War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has nonethe...

Between 1948 and 1955, nearly two-thirds of all American families bought a television set--and a ...

Johann Wilhelm Weinmann was an apothecary who established a botanic garden in Regensburg and set ...

Our oceans are becoming increasingly inhospitable to life--growing toxicity and rising temperatur...

Upends entrenched thinking about cities, demonstrating how urban economies are defined-or constra...

Everyday Democracy

A Rainbow Palate

The first monographic study of American artist Alison Knowles, a significant yet overlooked cofou...

A sweeping work on China that interrogates how states gain, maintain, and lose legitimacy.

'A practical guide to more fully achieving a meritocratic society. As America's most vaunted cult...

A poignant account of the life and work of conceptual artist Jack Goldstein.

'The winner of four Emmys, a Peabody, and two Writers Guild Awards (all of which badly need dusti...

Explores how researchers used systems for recording human movement to navigate the relationship b...

Incorporating essential revisions to reflect the latest scientific advancements, a celebrated aut...

Explores how researchers used systems for recording human movement to navigate the relationship b...

A compelling portrait of post-disaster imaginaries of repair in Nepal.

'Love cannot be everlasting, much as we might desire it to be so. So, what is love in a life that...

'A reframing of the history of 1960s New York avant-garde art centered on the queer, genre-bendin...

A translation of the twelfth book of The Mah­­abharata, an epic tale of history and kingship, rei...

'Ghosts behind Glass is a moving exploration of displays of extinct animals in museums around the...

A nuanced reassessment of US democratic responsiveness and public opinion on economic policy that...

A landmark biography of one of the most notorious and controversial protagonists of the French Re...

A sweeping work on China that interrogates how states gain, maintain, and lose legitimacy.

'More than two decades have passed since the 9 11 terrorist attacks resuscitated debates about th...

Going against the grain, this refreshing book argues for a non-ideological portrait of the Enligh...

A sweeping analysis of 'archetypal realism' in Latin American literature and art.

A provocative exploration of how America's democratic crisis is rooted in a dangerous mismatch be...

In this thoroughly updated fourth edition, a trusted editor offers a comprehensive guide to selec...

Explores how the function, norms, and meaning of artists' names in Chinese modernity have been mi...

'Climate change is increasingly accepted as a global emergency creating irrevocable losses for th...

'This pioneering book on performance art in Vienna in the 1960s, the first English-language study...

'The concept of revolution as we understand it today did not exist in antiquity. Despite the word...

A landmark practical guide from the twenty-first-century pioneer in economics.

The Unruly Facts of Race

'An unprecedented portrait of Sikh devotional music demonstrating how musical traditions shift to...

A leading biologist offers a comprehensive and accessible history of invasive species science, fr...

Intoxicated Ways of Knowing

A new history of literary narration rooted in the turmoil of the Protestant Reformation.  We ofte...

A provocative critique of how the concept of innocence functions in contemporary politics and soc...

Medical Editing

'How a form of multifamily housing with idealistic roots became a ubiquitous model promoted by bo...

A vivid portrait of how divine and human intimacies sustain colonization in the Amazon.

From leading cetacean biologists, an up-to-date, comprehensive collection exploring advancements ...

A study of the transformation of the realist novel in the hands of early-twentieth-century Americ...

A leading biologist offers a comprehensive and accessible history of invasive species science, fr...

How an early modern surgeon and his accessible writings changed medical expertise and the communi...

Lyric Personhood

Pragmatics of Democracy