Interview Sophia Rosenfeld on The Age of Choice February 05, 2025 The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life is a sweeping history of the rise of personal choice, from shopping to voting to family planning. It explores how the simple act of selecting from a menu of options became equated with freedom in much of the modern world鈥攁nd with what consequences for all of us. Read More
Reading List Exploring Black Experiences February 01, 2025 First proposed by Black educators and the Black United Students at Kent State University in 1969,聽Black History Month, celebrated annually in February in the US, is an opportunity to celebrate Black voices, achievements, and to聽reflect on the central role of African Americans throughout US history. av福利社 is proud to publish books that engage with serious issues and ideas relating to Black experiences. Read More
Essay Once upon a time: Hollywood meets Bob Dylan at Newport January 29, 2025 鈥淎 Complete Unknown鈥� has attracted outsized media attention. As someone who has written a bit about Dylan here and there, I can attest that not a single day has gone by in the past month without me receiving a message: What did you think? Read More
Interview Jaap de Roode on Doctors by Nature January 24, 2025 The use of medicinal drugs is often viewed as a uniquely human exercise. In Doctors by Nature, however, Jaap de Roode shows that many non-human animals also practice medicine. Read More
Essay Marx and socialist anti-politics January 23, 2025 Socialists believe in economic emancipation from the domination and unfreedom of capitalism. But realising that monumental economic goal invariably and inescapably requires socialists to think about what political means, if any, might bring it about. Read More
Interview Ra煤l Rojas on The Language of Mathematics January 23, 2025 The history of language and mathematical notation is filled with chance and serendipity. I want readers to see mathematics as a living organism, a living subject, with a history. Mathematics is all about logical truth, and the discipline seems forged in steel. But in fact, mathematics evolved through different phases. Read More
Interview Patricia Owens on Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men January 22, 2025 The academic field of international relations presents its own history as largely a project of elite white men. And yet women played a prominent role in the creation of this new cross-disciplinary field. Read More
Podcast Listen in: The Balanced Brain January 20, 2025 There are many routes to mental well-being. In this groundbreaking book, neuroscientist Camilla Nord offers a fascinating tour of the scientific developments that are revolutionising the way we think about mental health, showing why and how events鈥攁nd treatments鈥攃an affect people in such different ways. Read More
Interview Yanni Kotsonis on The Greek Revolution and the Violent Birth of Nationalism January 17, 2025 Yanni Kotsonis discusses his new book, a sweeping global history of the birth of modern Greece. Read More
Interview David Thomas on The World Atlas of Deserts and Drylands January 06, 2025 David Thomas discusses deserts and drylands鈥攅cosystems which account for more than 40 percent of land on our planet. Read More
Podcast The Balanced Brain January 06, 2025 There are many routes to mental well-being. In this groundbreaking book, neuroscientist Camilla Nord offers a fascinating tour of the scientific developments that are revolutionising the way we think about mental health, showing why and how events鈥攁nd treatments鈥攃an affect people in such different ways. Read More
Podcast Our Money January 06, 2025 In Our Money, Leah Downey makes a principled case against central bank independence (CBI) by both challenging the economic theory behind it and developing a democratic rationale for sustaining the power of the legislature to determine who can create money and on what terms. Read More
Essay On building community in scholarly publishing January 02, 2025 Community ecology, to which many university presses have contributed books and journal articles, teaches us much about the organization and functioning of communities Read More
Video In Dialogue: Joseph Luzzi on Dante December 12, 2024 Joseph Luzzi discusses the reception of Dante Alighieri鈥檚 鈥淒ivine Comedy鈥� over time, and lets us in on which is his favorite circle of Hell. Read More
Essay Race and American sculpture December 12, 2024 As monuments representing painful histories are dislodged from their pedestals, it is impossible to obfuscate the relationship between sculpture, race, and power in the United States. Read More
