Provides an account of the common social, economic, and labor problems modern governments confront and their contrasting…

It was a crime that captured national attention. In the idyllic suburb of Glen Ridge, New Jersey, four of the town's most…

"What if we ascribe significance to aesthetic and social divergences rather than waving them aside as anomalous? This book…

This collection of essays presents an ongoing exploration of the moral character and enlightenment-potential of vision. It…

This is a painstaking reconstruction of the original version of Orson Welles's film, which was drastically recut by RKO…

A study of an early 20th-century intellectual movement which explored issues of politics, literature and nationalism in a…

Using local studies to answer global questions, this compilation challenges traditional notions concerning historical…

Viewing Zukofsky as a poetic innovator, this study argues that his works serve as a crucial link between American modernism…

This work critically but sympathetically examines Schopenhauer's main work "The World as Will and Representation",…

A study of Georges Valois, the writer, publisher and political organizer who stood at the centre of the French fascist…

Examines how the link between family order and national salvation in China affected state-building and explores its…

How much radiation is too much? This title examines the evolution, over more than a hundred years, of radiation protection…

Challenging an enduring paradigm among linguists, this text explores the origins of plantation creole. It proposes that the…

This investigation into two of the world's most pressing needs (biodiversity conservation and agricultural development in…

A study traces the tendentiousness of Greek representations by introducing comparative Egyptian material, thus interrogating…

This analysis of the aesthetics of law argues that by treating a text, legal or otherwise, as if it were a sequence of…

• Rok vydání 1921

Scholars have long held that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was a centralized organization from its founding in 1921. In…

Understanding the dramatic political, social, and economic changes that have taken place in Poland in the mid-1980s is one…

This text explores the role of native place associations in the development of modern Chinese urban society and the role of…

A collection of essays that reflect the author's belief that the Holocaust transcends traditional patterns of historical…

Explores the strategies used by Byzantine artists to represent the incorporeal forms of angels and the rationalizations in…

By examining wills, this book offers interpretations of, or insights into, subjects as diverse as captatio…

An exploration of political and cultural critiques that are embodied in the mature writings of Max Weber and Thomas Mann. It…

An analysis of diffuse underclass anger that simmers in many societies. It takes us to the streets of St Petersburg in…

This text discusses the themes of wealth and power in Thurcydides' account of the Sicilian expedition of 415-413 BC and the…

• Rok vydání 1948

This history examines fundamental questions of ethnic identity by focusing on the Egyptian Jewish community since 1948.…

Exploring the meaning of the American tradition, this series of essays covers various historical themes, from the early…

A study that asks why we have held on to vivid images of the Nazis' total control of the visual and performing arts. To…

Analyzes the practice and theory of 'figural' reading in the Christian tradition of Biblical interpretation by looking at…

How is it possible to will the eternal recurrence of each moment of one's life, if both this decision and the states of…

This text presents an analysis of two neglected paintings devoted to the French Revolution. John Zoffany's "Plundering the…

Uncovers the historical Israel ben Eliezer - known as the Ba'al Shem Tov, or the Besht - the eighteenth-century…

Focusses the corporate downtown, with its multitude of social dilemmas and contradictions. This title offers a critical…

This study defies the conventional wisdom that the 17th century gave birth to the political and economic forces that…

This study explains how women composers and librettists gained access to concert halls in the age of the French Revolution.…

Arthur Eckstein's interpretation challenges the way Polybius' "Histories" have long been viewed. He argues that Polybius…

This study of early Greek exploration makes a contribution to discussions of the encounters between Greeks and non-Greeks.…

Themistius was a philosopher, a prominent Constantinopolitan senator, and an adviser to Roman emperors during the 4th…

Reveals how American families have always been characterized by greater diversity than idealizations of the traditional…

Delivers a reexamination of sociopolitical evolution among Native American groups in California, a region known for its…

This is the second volume in Jeffrey Hopkins's series on the Mind-Only School of Buddhism. It conveys the intellectual…

Features twelve essays that emphasize the cultural interaction of Greek and non-Greek societies in the Hellenistic period,…

Focusing on the socio-cultural as well as the political dimensions of the Sergius cult, this study sheds light on the lives…

In 1929, the first cuneiform tablet, inscribed with previously unknown signs, was found during archeological excavations at…

Compares a range of case studies from around the world in order to clarify the conditions under which and institutions…

A comprehensive reference grammar of Ingush, a language of the Nakh branch of the Nakh-Daghestanian or East Caucasian…

Focusing on rhythm, this book offers examination of diverse black cultures across the New World. It traces the central - and…

Suitable for the classical scholars, this title explores an aspect of Greek military practice.…