Brings together an array of political, ethical, and religious perspectives to shed light on the complex relationship between…

A study of the democratic theory of education. It tackles a range of issues, from the democratic case against book banning…

In the past three decades, developing countries have made significant economic and social progress, from improved infant…

Features the lives of people - from German children fathered by black Occupation soldiers to communist activists, from…

Who 'speaks' to us in "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", in Wagner's operas, in a Mahler symphony? This title opens…

Examines how developments in economics and the social sciences lead to greater government intrusion in our private lives.…

Around the year 1215, female mystics and their sacramental devotion were among orthodoxy's sophisticated weapons in the…

Analyzes trust as a fundamental issue of social relationships. This book asks whether trust - which critics identify as…

Examines opinions by constitutional courts in liberal democracies to better understand the logic and nature of…

Examines how Anglo-American ideas about "strategic" bombing were formed and implemented. This book argues that ideas about…

Explores Greek conceptions of human innerness and the way in which Greek tragedy shaped European notions of mind and self.…

A plethora of different theories, models, and concepts make up the field of community ecology. Amid this vast body of work,…

Student aid in higher education has become a hot-button issue. This work explains how both colleges and governments are…

The modern prison is commonly thought to be the fruit of an Enlightenment penology that stressed man's ability to reform his…

The era of the American Revolution was one of violent and unpredictable social, economic, and political change, and the…

Explaining the nature of knowledge, this book presents an account of the author's views on epistemic normativity as a form…

Complementing the author's case-study analysis, this book applies statistical tests and hypotheses. Taking a fresh approach…

Offers a fundamental reinterpretation of the role of the Gulag - the Soviet Union's vast system of forced-labor camps,…

Drawing on research in anthropology, psychology, and a host of other disciplines, this book argues that cross-cultural…

• Rok vydání 1957

"We have many poets of the First Book," the poet and critic Louis Simpson remarked in 1957, describing a sense that the…

Lays the groundwork for a social theory receptive to altruism by examining the experiences described by altruists…

A photographic essay which conveys the emotional power of the death rituals of a small Greek village - the funeral, the…

Contrary to those observers who attribute group violence to irrationality, primordial instinct, or complex psychology, this…

Investigates how managed competition became the Bill Clinton's reform framework, but also illuminates how issues and…

Offers an understanding of the development of criticism, demonstrating that its roots stretch back long before the sophists…

Represents a major step forward in the use of economic sociology to illuminate the nature and workings of capitalism amid…

Comprises of essays previously published in "Philosophy & Public Affairs" and also an extended excerpt from Michael Walzer's…

Explains why youth gangs emerged, how they evolved, and why young men found membership and the violence it involved so…

We think of the Enlightenment as an era dominated by ideas of progress, production, and industry - not an era that favored…

Offering a compelling inquiry into public events ranging from the building of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial through ethnic…

'Domestic politics matters' has become a rallying cry for international relations scholars over the years, yet the question…

Presents a narrative of the origins of American Methodism, one of the significant popular movements in American history.…

The truth commission is an increasingly common fixture of democratic states with repressive or strife-ridden pasts. From…

Offers a reassessment of the haphazard and regionally diverse process of state formation and market integration in early…

America and Russia were both willing to live with the status quo in Europe. What then could have generated the kind of…

Examines the Macedonian conflict in light of theoretical work on the construction of national identities and cultures and…

In the global economy, linguistic diversity influences economic and political development as well as public policies in…

This insightful and elegantly written book examines how the popular media of the Victorian era sustained and transformed the…

Challenges the view that the fifteenth century was the 'Drab Age' of English literary history. This book seeks to recover…

Grand political accomplishment and artistic productivity were the hallmarks of Augustus Caesar's reign (31 BC to AD 14),…

Presented with Kierkegaard's notes of the celebrated Berlin lectures on "positive philosophy" by FWJ Schelling, this book is…

An anthology of essential writings that cover some of the most influential ideas about the philosophical implications of…

Marcel Proust was long the object of a cult in which the main point of reading his great novel In Search of Lost Time was to…

Takes the reader from the late nineteenth century to the aftermath of Abu Ghraib, from slavery and the electric chair to…

Logic is essential to correct reasoning and also has important theoretical applications in philosophy, computer science,…

Gives an ethnographic account of Bosnian Muslims' lives in a rural village located near Sarajevo. Although they represent a…

Turkish republicanism is commonly thought to have originated with Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and the founding of modern Turkey in…

• Rok vydání 1904

Max Weber is widely considered a founder of sociology and the modern social sciences. This book provides details about…