Here, in a major addition to American studies and the first book-length philosophical treatment of Du Bois's thought, Robert…

A major work by one of the more innovative thinkers of our time, Politics of Nature does nothing less than establish the…

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

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A study of the mechanics, practice, and application of negotiation explains the processes of negotiation and offers…

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Bruno Latour was once asked him: Do you believe in reality? This text is an attempt to answer this question. Through case…

\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…

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

Andrzej Franaszek's award-winning biography of Czeslaw Milosz the great Polish poet and winner of the Nobel Prize in…

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This book develops an original theory of group and organizational behavior that cuts across disciplinary lines and…

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

This volume presents G.A. Cohen' Gifford Lectures, delivered at the University of Edinburgh in 1996. Focusing on Marxism and…

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

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

Nobel Laureate Edmund Phelps and an international group of economists argue that economic health depends on the widespread…

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More than twenty years after its original appearance in Italian, "The Open Work" remains significant for its powerful…

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…

Contains forty lessons designed to introduce beginning students to the basic patterns and structures of Classical Chinese,…

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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…

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

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

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

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

\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…

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

The aesthetic origins and directions of music are explored, touching upon concepts and visualizations from such fields as…

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

In this highly original work, Robert Nozick develops new views on philosophy's central topics and weaves them into a unified…

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

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At a time of unprecedented expansion in the life sciences, evolution is the one theory that transcends all of biology. Any…

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

Faced with government's ineptitude, people are attracted to strong leaders and bold action. As Pierre Rosanvallon…

\nFrom Booker T. Washington to a neighbor who speaks up at a city council meeting, many of the people who represent us were…

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

\nPhilosophers have spent millennia accumulating knowledge about knowledge. But negative epistemological phenomena, such as…

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To understand the way children develop, Bronfenbrenner believes that it is necessary to observe their behavior in natural…

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This text applies the tools of game theory and information economics to advance the understanding of how laws work.…

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Roger Myerson's introductory text aims to provide a clear and thorough examination of the models, solution concepts,…

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What would something unlike us - a computer, for example - have to be able to do to qualify as a possible knower, like us?…

Many books have been written about strategy, tactics, and great commanders. This is the first book to deal exclusively with…

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

Was there ever such a thing as Byzantium? Certainly no emperor ever called himself Byzantine. While the identities of…

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

For liberals, the question Do others live rightly? seems to demand a follow-up question: Who am I to judge? Peaceful…