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Terms of Exchange - In a nutshell

Terms of Exchange is about Brazilian and French intellectuals and the dialogues between them that were foundational to the emergence of the modern social sciences. The book examines the interactions...

Ian Merkel

Autopsy of a Crime Lab - In a nutshell

“That’s not my fingerprint, your honor,” said the defendant, after FBI experts reported a “100-percent identification.”They were wrong.The judge sided with the FBI and ordered the defendant, Brandon Mayfield detained...

Garrett L. Brandon

Colonization - In a nutshell

This book corrects a Eurocentric picture of International Relations (IR) that has dominated the study of international relations over the past decades, and especially the statistical study of IR. If...

Ryan D. Griffiths

The Disunited States - In a nutshell

The book is about secession in America. There is a growing interest in secession, or what some refer to as a national divorce between Red and Blue America. There is...

Ryan D. Griffiths

Wonder Confronts Certainty - In a nutshell

Wonder Confronts Certainty introduces readers to the especially intense Russian debates, over the past two centuries, on the ultimate questions of life. As Virginia Woolf and others noted when the...

Gary Saul Morson

The Idealized Mind - A close-up

All computational models of the brain and cognitive activity produced so far are either idealizations, making the models hypothetical, or approximations, making the models inexact descriptions of their target phenomena,...

Michael D. Kirchhoff

The Frankfurt School in Exile - In a nutshell

My book aims to challenge what I consider to be some pervasive views about the Frankfurt School during its period of exile in the United States and to re-evaluate the...

Thomas Wheatland

The Two Faces of the Euro Coins

After European leaders agreed to create the European Monetary Union (EMU) in the late 1990s, the European Council in Brussels established a competition among graphic artists to design the new...

Mabel Berezin

Human Trafficking - A close-up

Pages 112-138 are on the business of human trafficking.Organized crime, like all businesses is focused on making a profit, ensuring supply, and meeting demand. What sets an organized crime business...

Louise Shelley

The Art and Craft of International Environmental Law - In a nutshell

How and why do international environmental norms arise? In what ways do they affect behavior? Do they change what states and individuals actually do, and, if so, why? How effective...

Daniel Bodansky

The Fall of the Wild - The wide angle

For a long time, the field of environmental ethics has been dominated by non-anthropocentrism, i.e., the belief that nature has intrinsic value and that we have powerful duties to promote...

Ben A. Minteer

Just around Midnight - In a nutshell

Just around Midnight is about the entanglements of popular music and racial thought during the 1960s, and particularly the question of how rock and roll music “became white.” By the...

Jack Hamilton

A Most Enterprising Country - In a nutshell

A Most Enterprising Country asks why North Korea still exists, and locates the country’s survival in its economy’s interconnectedness with the global economy. It argues, while overall, North Korea remains...

Justin V. Hastings

The Muslim Brotherhood and the West - The wide angle

In examining the evolving relationship between the West and the Brotherhood from the perspective of both sides, I was conscious of the fact that my subject did not fit easily...

Martyn Frampton

Foretelling the End of Capitalism - The wide angle

Foretelling the End of Capitalism looks back into the past to answer key questions for our time. But this has nothing to do with the uses of the past one...

Francesco Boldizzoni

Masters of Craft - A close-up

If a reader were to casually pick up the book, I would hope they would flip to Chapter 7, which is called “Service Teaching.” This chapter focuses on the three...

Richard E. Ocejo

Cultivating the Masses - The wide angle

The Russian Revolution seemed to promise human liberation and equality. But instead it produced a Stalinist dictatorship, with extreme interventionism and unprecedented state violence. Why did a government purportedly dedicated...

David L. Hoffmann

Painted Palaces - In a nutshell

Painted Palaces is essentially an argument against a tenacious idea in art history – that one day around 1500, artists woke up, threw off the oppression of religion, and invented...

Anne Dunlop

Peace on Our Terms - In a nutshell

Peace on Our Terms recounts the dramatic story of female activism around the world during a single, remarkable year in history, 1919, when the bloodshed of World War I finally...

Mona L. Siegel

The Language of the Heart - A close-up

I’ve got two of these. The first is on pages 16-17, where I talk about what this book is not. Unlike most of the writings on the topic, The Language...

Trysh Travis

Crime and Punishment in the Russian Revolution - In a nutshell

The story of the Russian Revolution has more often been told from the perspective of the active participants in the revolution, whether they were the leaders of political groups or...

Tsuyoshi Hasegawa

Hot Stuff - The wide angle

Like my biography of Janis Joplin, Hot Stuff is meant to engage both scholars and interested readers outside the academy. This is my second book to wrestle with the popular...

Alice Echols

Kissing Architecture - In a nutshell

This book is about image-architecture and the surprising apperceptive shifts that take place when today’s culture of ephemeral images and the stolid material traditions of architecture choose to embrace.Could you...

Sylvia Lavin

How We Became Sensorimotor - A close-up

What I have written so far might potentially seem incongruous or over-ambitious. How can a book like this do justice to the scientific material, yet also say something about the...

Mark Paterson

Crises and Opportunities - In a nutshell

As the world’s political and economic leaders struggle with the aftermath of the financial debacle of 2008, this book asks: Have financial crises presented opportunities to rebuild the financial systems?Given...

Youssef Cassis

Inventing the Enemy - The wide angle

Inventing the Enemy grew out of my previous book, Terror and Democracy in the Age of Stalin, which described the impact of the terror on the unions, workers, and industry....

Wendy Z. Goldman

The Rule of Logistics - The wide angle

This book looks at some of the technologies, infrastructure, and habits of mind that underpin American consumer society. It makes connections between our buying habits and the kinds of spaces...

Jesse LeCavalier

Indoor America - In a nutshell

There is no question that suburbs are one of the defining features of the U.S. urban landscape, as well as the place where most Americans have spent their lives since...

Andrea Vesentini

The Once and Future New York - The wide angle

We relate to the past (partly) through things. People and societies keep and create attachments to the past by keeping, collecting, preserving, recreating and otherwise interpreting a whole range of...

Randall Mason

The Future of Change - In a nutshell

The Future of Change uncovers the relationships between advances in communications technologies and the rise and success of some of the iconic social movements over the course of American history.Advances...

Ray Brescia

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