
A New Literary History of America
America is a nation making itself up as it goes along-a story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images,…
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America is a nation making itself up as it goes along-a story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images,…
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\nGrounded in the legacies of two pioneering scholars of oral literature, Milman Parry and Albert Lord, Singers and Tales in…
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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…
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\nThe United States is the global leader in higher education, but this was not always the case and may not remain so.…
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Contains forty lessons designed to introduce beginning students to the basic patterns and structures of Classical Chinese,…
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A major work by one of the more innovative thinkers of our time, Politics of Nature does nothing less than establish the…
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Political theorists focus on the nature of justice, liberty, and equality while ignoring the institutions through which…
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The sense of reading as an intimate act of self-discovery-and of communion between authors and book lovers-has a long…
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\nTracing constitutional thought from the Enlightenment to the present, Martin Loughlin shows how a tool for the protection…
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Do democratic citizens have equal right to rule? Is it enough that they have equal standing before the law, or must there…
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Juliane Noth shows how art and discussions about the future of ink painting were linked to the reshaping of the country,…
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\nKey contemporary discussions of distributive justice have formulated egalitarian approaches in terms of responsibility.…
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Alexis de Tocqueville famously wrote about democracy in America, but he also lauded Catholic society in Quebec, feared the…
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Babyn Yar brings together the responses to the tragic events of September 1941. Presented here in the original and in…
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Tracing the structure and evolution of Idealism as a doctrine, this title exposes an objective, or realist, strain running…
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Nicole Fleetwood enters American prisons to explore the creativity flourishing there. Though isolated and degraded,…
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This book is significant for its concept of "openness"-the artist's decision to leave arrangements of some constituents of a…
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Modern theories of meaning usually culminate in a critique of science. Philosophy in a New Key presents a study of human…
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In 1675 English America descended into anarchy, as rebellions, massacres, and riots swept the colonies from New York to…
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Betrayal seems to have lost its grip on the public consciousness in liberal societies, yet it is all around us, dissolving…
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Long before the European Union was the ideal of Europe: a continent politically united and thereby at peace. In a pointed…
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Today's electric power companies compete to provide cleaner electricity. That's a good thing, but progress has come with…
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Rationality and freedom are among the most profound and contentious concepts in philosophy and the social sciences. In two…
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Emphasizing that science can only be understood through its practice, the author examines science and technology in action:…
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Nozick develops new views on philosophy's central topics and weaves them into a unified perspective. He ranges widely over…
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Under French rule, majority Muslim Algeria became one of the world's largest wine producers. Owen White explores the impact…
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Grice's account of speaker-meaning is the standard others use to define their own minor divergences or future elaborations.…
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How did Hong Kong, long an affluent and depoliticized hub of global capitalism, become the center of popular anticolonial…
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\nOrganizations now measure and rank nearly every aspect of our lives, using data to make predictions about our purchasing…
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Bernardo Zacka probes the complex moral lives of street-level bureaucrats-the frontline social and welfare workers, police…
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Drawing on a range of hard evidence, Neil Van Leeuwen shows that the psychological mechanisms underlying religious belief…
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Faced with government's ineptitude, people are attracted to strong leaders and bold action. As Pierre Rosanvallon…
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From Booker T. Washington to a neighbor who speaks up at a city council meeting, many of the people who represent us were…
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In Experimentalist Constitutions, the first book that systematically compares subnational experimentalism in different…
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Leonard Bernstein's Norton Lectures on the future course of music drew cheers from his Harvard audiences and television…
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\nDuring his long career, Hilary Putnam repeatedly revised his philosophical positions. This unique volume is a window into…
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\nPhilosophers have spent millennia accumulating knowledge about knowledge. But negative epistemological phenomena, such as…
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Timbuktu is famous as a center of learning from Islam's Golden Age. Yet it was one among many scholarly centers to exist in…
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Pasteur's success depended upon a whole network of forces, including the public hygiene movement, the medical profession and…
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In a new retelling of the romantic rationalist adventure of ideas that is Hegel's classic The Phenomenology of Spirit,…
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Nelson and Winter focus their critique on the basic question of how firms and industries change overtime. They marshal…
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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…
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This text examines the nature of language from the perspective of inference rather than representation. It proposes a theory…
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For six terror-filled weeks in 1870 German armies bombarded Strasbourg, killing hundreds of citizens, wounding thousands,…
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Gregory Afinogenov explores centuries of Russian spying and scholarship on the Far East. He argues that the approaches the…
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Many books have been written about strategy, tactics, and great commanders. This is the first book to deal exclusively with…
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