Law and policy treat corruption as something far less than it truly is. Using India''s long history as a case study, Sudhir…

Rotary International spreads America''s good news. The organization spent the interwar years convincing Main Street and the…

Andrew Kornbluth offers the first account of the August Trials, Poland''s halting judicial reckoning with wartime…

Is play an adaptation that teaches us skills and inducts us into communities? Is it power, pursued in games of prowess, or…

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

Human-generated greenhouse gas emissions imperil a global resource: a biosphere capable of supporting life as we know it.…

• Angličtina

Jazyk: Angličtina, Vazba: Pevná, Počet stran: 320, Nakladatelství: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674975231, Datum…

• Rok vydání 1868

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

Samantha Kelly tells the story of Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims in sixteenth-century Rome. The only African community in…

Julia Rombough explores the regulation of sound in women''s residential institutions in early modern Florence. Silence was…

How do we justify our political convictions? Libertarians appeal to a love of freedom, liberals to a dedication to fairness.…

Chinese Asianism analyzes Chinese views of East Asian solidarity in light of Chinese nationalism and Sino'-Japanese…

An exhaustive history of the human cranium and a guide to how each part of it functions.…

We think of noise as background sound that interferes with our ability to hear more interesting sounds. But noise is…

Douglas Baird takes stock of the current state of contract doctrine and in the process reinvigorates the classic framework…

Exposes the unrealistic assumptions of the rational expectations and real business cycle approaches and of mainstream…

Phenomenology has the strongest claim to the mantle of continental philosophy. Edward Baring shows that credit for its…

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…

A classic work, first published in 1941, translated into half a dozen languages, and now in a fifth edition, "Space, Time…

China''s modern history has been marked by deep spatial inequalities between regions, between cities, and between rural and…

Economists say there is a limit to what we gain by buying consumer goods. Americans say they want to work less. Yet we…

The Collapse of Heaven investigates a long-neglected century in Chinese literature through the lens of the Taiping War…

Big data, genomics, and quantitative approaches to network-based analysis are combining to advance the frontiers of medicine…

Drawing on both contemporaneous historical sources and modern literary criticism, Navigating Narratives offers unique…

The Evolving Self focuses upon the most basic and universal of psychological problems--the individual's effort to make sense…

Text and Interpretation examines the main characteristics of the legal thought of Imam Ja?far al-?adiq, preeminent religious…

Inscriptions: Architecture Before Speech presents a theory of contemporary architecture that spans the work of 112 practices…

In Dreaming and Self-Cultivation in China, 300 BCE'-800 CE, Robert Ford Campany examines how dreaming was addressed in texts…

The Qing dynasty office purchase system (juanna), which allowed individuals to pay for government appointments, was regarded…

Writers and intellectuals in modern Japan have long forged dialogues across the boundaries separating the spheres of…

When this classic was first published in 1975, it created a new discipline and started a tumultuous round in the nature…

Thousands were executed for incompatible religious views in 16th-century Europe. The meaning and significance of those…

Today''s electric power companies compete to provide cleaner electricity. That''s a good thing, but progress has come with…

Produkt Inequality zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard University Press.…

Hegel''s philosophy of history'-which most critics view as a theory of inevitable progress toward modern European…

Produkt Republic of Arabic Letters zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard University Press.…

Though celebrated at the peak of his career, Australian architect John Andrews'' fame waned over time. His body of work…

In Lineages Embedded in Temple Networks, Richard Wang explores the key role played by elite Daoists in social and cultural…

Though blacks were not often seen on the streets of seventeenth-century London, they were already capturing the British…

Meanings of Antiquity is the first dedicated study of how the oldest Japanese myths, recorded in the eighth-century texts…

Cataglyphis ants can set out across vast expanses of desert terrain in search of prey, and then find the shortest way home.…

Drawing on centuries of data, Julia CagĂ© and Thomas Piketty place today''s French politics in historical context. France is…

The first intellectual history of Song, Yuan, and Ming China written from a local perspective, Localizing Learning traces…

• Angličtina

Jazyk: Angličtina, Vazba: Pevná, Počet stran: 576, Nakladatelství: Harvard University Press, Autor: Bert…

Wang Hui asks what it means for China to be modern and for modernity to be Chinese. Is there a rupture between tradition and…

Daniel J. C. Kronauer brings to life the research surrounding army ants, nature''s preeminent social hunters. Without…

Minuchin traces for the first time the minute operations of day-to-day practice. Having achieved renown for his theoretical…