The Great Lakes Basin is under severe ecological threat from fracking, bursting pipelines, sulfide mining, abandonment of government environmental regulation, invasive species, warming and lowering of the lakes, etc.
The city has historically been conceived as a project, with a sense of duty to be: it is the prefiguration of a reality that emerges from the negation of the pre-existing city.
From the pre-Islamic Jahilia, early modern Sikri and Florence, to postcolonial Bombay and Karachi, cities have played a pivotal role in Salman Rushdie's fiction.
Queer Intimacies and Cultural Dissent in Japanese Life: Quiet Subversion offers an intimate cartography of LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, and others) expression across contemporary Japan.
This comprehensive work decolonizes our understanding of Carolina's Indigenous People and presents the complete histories and cultures of the region's First Peoples.
Women, Peace and Security in Afghanistan analyses the opportunities and limitations of the WPS agenda in the context of the world's worst erasure of women's rights.
Women, Peace and Security in Afghanistan analyses the opportunities and limitations of the WPS agenda in the context of the world's worst erasure of women's rights.
Putting Women in their Place critically assesses the ways in which gender norms and gender hierarchy shape political decision-making, economic development, financial disparities, as well as violence and conflict.
Putting Women in their Place critically assesses the ways in which gender norms and gender hierarchy shape political decision-making, economic development, financial disparities, as well as violence and conflict.
Tuberculosis, once a leading cause of death in Europe and North America, was understood to be preventable and even curable by the early twentieth century.
From award-winning author Kathryn Nuernberger, Held is a collection of essays about mutualisms, mutual aid, and ways of being together in a time of climate crisis.
Mermaid Cove offers a stunning collection of multi-media mermaid art by Maurine Howard in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the "e;Yachty Gras,"e; the largest grand night boat parade held annually during Mardi Gras.