Society & culture: general books

Why the field of robotics tends to reinforce white patriarchal systems of power-and how roboticists can work to...  Read More >>

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Ministries of Song is a tour-de-force study of the power of women's ritual singing in late antique Syriac Christianity....  Read More >>

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing...  Read More >>

Grounded in extensive fieldwork and archival research, Echoes from the Sino-Burmese Borderlands explores the clandestine...  Read More >>

A Next Big Idea Club ""Must Read"" for December 2023 As all aspects of our social and informational lives increasingly...  Read More >>

The Live-Action Animated Film looks at the history of movies that combine live action with animation to hallucinogenic...  Read More >>

What does it mean to belong in a nation? All Work is Cultural Work examines how Haitian women living in diaspora...  Read More >>

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Techniques for parents to help challenging children with traumatic pasts—now updated and expanded.  Read More >>

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All the covers and development art from the earliest days of Mirage Studios in one archival collection with notes...  Read More >>

An essential critique of American Buddhism-11 Asian American women reclaim a vibrant feminist Dharma against whitewashing,...  Read More >>

The Reflective Age investigates the cultural and political context that led to the nostalgia boom in American media...  Read More >>

Unwelcome Shores is an ethnographic study of the Liberian refugee community in Staten Island, NY, that sheds light...  Read More >>

Diego Javier Luis tells the story of transpacific Asian movement to and through the Spanish Americas. On arrival...  Read More >>

Jay S. Kaufman offers a clear and accessible guide to understanding the use and abuse of statistics on racial and...  Read More >>

Now in a fully revised and updated third edition, The Paralympic Games Explained is the leading introduction to...  Read More >>

This groundbreaking book shows that women’s songs of the grind mill played a foundational role in the vernacular...  Read More >>

This groundbreaking book reimagines marginality as a transformative force, interweaving personal narratives with...  Read More >>

Richard D. Wolff masterfully explains why Karl Marx's analysis of class struggle is fundamental to a proper understanding...  Read More >>

Socialism is a yearning for justice, community, and the greater realisation of human potential. Cornel West calls...  Read More >>

'Why does capitalism fail us?' Richard D. Wolff walks readers through this pressing question in a brilliant takedown...  Read More >>

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This book offers a history of the most critically derided subgenre in American comics: the ""bad girl"" comics of...  Read More >>