Crows can be found almost everywhere that people are,..

Chinese culture and the chile pepper have been intertwined for centuries. Yet, this was not always the case...

The relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia is a critical feature of the modern international system...

The relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia is a critical feature of the modern international system...

Capitalism seems to many to be in a sort of constant crisis, leaving many struggling to make ends meet...

Heine gives us a comprehensive introduction to this essential Zen text, offering a textual, historical, literary, and philosophical examination of Dōgen’s treatise...

Thai chronicles the vicissitudes of smuggling in modern China—its practice, suppression, and significance—to demonstrate the intimate link between illicit coastal trade and the amplification of state power...

The American attitude towards outsiders has always been ambivalent....

Beginning in the 1950s, a group of academics, businesspeople, and politicians set out on an ambitious project to remake North Carolina’s low-wage economy...

Desai offers an alternative history of East Africa in the Indian Ocean world...

Lean offers a new understanding of industrialization, going beyond material factors to show the central role of culture and knowledge production in technological and industrial change....

Bronkhorst makes the case through an extensive introduction and select translations of important Indian texts that language has a crucial role in Indian thought...

How did Buddhist women access religious experience and transcendence in a Confucian patriarchal system in imperial China?

What do psychoanalysts do with bodies, and what do they do with them now?

How are we going to address inequality and put the economy on a sounder footing?

Arjomand provides a startling account of the many intersections between theatre and trials in Germany and the United States from the 1930s to the 1960s...

Glotzer examines the history surrounding how modern housing segregation was purposefully planned out beginning at the turn of the 20th Century...

Siegel explores the previously neglected history of a diverse group of women from around the world who fought for women’s rights as male politicians forged a new world order...

Oualdi explores the life and afterlife of one figure, the manumitted slave and Tunisian dignitary Husayn Ibn ‘Abdallah...

In his classic essay on the fear of breakdown, Donald Winnicott famously conveys to a patient that the disaster powerfully feared has, in fact, already happened...

How are we to conceive of acts that suddenly expose the injustice of the current order?

The authors show that when steps are taken to reduce the hold of inequitable laws, customs, and practices, outcomes for all improve....

McGowan combines sophisticated discussion of matters like the limits of formal logic and the history of German Idealism with playful allusions to Star Trek characters and classic films like Casablanca and Bridge on the River Kwai...

Palmer argues that understanding the motivations and experiences of those who have been featured in news stories – voluntarily or not – sheds new light on the practice of journalism and the importance many continue to place on the role of the mainstream media...

Jenkins engages readers in readers in a ethnography where she spent years observing and interviewing American, international, and osteopathic medical residents in two hospitals...