Blake takes a detailed look, based almost exclusively on original source material, at the public health history of the town…

Produkt In Search of Deeper Learning - Mehta, Jal a Fine, Sarah zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard University…

Alexis de Tocqueville famously wrote about democracy in America, but he also lauded Catholic society in Quebec, feared the…

Bernardo Zacka probes the complex moral lives of street-level bureaucrats-the frontline social and welfare workers, police…

Luna Sabastian traces the evolution of Hindutva since the 1920s, arguing that it is a form of fascism. Influenced by…

Gregory Afinogenov explores centuries of Russian spying and scholarship on the Far East. He argues that the approaches the…

In the 1960s biologists and social scientists engaged in a public debate about human nature. The question-whether humans are…

As railways, steamships, and telegraph communications brought distant places into unprecedented proximity, previously minor…

In Renaissance Italy, the Galenic "wonder drug" theriac became a vehicle for political, pharmaceutical, and commercial…

Focusing on the 17th-century play of mourning, Walter Benjamin identifies allegory as the constitutive trope of modernity,…

Dignity plays a central role in thinking about law and human rights, but there is sharp disagreement about its meaning.…

Liz Bucar navigates the thorny terrain of religious appropriation, from yoga classes to non-Muslims who signal allyship by…

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Presents the story of Plenty Coups, the last great Chief of the Crow Nation. This title contains a philosophical and ethical…

The world's most renowned critical theorist-who defined the field of postcolonial studies-has radically reoriented her…

\nThis book is both a handbook for defining and completing a research project and an astute introduction to the neglected…

Katie Ebner-Landy shows that early modern Europeans, inspired by the ancient philosopher Theophrastus, embraced the…

Richard Primus challenges the prevailing view that Congress is constrained to exercise only those powers enumerated in the…

Pre-Texts is a methodology developed for education professionals to stimulate close reading and critical-thinking skills by…

The political flexibility of our species is formidable: we can be quite egalitarian, we can be quite despotic. This book…

Populism suddenly is everywhere, and everywhere misunderstood. Nadia Urbinati argues that populism should be regarded as…

David Bordwell's new book is at once a history of film criticism, an analysis of how critics interpret film, and a proposal…

How does emotion shape public intellectual debate? In Sentimental Republic, Hang Tu proposes emotion as a new critical…

A study of what it means to play. The book explores play theory as elaborated and debated in disciplines from biology and…

Everyone in academia stresses quality. But what is it, and how do professors identify it? Lamont observed deliberations for…

An examination of the changes in the language used by the media in Greece since the fall of the dictatorship, Greek Media…

Seamus Heaney, Denis Donoghue, William Pritchard, Harold Bloom, and many others have praised the author as one of the most…

How do you judge the quality of a school, a district, a teacher, a student? By the test scores, of course. Yet for all the…

Written by a recipient of a MacArthur award, this book focuses on the challenge posed by the isolated child to teachers and…

Legality is a profound work in analytical jurisprudence, the branch of legal philosophy which deals with metaphysical…

Liner Notes for the Revolution offers a startling new perspective on Black women musicians from Bessie Smith to BeyoncĂ©.…

Drawing on extensive clinical and epidemiological evidence, as well as personal experience, Thomas Joiner provides the most…

How do we justify our political convictions? Libertarians appeal to a love of freedom, liberals to a dedication to fairness.…

In Rethinking Japan's Modernity, M. William Steele takes a new look at the people, places, and events associated with…

Virtue That Matters is a groundbreaking exploration of chastity culture in Choson Korea that illustrates the interplay…

Sana Aiyar chronicles the strategies by which Indians sought a political voice in Kenya, from the beginning of colonial rule…

Parrots and mynahs have played a unique role in Chinese literature for two millennia. In this wide-ranging thematic study,…

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Dialogues in the Dark traces how Chinese readers and scholars since the Han dynasty have variously interpreted the ancient…

Produkt Financing Anglo-American Trade - Perkins, Professor Edwin J (University of Southern California) zakoupíte na…

Produkt Elites and the Idea of Equality - Verba, Sidney a Kelman, Steven a Orren, Gary R a Miyake, Ichiro a Watanuki, Joji a…

Argues that various forms of life are connected in a vast, entangling mesh and this interconnectedness penetrates different…

Immanuel Kant revolutionized philosophical method and decisively shaped modern politics. Three hundred years after Kant's…

In a Different Voice is the little book that started a revolution, making women's voices heard, in their own right and with…

From the Vikings to the EU the Baltic has been a Nordic Mediterranean, a shared maritime zone with distinct patterns of…

Charles Taylor delves into the poetry of the Romantics and their heirs, a foundation of his distinctive philosophy of…

Produkt Creation of Inequality - Flannery, Kent a Marcus, Joyce zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard University…

Argues that state policies that created conditions conducive to financialization allowed the state to avoid a series of…

Human space journeys are awe-inspiring but risky and immensely expensive. Donald Goldsmith and Martin Rees argue that…