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Sebastian Veg explores the rise of minjian-unofficial, unaffiliated, and among the people-intellectuals and how they have…

Presents an exploration of the impact of three French women filmmakers: Germaine Dulac, Marie Epstein, and Agnes Varda.…

\nMany Worlds Under One Heaven analyzes a wide range of newly excavated materials to offer a new perspective on political…

Reforming Modernity is a sweeping intellectual history and philosophical reflection built around the work of the philosopher…

In eighteenth-century China, a remarkable intellectual transformation took place, centered on the ascendance of philology.…

\nThis book tells the dramatic story of the Wuhan lockdown in the voices of the city\'s own people. Using a vast archive of…

China's dismantling of the Mao-era commune system under Deng Xiaoping has been seen as a successful turn away from a…

This study charts the history of neighbourhood-based initiatives in the USA to illuminate the enduring dilemmas and…

An authoritative account of the Jewish Resistance during World War II.…

The history of the black struggle for civil rights and political and economic equality in America is tied to the strategies,…

Essays by prominent political theorists representing the two dominant schools of international relations, neoliberalism and…

Set on the eve of the Rape of Nanjing-when Japanese troops invaded the historic capital city, massacred hundreds of…

This book bridges both the macro and micro levels of analysis to place the dynamics of a national political movement within…

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This book includes many seminal articles by film scholars such as Christian Metz, Jean-Louis Baudry, Stephen Heath, Peter…

\nArguing About Tastes makes the case that economists should abandon the principle that preferences are fixed and instead…

\nDisrespectful Democracy offers a new account of the relationship between incivility and political behavior based on a key…

All the Nations Under Heaven is an unparalleled chronicle of the role of immigrants and migrants in shaping the history and…

America\'s Response to China has long been the standard resource for a succinct, historically grounded assessment of an…

Michael Jackson demonstrates the significance of a phenomenology of time through a multifaceted consideration of the gap…

Making the best of cooperation with unreliable partners is fundamental to the success of counterterrorism. Stephen Tankel…

A revealing investigation into the corporate and strategic interests that have long been at the root of U.S. policy toward…

Includes articles, essays, and primary documents that cover the formation of gay identity, religious, scientific, medical,…

Provides a unique picture of everyday life in Brazil viewed from a comparative perspective. Brazilian scholars and…

Are the factors that initiate democratization the same as those that maintain a democracy already established?…

This major anthology includes all of the major American poets--Anne Bradstreet, Walt Whitman, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound,…

Updated to reflect changes in the composition of New York City's immigrant population, this volume aims to show how new…

This translation of the 5th-century Indian epic love story of Kannaki and Kovalan follows the conventions of classical Tamil…

An eloquent introduction to the ethical and philosophical values at stake in biological conservation, this book familiarizes…

\nThrough poignant and sometimes painful stories from their personal and professional lives, three practicing psychoanalysts…

Benjamin I. Cook brings together climate science, hydrology, and ecology to provide a synthetic overview of drought and its…

The United States Congress has been described as dysfunctional, gridlocked, polarized, hyperpartisan, chaotic, and…

\nThis book is a travelogue that spotlights what a changing climate looks like on the local level-for wherever local happens…

\nDavid B. Roberts offers a definitive guide to continuity and change in the Gulf region. He explores the forces challenging…

This volume is a comprehensive sourcebook of newly translated texts from the Safavid, Ottoman, and Mughal empires of the…

In a comprehensive interdisciplinary analysis that extends from the Civil War to the present, this book seeks to isolate the…

Weaves varied reflections to reveal an understanding of the relationships among literature, the past, and the world around…

Hall illustrates how centuries-old dynastic traditions have been replaced in the modern era by nationalist and ethnic…

A major new assessment of one of the most important writers of the late twentieth century and his work with history and its…

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A history celebrating one hundred years of groundbreaking work in dental medicine.…

Volume 1 discusses the problems inherent in allocating limited biomedical technologies: whose needs take precedence, what…

This 16th-century book of reading notes and reflections on philosophy and history was written by Lo Ch'in-shun, a…

The 12th-century bishop Otto of Freising was an outstanding historian of his century. "The Two Cities" was his masterwork,…

Grand, sensational, and exotic, Art Deco design was above all modern, exemplifying the majesty and boundless potential of an…

Gil sounds the call to embrace the core values of radical social work: equality, liberty, cooperation, and affirmation of…

-- Journal of Chinese Religions…

Using the ethnographic methods of anthropology in conjunction with the clinical techniques of psychoanalysis, this study…