Provides an important way to understand human behavior, revealing how our identities - and not just economic incentives -…

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Stoics view both the gods and a supreme God as essential elements. This belief system is clearly expressed by Cicero in a…

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This book explores one of the great questions of our time: How can we preserve our sense of what it means to be a person…

Are antisemitism and white supremacy manifestations of a general phenomenon? Why didn't racism appear in Europe before the…

From Greek and Roman times to the digital era, the library has remained central to knowledge, scholarship, and the…

How much of our fate is tied to the status of our parents and grandparents? How much does it influence our children? More…

Cells to Civilizations is the first unified account of how life transforms itself--from the production of bacteria to the…

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This impressive, innovative book connects art and politics by way of forms.--Andrew Sturgeon, Flavorwire, from 10 Must-Read…

Once America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of…

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Democracy for Realists assails the romantic folk-theory at the heart of contemporary thinking about democratic politics and…

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Jazyk: Angličtina, Vazba: Pevná, Počet stran: 288, Nakladatelství: Princeton University Press, Autor: Marietje Schaake,…

The delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention blocked the establishment of Christianity as a national religion. But…

This book examines the foreign policy decisions of the presidents who presided over the most critical phases of America's…

Takes the readers into the secretive, chaotic, and brutal worlds inhabited by the economic gangsters. This title uses…

Argues that we are living at the dawn of the dramatic change in science in more than 300 years. This title tells the story…

Proposes a way of interpreting the Constitution of US, one that respects the Constitution's text and history but also…

Almost no one had heard of social media a decade ago, but today websites such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn have more…

Focusing on three causes of disaster - natural, organizational, and deliberate - this title shows that our best hope lies in…

A brief, radical defense of human uniqueness from acclaimed philosopher Roger Scruton In this short book, acclaimed writer…

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\nDuring the spring of 1933, Stalin\'s police rounded up nearly one hundred thousand people as part of the Soviet regime\'s…

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In his eye-opening book Why?, world-renowned social scientist Charles Tilly exposed some startling truths about the excuses…

This book explores previously unexamined links between the arbitrary as articulated in linguistic theories on the one hand,…

Secrets and Leaks examines the complex relationships among executive power, national security, and secrecy. State secrecy is…

Challenges what our policymakers thought they knew about education and education reform, from how to close the achievement…

Histories investigating U.S. immigration have often portrayed America as a domestic melting pot, merging together those who…

Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are…

In the summer of 2015, shortly after Caitlyn Jenner came out as transgender, the NAACP official and political activist…

Sadness and Happiness: Poems by Robert Pinsky.…

The "I Ching" originated in China as a divination manual more than three thousand years ago. In 136 BCE the emperor declared…