Nelson Tebbe shows how a method called social coherence offers a way to resolve conflicts between advocates of religious…

Victor Brombert reassesses in a modern perspective the power and originality of Hugo's work, and provides a new…

Ellen Wilkinson viewed herself as part of an international radical community and became involved in socialist, feminist, and…

In the first comprehensive scholarly treatment of dependency theory, Robert Packenham describes its origins, substantive…

Constituting a new television genre, live broadcasts of "historic" events have become world rituals which, according to the…

Nozick rethinks and transforms the concepts of truth, objectivity, necessity, contingency, consciousness, and ethics. Using…

Sara Fieldston shows how humanitarian child welfare agencies sponsored by Americans filtered political power through the…

The realignment of the social order that occurred over the course of the Sung dynasty set the pattern for Chinese society…

Pye reconceptualizes Asian political development as a product of cultural attitudes about power and authority. He contrasts…

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In this blistering critique of our failing public schools and our fuzzy thinking about how to fix them, Myron Lieberman…

This book examines the connection between the decline of the orphanage and the rise of welfare in America. Matthew Crenson…

Poggioli explores the relationship between the avant-garde and civilization. Historical parallels and modern examples from…

John Medearis argues that democracies face challenges which go beyond civic lethargy and unreasonable debate. Democracy is…

Eminently suited to classroom use as well as individual study, Roger Myerson's introductory text provides a clear and…

As railways, steamships, and telegraph communications brought distant places into unprecedented proximity, previously minor…

Brown demonstrates how Florentine thinkers used Lucretius-earlier and more widely than has been supposed-to provide a…

This book-written in one man's eloquent voice-is testimony to his belief that the need for democratic reform has taken root…

Focusing on exemplary moments in the American silent era, Hansen explains how the concept of the spectator evolved as a…

What is utopia if not a perfect impossible world? Anahid Nersessian reveals the basic misunderstanding of that ideal.…

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Hue-Tam Ho Tai does justice to the influence of radicalism on a crucial point in Vietnamese history. She reveals a vibrant…

Religious freedom is recognized as a basic human right, guaranteed by nearly all national constitutions. Anna Su charts the…

Questions about how children fare in divided families have become as perplexing and urgent as they are common. In this…

The British Empire used intelligence tests, laboratory studies, and psychoanalysis to measure and manage the minds of…

Wilhelm Reich's experiments in the 1930s with cutting-edge light microscopy and time-lapse micro-cinematography were…

American public schools censor controversial student speech that the Constitution protects. Catherine Ross brings clarity to…

How can schools meet the needs of an increasingly diverse population of newcomers? Do bilingual programs help children…

These hard-hitting essays by Yeshayahu Leibowitz, the first to be published in English, constitute a comprehensive critique…

Traces the evolution of Iowa from being arguably the most racist free state in the ante-bellum Union, to one of its most…

The idea that American education has been steered by progressivism is accepted as fact by liberals and conservatives alike.…

This passionate book is a bracing critique of the critical self-indulgence that calls itself cosmopolitanism. Brennan traces…

Exploring the morally entangled territory of language and race in 18th- and 19th-century America, Sean Harvey shows that…

Human rights emerged as a reaction to the Vietnam trauma, Barbara Keys shows. Instead of looking inward for renewal,…

This timely and controversial book presents powerful theoretical and empirical arguments for the repeal of the…

The culmination of 20 years of research, this book is a cross-cultural exploration of how age, gender and culture affect the…

Contemporary Afro-American theatre is an exciting spectacle of an emerging black identity during a period when blacks have…

Theory-an embattled discourse for decades-faces a new challenge from those who want to model the methods of all scholarly…

Explores how American trade proved pivotal to the evolution of capitalism in the United States and helped to shape the…

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Shows how hundreds of thousands of clay tablets testify to the history of an ancient society that communicated broadly…

"Abrahamic religions" has gained currency in scholarly and ecumenical circles as a way to refer to Judaism, Christianity,…

Challenging mainstream analytic philosophers to reconsider basic assumptions, Baz defends the much maligned ordinary…

Extension of presidential leadership in foreign affairs to war powers has destabilized our constitutional order and deranged…

Although literary theories describe a world of strategies, what is missing is the strategist. Hjort's proposed account of…

Distinctive female dress styles, gender divisions of labor, and powerful same-sex networks have long distinguished villages…

Michel Chaouli invites novice and expert alike to set out on the path of thinking, with help from Kant's Critique of…

Though suicide is an individual act, Richard Bell reveals its broad social implications in early America. From Revolution to…

This is the first book to explore how pessimism could be the psychological basis for the Victorians' progressive conception…