Cultural Studies
Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments
Paperback
A leading expert’s exploration of the past, present and future of public monuments in America
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”
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
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