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This book is concerned with how the extraordinary demography and proportions of migration and how global human mobility have shaped the city of Doha, and more broadly, shaped the urban landscapes characteristic of the Arabian Peninsula"--

An ethnography of fire dancers in Thailand's tourism industry that highlights how dancers employ affect to fulfill tourists' imaginaries and to negotiate the precarity and possibilities of touristic labor. Tracing affect through performance and everyday life, the book examines how dancers reimagine their labor and lives"--

In Schoolishness, Susan D. Blum continues her journey as an anthropologist and educator. The author defines "schoolishness" as educational practices that emphasize packaged "learning, " unimaginative teaching, uniformity, constant evaluation by others, arbitrary forms, predetermined time, and artificial boundaries, resulting in personal and educational alienation, dependence, and dread. Drawing on critical, progressive, and feminist pedagogy i...

Funk the Clock reveals how time is racialized, how race is temporalized, and how race, racialization, and racism condition the time perspectives of black youth in urbanized space."--

This book examines the role of note-taking in ancient education as a pedagogical method, by taking readers on a stimulating analysis of lectures by ancient philosophers that were recorded by their students"--

This collection is designed to highlight the significant international scope of Cornell University across its institutional history. Stories focus on the teaching, research, and outreach fostered by the university and highlight alumni and student experiences"--

This collection is designed to highlight the significant international scope of Cornell University across its institutional history. Stories focus on the teaching, research, and outreach fostered by the university and highlight alumni and student experiences"--

This book is about Presbyterian missionaries, other Americans with ideals, and their Iranian partners during the twentieth century. It analyzes the various ways in which their respective missions became manifest in Iran, particularly the national capital of Tehran, during the reign of the last Pahlavi shah"--

This edited volume brings together contributions across multiple disciplines, weaving broad theoretical and empirical insights from Mozambique to India, Indonesia, Ecuador, Tanzania, Liberia, Cambodia, Scotland, Canada, Transylvania, Brazil, and the colonial United States. The authors draw on original research to analyze the lived experiences of land dispossession and repossession"--

Drawing on the evocative stories of unemployed Americans from a wide range of occupations, from day laborers to corporate managers, both immigrant and native-born, Strauss shows that the standard cultural description of workaholics driven by a Puritan work ethic homogenizes diverse work motivations"--

An innovative approach to the history of Byzantine art that applies media theory to Byzantines' relationship to representations of their culture, faith, and history"-

Account of James H. Billington's influence on US policy toward Russia in 1987 to 2015 and of Library of Congress programs in Russia aimed at promoting reform based on the revival of traditional Russian culture combined with democratic reforms based on Western models. Draws lessons for future US policy in Eurasia"--

Seeks to understand the nature and global impact of the Chinese lending by looking at China's national policy banks -- the China Development Bank and the Export-Import Bank of China -- and the financial giants that capitalize China's overseas infrastructure and industrial projects"-

The book examines the discourse on attention emerging in the European Enlightenment (1650-1780) with a focus on German philosophy and literature. It argues that this discourse influenced the formation of aesthetic philosophy in the eighteenth century. Notable figures discussed include Renâe Descartes, G.W.F. Leibniz, Christian Wolff, and Alexander Baumgarten."--

This book is a history of the idea of human equality in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature and culture. Looking primarily at literary authors like Shakespeare and Milton and contexts including the English Revolution and colonization, it argues that theories of equality in this period focus on bodily attributes"--

Beginning with Anglo-Egyptian colonialism and ending with Barack Obama's presidency, Bounds of Blackness explores the history of Black America's engagements with modern Sudan."--

This book concerns women of color and queer of color artist-activists-"artivists"-whose work challenges discriminatory and oppressive US laws. Written by a law professor and art critic, the book examines how artivists critique, protest against, and create new interpretations of law through their direct action and their art"--

This book brings together twelve essays by senior historians who, after decades of study, reflect on the 'hows' and 'whys' of Stalinism as an authoritarian dictatorship determined to build a version of socialism in the Soviet Union at all costs"--

Peasant Politics of the Twenty-First Century analyzes the emergence and consolidation of dynamic transnational agrarian social movements that seek to remake rural society and the world's food and agriculture systems."--

Indirect rule has long characterized interstate relationships and remains a key mechanism of contemporary US foreign relations. In this book, David A. Lake examines when and why it is pursued over direct or domestic rule."--