Area Studies
Water and Power in Past Societies
Examines the many ways water has contributed to power structures in the past, with insights for contemporary water management.
Hearts and Minds
Uses Israel’s public diplomacy efforts during the second intifada (2000–2005) as a prime example of interactions between state security, diplomacy, and the media.
A Turbulent South Africa
Highlights the continuing social unrest and public protest occurring in South Africa’s poorest districts.
A Queer Way Out
Argues that queer Israeli emigrants engage in a deliberately unheroic form of resistance to Zionism.
A State Is Born
Comprehensive historical study of policy planning and implementation during the crucial formative years of the Israeli government system.
On Self-Translation
A fascinating collection of essays and conversations on the changing nature of language.
Phrase
The first complete English translation of Lacoue-Labarthe’s most innovative and original work, exploring the very origins of experience, language, desire, and mortality.
Cultural Journeys into the Arab World
A diverse collection of fiction and nonfiction literature from across the Arabic-speaking world.
Educational Oases in the Desert
A history of the French schools that pioneered female education in Ottoman Iraq's Jewish communities.
Adventures in Phenomenology
Repositions Bachelard as a critical and integral part of contemporary continental philosophy.
Affective Images
Explores intervisual case studies in relation to migration, xenophobia, and gender.
The Afterlife of al-Andalus
The first study to undertake a wide-ranging comparison of invocations of al-Andalus across the the Arab and Hispanic worlds.
Walāyah in the Fāṭimid Ismāʿīlī Tradition
Explores the relationship between revelation and reason in medieval Islamic intellectual history.
Ripping England!
Examines an all too often neglected period of postwar British cinema and popular culture.
Lessing and the Enlightenment
A comprehensive study of Lessing’s religious thought.
Complete Poetry of Osip Emilevich Mandelstam
Offers the complete body of work of one of the twentieth century's greatest Russian poets for the first time in English.
Viva Voce
Firsthand perspectives on the past, present, and future of contemporary Italian philosophy.
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe's Phrase
First sustained critical reading of Lacoue-Labarthe's Phrase, which provides insights into a philosophically inspired work of prose poetry.
Sovereign Jews
Offers a novel exploration of the relationship between religion and the state in Israel.
Beauty in Sufism
Analyzes the place of beauty in the Sufi understanding of God, the world, and the human being through the writings of Sufi scholar and saint Rūzbihān Baqlī.
The Truth of the Russian Revolution
An eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and its aftermath, newly translated into English.
East German Historians since Reunification
Surveys how reunification in 1990 impacted historical scholarship in the former East Germany.
Beasts of Burden
Uses literature, art, and cultural texts from the British Romantic period to explore the age in which biological life and its abilities first became regulated by the rising nation.
Report on the Aeginetan Sculptures
Tells the story of Bavaria’s acquisition of ancient Greek sculptures that rivaled those acquired by England from the Parthenon.
Cleansing the Temple: Dante, Defender of the Church
Dante as protector and purifier of the Church.