Thrailkill offers a new understanding of late-nineteenth-century American literary realism that draws on neuroscience and…

Why is the American system of death investigation so inconsistent and inadequate? In this unique political and cultural…

This book offers a firsthand glimpse into the intellectual challenges that Russia's turbulent transition generated. It deals…

Arguing against the constructivist metaphor of bodily inscription dominant since Foucault, Noland maintains that kinesthetic…

Flatley argues that embracing melancholy can be a road back to contact with others and can lead people to an invigorated…

This probing analysis of three of Giotto's major works and the patrons who commissioned them goes beyond the clichĂ©s of…

Explains the phenomenon and scope of government outsourcing and sets an agenda for future research attentive to workforce…

This book chronicles the complex interactions between disease and the peoples of America from the pre-Columbian world to the…

Animal Cognition presents a lucid and comprehensive overview of cognitive processes in animals--bees and wasps, cats and…

Kiss and Tell chronicles the history of sex surveys in the United States over a century of changing social and sexual mores.…

Engaging the work of thinkers such as Rorty, Taylor, Bourdieu, Bhaskar, and Arendt, and literature in political science and…

Pfaff presents a daring perspective on the long-standing puzzle of what arousal is. He argues that, beneath our mental…

The issue of animal culture is hotly debated. Laland and Galef have gathered key voices in the often rancorous debate to…

Glassheim examines the transformation of Bohemian noble identity from the rise of mass politics in the late 19th century to…

The Struggle against Dogmatism elucidates Wittgenstein's view that there are no theses, doctrines, or theories in…

The tale of Shabbatai and his prophets has mainly been explored by specialists in Jewish mysticism. Goldish shifts the focus…

A detailed discussion by the editor complements this critical edition and translation of the phonetical treatise…

As neuroscientific research shows, even the immediate sensation of pain is shaped by psychological state and interpretation.…

Autonomy for Kant is what the word literally implies: the imposition of a law on one's own authority and out of one's own…

In a new perspective on the formation of national identity in Central Europe, Wingfield analyzes what many historians have…

In this far-ranging, incisive study, Robert Ulich analyzes the various forces that have molded the educational systems and…

Baranczak-a poet, critic, translator, and Polish Ă©migrĂ©-supplies politico-cultural context for Herbert while analyzing the…

If Harvard can be said to have a literature all its own, then few universities can equal it in scope. Here lies the reason…

In this forcefully argued book, the leading evolutionary theorist of language provides a framework for studying the…

Challenging standard interpretations of American dominance and French weakness in postwar Western Europe, Creswell argues…

Why do the United States and Canada have such divergent political cultures when they share one of the closest economic and…

Everywhere we look in contemporary culture, knowingness has taken the place of thought. This book is a spirited assault on…

This book weighs alternative conceptions of the equal opportunity principle through empirical and ethical explorations of…

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This text offers a study of organizational report cards. It discusses the circumstances under which they are desirable…

This book examines the effects of stress on children and parents and explores strategies for coping. The authors view the…

This book explores the trials of Spanish democracy, focusing on the generation that came of age in the 1960s, assumed…

Drawing on biographies of exceptional monks, collections of monastic sayings and stories, letters from ascetic teachers to…

Extending the ideas of John Rawls, Macedo defends a "civic liberalism" in culturally diverse democracies that supports the…

Freda Kirchwey was a beacon for liberals and activists of her era. A journalist with The Nation from 1918 to 1955-owner,…

In March 1933, Nazi storm troopers seized control of the Odenwaldschule, a small German boarding school founded in 1910 by…

In recent years, colleges have successfully increased the racial diversity of their student bodies. They have been less…

In Welfare Reform, Jeffrey Grogger and Lynn Karoly assemble evidence from numerous studies to assess how welfare reform has…

Michal Gal's thorough analysis shows the effects of market size on competition policy, ranging from rules of thumb to more…

Social choice theory critically assesses and rationally designs economic mechanisms for improving human well-being. Kotaro…

In this timely book, Haas-Wilson argues that enforcement of antitrust laws is the tool of choice in most cases to limit the…

Exploring the political struggles inspired by mass educational tests, McDonnell analyzes the design and implementation of…

In illuminating analyses of major texts as well as lesser known but influential works, Andreas Schönle surveys the literary…

This book mounts a sustained attack on ideas that are dear to many practitioners of analytic philosophy. It rejects the idea…

Shelley has long been viewed as a dreamer isolated from reality, a "beautiful and ineffectual angel," in Arnold's words. In…

Offering major reevaluations of Dryden, Hume, and Johnson, Engell shows that 18th-century criticism cannot be represented by…

Race, ethnicity, and nation, Lie argues, are modern notions, associated with the rise of the modern state, the industrial…

This book presents an encouraging report on the state of racial integration in American neighborhoods. It shows that while…