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Envy, irritation, paranoia - in contrast to powerful and dynamic negative emotions like anger, these non-cathartic states of feeling are...

"Platonic Theology" is a visionary work and the philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus...

This study makes the psychological case against the reliability of the eyewitness. By shedding light on the many factors that can intervene...

Nietzsche continues to occupy a special place - not only for a broad range of academics but also for members of a wider public, who find...

A distinctive Christian heresy? A competitor of burgeoning Christianity? A pre-Christian folk religion traceable to "Oriental syncretism"?...

Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily, ca. 8020 BCE, wrote forty books of world history, called "Library of History, "...

Branko Milanovic presents a bold account of the dynamics that drive inequality on a global scale. Using vast data sets, he explains the...

Plotinus (204/5 270 CE) was the first and greatest of Neoplatonic philosophers. His writings were edited aby his disciple Porphyry, who...

"Cahiers du Cinema" is the most prestigious and influential film journal ever published. An anthology devoted entirely to its writings,...

Science and technology have immense authority and influence in our society, yet their working remains little understood. The conventional...

A distinguished and experienced appellate court judge, Richard A. Posner offers in this new book a unique and, to orthodox legal thinkers,...

A summation of 15 years of research on what public-sector executives should do to improve the performance of public enterprises. Cases are...

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck was a biological Janus, at once a highly competent taxonomist in a traditional mold and a bold, almost visionary,...

This is a biography of Martin Heidegger bronicling his ideas, with their debt to Heraclitus, Plato, and Kant, and his personal commitments...

What is race and why does it matter$24 Why does the presence of Others make us so afraid$25 America's foremost novelist reflects on themes...

Herodotus the great Greek historian was born about 484 BCE, at Halicarnassus in Caria, Asia Minor, when it was subject to the Persians....

Argues that the idea of the mind as an "information processor" has led psychology away from seeing the mind as a creator of meanings. Only...

When the complete "Letters of Emily Dickinson" appeared in three volumes in 1958, Robert Kirsch welcomed them in the "Los Angeles Times,"...

Neoconservatism has undergone a transformation that has made a clear identity almost impossible to capture. The Republican foreign policy...

In this book Walter Burkert, the most eminent living historian of ancient Greek religion, has produced the kanon work for our time on that...

The poignant story of Holocaust survivors who returned to their hometown in Poland and tried to pick up the pieces of a shattered world.In...

The epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of global history, a scathing critique of contemporary...

In 1961 South Korea was mired in poverty. Żeby 1979 it had a powerful industrial economy and a vibrant civil society in the making, which...

A Financial Times Best Book of the Year A Guardian Best Architecture Book of the Year "Sharp, revealing, funny." -The Guardian "An original...

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...

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

Architects, we like to believe, shape the world as they please. Reinier de Graaf draws on his own tragicomic experiences to present a candid...

Herodotus the great Greek historian was born about 484 BCE, at Halicarnassus in Caria, Asia Minor, when it was subject to the Persians....

In 1967, the magazine "Ramparts" ran an expose revealing that the Central Intelligence Agency had been secretly funding and managing a wide...

The Platonic Theology is a visionary work and the philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus...

Since it appeared in 1971, John Rawls's "A Theory of Justice" has become a classic. The author has now revised the original edition to clear...

Plotinus (204/5-270 CE) was the first and greatest of Neoplatonic philosophers. His writings were edited by his disciple Porphyry, who published...

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

From the first Slavic migrations to the Romanovs rise to the Putin era, Russia has endured for centuries as a nation whose sheer size and...

Presents a description and analysis of the law of five societies: the Eskimo; the Ifugao of northern Luzon in the Philippines; the Comanche,...

Aristophanes of Athens (ca. 446-386 BC), one of the world's great comic dramatists, has been admired since antiquity for his wit and fantasy,...

In a Different Voice is the little book that started a revolution, making women's voices heard, in their own right and with their own integrity,...

A series of closely interrelated essays on game theory, this book deals with an area in which progress has been least satisfactory the situations...

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

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"...

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...

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

A EuropeNow Editor's PickA Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year"Pieter M. Judson's book informs and stimulates. If his account...

The threat of cyberwar can feel very Hollywood: nuclear codes hacked, power plants melting down, cities burning. In reality, state-sponsored...

"Brutus" gives an account of the Roman tradition of public and lawcourt speeches from its beginning to what Cicero described as the polished...

The use of perspective in Renaissance painting caused a revolution in the history of seeing, allowing artists to depict the world from a...

Plotinus (204/5-270 CE) was the first and greatest of Neoplatonic philosophers. His writings were edited aby his disciple Porphyry, who...

The Greek poetry of the archaic period that we call elegy was composed primarily for banquets and convivial gatherings. Its subject matter...

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

The writings of the Apostolic Fathers give a rich and diverse picture of Christian life and thought in the period immediately after New...

"Gentlemen Bankers" investigates the social and economic circles of one of America s most renowned and influential financiers to uncover...

With engaging wit and subtle irony, Albert Hirschman maps the diffuse and treacherous world of reactionary rhetoric in which conservative...

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

"The Greek Anthology" ('Gathering of Flowers') is the name given to a collection of about 4500 short Greek poems (called epigrams but usually...

"The fascinating story of arguably the greatest queen in sub-Saharan African history, who surely deserves a place in the pantheon of revolutionary...

"The Greek Anthology" ('Gathering of Flowers') is the name given to a collection of about 4500 short Greek poems (called epigrams but usually...

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 originated as lectures for a course on political philosophy that Rawls taught regularly at Harvard in the 1980s. In time the...

In a new retelling of the romantic rationalist adventure of ideas that is Hegel's classic The Phenomenology of Spirit, Robert Brandom argues...

The Mind of a Mnemonist is a rare phenomenon - a scientific study that transcends its data and, in the manner of the best fictional literature,...

Julian (Flavius Claudius Iulianus) "the Apostate," Roman Emperor, lived 331 or 332 to 363 CE. Born and educated in Constantinople as a Christian,...

When the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on December 10, 2010, its recipient, Liu Xiaobo, was in Jinzhou Prison, serving an eleven-year sentence...

After the collapse of the Han dynasty in the third century CE, China divided along a north-south line. Mark Lewis traces the changes that...

Zbigniew Brzezinski's impact on America's role in the world extends far beyond his years in the Carter White House. Justin Vaisse offers...

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

"The Greek Anthology" ('Gathering of Flowers') is the name given to a collection of about 4500 short Greek poems (called epigrams but usually...

Between 1820 and 1990, the share of world income going to today's wealthy nations soared from twenty percent to almost seventy. Since then,...

The definitive new translation of Max Weber's classic work of social theory--arguably the most important book by the foremost social theorist...

Plotinus (204/5-270 CE) was the first and greatest of Neoplatonic philosophers. His writings were edited aby his disciple Porphyry, who...

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

Solutions to workplace burnout often involve victim-blaming: Stressed? Try therapy—or a new job. But burnout is a sign of defective workplaces,...

Every liberal democracy has laws or codes against hate speech except the United States. For constitutionalists, regulation of hate speech...

Plotinus (204/5-270 CE) was the first and greatest of Neoplatonic philosophers. His writings were edited aby his disciple Porphyry, who...

A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2016 Today, nations increasingly carry out geopolitical combat through economic means. Policies governing...

The "Platonic Theology" is a visionary work and the philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus...

Somewhere in Africa, more than a million years ago, a line of apes began to rear their young differently than their Great Ape ancestors....

"Worlds of Dissent" analyzes the myths of Central European resistance popularized żeby Western journalists and historians, and replaces...

The white power movement has declared war against the United States and has carried out with military precision an escalating campaign of...

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

Aristotle's Politics is a key document in Western political thought. In these first two books Aristotle shows his complete mastery of political...

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

Mary Beard's richly illustrated work is a testament to the profound importance of the triumph in Roman culture - and for monarchs, dynasts...

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

Winner of a British Medical Association Book AwardA Brain Pickings Best Science Book of the YearEarly birds and night owls are born, not...

The writings of the Apostolic Fathers give a rich and diverse picture of Christian life and thought in the period immediately after New...

From 1980 to 1988 Iran and Iraq fought the longest war of the century. It included the tragic slaughter of child soldiers, the use of chemical...

In Heroides, Ovid (43 BCE 17CE) allows legendary women to narrate their memories and express their emotions in verse letters to absent husbands...

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

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

This work organized around turning points in 1914, 1918 and 1933 explains why the Nazis were so popular and what was behind the political...

Marcus Aurelius (121 180 CE), philosopher-emperor, wrote the Meditations (his title was The matters addressed to himself) in periods of...

Livy (Titus Livius), the great Roman historian, was born at or near Patavium (Padua) in 64 or 59 BCE; he may have lived mostly in Rome but...

To great writers, Walter Benjamin once wrote, "finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labour their entire lives."...

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

The great Russian psychologist L. S. Vygotsky has long been recognized as a pioneer in developmental psychology. But somewhat ironically,...

Conflict is inevitable, in both deals and disputes. Yet when clients call in the lawyers to haggle over who gets how much of the pie, traditional...

The poetry of Horace (born 65 bc) is richly varied, its focus moving between public and private concerns, urban and rural settings, Stoic...

Does the world make you sick? If the distractions and distortions around you, the jarring colors and sounds, could shake up the healing...

William Miller details our anxious relation to basic life processes; eating, excreting, fornicating, decaying, and dying. But disgust pushes...

In 1965 the Second Vatican Council declared that God loves the Jews. Before that, the Church had taught for centuries that Jews were cursed...

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

In 221 bc the First Emperor of Qin unified the lands that would become the heart of a Chinese empire. Though forged żeby conquest, this...

Aristotle (384-322 BC), the great Greek thinker, researcher, and educator, ranks among the most important and influential figures in the...

Though the revised edition of "A Theory of Justice, published in 1999, is the definitive statement of Rawls's view, so much of the extensive...

Winner of the William James Book Award"Magisterial...Makes an impressive argument that most distinctly human traits are established early...

For the first time in history, the globe is dominated aby one economic system. Capitalism prevails because it delivers prosperity and meets...

A scientist friend asked Bruno Latour point-blank: "Do you believe in reality?" Taken aback aby this strange query, Latour offers his meticulous...

"The Platonic Theology" is a visionary work and the philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino (1433 - 1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus...

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

Providing an understanding of the important changes that took place in cinema and film criticism in the 1960s and beyond, this book looks...

"A deep accounting of how America got to a point where a median white family has 13 times more wealth than the median black family." - The...

Epictetus was a crippled Greek slave of Phrygia during Nero's reign (5468 CE) who heard lectures aby the Stoic Musonius before he was freed....

The authors basic argument is that while learning is an essential and lifelong activity, people frequently use exactly the wrong strategies...

In this passionate, lucid, and surprising book, Timothy Morton argues that all forms of life are connected in a vast, entangling mesh. This...

We began as savages, and savagery has served us well--it got us where we are. But how do our tribal impulses, still in place and in play,...

Sextus Empiricus (ca. 160210 CE), exponent of scepticism and critic of the Dogmatists, was a Greek physician and philosopher, pupil and...

The "Meditations" of Marcus Aurelius is seen as one of the three most important expressions of Stoicism. Pierre Hadot here uncovers levels...

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