What makes a great teacher great? Which professors do students remember long after graduation? This book, based on a 15-year…

The post'-WWI crisis of statelessness induced creative legal thinking, as officials and jurists debated cosmopolitan…

Integrating themes from American history, political science, and philosophy, We the People confronts popular sovereignty in…

Lu Xun was China''s greatest literary modernist and a key thinker of the early twentieth century. This new translation…

The Democratic Marketplace argues that democracy has been hollowed out by capitalism. Seeking a path to self-governance,…

Marcy Norton tells a new history of the European colonization of the Americas, one that places wildlife and livestock at the…

Can a parrot understand complex concepts and mean what is says? Since the early s, most studies on animal-human…

Bruner argues that the cognitive revolution, with its fixation on a computational model of mind, has led psychology away…

The Law of Peoples extends the idea of a social contract to the Society of Peoples and lays out the principles that should…

Scientific progress doesn''t always precede engineering advances; it often follows. Answering questions isn''t always the…

Francis Cogliano revisits the relationship between Washington and Jefferson, arguing that their vaunted differences mask…

Most of Barnard''s career was spent in executive practice. A Mount Hermon and Harvard education, cut off short of the…

Fifty years before its golden age, Athens was just another city-state in Sparta''s shadow. David Stuttard tells the story of…

Focusing on Marxism and Rawlsian liberalism, G. A. Cohen argues that egalitarian justice is not only a matter of rules that…

Deeply Responsible Business profiles corporate leaders of the past two centuries who made social missions vital to their…

Legal Lessons examines how China''s party-state attempted to motivate ordinary citizens to learn laws during the Mao period.…

Conflict is inevitable, in both deals and disputes. Yet when clients call in the lawyers to haggle over who gets how much of…

Living with Robots recounts a foundational shift in robotics, from artificial intelligence to artificial empathy, and…

More than 50 years later the murky circumstances and tragic symbolism of Patrice Lumumba''s assassination trouble people…

The interdisciplinary essays in Global Gold'-by scholars of European, American, African, and Asian history and art…

Philosophers'-professionals and the armchair variety'-are given to defending comprehensive world views. Raymond Geuss, one…

Quine''s widely used textbook of modern formal logic now offers a number of new features: updated notations, selective…

Nobel Laureate Edmund Phelps argues that the high level of innovation in the West was not a result of scientific discoveries…

After years of running a cutting-edge chemistry lab, Jen Heemstra shares hard-won advice for scientific leadership. Showing…

This book develops an original theory of group and organizational behavior that cuts across disciplinary lines and…

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Cutting a path from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the Panama Canal set a new course for the development of Central…

The Byzantine Sinbad collects The Book of Syntipas the Philosopher, originally a Persian story, and the sixty-two tales of…

Giovanni Gioviano Pontano was one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance as well as a leading statesman. Eclogues and…

Homilies collects seven sermons delivered by Sophronios during his short tenure as patriarch of Jerusalem, which coincided…

Celestial Masters is the first book in any Western language devoted solely to the founding of Daoism. It traces the movement…

Equality is the endangered species of political ideas. Even left-of-centre politicians reject equality as an ideal:…

Never before has there been a single-volume anthology of modern Irish poetry so significant and groundbreaking as "An…

Tracing constitutional thought from the Enlightenment to the present, Martin Loughlin shows how a tool for the protection of…

Grounded in the legacies of two pioneering scholars of oral literature, Milman Parry and Albert Lord, Singers and Tales in…

A single species of fly, Drosophila melanogaster, has been the subject of scientific research for more than one hundred…

John Mack explores the relationship between Lawrence's inner life and his historically significant actions. Interviews,…

Taylor shows that the modern turn inward is not disastrous but is in fact the result of our long efforts to define and reach…

Against Nazi dictatorship,the disillusionment of Weimar, and Christian austerity, Hermann Hesse''s stories inspired a…

We often think of the Balkans as a region beset by turmoil and backwardness, but from late antiquity to the present it has…

What is law, and why does it matter? Scott Hershovitz says that law is a moral practice'-a tool for adjusting our moral…

Yakov Feygin argues that Soviet decline owes much to internal tensions over economic reform. Focused on socioeconomic…

Political theorists focus on the nature of justice, liberty, and equality while ignoring the institutions through which…

Bargains are a fact of political life. But if bargaining inevitably involves asymmetric power, can it ever be just? Drawing…

The sense of reading as an intimate act of self-discovery'-and of communion between authors and book lovers'-has a long…

Cristanne Miller's major edition of Dickinson's poems presents the 1,100 poems the poet retained during her lifetime, in the…

The roots of modern Western legal institutions and concepts go back nine centuries to the Papal Revolution, when the Western…

Kniha 9780674430006 Capital in the Twenty-First Century Thomas Piketty…

Why, in the ''90s, did business flourish in California''s Silicon Valley but decline along Route 128 in Massachusetts? The…