Chronicling the emergence of deeply embedded notions of black people as a dangerous race of criminals by explicit contrast…

"In principle, venture capital is where the ordinarily conservative, cynical domain of big money touches dreamy, long-shot…

While the birth of global economic governance is conventionally dated to the end of World War II, Jamie Martin shows how its…

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In The Length of Days, featuring a wild cast of characters, Rafeyenko combines poetry and wicked humor with elements of…

"Inspiring and informative...deserves to be widely read."--Wall Street Journal"This fun book offers a philosophical take on…

Read the Bldg Blog interview with Mary Beard about the Wonders of the World series(Part I and Part II)Westminster Abbey is…

A Forbes Best Business Book. "Vital reading for today’s and tomorrow’s leaders.” ―Arianna Huffington "Burnout seems to be…

A successful business deal maximizes value for all parties. Drawing on diverse case studies and decades of experience,…

For decades neuroscientists understood sensory perception as a matter of external stimuli '"sparking'" regions of the brain.…

The transformation of the Roman world from polytheistic to Christian is one of the most sweeping ideological changes of…

What is race and why does it matter? Why does the presence of Others make us so afraid? America''s foremost novelist…

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Long before Greeks dominated the ancient Mediterranean, Phoenicians were the lords of the sea. Setting out from their…

Offers a vision of how Islam first evolved. This title argues that the origins of Islam lie in what we may call the…

Ancient Greek Heroes, Athletes, Poetry centers on masterpieces of ancient Greek literature, from the Iliad and Odyssey to…

Davis retrieves three women''s lives from historical obscurity to give us a window onto the early modern world. Glikl bas…

One of our foremost commentators examines the work of a broad range of English, Irish, and American poets. Helen Vendler's…

During the past twenty years, the world's most renowned critical theorist--the scholar who defined the field of postcolonial…

Testosterone is neither the biological essence of manliness nor even the '"male sex hormone.'" It doesn''t predict…

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The Frontline collects essays in a companion volume to Plokhy''s The Gates of Europe and Chernobyl. The essays present…

Mir Taqi Mir (1723'-1810), widely regarded as the most accomplished Urdu poet, composed his ghazals in a distinctive Indian…

The 700 poems of Hindi poet Biharilal''s Satsai weave amorous narratives of the god Krishna and the goddess Radha with hero…

Many Americans fear the power of unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats'-the '"deep state.'" Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule…

It can seem as though the Cold War division of Europe was inevitable. But Stalin was more open to a settlement on the…

The Market has deified itself, according to Harvey Cox''s brilliant exegesis. And all of the world''s problems'-widening…

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Despite American education's mania for standardized tests, testing misses what matters most about learning: the desire to…

Branko Milanovic presents a bold account of the dynamics that drive inequality on a global scale. Using vast data sets, he…

Finalist, National Book Critics Circle AwardFinalist, National Book Award in NonfictionA New York Times Book Review "The…

A majority of evolutionary biologists believe that we now can envision our biological predecessors - not the first, but…

Sarah Bilston unfolds the story of orchid mania, the nineteenth-century craze among European and North American collectors…

Does the world make you sick? If the distractions and distortions around you, the jarring colors and sounds, could shake up…

Focusing on the 17th-century play of mourning, Walter Benjamin identifies allegory as the constitutive trope of modernity,…

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When the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in December 2010, its recipient, Liu Xiaobo, was serving an eleven-year sentence in a…

In his final work, Richard Rorty provides the definitive statement of his political thought. Rorty equates pragmatism with…

The Mongol takeover in the 1270s changed the course of Chinese history. The Confucian empire - a millennium and a half in…

Drawing on Debord and Deleuze, this book offers a systematic restatement of Marxist thought for the age of cyberspace and…

A pioneer of LGBTQ studies dares to suggest that gayness is a way of being that gay men must learn from one another to…

Cyrus the Great re-contextualizes Cyrus''s epoch in light of recent scholarship. Themes include: Mesopotamian antecedents of…

Produkt Rise and Fall of Neoliberal Capitalism zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard University Press.…

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An award-winning genetic researcher and a tenacious journalist examine each phase of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, the…

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The Bible is full of ancient texts long predating the assembly of Judaism''s and Christianity''s sacred books. Why these…

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Loury describes a cycle of tainted social information that has resulted in a self-replicating pattern of racial stereotypes…

The story of Black education is about more than desegregation and inclusion in mainstream schooling. Jarvis Givens returns…