The West's leading authority on the role of intellectuals in contemporary China presents a percipient account of the efforts…

Abel offers a groundbreaking study of caregiving in America across class and ethnic divides and over the course of ninety…

Grounding their analysis in a deep understanding of the country's past, leading scholars of Afghan history, politics,…

How can human beings, who are liable to error, possess knowledge, since the grounds on which we believe do not rule out that…

In this significant study, Fritz Ringer offers a new approach to Weber's work, interpreting his methodological writings in…

Kelsay's timely and important work focuses on jihad of the sword in Islamic thought, history, and culture. Making use of…

James Boyle explores matters as diverse as blackmail; ownership of genetic information; insider trading; Johnny Carson, Bela…

The authors challenge the view that restraining government social spending and cutting welfare should be our top domestic…

One of America's preeminent constitutional scholars, Sunstein mounts a defense of the most striking characteristic of modern…

As part of its 375th celebration, the University has created a new photo book, Explore Harvard: The Yard and Beyond. This…

Recent Supreme Court decisions in Citizens United and other high-profile cases have sparked disagreement about the role of…

This social history is an ideal model for evaluating our current definition of public health. Rosenkrantz perceptively…

Taking us to Gombe National Park in Tanzania, a place made famous by Jane Goodall's studies, the book offers a close look at…

Drawing on ethnographic studies of the distinctive modes of psychological functioning in communities around the world,…

Compelling and humane, this book reveals the lives of the 300,000 child soldiers around the world, challenging stereotypes…

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As the United States aggressively expands its exports of liquefied natural gas, it stands poised to become an energy…

The PLO is now almost a government in Gaza and the West Bank. In this in-depth account of its ideology, strategy, and…

This text argues that despite the upset children experience after parental separation, most adapt successfully provided the…

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Defending the spirit of science against its cultural adversaries, these essays express a viewpoint that is reductionist,…

Drawing on industrial economics and contract theory, Caves explores the organization of creative industries, including…

In exploring the origins and character of the American liberal tradition, Jehlen begins with the proposition that the…

This volume presents seven theoretical essays examining the effects of capital income taxation on the behavior of firms. It…

This compact and original exposition of optimal control theory and applications is designed for graduate and advanced…

In this book, Wertsch outlines an approach to mental functioning that stresses its inherent cultural, historical, and…

Blake takes a detailed look, based almost exclusively on original source material, at the public health history of the town…

Here is a book that takes up where Max Weber left off in his study of charisma and extends the theory with insights from…

Levi takes us inside nuclear terrorism and behind the decisions a terrorist leader would confront in pursuing a nuclear…

In this provocative study, Miyoshi deliberately adopts an off-center perspective--one that restores the historical asymmetry…

Rosenstone investigates how a visual medium, subject to conventions of drama and fiction, might be used as a serious vehicle…

The public is right to be concerned about child protective services, shows Waldfogel, but many perceptions of the CPS system…

Nuclear bombs in suitcases, anthrax in ventilators, tsunamis and meteors, avian flu, scorchingly heat: nightmares that were…

Cohen examines Franklin's scientific activities in fields ranging from heat to astronomy, providing masterly accounts of the…

Any encounter between psychoanalysis and feminism would seem to promise a standoff. But in this history, Buhle reveals that…

How can higher education today create a community of critical thinkers that transcends the boundaries of class, gender, and…

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

Free-market capitalism, hegemony, Western culture, peace, and democracy-ideas that shaped world politics in the 20th century…

Arguing that the French have cherished and demonized Jacobinism at the same time-their hearts following Robespierre, but…

Cohen's exploration seeks to uncover nothing less than the nature of all scientific revolutions, the stages by which they…

As the demographer Glenn Firebaugh carefully shows, income inequality for the world peaked in the late twentieth century and…

This book collects some of McDowell's most influential papers of the last two decades. The essays deal with themes such as…

Based on the re-analysis of Sheldon and Eleanor Gluecks' mid-century study of 500 delinquents and 500 non-delinquents from…

Posnock offers a new historical perspective on "black intellectuals" as a social category, ranging from Douglass to Patricia…

In this immensely powerful and revealing study, Kenneth S. Lynn explores the many tragic facets that both nurtured…

Confidence in American government has been declining for three decades. Leading Harvard scholars here explore the roots of…

Stark draws on legal, moral, and political thought to analyze several decades of debate over conflict of interest in…

How can decisionmakers tasked with protecting the environment and public health avoid false or misleading scientific…

Extraordinary rendition-abducting criminal suspects around the world-has been criticized as an unprecedented expansion of…

Halbertal provides a panoramic survey of Jewish attitudes toward Scripture, provocatively organized around problems of…