In archaic and classical Greece, statues played a constant role in people's religious, political, economic, aesthetic, and…

Offers an examination of Leibniz's deep and complex engagement with the empirical life sciences of his day, in areas as…

Offers a link between happiness and economics - and between happiness and democracy. This book demonstrates how micro- and…

This book originated from a 2010 conference marking the fortieth anniversary of the publication of the landmark "Phelps…

Taking an approach to medieval art, this title reveals the importance of movement in the physical, emotional, and…

In the 1980s some developing countries adopted orthodox market-oriented policies in response to international economic…

The limiting of violence through state powers is one of the central projects of the modern age. Why then have recent…

Includes essays that intend to restore the social context of ancient Greek drama. This title considers how individual plays…

Brings together a group of American and European social scientists to explore a number of factors, with an emphasis on the…

Grover-Friedlander argues that filmed operas such as Zeffirelli's Otello and Friedrich's Falstaff show the impossibility of…

Covers topics that are essential to understanding contemporary Chinese society, including changing attitudes toward women…

Explores the relationship between overseas developments and the most important reform movement in modern American history,…

Presents an account of a Muslim society in highland Sumatra, Indonesia. This book describes how men and women debate among…

Suitable for advanced beginners or 'heritage learners' who already speak some Chinese but require instruction in reading and…

Offers a vision of why state involvement works in some cases and produces disasters in others. This book demonstrates that…

Traces how the William Faulkner's fiction echoes the economic and racial traumas of the South's modernization in the…

Presents a study of the theory of totally nonnegative matrices, defined by the nonnegativity of subdeterminants. This title…

Examining the social and political upheavals that characterized the collapse of public judgment in early modern Europe, this…

Argues that the individual in a lyric is only a virtual entity and that lyric poetry takes its power from the public,…

A book about the theory of the city or commonwealth, what would come to be called the state, in early modern natural law…

Contradicts the long-held belief that Aristotle was the first to discuss individuation systematically. This book argues that…

Examines changes in religious beliefs, in motives for work, in the issues that give rise to political conflict, in the…

Focusing on the educational system in the United Kingdom, this book offers lessons of international applicability. Offering…

"The exhibition is organized by the Centraal Museum Utrecht; the National Gallery of Art, Washington; the Museum of Fine…

Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics", which equates the ultimate end of human life with happiness, is thought by many readers to…

Offering a treatment of visionary experience in some of the main texts of Jewish mysticism, this book reveals the visual…

It is normally assumed that international security regimes such as the United Nations can reduce the risk of war by…

Offers an overview of the sophisticated culture of pastoral nomadic populations who lived on the territory of Kazakhstan…

Emile Durkheim's work has traditionally been viewed as a part of sociology removed from economics. Rectifying this…

Bringing together studies by art historians, historians, and political scientists, this work explores the themes and…

An edition of the full study, translation, and critical annotation of the "Essence of True Eloquence". The translation and…

Presents an analysis of the major political crises in post-1945 East Central Europe: Hungary (1956-63), Czechoslovakia…

Provides students with essential lessons for advancing their Chinese language skills, and also introduces important aspects…

From the dawn of European literature, the figure of Medea has inspired artists in all fields throughout all centuries. This…

Offers a collection of essays by twenty-one American historians that reflects on a peculiarly American way of imagining the…

Constructs a masterly polemic against the very idea of epistemology, as traditionally conceived. This title maintains that…

Offers a treatment of the conceptual, practical, and empirical foundations for credit risk pricing and risk measurement.…

Girolamo Cardano (1501-1576), renowned as a mathematician, encyclopedist, astrologer, and autobiographer, was by profession…

Focusing on the art of Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904) and his colleagues Gustave Courbet, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet,…

Describes the theory and applications of discrete orthogonal polynomials - polynomials that are orthogonal on a finite set.…

Offers an interpretation of politics and identity in Ovid's epic poem of transformations, "The Metamorphoses". Examining the…

Governments and institutions, perhaps even more than markets, determine who gets what in our society. This title offers a…

Presents the demographic approach to organizational studies. This book examines the theory, models, methods, and data used…

The right of governments to employ capital controls has always been the official orthodoxy of the International Monetary…

In his play "Bacchae", Euripides chooses as his central figure the god who crosses the boundaries among god, man, and beast,…

Presents the writings of Plato that are generally considered to be authentic. This title collects the contents from the work…

A study of Catullus's influence on Horace, this work shows that the earlier poet was probably the important source of…

Develops an analyses of a number of central everyday concepts of social phenomena, including shared action, a social…