One of the most momentous stories of the last century is China's rise from a self-satisfied, anti-modern, decaying society…

\nDavid Rabban provides the first comprehensive synthesis of the case law on academic freedom and the First Amendment at…

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What is it about free-market ideas that gives them staying power in the face of such failures as persistent unemployment,…

Sarah Hrdy argues that if human babies were to survive in a world of scarce resources, they would need to be cared for, not…

Paley presents a moving personal account of her experiences teaching kindergarten in an integrated school within a…

An alphabetical compendium of short but substantial essays about Harvard University-its undergraduate college and nine…

The 2500-year-old tradition of Jainism offers a worldview seemingly compatible with the goals of environmental activism.…

In this absorbing story of the changing life of a community, the authors of Deaf in America reveal historical events and…

• Čeština

Offers a selection of nuggets drawn from 33 of antiquity's major authors, including poetry, dialogue, philosophical writing,…

A landmark reinterpretation of the civil rights movement that challenges reductive heroic narratives of the 1950s and 1960s…

\nIt is tempting to believe that dehumanization is an excess of rhetoric-that no one thinks his foe is truly monstrous.…

\nBonnie Honig invigorates debate over the politics of refusal by insisting that withdrawal from unjust political systems be…

• Čeština

\nTA-U-RO-QO-RO takes up problems of script and language representation and textual interpretation, ranging from the use of…

\nRenowned philosopher of science David Z Albert offers an innovative approach to understanding the fundamental physical…

One child in five in America is a child of immigrants, and their numbers increase each year. Based on an interdisciplinary…

McGurl offers a fundamental reinterpretation of postwar American fiction, asserting that it can be properly understood only…

These 16 essays address the ecological crisis and the question of Confucianism from three perspectives: the historical…

• Rok vydání 1914

This book offers a bold and original perspective on the 1914 Ludlow Massacre and the "Great Coalfield War." In a story of…

This second edition of Dru Gladney's critically acclaimed study of the Muslim population in China includes a new preface by…

This book examines the intersection of jokes, laughter, insults, and poetry in a collection of 13th- and 14th-century…

The present work is the only complete translation into English of a Middle Persian text, written about 955 A.D., which tells…

Arriving at the port of New York in 1882, a 27-year-old Oscar Wilde quipped he had "nothing to declare but my genius." But…

\nCraig Calhoun, Dilip Gaonkar, and Charles Taylor argue that democracies have embraced individual freedom at the expense of…

\nAs immigrants and others are engulfed by dominant societies, the connection to their ancestral tongues is routinely…

\nSchooling has become less about learning and more about the scramble for good grades, high test scores, and spotless…

The first complete English-language collection of Simone Weil’s letters to her loved ones, A Life in Letters deepens…

\nIn the wake of national tragedies, it matters who is mourned and who is overlooked. Focusing on Protestant sermons,…

\nBranko Milanovic charts 200 years of the fascinating history of the discourse on inequality through portraits of six key…

• Rok vydání 1989

We know more of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 43 BCE), lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, than of any other Roman.…

Using diaries and letters as evidence, Fritzsche argues that the essence of Nazism's ideological grip lay in the…

To discuss developments in Belarus, an international group of scholars and policymakers gathered at Harvard University in…

This book includes articles covering the origin and development of semiconductor technology, the microprocessor, telephony,…

How do we judge whether an action is morally right or wrong? If an action is wrong, what reason does that give us not do it?…

Drawing on cognitive psychology and other fields, Make It Stick offers techniques for becoming more productive learners, and…

As the rest of the world worries about what a future might look like under Chinese supremacy, Luttwak worries about China's…

Stories pervade our daily lives. We use them to make sense of the world. But how does this work? In Making Stories, the…

The attempt to repress a majority of its own population backfired on the Confederate States of America as the…

The great Athenian philosopher Plato was born in 427 BCE and lived to be eighty. Acknowledged masterpieces among his works…

In his treatises Hygiene, Thrasybulus, and On Exercise with a Small Ball, Galen of Pergamum addresses topics of preventive…

Nearly all the works Aristotle (384 322 BCE) prepared for publication are lost; the priceless ones extant are…

We know more of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 43 BCE), lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, than of any other Roman.…

Nearly all the works Aristotle (384 322 BCE) prepared for publication are lost; the priceless ones extant are…

The most important poets writing in Greek in the sixth century BCE came from Sicily and southern Italy. They included…

We know more of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 43 BCE), lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, than of any other Roman.…

Based on the critical edition of Malcovati, this three-volume Loeb edition of Roman Republican oratory begins with Ap.…

No account is more critical to our understanding of Joan of Arc than the contemporary record of her 1431 trial. The record,…