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  • - Overcoming the Politics of Fear in an Anxious Age
    by Martha C. Nussbaum
    £24.99

    Drawing inspiration from philosophy, history, and literature, Martha C. Nussbaum takes us to task for our religious intolerance, identifies the fear behind it, and offers a way past fear toward a more equitable, imaginative, and free society, through the consistent application of universal principles of respect for conscience.

  • - The Origins of American Racial Anglo-Saxonism
    by Reginald Horsman
    £28.49

    American myths about national character tend to overshadow the historical realities. Reginald Horsman's book is the first study to examine the origins of racialism in America and to show that the belief in white American superiority was firmly ensconced in the nation's ideology by 1850.

  • by Victor Brombert
    £31.49

    Victor Brombert reassesses in a modern perspective the power and originality of Hugo's work, and provides a new interpretation of Hugo's narrative art as well as a synthesis of his poetic and moral vision. The twenty-eight drawings by Hugo reproduced in this book are further testimony to the visionary nature of Hugo's imagination.

  • by Karen L. King
    £24.99

    Karen L. King offers an illuminating reading of this ancient text, said to be Christ's revelation to his disciple John. In her analysis, the Revelation becomes a comprehensible religious vision--and a window on the religious culture of the Roman Empire. A translation of the complete Secret Revelation of John is included.

  • by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    £20.99

    Published in 1818, Frankenstein has spellbound readers for generations and has inspired numerous retellings and sequels in every medium, making the myth familiar even to those who have never read a word of Mary Shelley's novel. This freshly annotated, illustrated edition illuminates the novel and its electrifying afterlife.

  • - Phenomenality and Dissatisfaction, Kant to Adorno
    by Rei Terada
    £47.49

    Terada revisits debates about appearance and reality in order to make a startling claim: that the purpose of such debates is to police feelings of dissatisfaction with the given world.

  • - The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea
    by Helen M. Rozwadowski
    £22.49

    By the middle of the 19th century, as scientists explored the frontiers of polar regions and the atmosphere, the ocean remained silent and inaccessible. The history of how this changed-of how the depths became a scientific passion and a cultural obsession, an engineering challenge and a political attraction-is the story that unfolds in this book.

  • - The Book of Songs
    by Jon W. Finson
    £89.49

    Arguably no other 19th-century German composer was as literate or as finely attuned to setting verse as Robert Schumann. Finson challenges assumptions about Schumann's Lieder, engaging traditionally held interpretations. Arranged in part thematically, rather than by strict compositional chronology, this book speaks to the heart of Schumann's music.

  • - Agency, Oversight, and Civil-Military Relations
    by Peter D. Feaver
    £28.49

    How do civilians control the military? In his book, Feaver proposes a new theory that treats civil-military relations as a principal-agent relationship, with the civilian executive monitoring the actions of military agents, the "armed servants" of the nation-state.

  • - Social and Religious Change in the Western Roman Empire
    by Michele Renee Salzman
    £32.49

    What did it take to cause the Roman aristocracy to turn to Christianity, changing centuries-old beliefs and religious traditions? Salzman takes a fresh approach to this much-debated question by focusing on a sampling of individual aristocratic men and women as well as on writings and archeological evidence.

  • - Historical Epistemology and the Formation of Concepts
    by Arnold I. Davidson
    £27.49

    Moving between philosophy and history, Arnold Davidson elaborates a powerful new method for considering the history of concepts and the nature of scientific knowledge, a method he calls "historical epistemology." He applies this method to the history of sexuality.

  • - Portrait of an Eskimo Family
    by Jean L. Briggs
    £25.99

    Anthropologist Jean L. Briggs spent seventeen months living on a remote Arctic shore as the "adopted daughter" of an Inuit family. Through vignettes of daily life she unfolds a warm and perceptive tale of the behavioral patterns of the Utku people, their way of training children, and their handling of deviations from desired behavior.

  • by Douglas G. Baird
    £33.99

    This book promises to be the definitive guide to the field. It provides a highly sophisticated yet exceptionally clear explanation of game theory, with a host of applications to legal issues.

  • - The Northern and Southern Dynasties
    by Mark Edward Lewis
    £18.49

    After the collapse of the Han dynasty, China divided along a north-south line. Lewis traces the changes that underlay and resulted from this split in a period that saw China's geographic redefinition, more engagement with the outside world, significant changes to family life, literary and social developments, and the introduction of new religions.

  • by Umberto Eco
    £28.99

    Umberto Eco published his first novel, The Name of the Rose, in 1980, when he was nearly fifty. In these "confessions" the author, now in his late seventies, looks back on his long career as a theorist and his more recent work as a novelist and explores their fruitful conjunction. This book takes readers on a tour of Eco's own creative method.

  • by Theocritus
    £22.99

    Theocritus (early third century BCE) was the inventor of the bucolic genre, also known as pastoral. The present edition of his work, along with that of his successors Moschus (fl. mid-second century BCE) and Bion (fl. around 100 BCE), replaces the earlier Loeb Classical Library volume of Greek Bucolic Poets by J. M. Edmonds (1912).

  • by Kecia Ali
    £40.99

    Jurists of the nascent Maliki, Hanafi, and Shafi'i legal schools frequently compared marriage to purchase and divorce to manumission. This title presents an analysis of how these jurists conceptualized marriage - its rights and obligations - using the same rhetoric of ownership used to describe slavery.

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    £64.49

    Europe and the World Beyond focuses geographically on peoples of South America and the Mediterranean as well as Africa, but conceptually it emphasizes the ways that visual constructions of blacks mediated between Europe and a faraway African continent that was impinging ever more closely on daily life in cities and ports engaged in the slave trade.

  • by Louis Eisenstein
    £42.49

    Dealing with taxation, this title states that the tax system in a democracy is shaped by competing factions, each seeking to minimize its burden. It aims to examine (and debunk) 3 major ideologies, namely, the ideology of ability, the ideology of deterrents, and the ideology of equity, which are used to justify various reforms of the tax system.

  • by Laura Quinney
    £39.49

    It has been clear from the beginning that William Blake was both a political radical and a radical psychologist. In William Blake on Self and Soul, Laura Quinney uses her sensitive, surprising readings of the poet to reveal his innovative ideas about the experience of subjectivity.

  • - The Science of Place and Well-Being
    by Esther M. Sternberg MD
    £17.99

    Sternberg explores the marvelously rich nexus of mind and body, perception and place. The book shows how a Disney theme park or a Frank Gehry concert hall, a labyrinth or a garden can trigger or reduce stress, induce anxiety, or instill peace.

  • - French Strategy and Operations in the Great War
    by Robert A. Doughty
    £25.99

    As the driving force behind the Allied effort in World War I, France willingly shouldered the heaviest burden. In this masterful book, Robert Doughty explains how and why France assumed this role and offers new insights into French strategy and operational methods.

  • - Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
    by Toni Morrison
    £25.49

    Morrison brings her genius to this personal inquiry into the significance of African-Americans in the American literary imagination. Through her investigation of black characters, narrative strategies, and idiom in the fiction of white American writers, Morrison provides a perspective sure to alter conventional notions about American literature.

  • - The Tradition of Western Political Thought
    by Jeffrey Abramson
    £22.49

    As Hegel famously noted, the goddess Minerva's owl brought back wisdom only at dusk, when it was too late to shine light on actual politics. Abramson provides a guide for discovering the tradition of political thought that dates back to Socrates and Plato, with contemporary examples that illustrate the enduring nature of political dilemmas.

  • by Steven Shavell
    £31.99

    Accident law, if properly designed, is capable of reducing the incidence of mishaps by making people act more cautiously. Since the 1960s, a group of legal scholars and economists have focused on identifying the effects of accident law on people's behavior. Steven Shavell's book is the definitive synthesis of research to date in this new field.

  • - From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland
    by Kate Brown
    £22.49

    Drawing on recently opened archives, ethnography, and oral interviews that were unavailable a decade ago, A Biography of No Place reveals Stalinist and Nazi history from the perspective of the remote borderlands, thus bringing the periphery to the center of history.

  • - The Logic of War and Peace, Revised and Enlarged Edition
    by Edward N. Luttwak
    £31.99

    In this widely acclaimed work, now revised and expanded, Edward N. Luttwak unveils the peculiar logic of strategy level by level, from grand strategy down to combat tactics. In the tradition of Carl von Clausewitz, Strategy goes beyond paradox to expose the dynamics of reversal at work in the crucible of conflict.

  • - Systematicity, Transcendental Arguments, and Skepticism in German Idealism
    by Paul W. Franks
    £86.49

    In the first conceptual, methodological overview of German Idealism, Franks offers a reconstruction true to the movement's own times but also deeply relevant to contemporary thought. The result is a characterization of German Idealism that reveals its sources as well as its pertinence-and its challenge-to contemporary philosophical naturalism.

  • - Ritual Magic in Contemporary England
    by T. M. Luhrmann
    £22.49

    To find out why reasonable people are drawn to the seemingly bizarre practices of magic and witchcraft, Luhrmann immersed herself in the arcane world of Londoners who call themselves magicians. Her report is as fascinating as the esoteric world itself. Illustrated.

  • by Cass R. Sunstein
    £22.49

    Sunstein shows that organizations and nations are far more likely to prosper if they welcome dissent and promote openness. Attacking "political correctness" in all forms, Sunstein demonstrates that corporations, legislatures, even presidents are likely to blunder if they do not cultivate a culture of candor and disclosure.

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