Everywhere we hear of decline, of a world that was better before the influence of modernity. While some lament Western…

A visionary reexamination of the value of privacy in today's hypermediated world-not just as a political right but as the…

Kniha 9780674766877 Return of Thematic Criticism Werner Sollors…

The State of Housing Design 2023 is the first report in a new series that reviews national trends, ideas, and critical…

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Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year AwardA Financial Times Best Business Book of the…

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Produkt Bring the War Home zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard University Press.…

If a country's Gross Domestic Product increases each year, but so does the percentage of its people deprived of basic…

The author argues that the physical sciences cannot address many aspects of nature and that living organisms must be…

George Vaillant discusses these and other questions in terms of a clearly defined scheme of "adaptive mechanisms" that are…

In a sequence of short, condensed entries, Ferenczi''s diary records self-critical reflections on conventional…

This study makes the psychological case against the reliability of the eyewitness. By shedding light on the many factors…

How did the dog become man’s best friend? A celebrated anthropologist unearths the mysterious origins of the unique…

Michele Lamont takes us into the world inhabited by working-class men - the world as they understand it. Interviewing black…

Giacomo Corneo presents a refreshingly antidogmatic review of economic systems, in the form of a fictional dialogue between…

lfric''s Catholic Homilies convey mainstream Christian thought at the turn of the millennium. The first series draws on the…

Rebecca Haw Allensworth pries open the inner workings of professional licensing boards, showing how they erect arbitrary…

In this richly detailed cultural and political history, David Narrett shows how Cherokee nationhood emerged from the…

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, the most famous philosopher of the Italian Renaissance, urged Christians to save their souls…

This second volume of a projected six-volume set of the complete Vulgate Bible presents the Historical Books of the Bible,…

Largely forgotten today, the Second Mexican Empire was a transformative nineteenth-century moment. Raymond Jonas explores…

Adult humans have impressive pieces of cognitive equipment, but in Cecilia Heyes's view these cognitive gadgets are not…

In her introduction to Northanger Abbey'-part of Harvard''s celebrated annotated Austen series'-Susan Wolfson proposes that…

Plutarch (ca. AD 45'-120) wrote on many subjects. His extant works other than the Parallel Lives are varied, about sixty in…

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Library of History is in three parts: mythical history to the Trojan War; history to Alexander''s death (323 BC); history to…

After personal inquiry and study of hearsay and other evidence, Herodotus (born ca. 484 BC) gives us in his famous history…

Demosthenes (384'-322 BC), orator at Athens, was a pleader in law courts who also became a champion of Athenian greatness…

Pausanias, one of the Roman world''s great travelers, sketches in Description of Greece the history, geography, landmarks,…

The major works by Josephus are History of the Jewish War, from 170 BC to his own time, and Jewish Antiquities, from…

A uniquely data-rich analysis of the British elite from the Victorian era to today: who gets in, how they get there, what…

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

What will it take to make humanity a spacefaring species? The usual: good reasons and good planning. Christopher Wanjek…

In this exceptional collection of dispatches from occupied Donbas, writer and journalist Stanislav Aseyev details the…

Peter Brown explores a revolutionary shift in thinking about the fate of the soul between 250 and 650 CE, showing how…

Produkt Tacky''s Revolt zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard University Press.…

The American working class didn''t disappear with the manufacturing economy. It transformed. Instead of unionized…

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

More than five million Americans suffer from eating disorders, according to the National Institute of Mental Health, and an…

The Greek poetry of the archaic period that we call elegy was composed primarily for banquets and convivial gatherings. Its…

The philosopher Philo was born about 20 BCE to a prominent Jewish family in Alexandria, the chief home of the Jewish…

If the work of Hippocrates is taken as representing the foundation upon which the edifice of historical Greek medicine was…

In PoeticsAristotle (384 322 BCE) treats Greek tragedy and epic. The subject of On the Sublime, attributed to an…

Aeneas was perhaps a general, and certainly author of several didactic military works of which the sole survivor is that on…

The importance of Isocrates for the study of Greek civilisation of the fourth century BCE is indisputable. From 403 to 393…

In his last book, Ronald Dworkin addresses questions that men and women have asked through the ages: What is religion and…

Make Your Own Job charts the transformation of the American work ethic in the twentieth century. It is no longer enough to…

Since the 1960s, the Supreme Court has enabled mass incarceration through rulings that violate constitutional curbs on…

In a tour of Western culture that is at once exhilarating and alarming, Nelson shows us the distorted forms in which the…

The Roman emperor Nero is remembered as the vain and immoral monster who fiddled while Rome burned. He murdered his younger…