America is a nation making itself up as it goes along-a story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images,…

\nGrounded in the legacies of two pioneering scholars of oral literature, Milman Parry and Albert Lord, Singers and Tales in…

A single species of fly, Drosophila melanogaster, has been the subject of scientific research for more than one hundred…

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In a society where trust is in short supply and democracy weak, the Mafia sells protection, a guarantee of safe conduct for…

\nThe United States is the global leader in higher education, but this was not always the case and may not remain so.…

Contains forty lessons designed to introduce beginning students to the basic patterns and structures of Classical Chinese,…

A major work by one of the more innovative thinkers of our time, Politics of Nature does nothing less than establish the…

Political theorists focus on the nature of justice, liberty, and equality while ignoring the institutions through which…

The sense of reading as an intimate act of self-discovery-and of communion between authors and book lovers-has a long…

\nTracing constitutional thought from the Enlightenment to the present, Martin Loughlin shows how a tool for the protection…

Do democratic citizens have equal right to rule? Is it enough that they have equal standing before the law, or must there…

Juliane Noth shows how art and discussions about the future of ink painting were linked to the reshaping of the country,…

\nKey contemporary discussions of distributive justice have formulated egalitarian approaches in terms of responsibility.…

Alexis de Tocqueville famously wrote about democracy in America, but he also lauded Catholic society in Quebec, feared the…

Babyn Yar brings together the responses to the tragic events of September 1941. Presented here in the original and in…

Tracing the structure and evolution of Idealism as a doctrine, this title exposes an objective, or realist, strain running…

Nicole Fleetwood enters American prisons to explore the creativity flourishing there. Though isolated and degraded,…

This book is significant for its concept of "openness"-the artist's decision to leave arrangements of some constituents of a…

Modern theories of meaning usually culminate in a critique of science. Philosophy in a New Key presents a study of human…

In 1675 English America descended into anarchy, as rebellions, massacres, and riots swept the colonies from New York to…

Betrayal seems to have lost its grip on the public consciousness in liberal societies, yet it is all around us, dissolving…

Long before the European Union was the ideal of Europe: a continent politically united and thereby at peace. In a pointed…

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

Rationality and freedom are among the most profound and contentious concepts in philosophy and the social sciences. In two…

Emphasizing that science can only be understood through its practice, the author examines science and technology in action:…

Nozick develops new views on philosophy's central topics and weaves them into a unified perspective. He ranges widely over…

Under French rule, majority Muslim Algeria became one of the world's largest wine producers. Owen White explores the impact…

Grice's account of speaker-meaning is the standard others use to define their own minor divergences or future elaborations.…

How did Hong Kong, long an affluent and depoliticized hub of global capitalism, become the center of popular anticolonial…

\nOrganizations now measure and rank nearly every aspect of our lives, using data to make predictions about our purchasing…

Bernardo Zacka probes the complex moral lives of street-level bureaucrats-the frontline social and welfare workers, police…

Drawing on a range of hard evidence, Neil Van Leeuwen shows that the psychological mechanisms underlying religious belief…

Faced with government's ineptitude, people are attracted to strong leaders and bold action. As Pierre Rosanvallon…

From Booker T. Washington to a neighbor who speaks up at a city council meeting, many of the people who represent us were…

In Experimentalist Constitutions, the first book that systematically compares subnational experimentalism in different…

Leonard Bernstein's Norton Lectures on the future course of music drew cheers from his Harvard audiences and television…

\nDuring his long career, Hilary Putnam repeatedly revised his philosophical positions. This unique volume is a window into…

\nPhilosophers have spent millennia accumulating knowledge about knowledge. But negative epistemological phenomena, such as…

Timbuktu is famous as a center of learning from Islam's Golden Age. Yet it was one among many scholarly centers to exist in…

Pasteur's success depended upon a whole network of forces, including the public hygiene movement, the medical profession and…

In a new retelling of the romantic rationalist adventure of ideas that is Hegel's classic The Phenomenology of Spirit,…

Nelson and Winter focus their critique on the basic question of how firms and industries change overtime. They marshal…

In the 1960s biologists and social scientists engaged in a public debate about human nature. The question-whether humans are…

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From the History of the World series, Making Civilizations traces the origins of large-scale organized human societies. Led…

This text examines the nature of language from the perspective of inference rather than representation. It proposes a theory…

For six terror-filled weeks in 1870 German armies bombarded Strasbourg, killing hundreds of citizens, wounding thousands,…

Gregory Afinogenov explores centuries of Russian spying and scholarship on the Far East. He argues that the approaches the…

Many books have been written about strategy, tactics, and great commanders. This is the first book to deal exclusively with…