A Reflection of Reality is an anthology of modern Chinese short stories designed as an advanced-level textbook for students…

In the 40s BCE, during his forced retirement from politics under Caesar's dictatorship, Cicero turned to philosophy,…

School choice has risen to the top of the list of potential solutions to America's educational problems. This collection of…

Conservatism was born as an anguished attack on democracy. This work aims to take the reader into the politically lurid…

From ritual killings to subtle acts of self-denial, the practice and rhetoric of sacrifice has a special centrality in…

Challenging the widespread 'separatist imagination' behind partition, this book demonstrates the ways in which works of…

Celebrating the flowering of female portraiture, mainly in Florence, beginning in the latter half of the fifteenth century,…

Challenges perspectives on race that rely upon oft-repeated claims that race is culturally constructed and, hence, simply…

Draws on a fieldwork - including interviews with politicians, immigrant leaders, and militants - to analyze interactions…

Explores the notion of yellowness and shows that this label originated not in early travel texts or objective descriptions,…

Tracing the evolution of an extraordinary biracial coalition in Los Angeles behind Mayor Tom Bradley, this book shows how…

Presents the development of scientific cosmology as a historical event, one that embroiled many scientists in a controversy…

Offers a comprehensive philosophical analysis of conventions and the roles they play in social life and practical reason.…

Offers a comprehensive survey of the many roles that hormones play in the biology of insects. This work discusses topics…

An ethnography of contemporary Java. It analyzes how language operates to organize and to order an Indonesian people. It…

Exploring contradictions between the democratic rhetoric of empowerment programs and the bureaucratic hurdles that…

World War I had a profound impact on American art and culture. Nearly every major artist responded to events, whether as…

John Friedmann addresses a central question of Western political theory: how, and to what extent, history can be guided by…

Health care, Social Security, employment programs - are part of ongoing national debates about the future of social policy…

Using a historical analysis of Vermeer's method of production and a close reading of his art, this book explores the…

A study of how asceticism was promoted through Biblical interpretation, this work uses contemporary literary theory to…

Brings together twenty-three essays on ancient moral philosophy. This book gives an account of many issues and texts in…

Explores the relationship between jazz and literature, looking at jazz musicians and the themes literature has garnered from…

The wave of ethnic conflict has led many political observers to fear that these conflicts are contagious. This work argues…

Charts how the cartographies of American literature as an institutional category have varied. Arguing that American…

Draws on the history and philosophy of science, cognitive psychology, and the field of artificial intelligence to develop a…

Exploring the global dimensions of children at risk, this book discusses the notion of children's rights, and the claim that…

Tantra is an Asian body of beliefs and practices that seeks to channel the divine energy in creative and liberating ways.…

Making a case for liberation that is based primarily on common moral intuitions and beliefs, and that therefore could…

Includes "Conversations of German Refugees" and "Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years".…

Presents a foundational work of post-Bourdieu sociology that examines a range of situations where people justify their…

Explores the moral foundations and the political prospects of the welfare state in the United States. This volume confronts…

According to one myth, the first Athenian citizen was born from the earth after the sperm of a rejected lover, the god…

Offers a different way to learn about American politics. The book is organized in sections that cover the major American…

Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) has long been recognized as a major political and social thinker as well as historian, but…

Alexis de Tocqueville may be the most influential political thinker in American history. He also led an unusually active and…

In this fourth edition of the best-known critical study of Hemingway's work Carlos Baker has completely revised the two…

Arguing for Harlem as a crossroads between writers and the image, this book explores its power for canonical writers, whose…

Shows that although Kant adopts his inventory of the forms of judgment from logic textbooks of his time, he is nevertheless…

Argues that Immanuel Kant's entire philosophy - including his moral philosophy, aesthetics, and teleology, as well as his…

How do corporations and other organizations transmit their cultures over time? This book grounds its analysis in…

Brings together some of John Cooper's most important works on ancient philosophy. Cooper addresses a wide range of topics…

Philosophy long sought to set knowledge on a firm foundation, through derivation of indubitable truths by infallible rules.…

Argues for a thoroughgoing realism about the common-sense and scientific physical world, and for a correspondence notion of…

Attempting to steer moral philosophy away from abstract theorizing, this title argues that moral philosophy should be a…

On a June morning in 1870, seventy-five Chinese immigrants stepped off a train in New England. They threaded their way…

Throughout the world, the rule against price fixing is competition law's most important and least controversial prohibition.…

Offers an introduction to critical transitions in complex systems - the radical changes that happen at tipping points when…