By focusing on a single year not overshadowed by an epochal event, this title provides a fresh look at Mediterranean…

Timeless advice about how to use humor to win over any audience Can jokes win a hostile room, a hopeless argument, or even…

• Rok vydání 1856

A complete and unabridged full-color edition of the classic sourcebook on ornamental designFirst published in 1856, The…

Trigonometry has always been an underappreciated branch of mathematics. It has a reputation as a dry and difficult subject,…

Sophocles' tragedies - from "Antigone" to "Oedipus Tyrannus" - are filled with highly wrought, vivid, and emotionally…

Joseph Frank's award-winning, five-volume "Dostoevsky" is widely recognized as the best biography of the writer in any…

Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European.…

The human propensity to take an ethical stance toward oneself and others is found in every known society, yet we also know…

Explores how graphs can serve as maps to guide us when the information we have is ambiguous or incomplete. This work takes…

Introducing evidence from more than 600 secret Ottoman documents, this book demonstrates in unprecedented detail that the…

A splendid new translation of one of the greatest books on friendship ever writtenIn a world where social media, online…

• Rok vydání 2021

In sixteen concise chapters on key topics, this book provides a rich, authoritative, and up-to-date introduction to Islamic…

In 2004, the French government instituted a ban on the wearing of 'conspicuous signs' of religious affiliation in public…

The first edition of Unequal Democracy was an instant classic, shattering illusions about American democracy and spurring…

More than ever before, radiation is a part of our modern daily lives. We own radiation-emitting phones, regularly get…

Presents the text of Chapman's translation of the "Odyssey" (1614-15), making only a small number of modifications to…

Compares the demographic characteristics and political views of voters and nonvoters in American presidential elections…

Provides a complete and annotated translation of the famous "Chin P'ing Mei", an anonymous sixteenth-century Chinese novel…

Presents an English translation of the famous Chinese handbook, the "Chieh Tzu Yuan Hua Chuan" (original, 1679-1701). This…

Based on three lectures delivered at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1984, this work provides a useful focal point for…

Revised edition of: A neotropical companion. 2nd ed., rev. and expanded. c1997.…

New insights into how the Book of Samuel offers a timeless meditation on the dilemmas of statecraft The Book of Samuel is…

Offers a comprehensive political-economic history of the development of the world's multilateral trade institutions, the…

"In association with The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation."…

Why do very different countries often emulate the same policy model? Two years after Ronald Reagan's income-tax…

This is a collection of Ben Bernanke's essays on why the Great Depression was so devastating and lasted so long. The essays…

Examines how Americans form opinions on language policy issues such as declaring English the official language, printing…

Features a collection of essays, which explores questions such as the meaning of moral respect and the ways individuals…

Brings to a wide audience one of the most innovative and meaningful models of God for this post-Auschwitz era. In a return…

Offers an analysis of rigorous, empirical evidence that exposes the central paradox of racial representation. Using data on…

Presents the history of Anglophone political science which argues that the field's transformation shouldn't be mistaken for…

Situating Tocqueville in the context of the crisis of authority in post revolutionary France, this title shows that…

Features the lives of people - from German children fathered by black Occupation soldiers to communist activists, from…

Focuses on political, social, and institutional processes governed by the dynamics of power. The author shows how the…

Presents the works of Aristotle accessible to English speaking readers.…

Throughout the world, the rule against price fixing is competition law's most important and least controversial prohibition.…

In archaic and classical Greece, statues played a constant role in people's religious, political, economic, aesthetic, and…

This book originated from a 2010 conference marking the fortieth anniversary of the publication of the landmark "Phelps…

The limiting of violence through state powers is one of the central projects of the modern age. Why then have recent…

Presents the writings of Plato that are generally considered to be authentic. This title collects the contents from the work…

In the informal language of letters to public officials, Efraim Racker argues in favor of basic research as the most…

The essays in this book were originally presented by Professor Viner as the 1966 Jayne Lectures of the American…

Michel Benamou's essays have established his reputation as a critical interpreter of Stevens' relation to the French poetic…

A poet's tradition provides him with a sense of community that may be regarded as a necessary condition for poetry. Jenijoy…

Why do American couples differ in the number of children they have? To answer this question the first major longitudinal…

Using the assumptions of rationality and self-interest common to economic analysis, Professors Frohlich, Oppenheimer, and…

In an original and provocative demonstration that Coleridge's later poetry took on a powerful metaphysical conception,…