New Materials

In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the Sea Peoples invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy managed to defeat them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it soon slid into decline, as did most of the surrounding civilizations.

History of Mongolian military involvement during World War II and how it helped affirm its complete independence.

Psychoanalytic theory remains hugely influential to our understanding of the mind and human behaviour.

In A Dictionary of Early Middle Turkic Hendrik Boeschoten describes the lexical material contained in works written in different varieties of Eastern Turkic in and around the fourteenth century, e.g.

A queer scrapbook offers a treasure trove of LGBTIQ+ histories from across Britain and Ireland. Packed with materials, from interviews and newspaper articles to photographs and flyers, the book explores urban, rural and regional queer life since 1945.

Compulsory sexuality--where sexual desire is seen as fundamental to human experience--not only pervades popular culture but is foundational to scientific research.

Spanning centuries and continents, Acquired tastes explores the extraordinary journeys of specific recipes as they moved from one culture to another -- carried and transmitted by eight remarkable individuals.

The Covid-19 pandemic may have faded from headlines, but its shadow remains.

Throughout the 1980s, as the world was grappling with the escalating crisis of AIDS, Soviet Russia continued to deny there was a problem.

Aouli Elizabeth Smith is adrift: unheard at home and an unbeliever at church, fighting her sister and losing her best friend. Overflowing with feeling, she pours her secrets and herself into her song journal when the world threatens to sweep her away.

Japanese animation is at the nexus of an international multimedia industry worth over 23.6 billion dollars a year, linked to everything from manga to computer games, Pokémon and plushies.

Spiders are often found lurking in dusty corners, where we can observe them with interest or brush them away with disgust—or make a run for it, as the agitated Miss Muffet does.

An explosive new argument for draining the swamp of white male privilege--

This innovative Afrofuturist memoir returns in a second edition with a new introduction by Douglas Kearney. Said Shaiye's cross-genre debut Are You Borg Now?

How the Asian girl is central to the story of US imperialism and the formation of Asian America Representations of the Asian girl as lucky objects of humanitarian rescue and rehabilitation have been used to advance America's imperial ambitions from World War II to the wars in Korean and Viet

Version revue et augmentée d'un texte que l'écrivaine a lu en public lors du festival d'Avignon en 2025 dans lequel elle interroge son rapport à la langue arabe.

Applied behaviour therapies are highly proscriptive and controversial evidence-based autism interventions that have, in many settings, become the standard of care. Autism and the Culture of Therapy is the first empirical study of applied behaviour therapies.

It is not very often that someone comes along and permanently reshapes the way Americans think about two of the most important issues of the day. In this case: race and gender.

In the early twentieth century, the Puget Sound region was home to a progressive artistic and cultural scene shaped by the region's rapid urbanization, its singular natural environment, and its orientation to the Pacific Rim.

In lyric and braided essays, scholarly critique, hybrid investigations, documentary collages, and collaborative poetry, these poets deep-dive into Muriel Rukeyser's work and life to interrogate, explore, and challenge the models she provides for thinking and writing in our own social, politi

Beyond the Lesbian Vampire is a groundbreaking dive into the pervasive archetype of the violent lesbian in cinema.

An engaging investigation of how thirteen key Enlightenment figures shaped the concept of race, from the acclaimed author of Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely. Over the course of the eighteenth century, Enlightenment natural historians and classifiers redefined what it meant to be human.

Just by living in the USA, people there have worse health than those in any other high-income country, and some poorer ones, despite having the world's most expensive healthcare. Why?

Arguing that brown transgender narratives are frequently silenced and erased in US queer, transgender, and Latinx and Chicanx cultural politics, Galarte considers the contexts in which these narratives appear; how they circulate; and how they are reproduced in politics, sexual cultures, and racia

Collection development is a cornerstone of librarianship; and with the rapid pace that library materials are produced, a thorough knowledge of collection development is more important than ever before.

Café Lafitte in Exile: Queer New Orleans and the Story of America's Oldest Gay Bar tells the story of queer New Orleans history through the lens of America's longest-running, continually operating gay bar, Café Lafitte.

Over fifty essays about California literature today, written by the host of Alta Journal's California Book Club-- Provided by publisher.

Carol Bove: Collage Sculptures presents an extensive look into the contemporary artist's work over the past five years and her ongoing exploration of scale, color, material, and artistic traditions of the twentieth century.

Catherine Opie: To Be Seen showcases photographic portraits by the American artist Catherine Opie. The exhibition, curated in collaboration with the artist, is the first major museum exhibition of her work in the UK.

A comprehensive look at inequalities and why they matter. There is a widespread sense throughout the developed world that progress towards a better society has stalled.

Near the end of the nineteenth century, after the railroads were completed and the gold mines exhausted, an economic downturn stirred up anti-Chinese sentiment in the United States.

In the United States today, there is no faith more dominant than Christianity.

Already recognized as an international academic legend for his pioneering work on psychology, Stanford's Claude Steele first came to Norton with his generational work, Whistling Vivaldi, a path breaking examination of stereotyped behavior, that has now sold well over 250,000 copies.

Assign more writing and see improved learning while reducing your grading workload. Well-designed collaborative writing projects cut grading time up to 83 percent while supporting individual student learning in critical thinking, research, synthesis, genre/structure, editing, and peer review.

The definitive volume on the rich and dynamic field of Korean comics--Page 4 of cover.

This updated edition focuses on relevant copyright topics that arise frequently, helping library workers provide quick guidance for common situations-- Provided by publisher.

How can we adapt to reduce the adverse effects of climate change on humanity and the environment? In this enlightening book, Ian Noble outlines the history of adaptation, new ways of adapting and how approaches to mitigation and adaptation are changing.

As of 2025, in the United States an eleven-year-old child can be charged with a federal crime while in many states it's illegal to leave a twelve-year-old home alone. Twenty-six states allow children younger than sixteen to marry while the legal drinking age remains twenty-one.

The latest series of coups d'état in Latin America has left an enduring impact on the region's contemporary landscape.

The city of Edmonton, a large and growing Canadian metropolis, has a robust and thriving 2SLGBTQ+ community, with a too often unknown history.

When a woman rises--no man is left behind and a community is nourished. In the Maya township of Chenalhó in Chiapas, Veronica, a teenage girl, is recovering from a disastrous early marriage.

Cult of the Dead Cow is the tale of the oldest active, most respected, and most famous American hacking group of all time.

Darkology by Rhae Lynn Barnes is a scholarly historical work examining the development, spread, and cultural impact of blackface minstrelsy in the United States.

A timely, insider account of an important and controversial step in British Columbia’s strategic effort to respond to the overdose crisis. Canada is in the middle of an opioid crisis.

Washington has a tortured history with liquor. Efforts to ban or restrict it date back to 1854, before the region even attained statehood, with blue laws remaining on the books well into the twentieth century.

This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Trasks' and the Hamilton's--whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Ab

Dying with plants is a kind of botanical alchemy, and in Eco Colour, artistic dyer and colorist India Flint teaches you how to cull and use leaves, roots, and flowers to color your cloth and yarn.