A survey of the Muslim, Jewish, and Christian debates and mystical discussions about Muhammad’s heavenly journey that took place in early medieval Spain.

Three generations of famous movie soundtrack composers reveal the secrets of their art and success.

Details the Belt and Road global infrastructure development initiative as the most important instrument for China’s leadership under Xi Jinping to create an alternative global economic and geopolitical order to challenge the United States.

Includes 22 new settings of period tunes, and examines the expressive culture of the largest antebellum tenant farmer protest from its origin to its 21st-century reverberations.

Thought-provoking, comprehensive, and interdisciplinary conversations on Sufism with one of the world’s foremost scholars of Islamic, religion, and comparative studies.

The first book-length study to address the impact of the legacies of slavery on Spanish cultural representations and institutions.

A fascinating story of how three musicians, who escaped the Nazis, inspired Iceland’s modern classical music.

Considers how sign-reading fit into broader understandings of the human and cosmic worlds in Han times.

Uncovers the significant social, literary, and political contributions of thirty-one notable women of Oswego County, New York.

An in-depth analysis of the primary conflicts animating the contemporary struggle over the regional order of the Middle East.

Nineteen Black women in political science share their personal and professional journeys, shedding light on the state of the discipline—and how it needs to change.

Thinks with a range of extraordinary Jewish women about how to live vibrant lives and resist the settler colonialism at the heart of the modern project of freedom.

Offers a fresh look at American and Italian cinema in the postwar period.

Original essays on Hans-Georg Gadamer's hermeneutical aesthetics and philosophy of art, written by some of the most important authors in this field, disclosing the possibility of a renewed understanding of Gadamer's thinking in the context of current aesthetic debates.

The first book-length account of Brazilian science fiction cinema.

Letters written by Leslie Fiedler to his wife Margaret from May 1944 to December 1945 while he was stationed in Hawaiʻi and various parts of the Pacific Theater as an intelligence officer during World War II.

Explores how four public intellectuals in North India imagined freedom and Hindi-Hindu nationhood through their writings on caste, Ayurveda, travel, and communism.

A vivid, firsthand account of life as a Buddhist nun, by the most respected female Zen master in Korea.

An engaging analysis of the catastrophic ways capital perverts market dynamics by a leading scholar of Deleuze.

A paradigm-breaking exploration of how collective intelligence functions in groups, with practical guidelines for teachers.

Explores experimental cinema and alternative film formats from across the Luso-Hispanic Atlantic, from the 1960s to the present.

Offers coverage of Israeli politics and government using an institutional and behavioral perspective, covering the context for the operation of politics, the machinery of government, and the foreign policy setting within which the government operates.

Examines how contemporary novels document and define social problems using a variety of narrative techniques to focus attention on systemic failure.

A series of fascinating and groundbreaking meditations on six films directed by the legendary Alfred Hitchcock.

Unveils the profound influence of medieval Islamic philosophy on the thought of Leo Strauss.