From the 17th to the early 20th century, the population of Martha's Vineyard manifested an extremely high rate of hereditary…

Imagine beetles ejecting defensive sprays as hot as boiling water; female moths holding their mates for ransom; caterpillars…

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

Transcendentalism went underground for a stretch, but is back in full force in Brandom's new book. An emphasis on our…

Scanlon reframes current philosophical debates as he explores the moral permissibility of an action. Blame, he argues, is a…

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

In the 1970s, whites mobilized around a new version of the epic tale of plucky immigrants in the New World. Although this…

In his new Preface E.O. Wilson reflects on how he came to write this book: how The Insect Societies led him to write…

The two extant poems of Hesiod (eighth or seventh century BC) are Theogony, in which he charts the history of the divine…

The fox knows many things, the Greeks said, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. In this title, the author argues that…

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

An enduring theme of Western philosophy is that we are all one another's equals. Yet the principle of basic equality is…

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

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

Moses Chao argues that activity in the peripheral nervous system predicts the onset of neurological and psychiatric…

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

Gilroy offers a new understanding of W. E. B. Du Bois' intellectual and political legacy and revitalizes the study of…

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

With the rise of science, we moderns believe, the world changed irrevocably, separating us forever from our primitive,…

Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BCE. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the…

Though ubiquitous today, available as a single microchip and found in any electronic device requiring sound, the synthesizer…

A book which should appeal to both literary theorists and to readers of the novel, this study invites the reader to consider…

Intention is one of the masterworks of 20th-century philosophy. First published in 1957, it has acquired the status of a…

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

Confessions is a spiritual autobiography of Augustine's early life, family, associations, and explorations of alternative…

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

Though attributed to Hesiod (eighth or seventh century BC) in antiquity, the Catalogue of Women, a presentation of legendary…

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

Vol. 2 unrevised ed., originally published 1927.…

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

In letters to his friend Atticus, Cicero (106-43 BC) reveals himself as to no other of his correspondents except perhaps his…

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 BC), lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, than of any other Roman.…

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, born ca. 60 BC, aimed in his critical essays to reassert the primacy of Greek as the literary…

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

In Moral Essays, Seneca (c. 4 65 CE) expresses his Stoic philosophy on providence, steadfastness, anger, forgiveness,…

Works such as those of the mime-writer Publilius Syrus, who flourished c. 45 BCE, and Rutilius Namatianus, who gave a…

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

Plotinus (204/5 270 CE) was the first and greatest of Neoplatonic philosophers. His writings were edited by his disciple…

The poetry of Horace (born 65 BC) is richly varied, its focus moving between public and private concerns, urban and rural…

Libanius, one of the last great publicists and teachers of Greek paganism, has much to tell us about the tumultuous world of…

Volume IX of the nine-volume Loeb edition of Early Greek Philosophy includes the so-called sophists Antiphon, Lycophron, and…

Seneca (c. 4 65 CE) devotes most of Naturales Quaestiones to celestial phenomena. In Book 1 he discusses fires in the…

Letters of Augustine (354 430CE) are important for the study of ecclesiastical history and Augustine s relations with other…

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

Bite and wit characterize two seminal and stellar authors in the history of satirical writing, Persius (34 62 CE) and…