Interdisciplinary Studies

Legitimating Television: Media Convergence and Cultural Status explores how and why television is gaining a new level of cultural respectability in...

An economy low in carbon and high in life satisfaction will require thousands, if not millions of exceptional leaders. This book is the first to br...

This book focuses on retelling many of the important episodes in the global past (c.1500present) from African points of view. It discusses the even...

A PORCHLIGHT BEST BUSINESS BOOK AWARD WINNERAN INC. MAGAZINE NON-OBVIOUS BOOK AWARDS PICKA unique and revelatory guide to understanding and navigat...

This is a portfolio of 87 drawings by the Appalachian pencil artist Willard Gayheart dating from the early 1970s to the present. The book featur...

With World War I and Egypt's colourful politics as background, C.W.R. Long tells the story of four proconsuls (McMahon, Wingate, Allenby and Lloyd)...

American political scientist Robert Putnam wasnt the first person to recognize that social capital the relationships between people that allow com...

In Down the Wild Cape Fear, novelist and nonfiction writer Philip Gerard invites readers onto the fabled waters of the Cape Fear River and guides t...

Why populations brutalized in war elect their tormentorsOne of the great puzzles of electoral politics is how parties that commit mass atrocities i...

A fundamentally new approach to the history of science and technologyThis book presents a new way of thinking about the history of science and tech...

A systemic account of how institutions shape economic developmentInstitutions matter for economic development. Yet despite this accepted wisdom, ne...

A study of the structure, growth, and future of transnational human travel and communicationIncreasingly, people travel and communicate across bord...

A bracing corrective to predictions of the European Unions decline, by a leading historian of modern EuropeIs the European Union in decline? Recent...

An evolutionary case for the existence of free willScientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behavior and how neural ...

A writer's writer, East Tennessee poet and novelist George Scarbrough enjoyed a career that spanned eight decades and included numerous awards. ...

The Appalachian region of the United States sees hunger, poverty, disability, preventable illness and premature death in disproportionally high ...