Hunter weaves a rich tapestry of the culture and experience of black women workers in the post-Civil War South. Using a…

The Satyrica, traditionally attributed to the Neronian courtier Petronius, is a comic-picaresque fiction recalling the…

In a comparative study of law and imperialism, Ford argues that modern settler sovereignty emerged when settlers in North…

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Walter Benjamin's posthumously published collection of writings on hashish is a detailed blueprint for a book that was never…

Written by authors who are themselves Deaf, this unique book illuminates the life and culture of Deaf people from the…

In retelling success stories from Benjamin Franklin to Andrew Carnegie to Bill Gates, Laird goes beyond personality,…

O'Donnell takes a reading on the promise and the threat of electronic technology for our literate future. He reinterprets…

The metaphor of the Scientific Revolution, Moran argues, can be expanded to make sense of alchemy and other so-called…

In his Life of Apollonius, Philostratus (second to third century CE) portrays a first-century CE teacher, religious…

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

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A new edition of The Orator's Education.…

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

\nPhilostratus \"the Elder\" or \"the Athenian\" (2nd to mid-3rd c.) and Eunapius (ca. 345-415) provide fascinating…

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This text originated as lectures for a course on political philosophy that John Rawls taught regularly at Harvard in the…

Radical critic of a European civilisation plunging into darkness, yet commemorator of the humane traditions of the old…

Pursuing the flag's conflicting meanings, Coski suggests how this provocative artifact, which has been viewed with pride,…

In the past 25 years, no one has been more instrumental than MacKinnon in making equal rights real for women. This…

Drawing on a comparative inquiry into the political origins and legal consequences of recent constitutional revolutions in…

This wholly innovative study demonstrates that presidents are persistent agents of change, continually disrupting and…

Drawing on both extensive demographic data and compelling case studies, this book reveals the depths of the educational…

Most recent studies of Nietzsche's works have lost sight of the fundamental question of the meaning of a life of inescapable…

Detroit in the 1960s was a city with a pulse: people were marching in step with Martin Luther King, Jr.; dancing in the…

Cardano was an Italian doctor, natural philosopher, and mathematician who became a best-selling author. He was also a…

This first volume shows that even as a young man Walter Benjamin possessed astonishing intellectual range and depth. His…

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In a new approach to philosophical anthropology, Bruno Latour offers answers to questions raised in We Have Never Been…

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

\nKristin Surak offers the first on-the-ground investigation of the global market in citizenship for the rich. She tracks…

\nWritten in about 1340 by the Benedictine preacher Pierre Bersuire, The Moralized Ovid was a highly influential…

\nIn the tenth century, an anonymous scholar crafted an Old English version of Saint Augustine\'s Soliloquia, which explores…

This book is a history of women in science and an assessment of the role of gender in shaping scientific knowledge.…

This book is a profound reexamination of the role of the German army, the Wehrmacht, in World War II. Until recently, the…

Looking at every kind of fatherhood - being a father in and out of marriage, fathering from a distance, stepfathering, and…

Through an intensive clinical study of 40 incest victims and numerous interviews with professionals in mental health, child…

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

Jerome Bruner shows that the basic concepts of science and the humanities can be grasped intuitively at a very early age.…

Patricia Williams is a lawyer and a professor of commercial law, the great-great-granddaughter of a slave and a white…

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

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

\nA groundbreaking history of philosophy and punishment, The Prison before the Panopticon traces the influence of ancient…

Marsilio Ficino, the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus, was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. His…

\nJohn Geometres’s Life of the Virgin Mary, a work of outstanding theological sophistication animated by deeply felt…

Stanley Fish is one of America's most stimulating literary theorists. In this book, he undertakes a reexamination of some of…

This volume presents the visionary work and the philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino. His Platonic evangelizing was…

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