Includes essays by Julius Baum, C G Jung, C Kerenyi, Hans Leisegang, Paul Masson-Oursel, Fritz Meier, Jean de Menasce,…

A long-dominant reading of American politics holds that public policy in the United States is easily captured by special…

Explores the relationships among art, theology, exegesis, and literature - issues central to the study of medieval art. This…

Seeking to understand adolescents as social actors, this work considers the benefits and drawbacks of the debating…

Sets forth and applies a different language for theory building based on a nonmonotonic logic and fuzzy set theory. This…

Challenges arguments that expanding inequality is the natural, perhaps necessary, accompaniment of economic growth. This…

Explores questions ranging from the nature of creating the US Constitution to the philosophy behind amending it. This…

Is liberal democracy a universal ideal? Proponents of 'Asian values' argue that it is a distinctive product of the Western…

Explores how intellectual media professionals struggle with the institutional and cultural forces surrounding television…

Offers a perspective on social theory in the contemporary moment. This readers includes essays that address Foucault's "new…

Where do new alternatives, new organizational forms, and types of people come from? Combining biochemical insights about the…

Presents a study of the educational system for the Greeks of Hellenistic and Roman Egypt, and a window to the vast panorama…

Provides a view of medieval and early modern Jewish ritual and religious practice. Including such diverse texts as ritual…

Kierkegaard was driven to write "The Book on Adler" after news spread that a Danish pastor, Adolph P Adler, claimed to have…

Examines how well United Nations peacekeeping missions work after civil war. Statistically analyzing all civil wars since…

Includes essays that advance our understanding of the causes of ethnic and communal conflict, the regional and international…

Tells how Brazil, against all odds, became the first developing country to universalize access to life-saving AIDS therapies…

Draws on reader-response literary theory and anthropological approaches to the study of objects in society in order to trace…

Provides an investigation of the moral foundations of the international order. This book also includes commentaries by…

What is algebra? For some, it is an abstract language of x's and y's. For mathematics majors and professional…

Argues that ideal democracy is comprised of three core values - political autonomy, equality of interests, and reciprocity -…

Through a study of Plato's Gorgias, this title shows that contemporary conceptions of shame are far too narrow. It develops…

By viewing the novel as much more than an aesthetic form, this volume demonstrates how the genre has transformed human…

Examines the prospects for cosmopolitan democracy as a viable and humane response to the challenges of globalization. This…

Politicians have traditionally devoted little attention to the origins of American bureaucracy and its relationship between…

This book brings together a group of leading economic historians to examine how institutions, innovation, and…

A collection of the author's general writings on philosophy, mathematics, and physics. It includes the author's exposition…

Includes essays by Ernesto Buonaiuti, Friedrich Dessauer, C G Jung, Werner Kaegi, C Kerenyi, Paul Masson-Oursel, Fritz…

Approaches the question about dream and reality by seeking to identify its subject matter: what is it that would be the…

We live in an age of economic paradox. The dynamism of America's economy is astounding - the country's industries are the…

Focuses on political, social, and institutional processes governed by the dynamics of power. The author shows how the…

A collection of essays, which examine 19th-and early 20th-century debate among British scholars on the viability and…

Economic sociology is an expanding field, applying sociology's core insight - that individuals behave according to scripts…

When Leviathan first appeared in 1651, it was recognized as a work of extraordinary scope, uniting metaphysical,…

Presents an account of the economic impact of immigration on America. This work reveals that the benefits of immigration…

Examines the work of a generation of Japanese intellectuals who, like their European counterparts, saw modernity as a…

Addresses questions central to the study of women's history. This book focuses on organizations that were open to women: the…

In an investigation of the effects of racism on the American economy, Michael Reich evaluates the leading economic theories…

Fits, trances, visions, clairvoyance, and possession. Believers have viewed these experiences as religious - as…

A study of the intimate relationship between science, colonialism, and the modern nation. It explores the complexities,…

Why is it so difficult to design and implement fundamental educational reform in large city schools in spite of broad…

Argues that a deterministic world does not preclude moral responsibility, rationality, and love - in short, meaningful lives…

Presents the works of Aristotle accessible to English speaking readers.…

Examines how advances in philosophy were led by scientific discoveries - the more humankind understood about the physical…

Lays out a developed theory of domestic politics, showing how domestic politics affects international outcomes. In…

Offers a window into gray zones through its look at the manufacture and exchange of illegal goods called homers, tolerated…

The description for this book, Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse: Commentary, will be forthcoming.…

Entrepreneurs are widely recognized for the vital contributions they make to economic growth and general welfare. This title…