How interwar Poland and its Jewish youth were instrumental in shaping the ideology of right-wing Zionism By the late 1930s,…

"Don Quijote" emerges as a work that charts and reflects upon the historical transition from feudalism to the modern times…

Taking a look at the growing commercialization of our academic institutions, this book probes the efforts on campus to…

In this important and ambitious work, Matthew Bell offers a wide-ranging intellectual biography of Goethe, tracing the…

Revised edition of: A neotropical companion. 2nd ed., rev. and expanded. c1997.…

Argues that violent confrontation goes against human physiological hardwiring. This book challenges standard views about the…

In the 1980s, America was gripped by widespread panics about Satanic cults. This book provides historical awareness that…

Examines how gender identities were reconfigured in a Bulgarian Muslim community following the demise of Communism and an…

New insights into how the Book of Samuel offers a timeless meditation on the dilemmas of statecraft The Book of Samuel is…

Americans like to think that they look after their own, especially in times of hardship. And for the Great Depression and…

"The death of a child," writes Myra Bluebond-Langner, "poignantly underlines the impact of social and cultural factors on…

They live in the suburbs of Tennessee and Indiana. They fought in Vietnam and Desert Storm. They speak about an older,…

While the American alliance system in Asia has been fundamental to the region's security and prosperity for seven decades,…

What is the nature of a conceptual scheme? Are there alternative conceptual schemes? If so, are some more justifiable or…

Chronicles Kierkegaard's intellectual and spiritual development through selected writings.…

Examines language, gender, and the body from infancy to adulthood, showing how Hasidic girls in Brooklyn become women…

Offers a look at the politics behind international war crimes tribunals, combining analysis with investigative reporting and…

This book represents the first synthesis of the considerable body of new research into positive definite matrices. These…

The World Bank has attracted equal amounts of criticism and praise. Critics are especially quick to decry the World Bank's…

On March 11, 1985, a van was pulled over in Warsaw for a routine traffic check. Inside was Marek Kaminski, a Warsaw…

The complex relationships between altruists, beneficiaries, and brokers in the global effort to fight AIDS in Africa In the…

Talks about the good, the bad, and the ugly of identity politics. This book addresses fundamental questions of urgency while…

Presents an economist's eye to bear on an age-old question: Are market exchange and aesthetic quality friends or foes? This…

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"First published in German as Dekolonisation by Jan C. Jansen and Jeurgen Osterhammel, A Verlag C.H. Beck oHG, Meunchen…

The information age owes its existence to a little-known but crucial development, the theoretical study of logic and the…

Political parties are the defining institutions of representative democracy and the darlings of political science. This…

Offers a reconsideration of the philosophy of culture in the twentieth century. This book defends the holistic view that…

Presents an analysis of one of history's greatest intellectual epochs: the Enlightenment. Arguing that there was a common…

An ethnography that focuses on Meratus Dayaks, a marginal and marginalized group in the deep rainforest of South Kalimantan,…

Power to the People examines the varied but interconnected relationships between energy consumption and economic development…

Takes an unprecedented look at one of the great rivalries of the Middle Ages and offers it as a revealing lens through which…

First published in 1922 and based on lectures delivered in May 1921, Albert Einstein's The Meaning of Relativity offered an…

Offers insightful discussions of concepts such as nation, identity, country, and self, with a reminder that like symbols in…

Jamaat-e-Islami Hind is the most influential Islamist organization in India. This book offers an in-depth examination of…

Despite heightened partisanship in the US Congress and constituencies split along ideological lines, congressional…

Siegfried Kracauer's classic study, originally published in 1960, explores the distinctive qualities of the cinematic…

In this second of a planned five-volume series, David Roy provides a complete and annotated translation of the famous Chin…

The American National Election Studies (ANES) is the social science survey program devoted to voting and elections. This…

"Published with the support of the Philemon Foundation. This book is part of the Philemon Series of the Philemon…

Shows that presidents and leaders of all stripes have worked to put the Court on a pedestal and have encouraged its justices…

Tackling fraught but fascinating issues of cultural borrowing and appropriation, this groundbreaking book reveals that…

Why was eighteenth-century English culture so fascinated with the things its society discarded? This book explains how…

Investigates one of the most serious policy challenges facing US: the stubborn persistence of racial inequality in the…

An account of ethnic minority politics, this work explains when and how European institutions successfully used norms and…

How does the American public formulate its opinions about US foreign policy and military engagement abroad? This title takes…

Shows how concerns about status affect market competition. This book shows how anxieties about status influence whom a…

Examines how religious congregations in America have responded to changes in family structure, and how families participate…

Presents a comprehensive analysis of one of the significant thinkers of modern Europe. This book combines social and…