Emily Nacol: 2 books
An Age of Risk
Politics and Economy in Early Modern Britain
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
In An Age of Risk, Emily Nacol shows that risk, now treated as a permanent feature of our lives, did not always govern understandings of the future. Focusing on the epistemological, political, and economic writings of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, David Hume, and Adam Smith, Nacol explains that in seventeenth-...
by Shannon L. Mariotti, Joseph H. Lane Jr., Alex Zamalin
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Marilynne Robinson is arguably one of the most important writers of our time. Her voice resonates across the richly imagined American landscapes within which she grounds her stories of love and loss, alienation and belonging, injustice and redemption. Robinson's award-winning body of work -- including...