Nozick develops new views on philosophy's central topics and weaves them into a unified perspective. He ranges widely over…

Rationality and freedom are among the most profound and contentious concepts in philosophy and the social sciences. In two…

Emphasizing that science can only be understood through its practice, the author examines science and technology in action:…

In this stirring analysis, Anthony Kronman describes a spiritual crisis affecting the American legal profession. He…

Taking a fresh look at what the Greeks and Romans thought about Jews and Judaism, Peter Schäfer locates the origin of…

These writings, representing over a generation of work by one of our most acute commentators on Chinese history, are…

Each year Americans supply blood, sperm, and breast milk to "banks" that store these products for use by strangers in…

The world shows up for us, but, as Alva NoĂ« contends in his latest exploration of the problem of consciousness, it doesn't…

Because science has shown that racial essentialism is false, and because the idea of race has proved virulent, many people…

Science has transformed understandings of the mind, supplying physiological explanations for what once seemed…

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." The First…

Greene argues for recognition of horses' critical contribution to the history of American energy and the rise of American…

Ranging with authority from the Talmud to Maimonides, from Marx to Nietzsche and on to G.E. Moore, this account of a subject…

Ada Palmer explores how Renaissance poets and philologists, not scientists, rescued Lucretius and his atomism theory. This…

At age five, the author's son posted this sign over his workbench: DO NAT DSTRB GNYS AT WRK. The "work" from which he…

What is colonialism and what is a colonial state? In exploring these questions, Ranajit Guha points out that the South Asian…

Noam Maggor shows how the moneyed elite in Gilded Age Boston leveraged their wealth to forge transcontinental networks of…

Produkt China's Response to the West - Teng, Ssu-yu a Fairbank, John King zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard…

Leonard Bernstein's Norton Lectures on the future course of music drew cheers from his Harvard audiences and television…

Bridging evolutionary theory and cultural psychology, Tomasello argues that the roots of the human capacity for symbol-based…

Tara McPherson asks what might it mean to design-from conception-digital tools and applications that emerge from contextual…

This incomparable collection of essays, manifestos, and illustrations offers the authentic answer to the question "What is…

Political constitutions are compromises with injustice. What makes the U.S. Constitution legitimate is Americans' faith that…

Elizabeth Anderson offers a new theory of value and rationality that rejects cost-benefit analysis in our social lives and…

This is a critical edition of the Kramapatha and Jatapatha forms of recitational permutations of sections of the Saunakiya…

This study and edition of Bcom Idan ral gri's (1227-1305) Bstan pa rgyas pa rgyan gyi nyi 'od was likely composed in the…

Alejandra Dubcovsky maps channels of information exchange in the American South, exploring how colonists came into…

Timbuktu is famous as a center of learning from Islam's Golden Age. Yet it was one among many scholarly centers to exist in…

Drawing on a dozen years of research among managers, officers, and politicians in the public realm and the private sector,…

This study of the policy-making process in China during the Sino-French controversy of 1880-1885 illuminates China's…

For Descartes, knowledge exists as ideas in the mind that represent the world. In a radical critique, Hubert Dreyfus and…

Pragmatism has been reinvented in every generation since its beginnings in the late nineteenth century. This book, by one of…

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In spite of an unprecedented period of growth and prosperity, the poverty rate in the U.S. remains high relative to the…

Through stories of a dozen white adopters, adopted Indian children, and their Native parents in early America, Dawn Peterson…

Fuchs presents a new approach to the construction of society, culture, and personhood. This interdisciplinary, foundational…

In the course of several centuries, Western masculinity has established itself as the voice of reason, knowledge, and…

Does America have a free press? Many who say yes appeal to First Amendment protections against censorship. Sam Lebovic shows…

Drawing from social and literary accounts of discourse, Gergen outlines the major elements of a social constructionist…

Epstein offers a sophisticated agenda for comprehensive social reform that undoes much of the mischief of the modern…

Bamberger focuses on the earliest stages in the development of musical cognition. Beginning with children's invention of…

Kent explores the meaning of love and friendship as they were represented in the fifteenth century, particularly the…

In a work that captures and reconfigures the passing moments of art, history, and philosophy, Mary Ann Doane shows how the…

The world saw the political, economic, and cultural significance of hosting the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. But will those…

Distinguished psychologist Michael Cole, known for pioneering work in literacy, cognition, and human development, offers a…

One of America's great philosophers says the time has come to reform philosophy. Putnam calls upon philosophers to attend to…

In her examination of juvenile misconduct, Kathleen Jones reveals the complex history of "child guidance," a specialized…

Kozulin argues that the Vygotskian concept of "psychological tools" offers a useful way to analyze cross-cultural…

This revolutionary work transforms the interdisciplinary debate on emotion by suggesting a positive relation between the…