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An abridged and translated version of Lineas de fuga. Ciudadania, frontera y sujeto migrante, first published in Spanish in 2021. Lines of Flight: Citizenship, Borders, and Migrant Subjectivity offers an incisive, comprehensive, and multidisciplinary approach to the constellation of real-world and philosophical issues related to borders and migration in our global ...

One of the longest rivers in the world, the Nile played a critical role in the development of ancient Egypt. For millennia, much of the region’s food has been cultivated in the Nile delta region, with its rich, nutrient-dense soil. Innovative irrigation methods developed by ancient Egyptians increased the ...

Hotel Guaraní considers how Brazilian economic and cultural norms shaped Paraguayan consumer culture in the middle decades of the twentieth century, studying the period that Alfredo Stroessner ruled Paraguay as a dictator (1954–1989). Bridget María Chesterton illustrates how, in the wake of new infrastructural links, Paraguay embraced a Brazilian model ...

Over three decades, Daniel Sarewitz’s research and writings at the intersection of science, technology, society, policy, and politics have shaped the views of countless scholars and policy makers. In How Good Is Science?, he confronts the complex, often uncomfortable tensions between science, society, and politics in a world increasingly ...

Empires’ Echo tells the story of Puerto Rico through the systems that have connected, controlled, and shaped the island for centuries. From carved wooden saints and oral traditions to newspapers, radio, television, and digital platforms, the book traces how communication has organized everyday life. It shows how Spanish and US ...

The nineteenth century was a period of science and imagery: when scientific theories and discoveries challenged longstanding boundaries between animal, plant, and human, and when art and visual culture produced new notions about the place of the human in the natural world. Just as scientists relied on graphic representation to ...

Co-Winner, 2025 CCCC Outstanding Book Award Claims that students are too sensitive are familiar on and around college campuses. The ideas of cancel culture, safe spaces, and political correctness are used to shut down discussion and prevent students from being recognized as stakeholders in higher education and as advocates for their ...

In The Globalization of Wheat, Marci R. Baranski explores Norman Borlaug’s complicated legacy as godfather of the Green Revolution. Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his role in fighting global hunger, Borlaug was an American agricultural scientist and plant breeder who worked for the Rockefeller Foundation and ...

The 500 letters in this sixteenth volume of The Correspondence of John Tyndall document the period from January 1, 1878, to December 31, 1881. They chart a defining stage in the later life and career of an aging John Tyndall with unprecedented detail. Key developments evidence the fragility of a self-fashioned Carlylean hero, one whose ...

For half a century, people from Hawai’i have called Las Vegas “The Ninth Island.” First the product of relentless advertising from casinos and airlines, now a strange truth as so many have left the islands to make lives in the desert. The Ninth Island follows Yim’s family and ...

For centuries, scientists have looked to nature for models when inventing new technologies. From Bionics to Biohybridsshows how ideas drawn from biology have inspired new ways of making and thinking—from robots modeled on living organisms to materials that mimic natural processes. Through vivid examples from the twentieth and twenty-first ...

Colby Cotton’s debut chronicles the aftermath of a childhood friend who dies by suicide and the community left in its wake. In dreamlike landscapes, Cotton estranges settings as varied as fields, rose gardens, snowy observatories, and a long line to enter the afterlife in poems that blur the boundary ...

Revolutionary technologies—from nuclear weapons to biotechnology and artificial intelligence—have transformed not only economies but also the foundations of global politics. Revolutionary Technologies and Global Governance offers the first systematic and comparative study of how such disruptive innovations generate international conflict and cooperation. Drawing on over two decades of ...

The poems in Oksana Maksymchuk’s new collection explore how different forms of desire are thwarted by proximity to violence and catastrophe, and how they are intensified and enhanced by liminality and mortality. Can love reclaim the territory consumed by war? What does it mean to share in the suffering ...

Minnesota’s Twin Cities have long been powerful engines of change. From their origins in the early nineteenth century, the Twin Cities helped drive the dispossession of the region’s Native American peoples, turned their riverfronts into bustling industrial and commercial centers, spread streets and homes outward to the horizon, ...