Reviewing previous research and presenting new empirical data from Sweden and elsewhere, the authors of this revised volume…

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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…

Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 10643 BCE), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other…

Hadot shows how the schools, trends, and ideas of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy strove to transform the individual's…

Thomas Hobbes laid the theoretical groundwork of the nation-state in Leviathan, his tough-minded 1651 treatise. Charles…

The fifteen essays in this volume apply the methods of the new economic history to the history of the Latin American…

Measuring Up demystifies educational testing-from MCAS to SAT to WAIS. Bringing statistical terms down to earth, Koretz…

Fusing digital humanities with media studies and graphic design history, Graphesis offers a critical language for analysis…

Walter Benjamin's posthumously published collection of writings on hashish is a detailed blueprint for a book that was never…

Saturnalia has been prized since the Renaissance as a treasure trove of otherwise unattested lore.…

\nSelected Stories by Franz Kafka offers new renderings of the author’s finest work. Mark Harman’s English translations…

Offers a selection of nuggets drawn from 33 of antiquity's major authors, including poetry, dialogue, philosophical writing,…

\nTA-U-RO-QO-RO takes up problems of script and language representation and textual interpretation, ranging from the use of…

A new edition of The Orator's Education.…

In a new approach to philosophical anthropology, Bruno Latour offers answers to questions raised in We Have Never Been…

Volume I of the nine-volume Loeb edition of Early Greek Philosophy presents the editors' preface and introductory notes…

In clear, non-technical language, Ruse offers a full and fair assessment of the status of the argument from design in light…

The "Meditations" of Marcus Aurelius is seen as one of the three most important expressions of Stoicism. Pierre Hadot here…

This text originated as lectures for a course on political philosophy that John Rawls taught regularly at Harvard in the…

Progymnasmata, exercises in the study of declamation, were the cornerstone of elite education from Hellenistic through…

In a work of lucid prose and striking originality, Bell offers the first comprehensive survey of patriotism and national…

The life of literary critic and philosopher Benjamin (1892-1940) is a veritable allegory of the life of letters in the 20th…

Ancient Greek thought is the essential wellspring from which the intellectual, ethical, and political civilization of the…

Emphasizing the influence of the physical environment on individual and collective perception, this book provides the…

Durling's edition of Petrarch's poems has become the standard. Readers have praised the translation of the authoritative…

Chaisson addresses some of the most basic issues we can contemplate: the origin of matter and the origin of life, and the…

These eight reports by white settlers held captive by Indians have gripped the imaginations of American writers through our…

This book is a complete translation of the fragments of the pre-Socratic philosophers given in the fifth edition of Diels,…

As the United States aggressively expands its exports of liquefied natural gas, it stands poised to become an energy…

Defending the spirit of science against its cultural adversaries, these essays express a viewpoint that is reductionist,…

Shaper Nations provides perspectives on the national strategies of eight countries that are shaping global politics in the…

This elegant new book created by a team of leading historians in collaboration with The New York Public Library traces…

In spite of an unprecedented period of growth and prosperity, the poverty rate in the U.S. remains high relative to the…

Exploiting our boundless desire to access everything all the time, digital technology is breaking down whatever boundaries…

In readings attuned to the textual, sexual and historical specificities of John Ashbery's poetry, from "Some Trees" to "Flow…

Shows how hundreds of thousands of clay tablets testify to the history of an ancient society that communicated broadly…

Long recognized as the best and most comprehensive work on its subject, Brown's fine book is now thoroughly revised and…

In this enlarged 4th edition Fairbank includes a new Preface and an Epilogue that bring the book up to date through 1982. He…

Nozick continues the Socratic tradition of investigation in this volume, which illustrates the originality, force, and scope…

Why do the paintings and poetry of the Italian Renaissance-a celebration of classical antiquity-also depict the Florentine…

Progressing gradually from babbling to meaningful sentences is something most babies do naturally. But why do they? John L.…

What India's founders derived from Western political traditions is widely understood. Less well-known is how India's own…

Barry Allen explores the concept of knowledge in Chinese thought over two millennia and compares the different philosophical…

Today most philosophers in the English-speaking world adhere to "naturalist" credos that philosophy is continuous with…

A widely-accepted explanation for India's national unity is a narrative called the bhakti movement-poet-saints singing…

A stellar lineup of international cognitive scientists, philosophers, and artists make a case that the brain is…