In this timely new edition of the award-winning The Miseducation of the Student-Athlete, authors Kenneth L. Shropshire and Collin D. Williams provide essential context for understanding college sports in an era transformed by Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) rights, while reinforcing their central argument that education must remain paramount.
Exploring literature in Arabic, Bengali, Persian, Punjabi, Urdu, Telugu, and Turkish, this collection of essays answers important questions about the place of religion in society, secularity and literature, the complexities of treating religion as a stable category, and its relationship to virtue, ethics, legitimacy and social hegemony.
Sharing stories of Native American resilience amidst toxic school and community cultures, Mneesha Gellman examines the consequences of the misrepresentation and suppression of Indigenous culture in secondary education through the insights of students and teachers working to revitalize the Yurok language.
The US Military, Korea, and the Origins of Military-Industrial Capitalism
Patrick Chung
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781512828733
Pub Date: February 2026
Format: Hardcover
344 Pages
Standardizing Empire traces the rise of military-industrial capitalism. It explains how the US military’s overseas presence in places like South Korea during the Cold War led to a globalized economy, which facilitated both South Korea’s “economic miracle” and the decline of US industrial might.
Using the broad categories of work, capitalism, and democracy to reinterrogate the past, contributors to this volume contend, is the only way to understand today’s conflicts over the future of how Americans will work, how capitalism will function, and how the country will be governed.
Robert Cozzolino, William R. Valerio and Robert E. Kohler
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9798993128016
Pub Date: February 2026
Format: Hardcover
216 Pages
Bodies & Souls examines artworks that illuminate the critical role of community among artists active in Philadelphia, Chicago, Massachusetts, San Francisco, and New York, including Luis Cruz Azaceta, Joan Brown, Gladys Nilsson, and others. These works and their stories speak to artists today in search of circles and contexts that help them thrive.
Sexuality, Humanism, and Ephemeral Performances in Fifteenth-Century Italy
Ralph J. Hexter
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781512828542
Pub Date: December 2025
Format: Hardcover
320 Pages
Through his excavation of two fifteenth-century Latin comedies about the entrapment of a priest who is eager for sexual activity with men—Janus the Priest and The False Hypocrite—Ralph Hexter shows how characters deployed coded language to navigate same-sex relationships. Includes the first published English translations of both plays.
Liberty’s Prisoners chronicles how the penitentiary, though initially designed as an alternative to corporal punishment, quickly became a holding tank for those who attempted to lay claim to the new nation’s promise of liberty. Reissued with a new preface that connects these early penitentiaries to our present debates over mass incarceration.
Blue-Collar Conservatism presents a nuanced portrait of the blue-collar, white supporters of Philadelphia’s police-commissioner-turned-mayor Frank Rizzo and the populist politics that emerged. Reissued with a new preface that explores the rise of Donald Trump and the changes to Philadelphia’s demographics and politics since the Rizzo era.
Featuring a new preface that discusses the complicated legacy of the nation’s founding at its 250th anniversary for the Indigenous peoples of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Lenape Country is a sweeping narrative history of Lenape Indian encounters with European settlers in the Delaware Valley in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
