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Argues for a fresh perspective on disaster law that is based on the principles of environmental protection. This title…

What is a Palestinian state worth? This book poses questions about the history, meaning, future, and resolution of the…

Men presents a new approach to understanding the human male by drawing upon life history and evolutionary theory.…

Physiologist Scott Turner argues eloquently that the apparent design we see in the living world only makes sense when we add…

In a brilliant assessment of American culture on the eve of the millennium, Mark Edmundson asks why we're determined to be…

Bowler doesn't minimize the hostility of many of the faithful toward evolution, but he reveals the less well-known existence…

In this down-to-earth book, filled with the voices of young people speaking for themselves, Savin-Williams argues that the…

This book is aimed at the trouble with trying to learn about probability. A story of the misconceptions and difficulties…

This book challenges our most basic ideas about slavery and freedom in America. Instead of seeing emancipation as the…

Spreading democracy abroad or protecting business at home: this book offers a new look at the history of the contest between…

Takes a longer view of the crisis of democratic capitalism as the American and world economies crawl gradually back from the…

Kagan and Snidman summarize the results of this unique inquiry into human temperaments, one of the best-known longitudinal…

This beautifully illustrated book offers a synthesis of Cleopatra's and Rome's defining moments through surviving art and…

Rich with philosophical asides, historical speculations, personal observations, and literary judgments, this book ranges…

Migration Miracle humanizes the immigration controversy by exploring the harsh realities of the migrants' desperate…

It has become commonplace these days to speak of "unpacking" texts. This book is about packing that prose in the first…

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Most kids in the developed world finish high school-but not in the United States. More than a million drop out every year,…

The search for durable peace in lands torn by ethno-national conflict is among the most urgent issues shaping our global…

Frost notoriously resisted collecting his prose-going so far as to halt the publication of a prepared compilation and to…

Am I Making Myself Clear? shows scientists how to speak to the public, handle the media, and describe their work to a lay…

In this hard-hitting history of "the gospel of education," W. Norton Grubb and Marvin Lazerson reveal the allure, and the…

Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg sees much of the world from the window of his study overlooking Lake Austin.…

Through data on thousands of people, and hundreds of memoirs and autobiographies, Appleby tells intersecting stories of how…

In a book sure to provoke debate, Minxin Pei examines the sustainability of the Chinese Communist Party's reform…

Saving lives versus taking lives: These are the stark terms in which the public regards human embryo research-a battleground…

In a steamy colonial city, an eccentric Frenchman offers for sale an extraordinary collection of primitive art. The two…

In contrast to the "clash of civilizations" theory that sees Islam inevitably in conflict with the West, Crews reveals the…

In his latest book, Bainbridge combines an otherworldly journey through the central nervous system with an accessible and…

As Louisiana and Cuba emerged from slavery in the late nineteenth century, each faced the question of what rights former…

Dupre examines the way courts have wrestled with student expression in school. Speaking Up offers eye-opening history for…

Focusing on the Palestinian refugee camp at Ain al-Helweh, Rougier documents how Sunni fundamentalists, through their own…

The notion of the author as the creator and therefore the first owner of a work is deeply rooted both in our economic system…

In a series of exquisite examples, Matthews demonstrates that children have a capacity for puzzlement and mental play that…

In a book sure to inspire controversy, Gene Heyman argues that conventional wisdom about addiction-that it is a disease, a…

Just as economists struggle today to justify the free market after the global economic crisis, an earlier generation…

Johnson begins with the most elementary thing we know: deconstruction calls attention to gaps and reveals that their claims…

This book re-creates the experience of black New Yorkers as they moved from slavery to freedom. In the early decades of the…

Listening in on public conversation that recreates Elvis after death, Marcus tracks Presley's resurrection. He grafts…

Americans today "know" that a majority of the population supports the death penalty and that half of all marriages end in…

Too many American families are in serious peril, and both the reality of the situation and the myths obscuring that reality…

Max Hall here chronicles the early stages and first sixty years of Harvard University Press in a rich and entertaining book…

The unparalleled success of insects is the story told in this highly entertaining book. How do these often tiny but…

Drawing its title from a poem by Jorie Graham, Soul Says collects twenty-one of Helen Vendler's best essays on the force,…

In 1776 the U.S. owed huge sums to foreign creditors and its own citizens but, lacking the power to tax, had no means to…

From 1687, the year when Newton published his Principia, to the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851, science gradually became…

Charles Rosen gives us a performance of literary criticism as high art, a critical conjuring of the Romantic period by way…

As Hegel famously noted, the goddess Minerva's owl brought back wisdom only at dusk, when it was too late to shine light on…

From foster care to adoption to visitation rights and beyond, Guggenheim offers an analysis of the most significant debates…