Despite black gains in modern America, racism's end is not yet in sight. Singh asks what happened to the worldly and radical…

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The Logic of Disorder presents for the first time to the English-speaking world the writings of seminal Mexican contemporary…

Michael Strevens makes three claims about rules for inferring physical probability. They are reliable. They constitute a key…

This book assesses the effects of spatially concentrated programs for housing and neighborhood improvement. These programs…

Offers an interpretation of care labor in the United States by tracing the roots of inequity along two interconnected…

Drawing on legal, historical, and qualitative research, Corynne McSherry explores the propertization of academic work and…

Christgau's writings, collected here, constitute a virtual encyclopedia of popular music over the past fifty years, ranging…

A work of photojournalism that deals with the New York City's slums in the 1880s. It includes the images of the squalid…

Do the first two years of life really determine a child's future development? Are human beings motivated only by pleasure?…

Stephen Breyer's book is not merely a utilitarian analysis or a legal discussion of procedures; it employs the widest…

Mark Ramseyer and Frances McCall Rosenbluth show how rational-choice theory can be applied to Japanese politics. Using the…

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Long recognized as the best and most comprehensive work on its subject, Brown's fine book is now thoroughly revised and…

In the most thorough attempt to cover all aspects of children's make-believe, Dorothy and Jerome Singer examine how…

This text, winner of the 1993 National Jewish Book Award in Folklore and Anthropology, provides a social history of the…

This text examines the writing of 17th-century English women who took up the pen to challenge and subvert the repressive…

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In this enlarged 4th edition Fairbank includes a new Preface and an Epilogue that bring the book up to date through 1982. He…

Fremont-Smith argues that the rules that govern how nonprofits operate are inadequate, and the regulatory mechanisms…

Thomson provides a systematic theory of human and social rights, elucidating what in general makes an attribution of a right…

This book is a companion volume to Dynamic Macroeconomic Theory by Thomas J. Sargent. It provides scrimmages in dynamic…

This book brings together many of the essays that have established Rosen as one of the most influential and eloquent voices…

John Roemer has written a unique book that critiques economists' conceptions of justice from a philosophical perspective and…

Oscar and Lilian Handlin show how the new voyagers in the twentieth century--from Asia, Africa, Australia, and Latin…

This book offers professionals and nonprofessionals alike important access to the reality of normal adolescent experience.…

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive investigation of gender and the law in the United States. Deborah Rhode…

In this new interpretation of the making of modern America, Dawley traces the group struggles involved in the nation's rise…

This landmark anthology collects speeches, letters, newspapers, journals, poems, and songs to demonstrate that John Brown's…

It is rare for one book to be both a first-rate classroom text and a major contribution to scholarship. The Pathway for…

In a grand tour of comic theater over the centuries, Erich Segal traces the evolution of the classical form from its early…

American schools have always been locally created and controlled. But since Title I in 1965 appropriated nearly a billion…

Why do some democracies succeed while others fail? In seeking an answer to this problem, Powell examines the record of voter…

While revisionists are perplexed by questions of value, critical theory-haunted by the heresy of relativism-remains captive…

In a compilation of essays and reviews written for the New York Times Book Review and other outlets during the 1960s and…

In essays that question how the human sciences, particularly anthropology and psychoanalysis, articulate their fields of…

Readers at long last are offered Peirce's only known, complete, and coherent account of his own work. Originally delivered…

Kiely invites the reader of postmodern fiction to travel back to the 19th-century novel without pretending to let go of…

Owen Flanagan argues in this book for a more psychologically realistic ethical reflection and spells out the ways in which…

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With equal attention to both the life and work of his subject, Safranski places the visionary skeptic in the context of…

Bate has been concerned to show the organic relationship between the Keats's art and his larger, more broadly humane…

Tracing large-scale processes of social, economic, and political change within cities, and the evolving relationships…

This splendid introduction to French literature from 842 A.D. to the present decade is the most imaginative single-volume…

The authors demonstrate that unselfish behavior is in fact an important feature of both biological and human nature. Their…

Fairness versus Welfare poses a bold challenge to contemporary moral philosophy by showing that most moral principles…

In a remarkable book based on prodigious research, Horwitz offers a sweeping overview of the emergence of a national legal…

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Why do the paintings and poetry of the Italian Renaissance-a celebration of classical antiquity-also depict the Florentine…

In this book, W. John Smith enlarges ethology's perspective on communication and takes it in new directions. Smith's…

Synthesizing theoretical contributions by Vygotsky, Bakhtin and Bourdieu, Holland and her co-authors examine the processes…

Is "right-brain" thought essentially creative, and "left-brain" strictly logical? Joseph B. Hellige argues that this view is…