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Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013

Evolution, Games, and God explores how cooperation and altruism, alongside mutation and natural selection, play a critical role in evolution, from microbes to human societies. Inheriting a tendency to cooperate and self-sacrifice on behalf of others may be as beneficial to a population’s survival as the self-preserving instincts of individuals.
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by Leston Havens
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1988

Since 1955, moving from early work in psychopharmacology to studies of clinical method and the psychiatric schools, Leston Havens has been working toward a general theory of therapy. It often seems that twentieth-century psychiatry, sect-ridden, is a Tower of Babel, as Havens once characterized it....
Cover of Only Words
by Catharine A. MacKinnon
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1996

MacKinnon contends that pornography, racial and sexual harassment, and racial hate speech are acts of intimidation, subordination, terrorism, and discrimination, and should be legally treated as such.
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We the People, Volume 2

Transformations

by Bruce Ackerman
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2000

Constitutional change, seemingly so orderly, formal, and refined, has in fact been a revolutionary process from the first, as Bruce Ackerman makes clear in We the People, Volume 2: Transformations. The Founding Fathers, hardly the genteel conservatives of myth, set America on a remarkable course of...
Cover of Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care?
by Neil Gross
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013

Neil Gross shows that the U.S. academy’s liberal reputation has exerted a self-selecting influence on young liberals, while deterring promising conservatives. His study sheds new light on both academic life and American politics, where the conservative movement was built in part around opposition to the “liberal elite” in higher education.
Cover of Stephen Crane
by Paul Sorrentino
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014

Stephen Crane's short, compact life--"a life of fire," he called it--is surrounded by myths, distortions, and fabrications. Paul Sorrentino has sifted through garbled chronologies and contradictory eyewitness accounts, scoured the archives, and followed in Crane's footsteps. The result is the most accurate account of the poet and novelist to date.
Cover of The Fallacies of States' Rights
by Sotirios A. Barber
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013

Barber shows how arguments for states’ rights from John C. Calhoun to the present offend common sense, logic, and bedrock constitutional principles. The Constitution is a charter of positive benefits, not a contract among separate sovereigns whose function is to protect people from the central government, when there are greater dangers to confront.
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Cultures of Charity

Women, Politics, and the Reform of Poor Relief in Renaissance Italy

by Nicholas Terpstra
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013

Renaissance debates about politics and gender led to pioneering forms of poor relief, devised to help women get a start in life. These included orphanages for illegitimate children and forced labor in workhouses, but also women’s shelters and early forms of maternity benefits, unemployment insurance, food stamps, and credit union savings plans.
Cover of The Thirty-Year Genocide

The Thirty-Year Genocide

Turkey’s Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894–1924

by Benny Morris, Dror Ze’evi
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2019

From 1894 to 1924 three waves of violence swept across Anatolia, targeting the region’s Christian minorities. Benny Morris and Dror Ze’evi’s impeccably researched account is the first to show that the three were actually part of a single, continuing, and intentional effort to wipe out Anatolia’s Christian population and create a pure Muslim nation.
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Battle for Bed-Stuy

The Long War on Poverty in New York City

by Michael Woodsworth
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016

In the 1960s Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood was labeled America’s largest ghetto. But its brownstones housed a coterie of black professionals intent on bringing order and hope to the community. In telling their story Michael Woodsworth reinterprets the War on Poverty by revealing its roots in local activism and policy experiments.
Cover of The Ambiguity of Virtue
by Bernard Wasserstein
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014

Working with the Nazi-appointed Jewish Council in Amsterdam, Gertrude van Tijn helped many Jews escape. But she faced difficult moral choices. Some called her a heroine; others, a collaborator. Bernard Wasserstein's haunting narrative draws readers into this twilight world, to expose the terrible dilemmas confronting Jews under Nazi occupation.
Cover of Redefining Rape
by Estelle B. Freedman
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013

The uproar over "legitimate rape" during the 2012 U.S. elections confirms that rape remains a word in flux, subject to political power and social privilege. Redefining Rape describes the forces that have shaped the meaning of sexual violence in the U.S., through the experiences of accusers, assailants, and advocates for change.
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Nefertiti’s Face

The Creation of an Icon

by Joyce Tyldesley
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018

Little is known about Nefertiti, the Egyptian queen whose name means “a beautiful woman has come.” She was the wife of Akhenaten, the pharaoh who ushered in the dramatic Amarna Age, and she bore him at least six children. She played a prominent role in political and religious affairs, but after...
Cover of A Million and One Gods
by Page duBois
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014

As A Million and One Gods shows, polytheism is considered a scandalous presence in societies oriented to Jewish, Christian, and Muslim beliefs. Yet it persists, even in the West, perhaps because polytheism corresponds to unconscious needs and deeply held values of tolerance, diversity, and equality that are central to civilized societies.
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