Throughout the Great Recession American artists and public art endowments have had to fight for government support to keep themselves afloat. It wasn't always this way. At its height in 1935, the New Deal devoted $27 million – roughly $469 million to...

Data is too big to be left to the data analysts".Data: Now Bigger and Better!" brings together researchers whose work is deeply informed by the conceptual frameworks of anthropology – frameworks that are comparative as well as field-based. From kinsh...

For nearly fifteen years, writer and musician Ken Waldman has been touring as Alaska's Fiddling Poet, combining old-time Appalachian-style string-band music with original poetry and Alaskan storytelling. The book-and-CD set "D is for Dog Team" is his...

Deemed by Heinrich Heine a city of merchants where poets go to die, Hamburg was an improbable setting for a major intellectual movement. Yet it was there, at the end of World War I, at a new university in this commercial center, that a trio of twenti...

A mountain of chairs piled between buildings. Shoes sewn behind animal membranes into a wall. A massive crack running through the floor of Tate Modern. Powerful works like these by sculptor Doris Salcedo evoke the significance of bearing witness and...

Joseph Stalin's death was a defining event in Soviet history. In its aftermath, the state was forced to reconceive its political, economic, social, and cultural identity. This volume includes new contributions from an international collection of rese...

One of the best books ever written on one of humanity's greatest epics, W. R. Johnson's classic study of Vergil's Aeneid challenges centuries of received wisdom. Johnson rejects the political and historical reading of the epic as a record of the glor...

For more than thirty-five years, James Welling has explored the material and conceptual possibilities of photography".Diary/Landscape" – the first mature body of work by this important contemporary artist – set the framework for his subsequent invest...

For biologists, 2009 was an epochal year: the bicentennial of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of a book now known simply as "The Origin of Species". But for many botanists, Darwin's true legacy starts with the 1862...

America's education system faces a stark dilemma: it needs governmental oversight, rules and regulations, but it also needs to be adaptable enough to address student needs and the many different problems that can arise at any given school – something...