Offers a searing indictment of the many influential practices in the social sciences and humanities. The author best known…

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The search for a good undergraduate social science textbook is eternal, but with Imais book, the search may well be over. It…

What motivates judges as decision makers? This book offers a fresh perspective on this crucial question, a perspective based…

The assumption of American foreign policy is that China's post-1978 policy of 'reform and openness' will lead to political…

Examines reform in Russia beyond the Washington Consensus. This title uses the Russian case to examine neoliberalism as a…

Provides the comparative analysis of how "knowledge regimes" - communities of policy research organizations like think…

As recently as the early 1970s, the news media was one of the most respected institutions in the United States. Yet by the…

Presented in three parts, this book explores what's alluring and what's revolting in cunning. It draws on a range of…

Examines what happens to sweeping and seemingly successful policy reforms after they are passed. This book shows the…

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Joan Nelson elucidates the implications of this rapid growth and concomitant poverty for politics. Unlike many scholars who…

Arguing that Beckett's understanding of subjectivity cannot be reduced to that of phenomenology or existential humanism,…

Features lessons that are relevant to everyday life, concentrating on training of the ear and tongue in the sound system of…

What can, and what can't, philosophy do? What are its ethical risks - and its possible rewards? How does it differ from…

Presents Albert Camus' WWII resistance and early postwar writings published in Combat, the resistance newspaper where he…

The Holy Grail and its quest is a legend that has had a powerful impact on our civilization. The Grail is an ancient Celtic…

Offering an analysis of the Supreme Court's most important task - shaping the law, this book analyzes the Court's…

Drawing on the American political experience, this title reveals how variations in domestic party politics and international…

Why do more people vote - or get involved in other civic and political activities - in some communities than in others? This…

This is the fifth and final volume in David Roy's celebrated translation of one of the most famous and important novels in…

These essays by the famous analytical psychologist and student of creativity, Erich Neumann belong in the context of the…

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

Presents an account of the successes, failures, and prospects of the human rights revolution. This work argues that human…

Reveals how the story about the formalist age was an invention of politically motivated critics of the courts, and how it…

Long before "the one percent" became a protest slogan, American founding father John Adams feared the power of a class he…

Explains the foundations of Bayesian decision theory and shows why Savage restricted the theory's application to small…

Looks at qustions, such as: What happens to left and liberal political orientations when faith in progress is broken, when…

Much has been written about the profound impact the post-World War II baby boomers had on American religion. But the…

In politics, utopian's do not have a monopoly on imagination. The author argues that even the most conservative defenses of…

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"First published in French language by Editions du Seuil, Paris, under the title Vert, Histoire d'une couleur." c2013--Page…

The description for this book, Complete Poems and Selected Letters of Michelangelo, will be forthcoming.…

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

How educated and culturally savvy young people are transforming traditionally low-status manual labor jobs into elite…

The discipline of anthropology is, at its best, characterized by turbulence, self-examination, and inventiveness. This…

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

American governance is burdened by a paradox. On the one hand, Americans don't want "big government" meddling in their…