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The first and only successful slave revolution in the Americas began in 1791 when thousands of brutally exploited slaves rose up against...

Emily Dickinson lived and died without fame: she saw only a few poems published. Her legacy was later rescued from her desk drawer - an...

Breaking the Vicious Circle is a tour de force that should be read aby everyone who is interested in improving our regulatory processes....

Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BCE, was the son of Nicomachus, a physician,...

Describes the history of the nuclear arms race, examines the dangers of nuclear war, and discusses strategies for stopping the spread of...

Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), ca. 150 235 CE, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father (Roman governor of Cilicia)...

With the rise of science, we moderns believe, the world changed irrevocably, separating us forever from our primitive, premodern ancestors....

This is a textbook for the standard undergraduate econometrics course. Its only prerequisites are a semester course in statistics and one...

A century and a half after the publication of "Origin of Species", evolutionary thinking has expanded beyond the field of biology to include...

Since 1959 The John Harvard Library has been instrumental in publishing essential American writings in authoritative editions. Jacob Riis'...

An innovator in contemporary thought on economic and political development looks here at decline rather than growth. Albert O. Hirschman...

"Do Muslim Women Need Saving$1208" is an indictment of a mindset that has justified all manner of foreign interference, including military...

Cristanne Miller's major edition of Dickinson's poems presents the 1,100 poems the poet retained during her lifetime, in the form she retained...

Lukas Rieppel shows how dinosaurs gripped the popular imagination and became emblems of America's industrial power and economic prosperity...

"A timely account of how the 1% holds on to their wealth...Ought to keep wealth managers awake at night."--Wall Street Journal"Harrington...

Magisterial in vision, sweeping in scope, this monumental work presents a seamless account of Japanese society during the modern era, from...

When we talk about education today, we tend to avoid the rhetoric of "mastery," with its erotic and inegalitarian overtones. But the charged...

A Times Higher Education Book of the Week A virulent strain of antifeminism is thriving online that treats women's empowerment as a mortal...

"Know thyself," a precept as old as Socrates, is still good advice. But is introspection the best path to self-knowledge? What are we trying...

The primary purpose of this book is to prepare students for empirical research in economics. But it also equips those who plan to specialize...

Much more than a mere compilation of pagan myths, Boccaccio's Genealogy of the Pagan Gods incorporates hundreds of excerpts from and comments...

The eastern Roman Empire was the largest state in western Eurasia in the sixth century. A century later, it was a fraction of its former...

Drawing on a dozen years of research among managers, officers and politicians in the public realm and the private sector, among the non-profits,...

Knowledge of wild chimpanzees has expanded dramatically. This volume, edited żeby Martin Muller, Richard Wrangham, and David Pilbeam, brings...

On January 30, 1933, hearing about the celebrations for Hitler's assumption of power, Erich Ebermayer remarked bitterly in his diary, 'We...

Thucydides of Athens, one of the greatest of historians, was born about 471 BCE. He saw the rise of Athens to greatness under the inspired...

In a new approach to philosophical anthropology, Bruno Latour offers answers to questions raised in We Have Never Been Modern: If not modern,...

Mr. Danto argues that recent developments in the artworld, in particular the production of works of art that cannot be told from ordinary...

Are humans żeby nature hierarchical or egalitarian? Hierarchy in the Forest addresses this question żeby examining the evolutionary origins...

Giacomo Corneo presents a refreshingly antidogmatic review of economic systems, in the form of a fictional dialogue between a daughter indignant...

Succinct, Accessible, And Authoritative, Thomas Piketty S The Economics Of Inequality Is The Ideal Place To Start For Those Who Want To...

China's efforts to modernize yielded a kleptocracy characterized aby corruption, wealth inequality, and social tensions. Rejecting conventional...

Anne Bradstreet was one of our earliest feminists and the first true poet in the American colonies. This collection of her extant poetry...

Some central questions in the natural and social sciences can't be answered by controlled laboratory experiments, often considered to be...

A look inside the minds of young children shows how we can better nurture their abilities to think and grow.Adults easily recognize children's...

A classic work, first published in 1941, translated into half a dozen languages, and now in a fifth edition, "Space, Time and Architecture"...

A History of the Jewish People presents a total vision of Jewish experiences and achievements--religious, political, social, and economic--in...

Valerius Maximus compiled his handbook of notable deeds and sayings during the reign of Tiberius (14-37 CE). The collection was very popular...

No one in this century can speak with greater authority on the progress of ideas in biology than Ernst Mayr. And no book has ever established...

How have major civilizations of the last two millennia treated people who were attracted to their own sex? Presenting the exploration of...

This rich compendium on the lives and doctrines of philosophers ranges over three centuries, from Thales to Epicurus (to whom the whole...

In a tour of Western culture that is at once exhilarating and alarming, Nelson shows us the distorted forms in which the spiritual resurfaced...

Argues that the chief stumbling block to environmental thinking is the image of nature itself. Ranging widely in 18th-century through contemporary...

Miracles occupied a unique place in medieval and Byzantine life and thought. This volume makes available three collections of miracle tales...

This book studies the Arabic-Islamic view of Byzantium, tracing the Byzantine image as it evolved through centuries of warfare, contact,...

This volume looks at the way women have fared in the 20th century, a period which has seen momentous events, in terms of wars and revolutions....

In this book, we accompany Umberto Eco as he explores the intricacies of fictional form and method. Using examples ranging from fairy tales...

Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 10643 BCE), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived...

Albert Einstein and J. Robert Oppenheimer, two iconic scientists of the twentieth century, belonged to different generations, with the boundary...

This masterly and long-awaited work is a full exposition, synthesis, summation, and critical evaluation of the present state of man's knowledge...

Winner of the National Book Award, this massively detailed biography throws a light into the study of the brilliant poet. How did Emily...

The well-known Italian semiotician and novelist Umberto Eco discloses for the first time to English-speaking readers the unsuspected richness,...

A study of the mechanics, practice, and application of negotiation explains the processes of negotiation and offers practical instruction...

An exhaustive history of the human cranium and a guide to how each part of it functions.

In This Dialogue Between A Famous Atheist And A Former Radical, Sam Harris And Maajid Nawaz Invite You To Join An Urgently Needed Conversation:...

This selection of lapidary nuggets drawn from 33 of antiquity's major authors includes poetry, dialogue, philosophical writing, history,...

Working mostly alone, almost single-handedly writing 250,000 lines of computer code, Steve Grand produced < i>

Once in a great while, as the New York Times noted recently, a naturalist writes a book that changes the way people look at the living world....

This book is an intellectual tour de force: a comprehensive Darwinian interpretation of human development. Looking at the entire range of...

Economists investigate the workings of markets and tend to set ethical questions aside. Theologians often dismiss economics, losing insights...

At a time when people are living into their tenth decade, the longest longitudinal study of human development ever undertaken offers welcome...

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

Cornelius Nepos was born in Cisalpine Gaul but lived in Rome and was a friend of Cicero, Atticus, and Catullus. Most of his writings, which...

This rich compendium on the lives and doctrines of philosophers ranges over three centuries, from Thales to Epicurus (to whom the whole...

Museum lovers know that energy and mystery run through every exhibition. Steven Lubar explains work behind the scenes-collecting, preserving,...

Long before GPS and Google Earth, humans traveled vast distances using environmental clues and simple instruments. What is lost when technology...

What does it mean to be a hero? The ancient Greeks who gave us Achilles and Odysseus had a very different understanding of the term than...

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

From ancient cave paintings of honey bee nests to modern science's richly diversified investigation of honey bee biology and its applications,...

The era of late antiquity - from the middle of the third century to the end of the eighth - was marked by the rise of two world religions,...

Ralph Franklin, the foremost scholar of Dickinson's manuscripts, has prepared an authoritative one-volume edition of all extant poems by...

'What does it mean to be lonely?' Thomas Dumm asks. His inquiry, documented in this book, takes us beyond social circumstances and into...

The mother tongue of the Roman Empire and the lingua franca of the West for centuries afterward, Latin survives today primarily in classrooms...

A magisterial mappa mundi of the terrain that Pierre Hadot has so productively worked for decades, this ambitious book revises our view...

Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), ca. 150 235 CE, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father (Roman governor of Cilicia)...

Sophocles (497/6406 BCE), with Aeschylus and Euripides, was one of the three great tragic poets of Athens, and is considered one of the...

This work argues that evolutionary theorists' emphasis on sexual competition among males for access to females overlooks selection pressures...

Giovanni Boccaccio's Genealogy of the Pagan Gods is an ambitious work of humanistic scholarship whose goal is to plunder ancient and medieval...

From the temptation of Eve to the venomous murder of the mighty Thor, the serpent appears throughout time and cultures as a figure of mischief...

John King Fairbank was the West's doyen on China, and this book is the full and final expression of his lifelong engagement with this vast...

Works in this volume recount the circumstances of Socrates' trial and execution in 399 BC. Euthyphro attempts to define holiness; Apology...

The Satyrica (Satyricon liber), a comic-picaresque fiction in prose and verse traditionally attributed to the Neronian Petronius (d. AD...

In the early 1140s, the Bavarian princess Bertha von Sulzbach arrived in Constantinople to marry the Byzantine emperor Manuel Komnenos....

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

The forgotten story of 200,000 Polish Jews who escaped the Holocaust as refugees stranded in remote corners of the USSR.Between 1940 and...

Tacitus (Cornelius), famous Roman historian, was born in 55, 56 or 57 CE and lived to about 120. He became an orator, married in 77 a daughter...

"Fairness versus Welfare" poses a bold challenge to contemporary moral philosophy aby showing that most moral principles conflict more sharply...

Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny was Haeckel's answer--the wrong one--to the most vexing question of nineteenth-century biology: what is...

Already famous throughout Europe, this text opened archives in the former Soviet bloc to reveal the actual, practical accomplishments of...

The fox knows many things, the Greeks said, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. In his most comprehensive work, Ronald Dworkin argues...

The cross stirs intense feelings among Christians and non-Christians alike. Robin Jensen takes readers on an intellectual and spiritual...

Horses were domesticated about 6000 years ago on the vast Eurasian steppe. Michel-Antoine Leblanc presents an encyclopedic synthesis of...

This primer on legal reasoning is aimed at law students and upper-level undergraduates. But it is also an original exposition of basic legal...

Arrian's "Anabasis of Alexander" in seven books is the best account we have of Alexander's adult life. "Indica, " a description of India...

This volume explores the relationship between culture and the military in Chinese society from early China to the Qing empire, with contributions...

The authors argue that the rules and practices of corporate law mimic contractual provisions that parties involved in corporate enterprise...

"Every line we succeed in publishing today...is a victory wrested from the powers of darkness." So wrote Walter Benjamin in January 1940....

Lucian (ca. 120190 CE), the satirist from Samosata on the Euphrates, started as an apprentice sculptor, turned to rhetoric and visited Italy...

Bitcoin has been hailed as an Internet marvel and decried as the preferred transaction vehicle for criminals. It has left nearly everyone...

Charles Walker examines the largest rebellion in the history of Spain's American empire, led żeby Latin America's most iconic revolutionary,...

The Rhetorica ad Herrenium was traditionally attributed to Cicero (106 43 BCE), and reflects, as does Cicero s De Inventione, Hellenistic...

What is the best way to govern ourselves? The history of the West has been shaped żeby the struggle to answer this question, according to...

Eusebius of Caesarea, ca. 260340 CE, born in Palestine, was a student of the presbyter Pamphilus whom he loyally supported during Diocletian's...

Thucydides of Athens, one of the greatest of historians, was born about 471 BCE. He saw the rise of Athens to greatness under the inspired...

Everywhere we hear talk of decline, of a world that was better once, maybe fifty years ago, maybe centuries ago, but certainly before modernity...

Homer's Iliad and Odyssey were central to the educational system of Byzantium, yet the religion and culture of the Homeric epics--even the...

What exactly is neoliberalism, and where did it come from$1207 This volume attempts to answer these questions aby exploring neoliberalism...

Babrius is the reputed author of a collection (discovered in the 19th century) of more than 125 fables based on those called Aesop's, in...

Michele Lamont takes us into the world inhabited aby working-class men - the world as they understand it. Interviewing black and white working-class...

Species of the genus Pheidole are the most abundant and diverse ants of the New World and range from the northern United States to Argentina....

A majority of evolutionary biologists believe that we now can envision our biological predecessors - not the first, but nearly the first,...

These notes are about the process of design: the process of inventing things which display new physical order, organization, form, in response...

Volume III of the four-volume Loeb edition of Early Greek Philosophy presents later philosophical systems and their aftermath in the fifth...

Theocritus (early Third Century BCE) Was The Inventor Of The Bucolic Genre, Also Known As Pastoral. The Present Edition Of His Work, Along...

In his epic The Civil War, Lucan (39 65 CE) carries us from Caesar s fateful crossing of the Rubicon, through the Battle of Pharsalus, Pompey...

How do we judge whether an action is morally right or wrong? If an action is wrong, what reason does that give us not to do it? Why should...

The author argues that the Left wing in America sees the sins of America's past poisoning hope for the future, and challenges the "lost"...

The world’s leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimistic history of human progress toward equality...

This volume searches behind the legend of Hypatia of Alexandria - mathematician, Neoplatonist and renowned beauty who was brutally murdered...

What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality,...