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…

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More than twenty years after its original appearance in Italian, "The Open Work" remains significant for its powerful…

Guru to the World tells the story of Swami Vivekananda, the nineteenth-century Hindu ascetic who introduced the West to yoga…

Do democratic citizens have equal right to rule? Is it enough that they have equal standing before the law, or must there…

The US government has long sought investment opportunities for US companies in developing countries. But the results have…

Juliane Noth shows how art and discussions about the future of ink painting were linked to the reshaping of the country,…

Alexis de Tocqueville famously wrote about democracy in America, but he also lauded Catholic society in Quebec, feared the…

The Greek war for independence (1821'-1830) goes missing from the narrative of the Age of Revolutions, yet the overthrow of…

For nearly two decades, including after its independence, Algeria was named as a part of the European Economic Community.…

Avant-Garde Post'- follows seven Russophone poets as they reinvigorate leftist art in the wake of state socialism. Rejecting…

The California Gold Rush is thought to exemplify the Wild West, yet miners were expert organizers. Driven by property…

Tracing the structure and evolution of Idealism as a doctrine, this title exposes an objective, or realist, strain running…

Nicole Fleetwood enters American prisons to explore the creativity flourishing there. Though isolated and degraded,…

Babyn Yar brings together the responses to the tragic events of September 1941. Presented here in the original and in…

Modern theories of meaning usually culminate in a critique of science. Philosophy in a New Key presents a study of human…

Nancy Hill and Alexis Redding contest the accusation that today''s young people are coddled and immature. Unearthing studies…

In 1675 English America descended into anarchy, as rebellions, massacres, and riots swept the colonies from New York to…

No major economy is more dependent on fossil fuel exports than Russia, yet it is unprepared for the global transition away…

Margarita Fajardo tells the story of the cepalinos, Latin American economists and policymakers, and their dependentista…

Long before the European Union was the ideal of Europe: a continent politically united and thereby at peace. In a pointed…

This book reveals what life was really like in the ancient world. The emergence of Christianity in the West and Christian…

Rationality and freedom are among the most profound and contentious concepts in philosophy and the social sciences. In two…

Revision seems to be an intrinsic part of good writing. But Hannah Sullivan argues that we inherit our faith in redrafting…

This volume, Grice's first book, includes the long-delayed publication of his enormously influential 1967 William James…

Nozick develops new views on philosophy''s central topics and weaves them into a unified perspective. He ranges widely over…

How did Hong Kong, long an affluent and depoliticized hub of global capitalism, become the center of popular anticolonial…

Political theorist Jeremy Waldron makes a bracing case against identifying rule of law with predictability. Seeing the rule…

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

In 1900 the Catholic Church stood staunchly against human rights, religious freedom, and the secular state disastrous…

The 700-year history of the novel in English defies straightforward telling. Encompassing a range of genres, it is…

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

Charles Maier offers a new narrative of the long twentieth century, focused on institutions that shaped politics and…

National security once was not limited to physical defense. FDR equated national security with safety from foreign attack…

The Op-Ed Novel follows a clutch of globally renowned Spanish novelists who swept into the political sphere via the pages of…

Faced with government''s ineptitude, people are attracted to strong leaders and bold action. As Pierre Rosanvallon…

From Booker T. Washington to a neighbor who speaks up at a city council meeting, many of the people who represent us were…

Consumers, investors, and corporations orient their activities toward a future that contains opportunities and risks. How do…

In Experimentalist Constitutions, the first book that systematically compares subnational experimentalism in different…

The New Biology argues that mechanical reductionism, though helpful in answering many biological questions, cannot on its…

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