Designed to introduce both students and general readers to a work that is an essential part of a liberal education, this…

Explores the complex problem of mental life. This book argues that the roots of creativity for lie not in consciousness, but…

In 1969, Princeton physicist Gerard O'Neill began looking outward to space colonies as the new frontier for humanity's…

Arguing that the human psyche is at war with itself, that humans are alienated in the cosmos, and that moral societies are…

There is a growing recognition that philosophy isn't unique to the West, that it didn't begin only with the classical…

Offers a portrait of academic life in the nineties. This title presents an exploration of the uses and abuses of literary…

It is widely accepted that a large proportion of acquisition strategies fail to deliver the expected value. Globalizing…

The huge prison buildup of the past four decades has few defenders, yet reforms to reduce the numbers of those incarcerated…

\nWhy liberalism is all you need to lead a good, fun, worthy, and rewarding life-and how you can become a better and happier…

Explains how we decide who we can trust and what we should believe-and argues that we\'re pretty good at making these…

One of the new forms of prose fiction that emerged in the eighteenth century was the first-person narrative told by things…

Worldly Philosopher chronicles the times and writings of Albert O. Hirschman, one of the twentieth century's most original…

In 2004, the French government instituted a ban on the wearing of 'conspicuous signs' of religious affiliation in public…

Includes QR codes for recordings of birdsongs available on companion website.…

Develops a distinction between justice in procedures, which demands that both sides in a conflict should be heard, and…

This work looks at polyominoes, invented by Solomon Golomb, which have contributed to the study of combinatorial geometry…

This is the first book to help general readers recognize 200 common mosses of the Northeast and the Appalachian Mountains.…

A unique primer on how to think intelligently about the thorniest public issues confronting us today Let's be honest, we've…

Taking readers into the homes of middle-class families to reveal the hidden consequences of student debt and the ways that…

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The Essential Goethe is the most comprehensive and representative one-volume collection of Goethe's writings ever published…

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The first edition of Unequal Democracy was an instant classic, shattering illusions about American democracy and spurring…

Takes readers into the intriguing world of machine gambling, an increasingly popular and absorbing form of play that blurs…

Zionism was inspired as a movement - one driven by the search for a homeland for the stateless and persecuted Jewish people.…

What role should racial difference play in the American workplace? As a nation, we rely on civil rights law to address this…

Argues that the recent history of American criminal justice can be divided into two eras - the age of Roosevelt (roughly…

Focuses instead on the concept of identity to reveal a Roman society made up of far-flung populations whose experience of…

Offers an analysis, which contrasts the myths with the actual history of Europe's transformation between the fourth and…

Has anyone ever worked harder and longer at being immature than novelist Philip Roth? This book examines Roth's 'mature…

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