Letters & Science

This book is about two mallard ducks who constantly come and swim in the pool right outside my kitchen window of the complex where I live. Throughout the years my husband, Steve, and I created many stories about them. One day I decided that these two ducks, Tansy and Max should be the...Read more about Max and Tansy's Secret Hideaway

During the Second World War, the United States built over two hundred defense installations on sovereign soil in Latin America in the name of cooperation in hemisphere defense. Predictably, it proved to be a fraught affair. Despite widespread acclaim for Pan-American unity with the Allied...Read more about Cooperating with the Colossus: A Social and Political History of US Military Bases in World War II Latin America

An impressive new work about how major moments in Asian American history continue to influence the modern world.

In the first chapter, Choy, a professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley, connects anti-Asian violence during the Covid-19 pandemic to a history of...Read more about Asian American Histories of the United States

In Ennead II.4 Plotinus investigates the question of what underlies the forms that constitute the contents of our minds and senses. Aristotle had called this substrate “matter,” and Stoic philosophers followed suit. With a critical review of their notions, and reference to...Read more about Plotinus Ennead II.4: On Matter: Translation with an Introduction and Commentary