Now that the welfare system has been largely dismantled, the fate of America's poor depends on what happens to them in the…

Jackall tells how New York detectives pieced together a case of drug trafficking, money laundering, and murder, centered on…

Making Good explores the choices confronting young workers who join the ranks of three dynamic professions-journalism,…

This book shows how innovation in the "post-Google generation" is often catalyzed by those who cross a conventional line…

Alexander shows how popular stories about mathematicians are really morality tales about their craft as it relates to the…

In Prejudice, the history and psychology of discriminatory policies is contrasted with efforts to overcome discrimination.…

Rubin shows how the sites and practices of reciting poetry influenced American readers' lives and helped them to find…

\nDrawing on a range of hard evidence, Neil Van Leeuwen shows that the psychological mechanisms underlying religious belief…

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…

\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…

Since the 1970s a gulf has opened between the pay of low-paid workers and that of the middle class, resulting in the…

In 1992 Gordon founded the Workplace Project to help immigrant workers in the underground suburban economy of Long Island.…

Drawing on extensive archives of teachers' letters and accounts, Zimmerman's narrative explores the teachers' shifting…

Katherine Nelson re-centers developmental psychology with a revived emphasis on development and change, rather than…

We commonly think of marriage as a private matter between two people, a personal expression of love and commitment. In this…

What should we do with teens who commit crimes? Two leading scholars in law and adolescent development argue that juvenile…

In The Real American Dream literary scholar Andrew Delbanco shows how Americans have organized their days and ordered their…

In the mid-nineteenth century writers such as Hawthorne and Melville produced works of fiction that even today help define…

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

Siegfried Kracauer was one of the twentieth century's most brilliant cultural critics, a daring and prolific scholar, and an…

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

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

Populism suddenly is everywhere, and everywhere misunderstood. Nadia Urbinati argues that populism should be regarded as…

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

Eisgruber offers practical, moderate, and appealing terms for the settlement of many hot-button issues that have plunged…

Standing on Common Ground locates the roots of today's debates over border enforcement in the Sunbelt's pan-ethnic and…

In a compelling analysis of the interplay among assassinations, Western bombardment of Japanese cities and fertile cultural…

"Mind" is a cultural construct that children discover as they acquire the language and social practices of their culture,…

When financial institutions collapse, new ones take their place, shaping markets for generations to come. This book explains…

This elegant essay on the justice of work focuses on the fit between who we are and the kind of work we do. Muirhead shows…

This book is about murder-in life and in art-and about how we look at it and feel about it. At the center of Lesser's…

Twenty years scouring American culture has made Hampton a uniquely hard-nosed guide to the heart of pop darkness. Bridging…

\nKaterina Clark recovers the story of leftist world literature, a massive project that united writers from the Soviet…

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

\nWhat was the representation of the Mongol invasions in Japan, and what role did it play as a repertoire of cultural…

Phenomenology has the strongest claim to the mantle of continental philosophy. Edward Baring shows that credit for its…

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…

\nEugene Fishel asks whether, how, and under what circumstances the United States has considered Ukraine\'s sovereignty in…

"The problem of the [20th] century is the problem of the color-line," W. E. B. Du Bois wrote in 1903. His words have proven…