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How many “bodies” does a queen have? What is the...
How many “bodies” does a queen have? What is the significance of multiple “bodies”? How has the gendered body been constructed and perceived within the context of the European courts during the course of the past five centuries?
Through interviews, diaries, memoirs, and letters, Her...
Through interviews, diaries, memoirs, and letters, Her Neighbor’s Wife traces the stories of hundreds of women, like Barbara Kalish, who struggled to balance marriage and same-sex desire in the postwar United States.
The life of this robber baron, politician, and historic...
The life of this robber baron, politician, and historic influencer is the astonishing tale of how one supremely ambitious man became this country’s original “disruptor” - reshaping industry and engineering one of the greatest raids on the public treasury for America’s transcontinental railroad, all while living more opulently than maharajas, kings, and emperors.
Although Asian American studies critics have long since...
Although Asian American studies critics have long since debunked the model minority myth that constructs Asian Americans as the ideal academic subject, university administrators still treat Asian American women in academia as though they will simply show up and shut up.
Festivals hold multifaceted roles in society and can be staged...
Festivals hold multifaceted roles in society and can be staged to bring positive economic impact, for the competitive advantage they lend a destination or to address social objectives.
We comfort ourselves with the soothing refrain that technology...
We comfort ourselves with the soothing refrain that technology has no morals and can display no prejudice, and it’s only the users of technology who distort certain aspects of it. But is this statement actually true? Dr Robert Smith thinks it is dangerously untrue in the modern era.
The book provides a unique perspective on more than a century...
The book provides a unique perspective on more than a century of local, national and international history. The book also exposes the complex reasons for the Star’s rise and fall from dominance in Washington’s newspaper market.
America is the most religiously devout country in the Western...
America is the most religiously devout country in the Western world and the most religiously diverse nation on the planet. In today’s volatile climate of religious conflict, prejudice, and distrust, how do we affirm the principle that the American promise is deeply intertwined with how each of us engages with people of different faiths and beliefs?
To support young people as they “unlearned”...
To support young people as they “unlearned” violence and pursued nonviolent alternatives, he offered what he calls a “Youth Positive” approach that prioritizes healing over punishment and recognizes them as full human beings.
Belodubrovskaya’s wealth of evidence shows that the...
Belodubrovskaya’s wealth of evidence shows that the regime’s desire to disseminate propaganda on a vast scale was consistently at odds with its compulsion to control quality and with Stalin’s intolerance of imperfection.
In showing the link between disguise/masquerade and social...
In showing the link between disguise/masquerade and social justice, the author brings carnivalization and US comic superheroes into the discussion. Many fictional characters in the books Weldt-Basson analyzes are writers who act as masks for the actual authors.
From stepping out of our beds each morning to admiring the...
From stepping out of our beds each morning to admiring the stars at night, we live in a world of motion, energy, space, and time. How do we understand the phenomena that shape our experience?
For the first time, in Fifth Sun, the history of the Aztecs is...
For the first time, in Fifth Sun, the history of the Aztecs is offered in all its complexity based solely on the texts written by the indigenous people themselves.
In an elegant, thoughtful tour of nature in the twenty-first...
In an elegant, thoughtful tour of nature in the twenty-first century, Keim continues in the tradition of Lewis Thomas, Stephen Jay Gould, and David Quammen, reporting from the frontiers of science while celebrating the natural world’s wonders and posing new questions about our relationship to the rest of life on Earth.
Now, in Run That By Me Again, Fr. Schall himself has selected...
Now, in Run That By Me Again, Fr. Schall himself has selected more than fifty of his essays on the most intriguing, urgent, and sometimes difficult topics. These are things we want to - need to- think about again and again, and Schall, with his concise, readable style and teacher’s heart, has a knack for explaining lofty ideas to all.
Based on more than twenty years of border activism in San...
Based on more than twenty years of border activism in San Diego–Tijuana and El Paso–Ciudad Juárez, this book is an interdisciplinary examination that considers the 1984 McDonald’s massacre, Minutemen vigilantism, border urbanism, the ongoing murder of women in Ciudad Juárez, and anti-border music.
In Working with the Ancestors Emily Donaldson considers how...
In Working with the Ancestors Emily Donaldson considers how Marquesan perceptions of heritage and mana , or sacred power, have influenced the use of land in the islands and how both cultural and environmental sustainability can be achieved.
Using feminist and more-than-human theories, Howe demonstrates...
Using feminist and more-than-human theories, Howe demonstrates how the dynamics of energy and environment cannot be captured without understanding how human aspirations for energy articulate with nonhuman beings, technomaterial objects, and the geophysical forces that are at the heart of wind and power.
It has been well-established that many of the injustices that...
It has been well-established that many of the injustices that people around the world experience every day, from food insecurity to unsafe labor conditions and natural disasters, are the result of wide-scale structural problems of politics and economics. These are not merely random personal problems or consequences of bad luck or bad planning.