Is terroir primarily a marketing ploy that obscures understanding of which environments really produce the best wine? Is…

Drawing on social and political history as well as the history of science and popular culture, this book examines how…

Proposes a synthetic strategy, based on an application of Boolean algebra, that combines the strengths of both qualitative…

Shows how the Bush administration systematically misled Americans on a range of scientific issues affecting public health,…

Showcases thirty years of work by an American poet, bringing together verse that originally appeared in eight books of…

Portrays the correlation between rationalism and capitalism; of the rise of the city, the decline of the landed estate, and…

A study that upsets the popular assumption that human relations in small-scale societies are based on shared experience. It…

Countering impressions of Moses reinforced by Sigmund Freud in his "Moses and Monotheism", this work begins with the…

Features an essay on the events surrounding and following the 1906 earthquake. This book also includes a lyrical essay that…

Offers an introduction to the concept of diaspora. This book incorporates several case studies - about the Jewish, Armenian,…

Examines the role of the body as a primary site of political signification in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France.…

Details the attempts by chemical and lead industries to deceive Americans about the dangers that their deadly products…

Although outlawed in many states, serpent handling remains an active religious practice - and one that is far more…

In 2004, Michael Burawoy, speaking as president of the American Sociological Association, generated far-reaching controversy…

Offers an account of the author's struggle to found the movement called 'Ni Putes Ni Soumises', aimed at shattering the law…

In the run-up to war in Iraq, the Bush administration assured the world that America's interest was in liberation -…

A interdisciplinary sociocultural account of music as a feature and a force in the shaping of Israeliness. Maps not only the…

Challenges many assumptions about gender and politics in the French Revolution. This title shows how revolutionary politics…

What are we to make of the speed with which the climate of national solidarity emerged after September 11? Does it not look…

This work gives an internal perspective on Palestinian politics, viewing political patterns from the Palestinian point of…

Examines how popular culture has shaped the ways Americans define their 'interests' in the Middle East. Including the 9/11…

This is a critical analysis of the development of film theory since 1968. It shows how debates concerning the literary…

Examines the transnational movements, effects, and transformations of religion in the contemporary world, offering a fresh…

An examination of the deep politics of war. It takes us from the immediacy of war-zone survival, through the offices of…

Drawing on Korean and Japanese texts ranging from critical essays to short stories produced in the colonial and…

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By the year 2000 more than 350 Internet agencies were plying the email-order marriage trade. Attentive to the structural,…

This historical study of American political repression examines the denial of constitutional rights to individuals who…

Captures the extraordinary story of boys and girls coming of age during a civil war. This book explores how children respond…

Resurgent immigration is one of the most powerful forces disrupting and realigning everyday life in the United States and…

Providing a discussion of Balanchine's life and work, this text also explores the legal, financial and institutional…

Engages with developments in the anthropology of ethics and migration studies to explore in empirical depth and detail the…

Arlene Davila considers the cultural politics of urban space in this exploration of Puerto Rican and Latino experience in…

Amidst the shrill and discordant notes struck in debates over the make-up - or breakdown - of the American family, the…

This anthology of treasures from the oral literature of native California includes a selection of stories, anecdotes, myths,…

Offers a selection of Pulitzer Prize-winning objectivist poet George Oppen's extant writings outside of poetry, including…

Talks about the reformers and radicals who have struggled for alternative visions of social and economic justice. This book…

Drawing on interviews with seventy Jewish men and women who, as children, were placed in non-Jewish families during the Nazi…

Recounts the struggle for human rights across the ages and synthesizes historical and intellectual developments since the…

The world is configured in ways that seem systematically hospitable to life forms, especially the human race. Is this the…

Examines the spatial politics of Japanese imperialism through a study of Japanese travel and tourism to Korea, Manchuria,…

Offers an overview of the life and work of Nicole Brossard, poet, novelist, and essayist, who is widely recognized in her…

Accompanied by a DVD, this collection of essays brings a view of the literary, social, and performative aspects of American…

Deals with the idea of a family level society, discussed and disputed by anthropologists for nearly half a century. This…

A manifesto against systematic thinking, this text on literary theory, first published 70 years ago in 1928, is a difficult…

How and why is Christianity's center of gravity shifting to the developing world? This book contains information on…

Includes essays that explore the meanings of manhood in Japan from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries. This title…

In Greece, women speak of mothering as 'within the nature' of a woman. This anthropological study of reproductive politics…

Offers an introduction to India. This title gives a panoramic overview of the continent on which the world's most…