An incisive analysis of contemporary crime film in Brazil, this book focuses on how movies in this genre represent masculinity and how their messages connect to twenty-first-century sociopolitical issues.

From roads to clean water systems, the built infrastructure sustaining urban populations is increasingly vulnerable to climate. Understanding the dilemma and identifying a path forward is particularly important as cities are significant agents of climate action.

A follow-up to the Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA), Climate Change and U.S. Cities documents the current and future climate risk for U.S. cities, urban systems, and their residents. It is an examination of research findings since early 2012, with a critical emphasis on the cross-cutting factors of economics, equity, and governance.

Urban stakeholders and decision makers will gain an understanding of climate risks and a set of conclusions and recommendations for action. Climate Change and U.S. Cities boldly lays out the tools that cities must harness to effect decisive, meaningful change.
 

Through the lens of literature and film for and about students, a critique of what neoliberalism unleashed in schools

The full story of an incredible collaboration among the Brubecks and Armstrong to create jazz’s most amazing musical

An exploration of the troublingly unfeminist roots of goddess characters in popular culture

The first collection of interviews with the horror film icon known for directing Re-Animator, From Beyond, and Dolls

How young adult stories interrogate and enrich our understandings of what disability means

How Hollywood adopted an antiwar attitude in response to the horrors of World War I

A critical exploration of fictional American cities in popular culture

The first collection of interviews with the innovative and critically acclaimed Choctaw writer who is known for her striking books, plays, and poetry depicting the Native American experience

Decolonizing contemporary jazz dance practice, this book examines the state of jazz dance theory, pedagogy, and choreography in the twenty-first century, recovering and affirming the lifeblood of jazz in Africanist aesthetics and Black American culture.

An environmental humanist’s study of extractive capitalism and colonial occupation in Indian fiction.

This comprehensive analysis of the legally complex relationship between religion and public schools will compel readers to reconsider the role of law in education.

Debt and Federalism is the first complete account of the Canadian federal bankruptcy and insolvency power, showing how four landmark cases form the bedrock of the modern bankruptcy system.

Essays by the foremost labor historian of the Black experience in the Appalachian coalfields.