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Taking it Big: C. Wright Mills and the Making of Political Intellectuals

by Stanley Aronowitz

Charles Wright Mills (1916–1962) was a pathbreaking intellectual who transformed the independent American left in the 1940s and 1950s. Often challenging the established ideologies and approaches of fellow leftist...


Geisha, Harlot, Strangler, Star: A Woman, Sex, and Morality in Modern Japan

by William Johnston

In 1936, Abe Sada committed the most notorious crime in twentieth-century Japan -- the murder and emasculation of her lover. This detailed account of Sada's personal history, the events leading up to the crime,...


Applying Nature's Design: Corridors as a Strategy for Biodiversity Conservation

by Anthony B. B. Anderson & Clinton N. N. Jenkins

To address the problem of fragmenting habitats and ecosystems, conservationists have increasingly turned to biological corridors, areas of land set aside to facilitate the movement of species and ecological...


New Age and Neopagan Religions in America

by Sarah M. M. Pike

From Shirley MacLaine’s spiritual biography Out on a Limb to the teenage witches in the film The Craft, New Age and Neopagan beliefs have made sensationalistic headlines. In the mid- to late 1990s, several...


Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies

by Robert O'Meally, Brent Edwards & Farah Griffin

Uptown Conversation asserts that jazz is not only a music to define, it is a culture.Original essays cover jazz historiography, the political stakes of telling the story of the music, and its cultural import,...


The Cult of the Fox: Power, Gender, and Popular Religion in Late Imperial and Modern China

by Xiaofei Kang

For more than five centuries the shamanistic fox cult has attracted large portions of the Chinese population and appealed to a wide range of social classes. Deemed illicit by imperial rulers and clerics and...


Modernism and the Architecture of Private Life

by Victoria Rosner

Modernism and the Architecture of Private Life offers a bold new assessment of the role of the domestic sphere in modernist literature, architecture, and design. Elegantly synthesizing modernist literature with...


Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan...and Beyond: A Revised and Expanded Edition of the Classic Text

by Robin Wood

This classic of film criticism, long considered invaluable for its eloquent study of a problematic period in film history, is now substantially updated and revised by the author to include chapters beyond the...


Error and the Academic Self: The Scholarly Imagination, Medieval to Modern

by Seth Lerer

Examining figures from Thomas More to Stephen Greenblatt, from George Hickes to Seamus Heaney, from George Eliot to Paul de Man, this book illuminates the wanderings of exiles, émigrés, dissenters, and...


Art Therapy and Eating Disorders: The Self as Significant Form

by Mury Rabin

A step-by-step approach to a unique art therapy technique (known as Phenomenal and Nonphenomenal Body Image Tasks, or "PNBIT") used to treat individuals with eating disorders. It focuses upon the individual's...


Literary Culture in Taiwan: Martial Law to Market Law

by Sung-sheng Chang

Contemporary Taiwanese literature has often been neglected and misrepresented by literary historians both inside and outside of Taiwan. Chang provides a comprehensive and fluent history of late twentieth-century...


Iraq Between the Two World Wars: The Militarist Origins of Tyranny

by Reeva Spector Spector Simon

Why did a group from the Iraqi army seize control of the government and wage a disastrous war against Great Britain, rejecting British and liberal values for those of a militaristic Germany? What impact did...


The Ties That Divide: Ethnic Politics, Foreign Policy, and International Conflict

by Stephen Saideman

While scholars and policymakers have devoted considerable attention to the issue of ethnic conflicts, the question of why states take sides in other countries' ethnic conflicts has largely been ignored. Saideman...


Trekking Through History: The Huaorani of Amazonian Ecuador

by Laura M. M. Rival

The Huaorani of Ecuador lived as hunters and gatherers in the Amazonian rainforest for hundred of years, largely undisturbed by western civilization. Since their first encounter with North American missionaries...


Sound Technology and the American Cinema: Perception, Representation, Modernity

by James Lastra

Representational technologies including photography, phonography, and the cinema have helped define modernity itself. Since the nineteenth century, these technologies have challenged our trust of sensory perception,...


Modernity and Culture from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, 1890--1920

by Leila Fawaz, C. A. A. Bayly & Robert Ilbert

Between the 1890s and 1920s, cities in the vast region stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean were experiencing political, social, economic, and cultural changes that had been set in motion...


New Frontiers for Youth Development in the Twenty-First Century: Revitalizing and Broadening Youth Development

by Melvin Delgado

Policy makers and care providers in the field of youth development have begun to expand this field with the intention of utilizing community and youth assets as an organizing paradigm. Delgado provides a comprehensive...


The Columbia Guide to South African Literature in English Since 1945

by Gareth Cornwell, Dirk Klopper & Craig Mackenzie

From the outset, South Africa's history has been marked by division and conflict along racial and ethnic lines. From 1948 until 1994, this division was formalized in the National Party's policy of apartheid....


Women and the U.S. Constitution: History, Interpretation, and Practice

by Sibyl A. A. Schwarzenbach & Patricia Smith

Women and the U.S. Constitution is about much more than the nineteenth amendment. This provocative volume incorporates law, history, political theory, and philosophy to analyze the U.S. Constitution as a whole...


The End of the Soul: Scientific Modernity, Atheism, and Anthropology in France

by Jennifer Hecht

On October 19, 1876 a group of leading French citizens, both men and women included, joined together to form an unusual group, The Society of Mutual Autopsy, with the aim of proving that souls do not exist....