Offers rich, wide-ranging counternarratives to social, political, and educational discourses that characterize urban schools and communities as places of despair, revealing the resources and strategies of resistance that teachers, students, and families use to succeed and thrive.

How two roadside craft shops in upstate New York transformed American crafts into a fine art.

Spearheads a new field for the combined study of religion and music, drawing upon theories and methods of the social sciences, ethnomusicology, philosophy, theology, liturgical studies, and cognitive studies.

Claims unconscious desire plays a constitutive role in global political economy.

The saga of New York’s push to build two minor-league baseball stadiums, colored by dollars, politics, and dreams.

Explores the importance of political judgment in the work of Bernard Stiegler, and argues his approach to judgment marks an important break with continental political thought.

Feminists revisit their mixed experiences of mentoring and being mentored to reclaim mentorship as a project for new generations.

The uplifting story of how one camp gave children with visual impairment new confidence in their own abilities.

The first book to comprehensively examine Lou Gehrig's famous "Luckiest Man" speech.

Explores the effects of the cyber revolution for security in the Americas.