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Judicial Reputation
A Comparative Theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Judges are society’s elders and experts, our masters and mediators. We depend on them to dispense justice with integrity, deliberation, and efficiency. Yet judges, as Alexander Hamilton famously noted, lack the power of the purse or the sword. They must rely almost entirely on their reputations...
Crafting Selves
Power, Gender, and Discourses of Identity in a Japanese Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2009
"The ethnography of Japan is currently being reshaped by a new generation of Japanologists, and the present work certainly deserves a place in this body of literature. . . . The combination of utility with beauty makes Kondo's book required reading, for those with an interest not only in Japan...
Riotous Flesh
Women, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Nineteenth-century America saw numerous campaigns against masturbation, which was said to cause illness, insanity, and even death. Riotous Flesh explores women’s leadership of those movements, with a specific focus on their rhetorical, social, and political effects, showing how a desire to transform...
by Moses Maimonides
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2010
This monument of rabbinical exegesis written at the end of the twelfth century has exerted an immense and continuing influence upon Jewish thought. Its aim is to liberate people from the tormenting perplexities arising from their understanding of the Bible according only to its literal meaning. This...
by Moses Maimonides
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2010
This monument of rabbinical exegesis written at the end of the twelfth century has exerted an immense and continuing influence upon Jewish thought. Its aim is to liberate people from the tormenting perplexities arising from their understanding of the Bible according only to its literal meaning. This...
A Surgical Temptation
The Demonization of the Foreskin and the Rise of Circumcision in Britain
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
In the eighteenth century, the Western world viewed circumcision as an embarrassing disfigurement peculiar to Jews. A century later, British doctors urged parents to circumcise their sons as a routine precaution against every imaginable sexual dysfunction, from syphilis and phimosis to masturbation...
Risky Medicine
Our Quest to Cure Fear and Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Will ever-more sensitive screening tests for cancer lead to longer, better lives? Will anticipating and trying to prevent the future complications of chronic disease lead to better health? Not always, says Robert Aronowitz in Risky Medicine. In fact, it often is hurting us.
Exploring...
Why Parties?
A Second Look
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Since its first appearance fifteen years ago, Why Parties? has become essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the nature of American political parties. In the interim, the party system has undergone some radical changes. In this landmark book, now rewritten for the new millennium, John...
by Sandra M. Gustafson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Deliberation, in recent years, has emerged as a form of civic engagement worth reclaiming. In this persuasive book, Sandra M. Gustafson combines historical literary analysis and political theory in order to demonstrate that current democratic practices of deliberation are rooted in the civic rhetoric...
Materials and Expertise in Early Modern Europe
Between Market and Laboratory
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
It is often assumed that natural philosophy was the forerunner of early modern natural sciences. But where did these sciences’ systematic observation and experimentation get their starts? In Materials and Expertise in Early Modern Europe, the laboratories, workshops, and marketplaces emerge as arenas...
Catching Nature in the Act
Réaumur and the Practice of Natural History in the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Natural history in the eighteenth century was many things to many people—diversion, obsession, medically or economically useful knowledge, spectacle, evidence for God’s providence and wisdom, or even the foundation of all natural knowledge. Because natural history was pursued by such a variety...
The Power to Die
Slavery and Suicide in British North America
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
The history of slavery in early America is a history of suicide. On ships crossing the Atlantic, enslaved men and women refused to eat or leaped into the ocean. They strangled or hanged themselves. They tore open their own throats. In America, they jumped into rivers or out of windows, or even ran...
Habeas for the Twenty-First Century
Uses, Abuses, and the Future of the Great Writ
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2011
For centuries, the writ of habeas corpus has served as an important safeguard against miscarriages of justice, and today it remains at the center of some of the most contentious issues of our time—among them terrorism, immigration, crime, and the death penalty. Yet, in recent decades, habeas has...
What Did the Romans Know?
An Inquiry into Science and Worldmaking
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
What did the Romans know about their world? Quite a lot, as Daryn Lehoux makes clear in this fascinating and much-needed contribution to the history and philosophy of ancient science. Lehoux contends that even though many of the Romans’ views about the natural world have no place in modern science—the...