Innovative analysis of the relationship of gender to East Asian economic development.

Examines the relationship of precarious employment to state policies on citizenship and social inclusion in the context of postapartheid South Africa.

An authoritative and comprehensive guide to cinema’s first true blockbuster.

Showcases the latest developments in literary Darwinism, a powerful approach that integrates evolutionary social science with literary humanism.

Uses the interdisciplinary approach of evolutionary economics to explore the history of land domestication in the United States.

Offers a constructive new approach to the debate between hermeneutics and deconstruction.

A cookbook for—and by—fans of the rock band Phish.

Groundbreaking essays by Palestinian women scholars on the lives of Palestinians within the state of Israel.

A guided tour of the cuisine, culture, and rich culinary history of the Campania region of Italy.

A multilayered portrait of this brash, gifted artist, whose restless voice and spirit seem as alive today as ever.

Examines the project of Filipino self-determination in the context of capitalist globalization.

Examines how Israeli society has commemorated Yitzhak Rabin.

Presents a new genealogy and synoptic overview of modern Irish fiction.

Examines the relationship of Spain’s 1960s tourist boom to Franco’s right-wing dictatorship.

Examines the recent “War on Terror” and the increasing privatization of international policing through the lens of detective fiction and security and espionage narratives.

A look at the Latino experience in the American South using data from Richmond, Virginia.

Looks at China’s Ginling College, the women’s missionary institution of higher learning that developed a discourse of family, recasting the Chinese Confucian family ideal as a female and Christian one.

Advocating a global as opposed to a Eurocentric perspective in the college classroom, discusses why and how to teach about China's Silk Road.

Tales of the sometimes rich, sometimes famous, but always quirky residents of one of America’s best-known summer colonies, as told by the editor and publisher of Dan’s Papers, the area’s free weekly newspaper.

A survey of current critical perspectives on how North American indigenous peoples are viewed and represented transnationally.

The first collection of essays devoted to the phenomenon of the film sequel.

Explores a range of Buddhist perspectives in a distinctly American context.

Explores the ways that immigrant youth identities are shaped by dominant discourses.

First book to study rape and sexual abuse of Vietnamese women by U. S. soldiers during the Vietnam War.

A startling reading of the educational enterprise through a psychoanalytic lens.