College Belonging reveals how colleges’ and universities’ efforts to foster a sense of belonging in their students are misguided. Colleges bombard new students with the message to “get out there!” and “find your place” by joining student organizations, sports teams, clubs and the like. Nunn shows that this reflects a flawed understanding of what belonging is and how it works. 

An Organ of Murder explores the origins of both popular and elite theories of criminality in the nineteenth-century United States. This work traces the long-lasting influence of phrenological visual culture and language in America, as well as the practical uses of phrenology in courts, prisons, and daily life.

This book is an in-depth analysis of the debates surrounding Taíno/Boricua activism in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean diaspora in New York City. Drawing on in-depth ethnographic research, media analysis, and historical documents, the book explores the varied experiences and motivations of Taíno/Boricua activists claiming what is commonly thought to be an extinct ethnic category.
 

Unforgettable photographs from flash points of the civil rights struggle

The history of a small but mighty publisher in the vanguard of the small press revolution

Originally published in 1995, soon after Death Valley National Park became the fifty-third park in the US park system, The Explorer’s Guide to Death Valley National Park was the first complete guidebook available for this spectacular area.

Writing Their Bodies analyzes pedagogical philosophies and curricular materials through the perspective of written and visual student texts created during the school’s first three-year term.

Humorous and wry stories of misfits and ordinary people in an Appalachian community struggling creatively to make sense of an often nonsensical world.

This particular volume focuses on the evolution of compassion and tries to bring together two of the most contested subjects in academia.

The long-awaited final volume of the series dedicated to collecting tales from the Russian Grimm

Reassessing the Cambodian genocide through the lens of global capitalist development.

A thorough engagement with the literary, spiritual, and intellectual underpinnings of a great comics creator

This particular volume focuses on the emergence of the major religions in human societies and explores how these religions agree that compassion is among the highest of human virtues.

How a creator transformed the hero and forever forged a brooding bond between philosophy and comics

The first thorough exploration of the innovative, flute-driven Cuban dance music of New York, charanga

Exporting Virtue? critically explores the ways in which China is attempting to change international human rights standards to accommodate its interests.

Ancient Households on the North Coast of Peru provides insight into the organization of complex, urban, and state-level society in the region from a household perspective, using observations from diverse north coast households to generate new understandings of broader social processes in and beyond Andean prehistory.
 

A gently humorous, illustrated picture book for ages 5+ telling the story of a nervous knight's anxiety and how they learn to overcome it.

An activity-based reflective journal to build self-care into your daily life.