Gorgeously illustrated, Open Letters uses picture postcards to explore aspects of Russian popular culture in the fin-de-siècle era.

Technologies of the New Real explores the human impact of technology in the twenty-first century.

Decoding CEO-Speak monitors the written and oral language of CEOs to reveal its manipulative, enlightening, frustrating, inspiring, and disturbing characteristics.

Narratology in Practice draws on various cultural domains to explain the ways in which theory illuminates the presence of narrative.

In the face of contemporary controversies, Dilemmas of Free Expression presents nuanced and trenchant analyses on recent controversies, judicial decisions, and policies implicating free expression.

Reconstructing the philosophy of T.W. Adorno, this book offers a critical theory of the human/animal distinction and its relation to politics.

This fascinating collection explores America’s appropriations and fabrications of the Middle Ages, revealing the nation’s complicated love affair with a past it never had, but has created from history and imagination.

Digital Playgrounds makes the argument that online games play a uniquely meaningful role in children’s lives, with profound implications for children’s culture, agency, and rights in the digital era.

In this history of prison reform in mid-twentieth-century Canada, the voices of prisoners help to provide a nuanced understanding of prisoners as active agents of change.

Refugee States explores how the figure of the refugee and the concept of refuge shape the Canadian nation-state within a transnational context.

Fashioning Spanish Cinema provides a critical examination of the intersections between fashion, costume design, and Spanish cinema.

This book provides a material and social history of the art of Giuseppe Penone, a leading protagonist of Arte Povera, whose work explores the interconnectedness of humans and the phenomenal world.

Exploring online privacy, cyber-nationalism, and the network market, this book details the crucial and evolving role played by the Internet in present-day China.

You don’t know his name, but Boris Akunin is one of the most popular and prolific Russian writers of the twenty-first century.

Languages of Trauma explores how, and for what purposes, trauma is expressed in historical sources and visual media.

The Chronology of Revolution is a fresh, outward-facing history of the Communist Party of Great Britain with a compelling lesson for today’s socialist activists.