Exploring the rich potential of vernacular literary expressions, this title pushes beyond the postcolonial Anglophone canon…

Focuses on giraffes to appear in the last fifty years. This title presents a magnificent portrait of a group of animals who,…

Presents the major theoretical developments in generative syntax and the empirical arguments motivating them. This book…

This companion text to "College Korean" intends to enable students to continue their development of Korean language skills…

Examines the seismic changes confronting media workers in an age of globalization and corporate conglomeration. This…

When the author's fifteen-year-old son survives a terrible car crash in spite of massive trauma to his brain, she and her…

Originally published with records, this edition does not include the records.…

Some of the most innovative and provocative work on the emotions and illness is occurring in cross-cultural research on…

A comprehensive introduction to Latin forms and syntax, designed to train the student in reading ancient texts at an early…

This volume includes previously unpublished essays by Robert Smithson and gathers articles, interviews and photographs as…

Offers a geographical-historical context for understanding the power and limits of contemporary globalization, which can be…

Contains the first English translations of a group of important eighteenth-century German essays that address the question,…

This reissue offers an opportunity to consider the state of the American health-care system. The text chronicles the…

A collection of Walker Pater's essays that gave memorable expression to an aesthetic view of life. It provides a set of…

An introduction to the life and work of Walter Benjamin, the German-Jewish philosopher and literary and cultural critic. The…

Explores children's art and its history. This book addresses central questions of how children use art to make sense of…

Offers a sampling from the pages of "Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture" - including essays, poetry, interviews,…

Covering the tumultuous period of the 1950s, this work explores the divorce of movie studios from their theater chains; the…

Investigates California's vital contributions to Conceptual art - in particular, work that emerged in the late 1960s among…

This study examines the work of Akira Kurosawa, one of the century's greatest film directors. It discusses his choice of…

Includes essays that capture the theoretical range and scholarly rigor of the criticism that has fundamentally transformed…

Reporting on a project sponsored by the Association of American Universities, the author examines the core functions of the…

This text explores the evocations of place, and particularly American place, that have become central to the…

Based on the Georg Simmel Lectures delivered by Neil J Smelser at Humboldt University in Berlin in the spring of 1995, this…

Of interest to lay readers and specialists alike, this book focuses on the meaning of the American Constitution as the…

The Western cultural consensus based on the ideas of free markets and individualism has led many social scientists to…

The authors of this text cover the practical, technical and theoretical aspects of documentary filming, from fundraising to…

Drawing upon a vast array of sources, this volume develops new strategies for reading, contextualizing, and interpreting the…

Cannabis has long been prized for the strong and durable fiber in its stalks, its edible and oil-rich seeds, and the…

Offers an account of the origins and early years of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. This title discusses the…

Based on archival research in four countries, this title uncovers important links between international power politics and…

Offers an understanding of how the European avant-garde was formed in dialogue with cultural difference. This book looks…

Wappo is an indigenous language, generally regarded as a language isolate, which was once spoken in the Russian River…

Deals with one of the most morally complex areas of everyday life: the relationship between parents and children. This work…

Quantum. The units of emitted energy. This is a short study distinctive for the author's ability to offer a richness of…

In this collection of essays, distinguished composer, theorist, journalist and educator Arthur Berger invites us into the…

Includes essays that offer an insider's perspective on three decades at a major American university during a time of…

A survey of consonant harmony in the world's languages. It reveals surprising diversity in the featural dimensions involved,…

Tagalog is the language spoken in the Philippines. This text intends to impart oral control of Tagalog, and provides the…

Presents the documentation of Nzadi, a Bantu language spoken by fishermen along the Kasai River in the Democratic Republic…

Examines one of America's greatest cultural and literary figures, Robert Leigh. This book details the literary and social…

Interprets a much revered chapter in Jewish and Zionist history: the clandestine immigration to Palestine of Jewish…

"The Satyricon of Petronius", a comic novel written in the first century AD, is famous primarily for its amazing banquet…

The kea, a crow-sized parrot that lives in the rugged mountains of New Zealand, is considered by some a playful comic and by…

Shows that nature necessarily functions as a political concept and that changing ideas of nature's political authority were…

Challenges many of the tenets of establishment ecology. This title presents a convincing case that disorder is what makes…

This an interpretation of attitudes and mentalities that informed the Weimar Republic. It is intended by the author to be a…

This text offers a resolution of one of the most vexing problems in Nietzsche scholarship: how can an antifoundationalist…