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Celebrates insects, their crucial role in our ecosystems, and people working to preserve biodiversity.

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An examination of Leo Strauss's 1948 notebook and other writings on the Euthyphro, Plato's dialogue on piety, using close analysis and line-by-line commentary.

Explores the search for religious meaning during World War I and the wide range of spiritual responses that emerged across boundaries. Examines how religious experience and battle experience were intertwined.

Explores the 1588 murder trial of Paolo Barbieri in Bologna, examining early modern violence, madness, criminal justice, medical and legal expertise, and the construction and circulation of news.

Presents a history of the senses in the fields of anthropology, psychology, and law, identifying important shifts and key disciplinary concerns.

Explores lyrical representations of romantic and sexual betrayal in the blues, revealing deceit and entrapment constraining the physical, socio-economic, and political movement of African Americans. Argues that blues music calls for a reckoning, while also expressing faith in a secular and moral justice-to-come.

A collection of essays examining the history of Quakerism from 1830 to 1937, tracing the resurgence of missionary work and the development of Quakerism as a global faith.

Examines the relationship between rhetoric and debt, arguing that they are fundamentally entangled in producing and disciplining who is deemed worthy of credit and how debt materializes differentially: as a credit to some and condemnation of others.

In the nineteenth-century United States, jokes, comic anecdotes, and bons mots about the Pacific Islands and Pacific Islanders tried to make the faraway and unfamiliar either understandable or completely incomprehensible (i.e., "other") to American readers. A Laughable Empire examines this substantial archival corpus, attempting to make sense of nineteenth-century American humor about Hawai'i and the rest of the Pacific world. Todd Nathan Thom...

During the long reign of Alfonso VIII, Castilian bishops were crusaders, castellans, cathedral canons, and collegiate officers, and they served as powerful intermediaries between the pope and the king of Castile. In A Constellation of Authority, Kyle C. Lincoln traces the careers of a septet of these bishops and uses this history to fill in much of what really happened in thirteenth-century Castile. The relationships that local prelates cultiv...