A rural borderland just forty years ago, today Shenzhen is a city of twenty million and a technology hub. This success is…

Stanley Cavell looks closely at America's most popular art and our perceptions of it. His explorations of Hollywood's stars,…

\nEquity for Women in Science is the first large-scale empirical study of the global gender gap in science. Analyzing…

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\nMichael Rosen shows how the redemptive hope of religion became the redemptive hope of historical progress. This was the…

This is an introduction to Jacques Lacan's approach to therapy, from the point of view of a practitioner faced with the…

Huntington examines the persistent gap between the promise of American ideals and the performance of American politics. He…

Offers readers an account of the liberal political tradition from a scholar viewed by many as the greatest contemporary…

\nDoes class determine economic options, or is class in our heads-a matter of interpreting symbols and meanings? Cultural…

Derided as simple, dismissed as inferior to film, characterized as a vast wasteland, television nonetheless exerts an…

Cutting a path from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the Panama Canal set a new course for the development of Central…

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Two leading social scientists examine the gender wealth gap in countries with officially egalitarian property law, showing…

In this classic work, Huntington challenges old assumptions and ideas on the role of the military in society. Stressing the…

\nGrounded in the legacies of two pioneering scholars of oral literature, Milman Parry and Albert Lord, Singers and Tales in…

A major work by one of the more innovative thinkers of our time, 'Politics of Nature' establishes the conceptual context for…

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Political theorists focus on the nature of justice, liberty, and equality while ignoring the institutions through which…

\nThe sense of reading as an intimate act of self-discovery—and of communion between authors and book lovers—has a long…

\nTracing constitutional thought from the Enlightenment to the present, Martin Loughlin shows how a tool for the protection…

Babyn Yar brings together the responses to the tragic events of September 1941. Presented here in the original and in…

Modern theories of meaning usually culminate in a critique of science. Philosophy in a New Key presents a study of human…

This volume, Grice's first book, includes the long-delayed publication of his enormously influential 1967 William James…

\nOrganizations now measure and rank nearly every aspect of our lives, using data to make predictions about our purchasing…

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

\nDuring his long career, Hilary Putnam repeatedly revised his philosophical positions. This unique volume is a window into…

Pasteur's success depended upon a whole network of forces, including the public hygiene movement, the medical profession and…

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Forty years in the making, this long-awaited reinterpretation of Hegel’s The Phenomenology of Spirit is a landmark…

This text examines the nature of language from the perspective of inference rather than representation. It proposes a theory…

\nIn Strange Tales from Edo, William Fleming paints a sweeping picture of Japan\'s engagement with Chinese fiction in the…

In a tour of Western culture that is at once exhilarating and alarming, Nelson shows us the distorted forms in which the…

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

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

Representation-in visual arts and fiction-play an important part in our lives and culture. Walton presents a theory of…

\nEconomists say there is a limit to what we gain by buying consumer goods. Americans say they want to work less. Yet we…

\nStatistical graphing was born in the seventeenth century as a scientific tool, but it quickly escaped all disciplinary…

This text proposes a unified conceptual structure that is capable of describing and quantifying both stability and change in…

\nMeanings of Antiquity is the first dedicated study of how the oldest Japanese myths, recorded in the eighth-century texts…

Wang Hui asks what it means for China to be modern and for modernity to be Chinese. Is there a rupture between tradition and…

Moore's classic Creating Public Value offered advice to managers about how to create public value, but left unresolved the…

This test is sold on the understanding that the plates are not to be publicly displayed and may be purchased only by…