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Biomimicry Revolution
Modernity is founded on the belief that the world we build is a human invention, not a part of nature. The ecological consequences of this idea have been catastrophic. We have laid …
In the Land of Tigers and Snakes
Animals play crucial roles in Buddhist thought and practice. However, many symbolically or culturally significant animals found in India, where Buddhism originated, do not inhabit …
American Poet Laureate
The American Poet Laureate shows how the state has been the silent center of poetic production in the United States since World War II. It is the first history of the national …
Feeling Memory
What did it feel like to be a child in France during World War II? Feeling Memory is an affective exploration of children's lives in wartime France and the ways they are …
Environmentally Sustainable Growth
How do we move away from the current environmentally destructive economic system toward one that is more sustainable while still ensuring continued economic growth? This book …
Inside Congressional Committees
It is widely believed that Congress has broken down. Media accounts present the storied legislature as thoroughly gridlocked, paralyzed by partisan rancor. Political scientists …
Labor of Reinvention
From start-up founders in the Chinese equivalent of Silicon Valley to rural villages experiencing an e-commerce boom to middle-class women reselling luxury goods, the rise of …
Hollis Frampton
Hollis Frampton was an American filmmaker, photographer, and theorist who bridged the experimental film and contemporary art worlds in the 1960s and 1970s. Best known for …
Seeing and Believing
Social media platforms are often denounced as "e;bubbles"e; or "e;echo chambers."e; In this view, what we see tends to reinforce what we already believe, and what …
Illicit Monogamy
Angel Park is a Mormon fundamentalist polygamous community where plural marriages between one man and multiple women are common. In contrast to mainstream America's idealization of …
Unsettling Exiles
The conventional story of Hong Kong celebrates the people who fled the mainland in the wake of the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949. In this telling, …
Crooked, but Never Common
In a burst of creativity unmatched in Hollywood history, Preston Sturges directed a string of all-time classic comedies from 1939 through 1948-The Great McGinty, The Lady Eve, …