Insects may gather in modest groups, like the dozen sawfly larvae feeding on a pine needle, or they may form huge masses,…

A generation has passed since a physician first noticed that women who drank heavily while pregnant gave birth to…

Eisgruber focuses directly on the Constitution's seemingly undemocratic features, locating the Constitution's value in its…

Relations among the United States, Taiwan, and China challenge policymakers, international relations specialists, and a…

Margalit's work offers a philosophy for our time, when, in the wake of overwhelming atrocities, memory can seem more…

"Are you an American, or are you not?" This is the question at the heart of Katherine Benton-Cohen's provocative history,…

From huge, fragile airships hanging in the sky to dashing young war pilots obsessed with death and destruction, this text…

"Green sisters," environmentally active Catholic nuns, work to heal the earth as they cultivate new forms of religious…

Traces the story of the rise, decline, and potential resurrection of American public schools through the lives and ideas of…

Emily Rosenberg examines the social and cultural networks that emerged from global exchanges between 1870 and 1945.…

Alba argues that the social cleavages separating Americans into distinct, unequal ethno-racial groups could narrow…

In The Science and Fiction of Autism, one of the country's leading experts in behavioral treatments approaches autism…

Based on years of fieldwork with the New York City Police Department and the District Attorney of New York, this book…

Kepel urges us to escape the ideological quagmire of terrorism and martyrdom and explore the terms of a new and constructive…

The first book in many years to take in the full sweep of national fiction, The Dream of the Great American Novel explains…

Kennedy takes us into the controlled commotion of the classroom, revealing how painstakingly teachers plan their lessons,…

Consumer electronics and computers redefined life and work in the twentieth century. In Inventing the Electronic Century,…

Jolly demonstrates that the females who came after Lucy played as crucial a role in the human evolutionary process as "man"…

Today 12.5 million U.S. Latinos self-identify as Protestant, and Assemblies of God is the destination for one out of four…

Humphries offers an explanation of why consciousness makes compelling evolutionary sense. From sensations that probably…

With passion and compassion, Gillick chronicles the stories of elders who have struggled with housing options, with medical…

Part riveting account of fieldwork and part rigorous academic study, this book offers a unique perspective on the…

When we talk about education, we tend to avoid the rhetoric of "mastery," with its erotic and inegalitarian overtones. But…

In this biography of hydrogen, Rigden shows how this singular atom-the most abundant in the universe-has helped unify our…

Intention is one of the masterworks of 20th-century philosophy. First published in 1957, it has acquired the status of a…

The Rhetorica ad Herrenium was traditionally attributed to Cicero (106 43 BCE), and reflects, as does Cicero s De…

Volume VIII of the nine-volume Loeb edition of Early Greek Philosophy includes the so-called sophists Protagoras, Gorgias,…

Of the roughly seventy treatises in the Hippocratic Collection, many are not by Hippocrates (said to have been born in Cos…

Volume VI of the nine-volume Loeb edition of Early Greek Philosophy includes the later Ionian and Athenian thinkers…

Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BCE. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the…

Aristophanes has been admired since antiquity for his wit, fantasy, language, and satire. Over forty of his plays were read…

Bite and wit characterize two seminal and stellar authors in the history of satirical writing, Persius (AD 34-62) and…

The Mind of a Mnemonist is a rare phenomenon--a scientific study that transcends its data and, in the manner of the best…

Virgil (70-19 BC) was a poet of immense virtuosity and influence. His Eclogues deal with bucolic life and love, his Georgics…

Euripides (ca. 485-406 BC) has been prized in every age for his emotional and intellectual drama. Eighteen of his ninety or…

Volume VII of the nine-volume Loeb edition of Early Greek Philosophy includes the atomists Leucippus and Democritus.…

Mr. Danto argues that recent developments in the artworld, in particular the production of works of art that cannot be told…

For scientist and layman alike this book provides vivid evidence that the Copernican Revolution has by no means lost its…

The stark immediacy of what happened in 1692 has obscured the complex web of human passion which had been growing for more…

Volume V of the nine-volume Loeb edition of Early Greek Philosophy includes the western Greek thinkers Parmenides, Zeno,…

Volume III of the four-volume Loeb edition of Early Greek Philosophy presents later philosophical systems and their…

Davis retrieves three women's lives from historical obscurity to give us a window onto the early modern world. Glikl bas…

Euripides (ca. 485-406 BC) has been prized in every age for his emotional and intellectual drama. Eighteen of his ninety or…

We know more of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, than of any other Roman.…

Volume IX of the nine-volume Loeb edition of Early Greek Philosophy includes the so-called sophists Antiphon, Lycophron, and…

The great Athenian philosopher Plato was born in 427 BC and lived to be eighty. Acknowledged masterpieces among his works…

Aeschylus (ca. 525-456 BC) is the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the world's great art forms. Seven of his…

Greek literary education and Roman political reality are evident in the poetry of Statius. His Silvae are thirty-two…