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Josephus, soldier, statesman, historian, was a Jew born at Jerusalem about 37 CE. A man of high descent, he early became learned in Jewish...

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

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

This portrayal of one of antiquity's most enigmatic figures offers a vivid and compact assessment of the Apostate's life and reign. Proceeding...

Listen to a short interview with Matthew Connelly. Host: Chris Gondek. Producer: Heron & Crane. "Fatal Misconception" is the disturbing...

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...

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

In 1900 the Catholic Church stood staunchly against human rights, religious freedom, and the secular state disastrous concepts unleashed...

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

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...

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

In his last book, Ronald Dworkin addresses questions that men and women have asked through the ages: What is religion and what is God's...

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

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

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

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....

Big data, genomics, and quantitative approaches to network-based analysis are combining to advance the frontiers of medicine as never before....

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

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

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

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...

Josephus, soldier, statesman, historian, was a Jew born at Jerusalem about 37 CE. A man of high descent, he early became learned in Jewish...

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...

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

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...

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

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

Modern Japan offers us a view of a highly developed society with its own internal logic. Eiko Ikegami makes this logic accessible to us...

Listen to a short interview with Thomas McCraw/Host: Chris Gondek/Producer: Heron & Crane. Pan Am, Gimbel's, Pullman, Douglas Aircraft,...

Pausanias (fl. 150 CE), one of the Roman world s great travelers, sketches in Description of Greece the history, geography, landmarks, legends,...

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 by his disciple Porphyry, who published...

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

If a country's Gross Domestic Product increases each year, but so does the percentage of its people deprived of basic education, health...

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

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

With the unusual clarity, distinctive and engaging style, and penetrating insight that have drawn such a wide range of readers to his work,...

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,...

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

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

This is a book about fundamental theoretical issues of political philosophy and jurisprudence: about what liberalism is and why we still...

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

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

Equality is the endangered species of political ideas. Even left-of-centre politicians reject equality as an ideal: government must combat...

"The Greek Anthology" contains some 4,500 short Greek poems in the sparkling and diverse genre of epigram, written żeby more than a hundred...

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

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 New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A Newsweek "50 Coolest Books to Read This Summer" Choice A Financial Times Summer Book of 2018...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,...

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

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

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

Although Byzantium is known to history as the Eastern Roman Empire, scholars have long claimed that this Greek Christian theocracy bore...

achieved. "Sources of the Self" provides a decisive defense of the modern order and a sharp rebuff to its critics.

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...

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

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

Alchemy can't be science - common sense tells us as much. But perhaps common sense is not the best measure of what science is, or was. In...

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

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

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

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

In "History of Animals," Aristotle analyzes differences in parts, activities, modes of life, and character across the animal kingdom, in...

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

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

Pausanias, born probably in Lydia in Asia Minor, was a Greek of the 2nd century CE, about 120180, who travelled widely not only in Asia...

Cicero was a prodigious letter writer, and happily a splendid treasury of his letters has come down to us: collected and in part published...

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

Proud, happy, grateful gay youth describe their lives in terms that would have seemed surprising a generation ago. Yet many adults, including...

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

An introduction to one of the premier humanists of the Italian Renaissance, whose extraordinary work in biography, politics, religion, and...

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

Czeslaw Miosz, winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature, reflects upon poetry's testimony to the events of our tumultuous time. From...

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...

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

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

This text proposes a theory of evolving ways of knowing that allows a view of adult development similar to that of child development: an...

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

Ron Cowen offers a sweeping account of the century of experimentation that has consistently confirmed Einstein's general theory of relativity....

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

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

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

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...

Tracing the structure and evolution of Idealism as a doctrine, this title exposes an objective, or realist, strain running from Kant to...

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

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

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

In "History of Animals," Aristotle analyzes differences in parts, activities, modes of life, and character across the animal kingdom, in...

Chinese leaders once tried to suppress memories of their nation's brutal experience during World War II. Now they celebrate the "victory"--a...

A picture held us captive, writes Wittgenstein in the Philosophical Investigations," describing the powerful image of mind that underlies...

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

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

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

Renowned Egyptologist Jan Assmann traces the monotheism of Moses back to that of the Egyptian king Akhenaten (1360-1340 B.C.E.). He then...

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

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

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...

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

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...

As she did with Martin Guerre, Natalie Zemon Davis here retrieves individual lives from historical obscurity to give us a window onto the...

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

In "History of Animals," Aristotle analyzes differences in parts, activities, modes of life, and character across the animal kingdom, in...

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

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

How might we mitigate the evil consequences of technology and enhance the good? Using hypothetical and genuine examples of the advancement...

Living with Robots recounts a foundational shift in robotics, from artificial intelligence to artificial empathy, and foreshadows an inflection...

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...

A fresh reappraisal of Japan's relationship with the United States, which reveals how the Cold War shaped Japan and transformed America's...

"The End of Ideology" has been a landmark in American social thought, regarded as a classic since its first publication in 1962. Daniel...

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