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Chinese Rebel beyond the Great Wall
A striking first-person account of the Cultural Revolution in Inner Mongolia, embedded in a close examination of the historical evidence on China's minority nationality policies to …
Mozart the Performer
An innovative study of the ways performance influenced Mozart's compositional style. We know Mozart as one of history s greatest composers. But his contemporaries revered him as a …
New Earth Histories
A kaleidoscopic rethinking of how we come to know the earth. This book brings the history of the geosciences and world cosmologies together, exploring many traditions, including …
Don't Forget to Live
The esteemed French philosopher Pierre Hadot's final work, now available in English.With a foreword by Arnold I. Davidson and Daniele Lorenzini. In his final book, renowned …
Thinking with Sound
Thinking with Sound traces the formation of auditory knowledge in the sciences and humanities in the decades around 1900. When the outside world is silent, all sorts of sounds …
Nietzsche's Kind of Philosophy
A holistic reading of Nietzsche's distinctive thought beyond the "e;death of God."e;In Nietzsche s Kind of Philosophy, Richard Schacht provides a holistic interpretation of …
Slandering the Sacred
A history of global secularism and political feeling through colonial blasphemy law. Why is religion today so often associated with giving and taking offense? To answer this …
Sense of Urgency
A study of how the climate crisis is changing human communication from a celebrated rhetorician. Why is it difficult to talk about climate change? Debra Hawhee argues that …
Race, Rights, and Rifles
An eye-opening examination of the ties between American gun culture and white male supremacy from the American Revolution to today.One-third of American adults approximately 86 …
Fragments of a World
The first modern biography of medieval French scholar and bishop William of Auvergne. Today, William of Auvergne (1180? 1249) is remembered for his scholarship about the afterlife …
Reforming the Reform
An expansive study of the problems encountered by educational leaders in pursuit of reform, and how these issues cyclically translate into future topics of reform.School reform is …