Explores the music of the Tibetan Chöd tradition.

Accessible to a wide range of readers, from artists to commuters to nature lovers and beyond, who wish to expand their understanding of walking.

An up-to-date, clearly written, user-friendly guide that students and experienced scholars alike will find invaluable as they plan, implement, and write up qualitative research projects.

Reveals the often-untold stories of front-line public servants.

Illuminates the beginnings, downfall, and legacy of the acid-inspired, spontaneous, and playful approach to life and music in Haight-Ashbury from 1964–1967.

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

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.

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.

Traces the influence of the stock market on Americans' beliefs about politics.

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.

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

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

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

Tells the story of classic blues singers from Ma Rainey to Bessie Smith.

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

Examines the ways in which writers and artists have attempted to address children’s experience of atrocity.

Explores the political and theoretical significance of the use of salvaging discarded materials by social movements during their protest activities.

Asks how Black women tap into their feelings to develop ways to live freely.

Examines how the new wave of Generation Y public service employees are affecting the dynamics of continuity and change in public management ethics.

Explores the delicate interplay between emigration of Jews from Israel to Germany and the construction of a new identity in the shadow of antisemitism both past and present in their new home.

Maps manifestations of the sacred and religious syncretism in Afro-Brazilian cultural forms.

This textbook offers accessible, academically sound information on a wide range of LGBTQ+ topics. The 12 chapters cover LGBTQ+ history, culture, and Queer Theory, but also explore LGBTQ+ relationships, families, parenting, health, and education - as well as a separate chapter on how to conduct research on LGBTQ+ topics.

Essays providing a multi-disciplinary look at Derrick Bell's thesis of racial realism.

Argues that Progressive Era reforms had the counterintuitive effect of weakening political parties and their role in representative government.

Tells the story of New York's playing grounds, teams, and ballparks of yesteryear.

Illuminates the complex factors that have helped or hindered creative work by and about women in the twenty-first-century Brazilian film industry.

A new and accessible introduction to this exciting, controversial, and often misunderstood music, drawing on extensive research, close listening, and the author’s experience as a performer.

A searing, personal look at conditions on Texas's Death Row—told in the words of the prisoners themselves.

Relates Chinese Realism to contemporary political and ethical challenges, such as in international relations and the morality of the public sector.

Traces the complex and contradictory representations of Hawai’i in popular film and television programs from the 1930s to the 1970s.

Explores the slow but inevitable implosion of our civilization by considering the correlation between capital, work, and ideology.

Explores Italian filmmakers' representations of China and the Chinese, both at home and abroad.

Provides a novel conceptual and practical theory of revolution, engaging previous theories of revolution, contemporary continental philosophy, and systems theory.

Offers insight into race-based disparities in higher education and practical tools for advancing racial equity on college and university campuses.

Analyzes the effects of new technologies on human rights, with a particular focus on how representations of technology affect our ability to understand and control it.

Analyzes the tensions and triumphs of a unique, faith-based, addiction recovery organization in a high poverty neighborhood.

A visitor's companion to New York's Letchworth State Park, richly illustrated with ninety maps and thirty-five photographs.

Juxtaposes feminist and queer activism in Britain and the United States in the face of resurgent conservatism during the 1980s.

Explores the duality between humans and Earth through a focus on the economic system changes that began with grain agriculture and has now reached its apogee in global capitalism.

Shows how punk rock shaped modern culture around the world.

Traces the Trump administration's surprising support for LGBTI human rights abroad to Trump's indifference and the cynicism and political interests of Christian conservative elites.

Describes how new kinds of direct-action labor movements are emerging to reshape American labor activism in the twenty-first century.

Examines how the national pastime of baseball has the capacity to shape politics and American democracy.

Explores distinctions between the sacred and the secular in a variety of religious traditions, and proposes ways in which their relationship can be mutually beneficial.

Incorporates a unique diplomatic, insider perspective to explain the unexpected incorporation of LGBTI rights into American and Swedish foreign policies.

Demonstrates that a true liberal capitalism has the capacity to enable personal well-being while dealing with new challenges such as pandemics, climate change, and automation.

Illuminates the ways games—from baseball cards to board games, charades to boxing, and croquet to strategies of war—were integral to nineteenth-century life and culture in the United States and Britain.

A rich, authentic account of eight young Black men's experiences on their paths to and through college.

Offers an Asian immigrant perspective on US racial relations and explores the unique situations and challenges facing Asian immigrants in the United States.

Chronicles the astonishing and counterintuitive spread of Christianity among a group of previously isolated tribes in a remote and hilly part of Northeastern India.

Elucidates how neoliberalism rules all areas of life and operates as a form of common sense, taking Mexico as a case study.

The once-lost introduction to the philosophy of science by Philipp Frank (1884-1966), a leading member of the Vienna circle of philosophers and biographer of Albert Einstein.

Analyzes socially engaged art practices worldwide, linking them to decolonial struggle and critique.

Explores the rich diversity of narratives, rituals, and participants connected with one of the most important celebrations for Hindus in South Asia and in the diaspora.

Historical and theoretical discussions that describe and reflect on personal objects from a variety of perspectives.

Looking at Japan, traces crisis narratives across three decades and ten policy fields, with the aim of disentangling discursively manufactured crises from actual policy failures.

Explores how concepts of sex in heaven can inform Christian sexual ethics in ways that challenge traditional norms and open new possibilities.

Engages and extends the feminist philosopher Lorraine Code’s groundbreaking work on epistemology and ethics.

Ethnography situating the contemporary financial services industry in the US Virgin Islands within broader histories of racial capitalism and gender inequality.

Examines how contemporary US migrant women's life writing adapts autobiographical genres to call for social change benefiting minoritized communities.

An up-to-date examination of the work of one of the most inventive thinkers in the study of religion.

Intensive look at restrictive new voting laws ostensibly designed to target voter fraud but criticized as being racially-based voter suppression.

Ethnography of Black engineering majors navigating campus life at a historically White university.

Argues that Irish American masculinity functioned to negotiate, consolidate, and reinforce hegemonic whiteness in Hollywood cinema from 1930 to 1960.

A powerful anthology on the role of curricula in perpetuating—and resisting—oppression.

Analyzes Turkey’s Kurdish conflict since post-Ottoman nation-building through recent peace attempts, from a novel perspective highlighting the dilemmas of the Turk majority and reshaping our understanding of ethnic conflicts, and offers solutions for a sustainable peace.

A critical view of race relations on the island of Puerto Rico from 1898 to 1965.

Essays that argue in favor of Lenin's continuing relevance for twenty-first century politics and thought.

Draws on Marx and the first-generation Frankfurt School to make the case that cosmopolitanism must become a postcapitalist political theory.

Draws upon the situated work of professional coffee tasters in over a dozen countries to shed light on the methods we use to convert subjective experience into objective knowledge.

Offers a vision for innovation in higher education focused on societal progress and human development, as well as for higher education's role within a broader culture of innovation.

The first work to offer a comprehensive pragmatist anthropology focusing on sensibility, habits, and human experience as contingently yet irreversibly enlanguaged.

Considers how Hollywood films since the 1960s have both reflected and shaped attitudes toward rape and sexual violence.

Moves Black women's voices and experiences from the margins to the center of conversations about public health.

Explores the close relationship between comics and urbanism in one of Europe's most notable global cities.

Explores questions of death and mortality in several key texts of East Asian literature and cinema.

A veteran environmental lobbyist reveals the behind-the-scenes struggles to address threats to the future of New York's Adirondack Park.

Looks at how a group of aesthetically innovative independent films contested and imagined alternatives to urban planning in midcentury New York.

Examines representations of sexual violence in modern Hebrew literature, focusing on the ways in which sexual aggression relates to Zionism, gender, ethnicity, and disability.

Examines women’s food cooperatives and local dining venues on the Greek island of Lesvos and how tourism, gender, and sexualities inform the creation of these alternative economies.

Examines how race-neutral programs and policies harm, rather than improve, the lives of blacks in the United States.

The first exploration of vegan Irish epistemology, one that can be traced along its history of animism, agrarianism, ascendency, adaptation, and activism.

Examines policies, norms, and classroom practices of the US and Mexican education systems, with the aim of preparing educators to understand and help transnational children and youth.

A unique portrayal of the theoretical positions of eleven Italian women thinkers who share the practice of philosophy and extend philosophical work and interests beyond the realm of the discipline strictly defined.

Broadens the horizons of Strauss’s thought by initiating dialogues between him and figures with whom little or no dialogue has yet occurred.

A detailed study of the history of African Americans in a small upstate New York city from the days of the Underground Railroad to the deindustrialization of the 1980s.

Examines the thought of W. E. B. Du Bois, with attention to its potential for reorienting present-day critical theory and political philosophy.

Examines how Mexican Americans experienced “unofficial” Jim Crow inside and outside the American education system, and how they used the courts, Mexican Consul, and other resources to challenge that discrimination.

Covering rage and grief, as well as joy and fatigue, examines how Black Lives Matter activists, and the artists inspired by them, have mobilized for social justice.

Explores how nostalgia operates in contemporary US film and television.

Original and comprehensive examination of Chilean political and economic development since the end of the Pinochet military regime in 1990.

Discusses world literature and cinema from the perspective of literary languages and film traditions that do not hold a hegemonic position.

A close examination of the complexity inherent in Michael Jackson's ambiguous racial identity.

Examines emerging new materialist and posthuman conceptions of subjectivity and agency, and explores their increasing significance for contemporary climate change environmentalism.

Explores how suburban space and the body are racialized in American film.

A cross-case analysis of fifteen faith communities striving to care for the earth and live more sustainably.

An original and innovative exploration of Antigone, femininity, and love in various cosmological, philosophical, and theological contexts.

Traces the inner connections between the second slavery in the Americas, slavery in Africa, the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade, and the "Great Transformation" of the nineteenth century world economy.