Cultural Studies
Extreme North: A Cultural History
Paperback
An entertaining and informative voyage through cultural fantasies of the North, from sea monsters and a mountain-sized magnet to racist mythmaking
Daodejing
Hardback
A transformative new edition of Taoism’s central text that overturns its reputation for calming, gnomic wisdom, revealing instead a work of “philosophical dynamite”
The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction
Hardback
A revelatory account of how Christian monks identified distraction as a fundamental challenge—and how their efforts to defeat it can inform ours, more than a millennium later
American Comics: A History
Paperback
The sweeping story of cartoons, comic strips, and graphic novels and their hold on the American imagination
Well of Souls: Uncovering the Banjo's Hidden History
Hardback
An illuminating history of the banjo, revealing its origins at the crossroads of slavery, religion and music