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Modern sufis and the state
In recent years, Sufism has been held up as a supposedly peaceful alternative to forms of Islam associated with violence, an embodiment of tolerance and pluralism. Modern Sufism and the State brings together a range of scholars, including anthropologists, historians, and religious-studies special...
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Fantasies of the new class
America's post–World War II prosperity created a boom in higher education, expanding the number of university-educated readers and making a new literary politics possible. Writers began to direct their work toward the growing professional class, and the American public in turn became more open to...
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Muslim identities
This well-rounded introduction takes an expansive view of Islamic ideology, culture, and tradition, sourcing a range of historical, sociological, and literary perspectives.
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The evolution of the global terrorist threat
World-renowned experts on terrorism track the evolution of global jihad from the attack on the World Trade Center to the death of Osama bin Laden.
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An ungovernable foe
Natalie B. Aviles examines seventy years of federally funded scientific breakthroughs in the laboratories of the U.S. National Cancer Institute to shed new light on how bureaucratic organizations nurture innovation.
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The sarashina diary
A thousand years ago, a young Japanese girl embarked on a journey from the wild East Country to the capital. She began a diary that she would continue to write for the next forty years and compile later in life, bringing lasting prestige to her family. Some aspects of the author's life and text s...
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Kosher usa
Roger Horowitz follows the fascinating journey of kosher food through the modern industrial food system. From the Atlanta rabbi who made Coke kosher to the success of Manischewitz wine with non-Jewish consumers, Kosher USA adds a significant chapter to the history of modern Jewish American life a...
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The feminist care tradition in animal ethics
In Beyond Animal Rights, Josephine Donovan and Carol J. Adams introduced feminist "ethic of care" theory into philosophical discussions of the treatment of animals. In this new volume, seven essays from Beyond Animal Rights are joined by nine new articles-most of which were written in response to...
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The wealth of nature
Virtually all large-scale damage to the global environment is caused by economic activities, and the vast majority of economic planners in both business and government coordinate these activities on the basis of guidelines and prescriptions from neoclassical economic theory. In this hard-hitting ...
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The chile pepper in china
Brian R. Dott explores how the non-native chile went from obscurity to ubiquity in China, influencing not just cuisine but also medicine, language, and cultural identity. The Chile Pepper in China sheds new light on the piquant cultural impact of a potent plant and raises broader questions regard...
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Psychology of a superpower
What has standing alone atop the international hierarchy done to the United States? Psychology of a Superpower examines how unipolarity affects the way U.S. leaders conceive of their role. Combining security, strategy, and psychology, Christopher J. Fettweis investigates how the idea of being num...
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The severed head
Informed by a provocative exhibition at the Louvre curated by the author, The Severed Head unpacks artistic representations of severed heads from the Paleolithic period to the present. Surveying paintings, sculptures, and drawings, Julia Kristeva turns her famed critical eye to a study of the hea...
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Bodies, commodities, and biotechnologies
In the United States today, the human body defines a lucrative site of reusable parts, ranging from whole organs to minuscule and even microscopic tissues. Although the medical practices that enable the transfer of parts from one body to another most certainly relieve suffering and extend lives, ...
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Top graduate zhang xie
Top Graduate Zhang Xie is the first extant play in the Chinese southern dramatic tradition and a milestone in the history of Chinese literature. Dating from the early fifteenth century, but possibly composed earlier, it relates the story of a talented scholar who sets off for the capital to take ...
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Imperial lives and letters of the eleventh century
Although numerous texts are available in translation that illustrate the papal side of the Investiture Controversy, few accounts exist that convey the position of secular leaders. Imperial Lives and Letters fills this gap, offering the full text of "The Deeds of Conrad II" (1024–1139) by Wipo, "L...
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Out of sight, into mind
Out of Sight, Into Mind is a groundbreaking exploration of debates over yogic perception, revealing their contemporary relevance as a catalyst for comparative philosophy.
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If all the world were paper
Telling the story of Hindi literature’s development, If All the World Were Paper demonstrates how the ways books were inscribed, organized, and used can tell us as much about their meaning and significance as the texts within them.
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I hear freedom
Based on interviews with dozens of musicians, I Hear Freedom tells the story of free jazz and its connection to the broader Black experience.
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Codes of modernity
Codes of Modernity explores the global history of Chinese script reforms—efforts to alphabetize or simplify the writing system—from the 1890s to the 1980s.
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Globalization
From the streets of Seattle to corporate boardrooms to new factories in third-world nations, globalization is subject to very different and often explosively divergent interpretations. Where some see globalization as driving poor countries into further poverty, others see it as the path to econom...
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A history of uyghur buddhism
This book presents the first comprehensive history of Buddhism among the Uyghurs from the ninth to the seventeenth century.
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Massively better healthcare
In this groundbreaking book, Halle Tecco provides an insider’s guide to transforming our healthcare system through innovation.
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Trading locomotives
This deeply researched and comprehensive book examines the history of rail in Japan from a global perspective, offering new insight into the connections between the world economy and Japan’s industrialization.
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On taste
In this book, two leading researchers take readers on a lively journey through the science of taste.
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Slaves of the emperor
David C. Porter traces how the hereditary Eight Banner system created a service elite, exploring the Qing approach to one of the fundamental challenges of early modern state-building.
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Nomadic cinema
Nomadic Cinema is a groundbreaking history of early-twentieth-century exhibition films, analyzing them as visual records of colonialism that also offer new possibilities for recognizing Indigenous histories.
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The epic history of macaroni and cheese
This book is a delectable history of macaroni and cheese, tracing an extraordinary journey of cultural exchange and social change.
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After christianity
Gianni Vattimo offers a brilliant examination of Christianity in an age of deep uncertainty—and a personal account of how he himself recovered his faith through Nietzsche and Heidegger.
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Beauty matters
Anri Yasuda demonstrates that by exploring the often conflicting yet powerful pull of aesthetic sentiments, major authors of the late Meiji (1868–1912) and Taishō (1912–1926) periods illuminated themes and perspectives that resonated broadly in modern Japanese society.
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The long war of ideas
This groundbreaking book tells the story of American propaganda campaigns in the Middle East after 9/11, drawing on in-depth interviews with key players and previously classified documents.
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Does trust matter?
This book provides a fresh perspective by demonstrating how the desire to increase trust in the news can be weaponized against journalists.
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Land of strangers
Eric Schluessel explores the late nineteenth-century encounter between Chinese power and a Muslim society through the struggles of ordinary people in the oasis of Turpan. He traces the emergence of new struggles around essential questions of identity, recasting the attempted transformation of Xin...
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Performing public confessions
It is widely thought that confessions from perpetrators of state violence promote accountability, reconciliation, and justice. Yeşim Yaprak Yıldız offers a challenge to this view through a critical examination of perpetrators’ narratives, analyzing them as performances that shape public perceptio...
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The oldest rocks on earth
Geologist Simon Lamb shows that the key to answering crucial questions about Earth’s history lies in ancient rocks from the days when the planet was young.
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Song jiaoren
Don C. Price provides the definitive biography of Song Jiaoren, recounting his remarkable career and illuminating a period of epochal change.
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Contesting the far right
Why have so many people responded to the insecurity, exploitation, alienation, and isolation of precarity capitalism by supporting the far right? In this timely book, Claudia Leeb argues that psychoanalytic and feminist critical theory illuminates how economic and psychological factors interact t...
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Baptizing burma
Baptizing Burma explores the history of how the American Baptist mission to Burma failed to convert the country yet succeeded in transforming its religious landscape.
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Queer theory and the jewish question
The essays in this volume boldly map the historically resonant intersections between Jewishness and queerness, between homophobia and anti-Semitism, and between queer theory and theorizations of Jewishness. With important essays by such well-known figures in queer and gender studies as Judith But...
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The language of terrorists
How can we tell the difference between online bluster and terrorist threats? Julia Ebner—an internationally acclaimed expert on online radicalization—shows how language patterns reveal the potential for political violence.
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Interracial marriage
This book—based on interviews with and surveys of hundreds of people and informed by the authors’ many decades of experience as therapists and researchers—explores how intermarried couples build lives together.
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Bulldozed
Jessie Speer interweaves an ethnographic account of the lives of unhoused people in Fresno, California, with an investigation of why cities across the United States have turned to what she calls the “bulldozer approach” to homelessness.
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Better data visualizations
This book details essential strategies to create more effective data visualizations. Jonathan Schwabish walks readers through the steps of creating better graphs and how to move beyond simple line, bar, and pie charts.
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Cultural mavericks
Cultural Mavericks takes readers inside the world of independent bookselling in China, showing how a wide range of figures navigate the challenges of book retailing in the digital age amid rapidly shifting social, political, and economic dynamics.
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Desolation and enlightenment
During and especially after the Second World War, a group of leading scholars who had been perilously close to the war's devastation joined others fortunate enough to have been protected by distance in an effort to redefine and reinvigorate Western liberal ideals for a radically new age. Treating...
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Well-being at the end of life
This state-of-the-field book argues that palliative care has drifted away from its transformative goals—and shows what to do about it.
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The loss of a life partner
Although there is extensive research on the loss of a spouse, predominantly focusing on the experiences of widows, much less attention is paid to bereaved partners not married to their significant other, whether or not the partners are of the same sex. This first-of-its-kind work explores both so...
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Connection
Putting medieval Italian poets and Renaissance artists in conversation with contemporary philosophers and pop culture, this book traces the roots of our fascination with—and aversion to—technology.
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Empire by law
Aimee M. Genell reveals the importance of the Ottoman Empire’s autonomous provinces, both within the empire and in the history of international relations.
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Making a king
Focusing on her life rather than her death, Winnifred Fallers Sullivan offers an interpretation of Joan of Arc as a political thinker and actor.
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Better presentations
Designed for presenters of scholarly or data-intensive content, Better Presentations details essential strategies for developing clear, sophisticated, and visually captivating presentations. With a range of clear examples for what to do (and what not to do), Jonathan Schwabish shares the best tec...
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Reorientalism
Nariman Skakov offers a new way to understand Soviet modernism, showing how writers and artists looked to the East to renew avant-garde experimentalism under Stalin.
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Radical romanticism
Interweaving canonical nineteenth-century authors with Black and Indigenous thinkers who transformed their work, this book is a bold new account of Romanticism for today’s deeply entrenched crises.
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The lavender bans
The Lavender Bans is a comprehensive account of the evolution of anti-LGBTQ+ policies from World War I to the present.
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Humanitarian internationalism under empire
This book examines the history of the Japanese Red Cross Society (JRCS) and through it offers a new account of the humanitarian movement in modern Japan.
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Afterlives of the plantation
Jarvis C. McInnis charts a new account of Black modernity by centering Tuskegee’s vision of agrarian worldmaking.
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Adversary and ally
Connecting international politics with domestic security, Harrison Akins shows how India and Pakistan’s engagement with China has shaped the two governments’ policies toward their strategic frontiers over the past seventy years.
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Oprah winfrey and the glamour of misery
Oprah Winfrey is the protagonist of the story to be told here, but this book has broader intentions, begins Eva Illouz in this original examination of how and why this talk show host has become a pervasive symbol in American culture. Unlike studies of talk shows that decry debased cultural standa...
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Film diplomacy
Ayşehan Jülide Etem offers a powerful new account of how film shaped international relations and national identity, demonstrating how the United States and Turkey used educational films to align institutional agendas and geopolitical interests.
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How film became history
Thomas Doherty tells the story of the archival documentary, spotlighting the first films that set out deliberately to preserve history on screen.
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Solidarity in journalism
Anita Varma offers a bold defense of reporting for social justice, showing what journalistic solidarity looks like in principle and in practice.
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From the skyscraper to the wildflower
Presenting striking images from an amateur photographer’s album depicting a changing Broadway, this book offers a rare glimpse into the transformation of New York’s built environment at the turn of the twentieth century.
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The lowest freedom
The Lowest Freedom is an intellectual history of how economic dispossession shaped the meaning of freedom in Black thought from antebellum abolitionism to the rise of Jim Crow.
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The race for universal monarchy
Ebru Turan explores the emergence of the Habsburg and Ottoman empires and the early phase of their rivalry within the broader Mediterranean world.
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For a just republic
In this magisterial account of Indian politics over the past seventy-five years, the renowned scholar Partha Chatterjee challenges common notions of “state” and “nation,” arguing for a more capacious understanding of “the people.”
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Theorizing fallism
A. Kayum Ahmed tells the powerful story of Rhodes Must Fall, tracing the emergence of a new decolonial framework, Fallism, and its trajectory from Africa to empire.
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Word and plan
John MacFarlane gives a novel expressivist account of vagueness and explores its implications for semantics, pragmatics, thought, and disagreement.
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The enchanted clock
Part detective mystery, part historical fiction, The Enchanted Clock is a philosophically and linguistically multifaceted novel, full of poetic ruminations on memory, love, and the transcendence of linear time.
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Untrusting
This book investigates the fraught pursuit of democratic policing in Brazil, where trust is both a necessity and a precarious gamble.
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Attention and alienation
Aarushi Bhandari offers a new way to understand the political economy of attention, combining quantitative analysis and personal narrative to critique the role of information and communications technologies in global society.
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Melancholy borders
A major contribution to the burgeoning field of global migration history, this book explores the historical clash between transnational networks of migrant mobility with state attempts to control them.
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