As railways, steamships, and telegraph communications brought distant places into unprecedented proximity, previously minor…

Leonard Bernstein's Norton Lectures on the future course of music drew cheers from his Harvard audiences and television…

In this book, senior scholars in the field review and synthesize recent theoretical developments in important areas--optimal…

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Sociologist Robert Wuthnow notes remarkable similarities in the social conditions surrounding three of the greatest…

This timely and controversial book presents powerful theoretical and empirical arguments for the repeal of the…

Katie Ebner-Landy shows that early modern Europeans, inspired by the ancient philosopher Theophrastus, embraced the…

Carl Kaysen offers a penetrating economic analysis of the issues in the civil antitrust suit brought by the United States…

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Among the late nineteenth-century profusion of evolutionary ideas, Wilhelm Roux''s theory of a struggle for existence within…

Bernardo Zacka probes the complex moral lives of street-level bureaucrats'-the frontline social and welfare workers, police…

Woodrow Hartzog develops the underpinning of a new kind of privacy law responsive to the way people actually perceive and…

Philosophers have spent millennia accumulating knowledge about knowledge. But negative epistemological phenomena, such as…

Communist and capitalist states alike were scarred by the economic shocks of the 1970s. Why did only communist governments…

Waleed Ziad examines the development of Sufi-led Muslim revivalist networks. From the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries,…

Moore presents his summation of 15 years of research, observation, and teaching about what public-sector executives should…

It is common to regard rights and wrongs as mirror images: to be wronged is to have one''s rights violated. Nicolas Cornell…

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The British Crown''s 1813 legalization of Christian evangelism among its Indian subjects set off a storm of criticism in…

For six terror-filled weeks in 1870 German armies bombarded Strasbourg, killing hundreds of citizens, wounding thousands,…

Health and the Art of Living offers reflections on health and illness in early medieval Chinese literature (ca. 200'-ca.…

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Brandon Bloch examines the remarkable transformation of German Protestantism after WWII. As avid nationalists and…

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Pre-Texts is a methodology developed for education professionals to stimulate close reading and critical-thinking skills by…

Ford''s exploration of calculated, personalized assassination draws on history, literature, law, philosophy, sociology, and…

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In his extraordinary book, Mayr fully explored, synthesized, and evaluated man''s knowledge about the nature of animal…

Drawing on a dozen years of research among managers, officers and politicians in the public realm and the private sector,…

Neeti Nair explores the trend toward legal protection for the religious '"sentiments'" of majorities in India, Pakistan, and…

Chinese Communists have long embraced capitalism, for various reasons. In the 1930s Communists made deals with foreign…

Jianglin Li provides the first clear historical account of the Chinese crackdown in Lhasa in 1959. Sifting facts from the…

Between 1350 and 1750 the world reached a tipping point of global connectedness. In this volume of the acclaimed series A…

In the 1960s biologists and social scientists engaged in a public debate about human nature. The question'-whether humans…

Populism suddenly is everywhere, and everywhere misunderstood. Nadia Urbinati argues that populism should be regarded as…

Christian Raffensperger tracks the dynastic marriages of the Volodimerovici, the ruling family of Rus'´. Using a modern…

Abraham Drassinower presents a new way to balance the needs of creators and users of authored works. Disentangling copyright…

In Rethinking Japan''s Modernity, M. William Steele takes a new look at the people, places, and events associated with…

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Stephen Neff tells the story of how international law has been formulated, debated, contested, and put into practice from…

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Virtue That Matters is a groundbreaking exploration of chastity culture in Choson Korea that illustrates the interplay…

Sana Aiyar chronicles the strategies by which Indians sought a political voice in Kenya, from the beginning of colonial rule…

Dialogues in the Dark traces how Chinese readers and scholars since the Han dynasty have variously interpreted the ancient…

Produkt Evolution of Insect Mating Systems zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard University Press.…

Produkt Victorian Critic and the Idea of History zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard University Press.…

In Strange Tales from Edo, William Fleming paints a sweeping picture of Japan''s engagement with Chinese fiction in the…

No Birds of Passage explores the remarkable business success of three Gujarati Muslim commercial castes: the Bohras, Khojas,…

Mughal rulers were legendary connoisseurs of the arts, whose patronage attracted poets, artists, and scholars from all parts…

This compact history traces the computer industry from 1950s mainframes, through establishment of standards beginning in…

Michael Breidenbach traces American secularism to an unexpected source: not Enlightenment liberalism but Catholic tradition.…

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What was the representation of the Mongol invasions in Japan, and what role did it play as a repertoire of cultural identity…

Meredith Ray shows that women were at the vanguard of empirical culture during the Scientific Revolution. They experimented…

James Hankins offers the first full-length study of Francesco Patrizi''s life and thought. A key but largely forgotten…

Produkt Vocal Songs in the Plays of Shakespeare zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard University Press.…

Produkt Origins of Entrepreneurship in Meiji Japan zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard University Press.…