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Fungible Life - A close-up

The book gives a manifold view of emerging Asian post-genomic science. Each chapter features scientists at work in an adjacent field, constantly challenged by the contingencies of making scientific wagers...

Aihwa Ong

Learning to Hear - In a nutshell

My book examines the tricks of the trade and forms of collective support for crafting our largely unconscious practices of hearing. As we live our daily lives, our hearing generally...

Sarah Maslen

Fabricating an Educational Miracle - The wide angle

At the end of the American Civil War, tens of thousands of pioneer families took Horace Greeley’s advice to “go West.” Streaming across the Mississippi, they settled in Iowa and...

Jinting Wu

Four Metaphors of Modernism - The wide angle

The book argues for a new paradigm: only in considering Der Sturm and the Société Anonyme together, can we grasp the extent of their respective influences on Euro-American modernism; both...

Jenny Anger

A Most Enterprising Country - The wide angle

My first book, No Man’s Land, showed how and when geography and the technologies that we generally associate with globalization—cheap and fast transportation, containing shipping, the Internet, mobile phones, and...

Justin V. Hastings

Sustainability by Design - In a nutshell

Sustainability is all the rage. Political and business leaders talk earnestly and passionately about going green. A growing number of books, movies, and public conversations signal a general unease about...

John R. Ehrenfeld

Mobility Justice - In a nutshell

Mobility justice is one of the crucial political and ethical issues of the contemporary world. We are currently experiencing a series of crises related to how we move. As cities...

Mimi Sheller

Calvin - In a nutshell

After five hundred years John Calvin remains the object of admiration and loathing. For some he is revered as the great reformer of the sixteenth century whose legacy embraces both...

Bruce Gordon

How Schools Really Matter - The wide angle

I began exploring the relationship between schools and inequality after reading the 1992 article entitled “Summer Setback” by Doris Entwisle and Karl Alexander. The authors showed that gaps in math...

Douglas B. Downey

Fearless Women - The wide angle

As a novelist and historian, I craft stories in intimate ways that allow readers to feel events of the past: from the experience of the enslaved woman who hid in...

Elizabeth Cobbs

Rethinking Readiness - In a nutshell

We see more and more disasters in the news every day. It is getting to the point where, with the exception of the current COVID-19 pandemic, major record-setting disasters barely...

Jeff Schlegelmilch

The Angel in the Marketplace - In a nutshell

The Angel in the Marketplace is a biography of Jean Wade Rindlaub, a mid-century adwoman widely recognized on Madison Avenue for her success in marketing household products to American housewives,...

Ellen Wayland-Smith

Comics and Stuff - The wide angle

I wrote this book because on a good day, I see myself as a collector or a pack rat and on a bad day, as a hoarder. I am increasingly...

Henry Jenkins

How the World Became a Book in Shakespeare's England - In a nutshell

Human beings think, speak, and write in metaphors. Those metaphors change as cultures do; people use them to respond to and reshape the world. Indeed, neuroscientists and literary scholars alike...

Jonathan P. Lamb

Inventing the Enemy - A close-up

The front cover of the book reproduces a very powerful painting and is worth looking at carefully. Dmitri Zhilinskii, the artist, painted it from memory. It depicts his own father’s...

Wendy Z. Goldman

Questioning the Veil - In a nutshell

This book started out as a reflection on why it is that in the past two decades a re-veiling trend has swept over the Muslim world and Muslim communities in...

Marnia Lazreg

The Puzzle of Modern Economics - In a nutshell

Is economics the key to everything or do we need to look for completely new ways of explaining what is going on in the world?By “economics” I mean the discipline...

Roger E. Backhouse

The Insurgent Barricade - The wide angle

Two phenomena led me to this project. A number of people close to me are recovering addicts of one sort or another, and when I attended meetings with them I...

Mark Traugott

Wonder Confronts Certainty - In a nutshell

Wonder Confronts Certainty introduces readers to the especially intense Russian debates, over the past two centuries, on the ultimate questions of life. As Virginia Woolf and others noted when the...

Gary Saul Morson

Animals and the Moral Community - In a nutshell

More than fifty-three billion animals are killed worldwide for human consumption every year, and yet we give little thought to the inner subjective lives of animals and the remarkable extent...

Gary Steiner

In Praise of Copying - In a nutshell

What you’re reading right now is a copy. I’m using only words taken and recycled from other places.You probably do it too. Even the questions you’re asking are copies, repetitions.You...

Marcus Boon

The Crisis of the Twelfth Century - A close-up

In Chapter VI, on pages 484-499, I open the discussion of “politicised power” with a new reading of the notorious assassination of Thomas Becket on 29 December 1170. Here, one...

Thomas N. Bisson

The Devil’s Milk - In a nutshell

I was somewhat disconcerted to learn, while researching for The Devil’s Milk, that another author had recently published another book about rubber. The question arose: would I just be duplicating...

John Tully

Relationscapes - A close-up

A reader encountering Relationscapes in a bookstore might find themselves attracted to the front cover, which is a reproduction of a painting by Australian Aboriginal artist Emily Kngwarreye. This might...

Erin Manning

The Ecological Thought - In a nutshell

All life forms are interconnected. We share our DNA with chimps (98%) but also with daffodils (35%). We drive cars that burn crushed dinosaurs. The oxygen we breathe is the...

Timothy Morton

The Code Economy - The wide angle

We have all heard that we’re about to become obsolete, irrelevant. Or if not us, then, certainly, our children. No number of coding camps will help them. And definitely not...

Philip E. Auerswald

Memos from the Besieged City - The wide angle

The migration of intellectuals and academics made refugees by the politics and wars of mid-twentieth-century Europe consolidated the emergence of comparative literature as a field in the American university system...

Djelal Kadir

Le Corbusier and the Occult - A close-up

There are 170 illustrations in Le Corbusier and the Occult. And they are not just pretty pictures. Some of them tell stories in their right.One reviewer said that he could...

Jan Kenneth Birksted

Rethinking World Politics - A close-up

Your “just browsing” reader should actually start with the blurbs on the back cover. I was blown away by the positive response I got from senior colleagues who are among...

Philip G. Cerny

Lost to the Collective - In a nutshell

Lost to the Collective is an exploration into both the history of suicide and the elusive promises of Soviet socialism and the modern social sciences.Suicide unsettled the Soviets because it...

Kenneth M. Pinnow

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