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How Girls Achieve points out a simple and overlooked truth: most schools never had girls in mind to begin with. That is why the world needs...
How do individuals seek to become better persons in contemporary China? How do they navigate the complex demands of personal growth given th...
Shows how apocalypticism helped drive anti-slavery abolitionism and inspire progressive social reform in nineteenth-century America In March...
Sociology of Gender in India brings together feminist and queer scholarship to chart the changing landscape of gender debates in Indian soci...
With his riveting chronicle of the New York Mets baseball team, AM Gittlitz is emerging as a rising star in the field of popular social hist...
This timely and original book challenges readers to see themselves not just as implementers, but as architects capable of reshaping learning...
During the eventful summer of 2019 in Hong Kong, the Be Water Revolution formed to resist the proposed extradition of fugitives to mainland...
What would a postcarbon future look like? What would it take to build and maintain a more just, regenerative world? How would it feel to liv...
In Hollywood today, thousands of data specialists work for streaming video platforms, playing a role not just in distribution and marketing...
Diseases Have No Eyes: Valley Fever and Environmental Health Justice (Temple University Press, 2026) investigates how communities in Central...
Why do people read? In The Love of Books: Attachment to a Changing Cultural Object (Manchester University Press, 2026) María Angélica Thumal...
Unwelcome Shores: Black Refugees in America (Rutgers University Press, 2025) is an ethnographic study of the Liberian refugee community in S...
In our recent conversation about Protecting Workers? Crisis, COVID-19 and South Asia, the editors Kanchana N. Ruwanpura and Wilfried Swenden...
Our recent conversation about Occupying the Everyday: Militarisation and Gendered Politics of Living in Kashmir (Oxford UP, 2026), with auth...
Scattered Steel: The Afterlife of the World Trade Center (Cornell UP, 2026) traces the extraordinary journey of the twisted remnants of the...
Nineteenth-century Germany invented the way we eat. Women experimenting in households, French chefs fleeing guillotines, and one of the most...
Americans are more isolated, polarized, and depressed than ever in recent memory, and yet many citizens share a deep desire for community an...
Ganja is the popular name in Hindustani, Bengali, and other South Asian languages for intoxicating substances produced from the plant specie...
Fort Bend County, Texas, looks like the America we claim to want: a suburb where Black, White, Asian, and Latinx families share cul-de-sacs,...
A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, who eventually taught at the University of California at Berkeley, Eric Hoffer wrote ph...