Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Bard College.

Defacement asks what happens when something precious is despoiled. It begins with the notion that...

'This project examines how Saudi Arabian officials and economic elites used state archives, histo...

One of the gravest issues facing the global community today is the threat of nuclear war. Brokeri...

This is the first book in English on the seventeenth-century Chinese masterpiece Liaozhai's Recor...

'Knowledge in the Blood' offers a firsthand account, from the first black Dean of a historically ...

In Lautréamont and Sade, originally published in 1949, Maurice Blanchot forcefully distinguishes ...

In the Zohar, the jewel in the crown of Jewish mystical literature, the verse 'A river flows from...

This is a straightforward narrative of the development of Japanese civilization from 1334 to 1615...

'Originally published in Portuguese in 2018 under the title Paletâo e eu: memâorias de meu pai in...

Andrew Selee is Vice President of Programs at the Woodrow Wilson Center and former Director of it...

Cornelia Vismann is currently a researcher at the Max-Planck-Institute for European Legal History...

Featuring insights from a wide range of disciplines and a number of esteemed scholars, this volum...

Healing Labor is an ethnography of how adult Japanese women working in Tokyo's sex industry exper...

The late Jacques Derrida's notion of literature is explored in this new study. Starting with Derr...

Words can be misspoken, misheard, misunderstood, or misappropriated; they can be inappropriate, i...

In a political climate that is skeptical of hard-to-measure outcomes, public funding for research...

After two decades of reinvention, Japanese companies are re-emerging as major players in the new ...

'This book provides a multidimensional analysis of Iran's struggle for development between 1970 a...

An essential guide for managers and leaders on building resilient teams in turbulent times.

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In this essential early work, the preeminent European philosopher Peter Sloterdijk offers a cross...

'Energy history is an approach to understanding the past that takes changes in the human exploita...

Established at the Bretton Woods conference in 1944, the World Bank soon emerged as a central pil...

Iran is home to one of the largest Middle Eastern Jewish communities outside of Israel, numbering...

The Historical Poem takes up Georg Lukács's classic account of the historical novel to tell the f...

The boards and management of listed companies are under increasing pressure from investors to add...

Since the late nineteenth century, various agencies of the U.S. government have attempted to mana...

Richard Pipes was a longtime Harvard University professor, historian of Imperial and Soviet Russi...

What can the world's most acclaimed yet controversial state-led universal biometric identificatio...

Since the late nineteenth century, various agencies of the U.S. government have attempted to mana...

What do Buffalo Bill and Gustave Eiffel have in common? These celebrities are both part of Venita...

Political Undesirables considers the legal making and unmaking of citizenship in Iraq, focusing o...

We use avatars to play videogames. We use pseudonyms on social media. We use VPNs to mask our ide...

In 1788, Mary Smith was ruined and banished from 'civilised' society when her neighbor accused he...

Detective, horror, fantasy, romance, science fiction, spy thrillers, westerns, zombie novels. In ...

Zhongping Chen examines the origins, rise, and reform of the Cantonese-dominated Chinese diaspora...

'The number of Black state and federal judges has grown considerably in the post-Civil Rights Era...

'The number of Black state and federal judges has grown considerably in the post-Civil Rights Era...

In this masterful new work, film critic and philosopher Eyal Peretz forges a new connection betwe...

Political Undesirables considers the legal making and unmaking of citizenship in Iraq, focusing o...

Spanning nearly 4 million square kilometers, the Tibetan river system-including the Brahmaputra, ...

The Kurdish-populated Wan Van Province is a major smuggling hub between Turkey and Iran. Kurdish ...

During the twentieth century, the Tigris and Euphrates rivers underwent a profound physical trans...

Over the past three decades, jurisdictions across the United States have developed alternatives t...

Youth workers are essential to the fabric of society. Schools, families, and many of our social i...

This book tells the story of one of the largest and most multinational communist parties in inter...

During his early years in Basel, as professor of classical philology, Nietzsche develops an origi...