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Thai Stick: Surfers, Scammers, and the Untold Story of the Marijuana Trade
Thai Stick: Surfers, Scammers, and the Untold Story of the Marijuana Trade

Located on the left bank of the Chao Phya River, Thailand's capital, Krungthep, known as Bangkok to Westerners and "the City of Angels" to Thais, has been home to smugglers and adventurers since the late eighteenth century. During the 1970s, it became a modern Casablanca to a new generation of treasure seekers, from surfers...

Epistenology: Wine as Experience (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History)
Epistenology: Wine as Experience (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History)
We think we know how to appreciate wine?trained connoisseurs take dainty sips in sterile rooms and provide ratings based on objective knowledge and technical expertise. In Epistenology, Nicola Perullo vigorously challenges this approach, arguing that it is the enjoyment of drinking wine as an active and participatory experience...
Hermeneutics as Critique: Science, Politics, Race, and Culture (New Directions in Critical Theory, 72)
Hermeneutics as Critique: Science, Politics, Race, and Culture (New Directions in Critical Theory, 72)
Hermeneutics has frequently been dismissed as useful only for literary and textual analysis. Some consider it to be Eurocentric or inherently relativistic and thus unsuited to social critique. Lorenzo C. Simpson offers a persuasive and powerful argument that hermeneutics is a valuable tool not only for critical theory but also for robustly...
Out of the Dark Night: Essays on Decolonization
Out of the Dark Night: Essays on Decolonization
Achille Mbembe is one of the world’s most profound critics of colonialism and its consequences, a major figure in the emergence of a new wave of French critical theory. His writings examine the complexities of decolonization for African subjectivities and the possibilities emerging in its wake. In Out of the Dark Night, he...
The New Stock Market: Law, Economics, and Policy
The New Stock Market: Law, Economics, and Policy
The U.S. stock market has been transformed over the last twenty-five years. Once a market in which human beings traded at human speeds, it is now an electronic market pervaded by algorithmic trading, conducted at speeds nearing that of light. High-frequency traders participate in a large portion of all transactions, and a significant...
A Light in Dark Times: The New School for Social Research and Its University in Exile
A Light in Dark Times: The New School for Social Research and Its University in Exile
The New School for Social Research opened in 1919 as an act of protest. Founded in the name of academic freedom, it quickly emerged as a pioneer in adult education?providing what its first president, Alvin Johnson, liked to call “the continuing education of the educated.” By the mid-1920s, the New School had become the place to...
Blaming Immigrants: Nationalism and the Economics of Global Movement
Blaming Immigrants: Nationalism and the Economics of Global Movement
Immigration is shaking up electoral politics around the world. Anti-immigration and ultranationalistic politics are rising in Europe, the United States, and countries across Asia and Africa. What is causing this nativist fervor? Are immigrants the cause or merely a common scapegoat?

In Blaming Immigrants, economist
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Post-Fordist Cinema: Hollywood Auteurs and the Corporate Counterculture (Film and Culture Series)
Post-Fordist Cinema: Hollywood Auteurs and the Corporate Counterculture (Film and Culture Series)
The New Hollywood boom of the late 1960s and 1970s is celebrated as a time when maverick directors bucked the system. Against the backdrop of counterculture sensibilities and the prominence of auteur theory, New Hollywood directors such as Robert Altman and Francis Ford Coppola seemed to embody creative individualism. In Post-Fordist...
Confronting Inequality: How Societies Can Choose Inclusive Growth
Confronting Inequality: How Societies Can Choose Inclusive Growth
Inequality has drastically increased in many countries around the globe over the past three decades. The widening gap between the very rich and everyone else is often portrayed as an unexpected outcome or as the tradeoff we must accept to achieve economic growth. In this book, three International Monetary Fund economists show that this...
The Politics of Losing: Trump, the Klan, and the Mainstreaming of Resentment
The Politics of Losing: Trump, the Klan, and the Mainstreaming of Resentment
The Ku Klux Klan has peaked three times in American history: after the Civil War, around the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, and in the 1920s, when the Klan spread farthest and fastest. Recruiting millions of members even in non-Southern states, the Klan’s nationalist insurgency burst into mainstream politics. Almost one hundred years...
The Compromise of Liberal Environmentalism
The Compromise of Liberal Environmentalism
Mark W. Zacher, University of British Columbia
Clearly one of the best studies on international environmental politics.

"Bernstein convincingly and usefully rejects the role of epistemic communities as a driving force behind the norm change he identifies... Compelling... His attention to the role of ideas...

Manly States
Manly States
One of the achievements of feminist contributions to international relations has been to reveal the extent to which the whole field is gendered. 1 The range of subjects studied, the boundaries of the discipline, its central concerns and motifs, the content of empirical research, the assumptions of theoretical models, and the...
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