This is a story of how men worked, intrigued, and made business deals in an Italy invaded by continental countries and…

Talks about Lorenzo Valla (1407-1457), one of the most important theorist of the humanist movement. He wrote a major work on…

This powerful book extends and completes a project begun with Steven Ozment's When Fathers Ruled. Here Ozment, the leading…

Paul and Marie Pireaud, a young peasant couple from southwest France, were newlyweds when World War I erupted. Drawing upon…

Bauman urges us to think in new ways about a newly flexible, newly challenging modern world. In an era of routine travel,…

Drawing on his rich experience, Havens offers an extraordinary journey through the vast and changing landscape of…

This book explains how and why apes and dolphins are so distantly related yet so cognitively alike and what this teaches us…

Can we live with the consequences of wiping our closest relatives off the face of the Earth, and all the biological…

The anonymous Tria sunt, with its wealth of illustrative materials, was a widely used and highly ambitious textbook compiled…

• Rok vydání 2002

Marsilion Ficino's Platonic evangelising was eminently successful and widely influential, and his Platonic Theology,…

\nRenowned scholar Susan J. Wolfson assembles seventy-eight selections-some beloved, others less well known-that illuminate…

• Rok vydání 1699

In 1699, Cotton Mather authored the first Spanish-language text in the English New World: a religious tract aimed at…

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

\nRefugee children have among the fewest educational opportunities, their formal schooling having been disrupted; their…

Like the canaries that alerted miners to a poisonous atmosphere, issues of race point to underlying problems in society that…

This book uses broad synthesis and close textual analysis to reconstruct the kinds of books and the ways of organizing…

Kecia Ali delves into the many ways the Prophet's life story has been told from the earliest days of Islam to the present,…

In an effort to answer whether unethical conduct is necessarily irrational, Vogler takes as her guides scholars who…

In this book Vendler brings her remarkable skills to bear on a number of Stevens's short poems. She shows us that this most…

Teskey argues that Milton's creative power is drawn from a rift at the center of his consciousness over the question of…

For what purpose and for whom has biographical pursuit endured, and how does it play such a contested, popular role in…

While parents spend significant time as well as money on children, most estimates of the "cost" of children ignore the value…

\nImagination is thought to be the province of childhood-the stuff of free play and unrestrained ideas. Then comes the dull…

• Čeština

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

A re-interpretation of American constitutional history, planned as the first of three volumes. Ackerman examines the…

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

\nGary Saul Morson brings to life the intense intellectual debates shaping two centuries of Russian writing. Dialogues of…

Philosophers-professionals and the armchair variety-are given to defending comprehensive world views. Raymond Geuss, one of…

In countries with officially egalitarian property law, women still accumulate less wealth than men. Combining quantitative,…

Adult preconceptions about the mental life of children tend to discourage a child's philosophical bent. By exposing the…

With this lively new verse translation of one of the great literary achievements of the Italian Renaissance, Slavitt…

Women have long needed a book devoted to their unique issues with diabetes. This up-to-date and practical guide advocates…

Chandler argues that only with consistent attention to research and development and an emphasis on long-term corporate…

In the wake of the Civil Rights movement, a new, loosely-organized social movement was born in the struggle for cultural…

In this inventive book, Peter Fritzsche explores how Europeans and Americans saw themselves in the drama of history, how…

The aim of this book is to sound the alarm against dangerous tactics for controlling the pests that are an annoying but…

Drawing on ten years of undercover work and research in four major school districts, Segal reveals how systemic waste and…

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

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

\nThe United States is the global leader in higher education, but this was not always the case and may not remain so.…

\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…

Nicole Fleetwood enters American prisons to explore the creativity flourishing there. Though isolated and degraded,…

Living with Robots recounts a foundational shift in robotics, from artificial intelligence to artificial empathy, and…

Hrdy argues that evolutionary theorists' emphasis on sexual competition among males for access to females overlooks…