese women’s history, covering thousands of years from the Neolithic era to China’s unification in 221 BCE.
Through fascinating and often entertaining accounts of their...
Through fascinating and often entertaining accounts of their lives and work in varied cultural settings, the authors describe the many forms fieldwork can take, the kinds of questions anthropologists ask, and the common problems they encounter.
Chance argues that we can best grasp the increasingly murky...
Chance argues that we can best grasp the increasingly murky line between “the criminal” and “the political” with a “politics of living” that casts slum and state in opposition to one another.
Based upon previously untapped Qing and Republican sources, The...
Based upon previously untapped Qing and Republican sources, The Politics of Rights and the 1911 Revolution in China is a nuanced and colorful chronicle of the revolution as it occurred in local and regional areas.
The colorful charts, graphs, and maps presented at the 1900...
The colorful charts, graphs, and maps presented at the 1900 Paris Exposition by famed sociologist and black rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois offered a view into the lives of black Americans, conveying a literal and figurative representation of “the color line.”
Does the practice of ‘pink tax’ effectively amount...
Does the practice of ‘pink tax’ effectively amount to a tax in the legal sense? Does the so-called 'tampon tax’ genuinely constitute an anomaly within the general consumption tax system? Most importantly, can these two 'taxes’ be legally qualified as discriminatory?
After Extinction looks at the future of humans and nonhumans,...
After Extinction looks at the future of humans and nonhumans, exploring how the scale of risk posed by extinction has changed in light of the accelerated networks of the twenty-first century.
In recent years Japan’s cuisine, or washoku, has been...
In recent years Japan’s cuisine, or washoku, has been eclipsing that of France as the world’s most desirable food. UNESCO recognized washoku as an intangible cultural treasure in 2013 and Tokyo boasts more Michelin-starred restaurants than Paris and New York combined.
Last updated by Susan M. Birkenseer on February 15, 2019