Ubiquitous Press

Reducere. DescriptionNon-native electromagnetic field (EMF) radiation increases cancer risk. We are all exposed."Brandon LaGreca has done an extraordinary jo...

Reducere. Political yard signs are one of the most ubiquitous and conspicuous features of American political campaigns, yet they have received relatively lit...

For more than a century, skin lighteners have been a ubiquitous feature of global popular culture--embraced by consumers even as they were fiercely...

A primary mode for the creation and dissemination of poetry in Renaissance Italy was the oral practice of singing and improvising verse to the acco...

Description"Leaps straight onto the roster of essential reading for anyone even vaguely interested in Grant and the Civil War."--Ron Chernow, autho...

Description"Magnificent."--Robert L. Tignor, Princeton University From the early nineteenth century through to the 1960s, the Greeks formed the lar...

DescriptionNongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are ubiquitous in the Global South. Often international in origin, many attempt to assist local eff...

A Washington Post BestsellerHello? Are you there? Can you hear me?Communicating virtually is cool, useful, and ubiquitous. But whenever there's a g...

This stimulating new book provides a sophisticated introduction to the key issues in the sociology of death and dying. In recent years, the social ...

Reducere. Traveling from East to West over thousands of years, tea has played a variety of roles on the world scene - in medicine, politics, the arts, cultur...

Reducere. DescriptionMao Zedong's Little Red Book (Quotations from Chairman Mao) - a compilation of the Chinese leader's speeches and writings - is one of th...

Reducere. With his distinctively witty, anecdotal, and disarming voice, John Yow now journeys to the shore and shares his encounters with some of the most fa...

Reducere. The Sierra Nevada region is a land of alpine lakes, ubiquitous mountains, and meadows filled with a seemingly endless variety of wildflowers. This ...

DescriptionTen amazing curves personally selected by one of today's most important math writersCurves for the Mathematically Curious is a thoughtfu...

An original examination of the ubiquity of glitter--from bodily adornment to activist glitter bombing--and its vibrant and transformational propert...

Amazon is the most powerful corporation on the planet and its CEO, Jeff Bezos, has become the richest person in world history. Its dominance has re...

Reducere. Unlike her ubiquitous brothers, psychologist and philosopher William and novelist Henry, Jr., Alice James (1848-1892)-the youngest child and only d...

DescriptionCovering the story of prejudice against Jews from the time of Christ through the rise of Nazi Germany, The History of Anti-Semitism pres...

Reducere. Papa Guede, the Bawons and the Guede Lwa represent the power and mystery of death, funerary rites and the afterlife in Haitian Vodou. They are the ...

DescriptionRoger Robinson's range is wide: the joys and pains of family life; the ubiquitous presence of racism; observations on the threatening ed...

When so much in Russia has changed, the banya remains. For over one thousand years Russians of every economic class, political party, and social st...

Reducere. Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Brendan Fairbank...

Music listeners today can effortlessly flip from K-pop to Ravi Shankar to Amadou & Mariam with a few quick clicks of a mouse. While contemporary gl...

The ubiquitous angels of everyday life are introduced in this fully revised and expanded bestseller. Buoyed by the firsthand experiences of regular...

Reducere. The publication of Richard Burridge's What Are the Gospels? in 1992 inaugurated a transformation in Gospel studies by overturning the previous cons...

Reducere. In the murky waters of the Mediterranean lie the ruins of Alexandria's fabled lighthouse, a wonder of the ancient world destroyed by earthquakes in...

Humanity's best hope for confronting the looming climate crisis rests with the new science of complexity.The sheer complexity of climate change sto...

In June 2015, Bree Newsome scaled the flagpole in front of South Carolina's state capitol and removed the Confederate flag. The following month, th...

Reducere. Sixteen weeks into her second pregnancy, psychologist Jessica Zucker miscarried at home, alone. Suddenly, her career, spent specializing in reprodu...

There is little debate that health care in the United States is in need of reform. But where should those improvements begin? With insurers? Drug m...

Reducere. Violence and war were ubiquitous features of politics long before the emergence of the modern state system. Since the 1780s revolutions and terrori...

While procreation is ubiquitous, attention to the ethical issues involved in creating children is relatively rare. In Debating Procreation, David B...

Reducere. Women have a great many challenges to deal with in their lives. Among the most ubiquitous of those challenges is self-care. Too often they are focu...

Reducere. Skateboarding: the background, technicality, culture, rebellion, marketing, conflict, and future of the global sport as seen through two of its mos...

Reducere. In Working South, renowned watercolorist Mary Whyte captures in exquisite detail the essence of vanishing blue-collar professions from across ten s...

Reducere. The Ozark Mountains in Missouri and Arkansas have had a long history of foraging, ever since the earliest white settlers came from the Appalachians...

The story of the most abundant substance on Earth, from its origins in the birth of stars billions of years ago to its importance in the living wor...

Reducere. Written and set on the banks of the Neva, St Petersburg Dialogues is a startlingly relevant analysis of the human prospect in the twenty-first cent...

DescriptionPush a button and turn on the television; tap a button and get a ride; click a button and "like" something. The touch of a finger can se...

Reducere. DescriptionAn exploration of one of the most celebrated and well-known theorems in mathematicsBy any measure, the Pythagorean theorem is the most f...

DescriptionWhat identity means in an algorithmic age: how it works, how our lives are controlled by it, and how we can resist it Algorithms are eve...

The human mind needs monsters. In every culture and in every epoch in human history, from ancient Egypt to modern Hollywood, imaginary beings have ...

Reducere. "The Ride of Our Lives, Lessons on Life, Leadership, and Love" is an inspirational story about a man and his family on a transformational journey a...

This stunning book charts the rich history of the blues, through the dazzling array of posters, album covers, and advertisements that have shaped i...

Reducere. It is said to be the most frequently spoken (or typed) word on the planet, more common than an infant's first word ma or the ever-present beverage ...

Reducere. From the Yangtze to the Yellow River, China is traversed by great waterways, which have defined its politics and ways of life for centuries. Water ...

Reducere. So, How Long Have You Been Native? is Alexis C. Bunten's firsthand account of what it is like to work in the Alaska cultural tourism industry. An A...

DescriptionCovering the story of prejudice against Jews from the time of Christ through the rise of Nazi Germany, The History of Anti-Semitism pres...

DescriptionA history of design that is often overlooked-until we need it Have you ever hit the big blue button to activate automatic doors? Have yo...

Reducere. Theodore Levin takes readers on a journey through the rich sonic world of inner Asia, where the elemental energies of wind, water, and echo; the ub...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the notion that nearly everything we use, from gym shorts to streetlights, will soon be connected to the Internet; ...

Reducere. From an award-winning science journalist, a lively, informative, and humorous deep dive into the future of the toilet--from creative uses for harve...

Reducere. The Bible, we are constantly reminded, is the best-selling book of all time. It is read with intense devotion by hundreds of millions of people, st...