This description of Cabinet issue 61 was written on 1 September 2015. Which also happens to be 17 Dh... more

From hollowed gourds to cardboard boxes: a history of the "container"Just as the very first construc... more

Across history, the morality of taking what belongs to another has been of concern to both theologia... more

The theorist Fredric Jameson once wrote that it has become easier for us to imagine the world ending... more

In the early years of the Cold War, Western nations increasingly adopted strategies of public diplom... more

This volume contributes to the growing field of Early Modern Jewish Atlantic History, while stimulat... more

The Global Water System in the Anthropocene provides the platform to present global and regional per... more

This book present the lecture notes used in two courses that the late Professor Kasra Barkeshli had ... more

The Global Water System in the Anthropocene provides the platform to present global and regional per... more

"Accountability" has become a buzzword in international development. Development actors appear to de... more

Handbook of Adhesives and Surface Preparation provides a thoroughly practical survey of all aspects ... more

This is the volume you’ve been waiting for! The Invincible War, set in motion by Angstrom Levy! The ... more

This book compiles guidelines for assessing the suitability and vulnerability of landscape for renew... more

The idea of the North in modernity--its associations with sparseness and scarcity, to hardships and ... more

Athletic contests are nearly as old as human society itself. They have grown and flourished across t... more

Love was classically thought to come in four distinct varieties--agape (spiritual love), eros (physi... more

Though most often thought of in prosaic terms--a spilled drink, a fender bender, a slip on an icy st... more

The Stone Age is not over! Whether nestled in a dark corner of the gall bladder or hurtling toward u... more

Celebration--acting variously as a binding force for a community or as a self-congratulatory act, ca... more

The common injunction Don t reinvent the wheel, suggesting as it does the futility of attempting t... more

The lack of money is the root of all evil, quipped Mark Twain in his recasting of the biblical obse... more

of The Waste Land; Sina Najafi on gifts given to and by American presidents; and an artist project by Santiago Borja....... more

Among the largest and longest-lived of all terrestrial organisms, trees are not just an integral par... more

Every time you put a letter in the mail, every time you stop at a traffic light, a complex--and usua... more

Since its launch in late 2000, Cabinet magazine has become a touchstone for a certain approach to un... more

From the rule of an eye for an eye in the Code of Hammurabi and the Old Testament to the rise of t... more

In the nineteenth century, Marx rejected the notion of homo sapiens, offering instead homo faber to ... more

When the current cycle of the Maya Long Count calendar concludes on 21 December 2012, the world will... more

Derived from the Latin forensis, the word forensics refers to the forum and designates the pract... more

Rick and his group learn the dangers of living behind the safety of the Community walls, and much wo... more

Across fields as disparate as historiography, psychiatry and anthropology, remembering was long cons... more

topics, Cabinet 41 includes a special section on "Infrastructure," featuring Sina Najafi on the history of the intermodal...... more

Traub tracing the history of distance learning; Sina Najafi tracking the development of the A-F grading system; and an...... more

JUST IN TIME FOR THE ALL-NEW TELEVISION SERIES ON AMC! This hardcover features another 12 issues of ... more

In celebration of the Five Year Anniversary of The Walking Dead, Image Comics presents this full-col... more

The seclusion of islands has long made them ideal screens for our fantasies and terrors, choice loca... more

A child s plaything and an object of study for scientists; a space of protection but also of isolati... more

The nature of friendship has been a subject of inquiry from the beginnings of the western philosophi... more

Dust is everywhere, a perennial presence in the corners of culture. Dust can be deathly (domestic du... more

Cabinet 34 puts our culture of constant examination, and self-examination itself, to the test, scrut... more

Man is purported to be the only animal that can lie by telling the truth. Whether we are dealing wit... more

One of the four classical elements, capable of both remarkable destructive and generative effect, th... more

Looming large in both geological fact and sociocultural significance, mountains promise grandeur, pi... more