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The Formation of Biblical Texts
Questions concerning the composition and formation of biblical texts have dominated many of the current discussions in biblical studies, especially relating to the relationship …
Never Ending
A new history of postwar painting that explores how the desire to look backward shaped some of the period’s most radical artmaking This incisive account of modernism’s postwar …
Making Value
In Making Value, Timothy D. Taylor examines how people’s conceptions of value inform and shape their production and consumption of music. Drawing on anthropological value theory, …
Rich World, Poor World
A landmark history of the world economic order, exploring how developing countries have fought to escape impoverishment Over the past two decades, experiments in neoliberal …
Taking Privacy Seriously
Other books remind us of what we already know—that privacy is under great pressure. James Rule provides a step-by-step plan to create a significantly more private and authentically …
Crip Spacetime
In Crip Spacetime, Margaret Price intervenes in the competitive, productivity-focused realm of academia by sharing the everyday experiences of disabled academics. Drawing on more …
Pakistan and American Diplomacy
Pakistan and American Diplomacy offers an insightful, fast-moving tour through Pakistan-U.S. relations, from 9/11 to the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, as told from the …
Incommunicable
In Incommunicable, Charles L. Briggs examines the long-standing presumptions that medical discourse translates easily across geographic, racial, and class boundaries. Bringing …
Green Theology
The contributors to this volume offer an in-depth examination of Muslim and Christian theological treatments of environmental and ecological concerns. The volume brings together a …
The Jerusalem Temple and the Temple Mount
The Temple eclipsed in its splendor and importance all other institutions of the Jews, both in the Land of Israel and in the Diaspora. It was the center of religious and national …
The Herbal Year
An enchanting, beautifully illustrated guide to seasonal plants—showing the long history of herbal remedies and their uses today “[A] charming almanac. . . . Hart-Davies, a writer …
Bluecoated Terror
A searing chronicle of how racist violence became an ingrained facet of law enforcement in the United States. Too often, scholars and pundits argue either that police violence …