Women are among the most prominent actors of social change and transformation and comprise the mainstay of the 'modernization project', one that raises societies to greater efficacy to the highest ...więcej »
Despite women's presence in migration streams since the mid-nineteenth century, research on Mexican women's migration has a significantly shorter history than that which focuses on Mexic...więcej »
Where are the women of India poised in their country's economy? Are they a part of its economic engine and prepared to reap its windfall? Pundits call India: 'the second largest emerging economy in...więcej »
Fans and critics alike perceive Wong Kar-wai (b. 1958) as an enigma. His dark glasses, his nonlinear narrations, and his high expectations for actors all contribute to an assumption that he only...więcej »
Word and Story has broken new ground by enlisting well-known scholars in the examination of Lewis's ideas about language and narrative, both as stated in theory and as exemplified in practice. Neve...więcej »
The durability of Japan's industrial products now holds world acclaim. But the durability of jobs in Japan—despite misleading Western images of lifetime employment—is no better than in other indust...więcej »
Winner of the Thomas McGann Award from the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies
Combining theories from the anthropology of consumption, cultural studies, and gender studies with the ...więcej »
Working with an inner child inside me was inspired by a book I had read two years earlier and then fell into my hands for the second time. It is a book by Joan Borisenko: Guilt is a teacher, love i...więcej »
Richard Methley (ca. 1450-1527/8), a Carthusian of Mount Grace, was the last great mystic before the English Reformation. Most of his prolific works are lost, but the treatises translated here d...więcej »
In this book, Kas Saghafi argues that the notion of "the end the world" in Derrida's late work is not a theological or cosmological matter, but a meditation on mourning and the death of the other. ...więcej »
Where exactly is innovation taking place? Relying on millions of patent and scientific publication records, the World Intellectual Property Report 2019 documents how the geography of innovation ...więcej »
World War I utterly transformed the lives of Jews around the world: it allowed them to display their patriotism, to dispel antisemitic myths about Jewish cowardice, and to fight for Jewish right...więcej »
Conceiving of Christianity as a -worldview- has been one of the most significant events in the church in the last 150 years. In this new book David Naugle provides the best discussion yet of the...więcej »
Worship in Ancient Israel is a history of worship in Israel, from the age of the patriarchs until the New Testament period. The author begins by discussing the faith of the patriarchs and the ways ...więcej »
It's not because you don't have a million Instagram followers. It's not because people aren't interested in what you have to say. You're missing out on prime-time media exposure because you don'...więcej »
In the aftermath of America's centennial celebrations of 1876, readers developed an appetite for chronicles of the nation's past. Born amid this national vogue, the field of American literary histo...więcej »
Using the influential and field-changing Writing Culture as a point of departure, the thirteen essays in Writing Culture and the Life of Anthropology address anthropology's past,...więcej »