The new edition of the definitive academic companion to Tolkien's life and literature

A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien provides readers with an in-depth examination of the author's life…

The daughter of a legend finds the love of a lifetime in this passionate, heart-wrenching installment in J.R. Ward's #1 New York Times bestselling Black Dagger Brotherhood series. Nalla, the…

Offers multiple points of entry into the dynamic and fast-growing field of Global Environmental History to specialists and newcomers alike

Companion to Global Environmental History provides the cultural, intellectual, and…

Via case studies of two Brooklyn nightclubs threatened by gentrification, introduces Black queer spatiality as an analytic method to understand Black queer placemaking, life, and culture.

Originally published in 1971, this book is a systematic study of the major features and factors of the location and distribution of global agricultural enterprises.

Valuing Peak Experience in Everyday Lives takes Abraham Maslow's concept of peak experience and compares how people have encountered transcendent peak experiences, and related phenomena such as flow and peak…

Materials Science for Future Applications offers a comprehensive introduction for students and researchers, in both academia and industry, interested in understanding the properties of emerging materials and their challenges.

Kasper and Howard Schweber have assembled a roster of ten prominent contributors to excavate Madison's thinking about key concepts and issues over questions of what the Constitution requires, permits, and…