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Cover of How the Vertebrate Brain Regulates Behavior
by Donald Pfaff
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017

Throughout his career, Donald Pfaff has demonstrated that by choosing problems and methods with care, biologists can study the molecular mechanisms of brains more complex than those of fruit flies, snails, and roundworms. He offers a close-up, conversational perspective on a 50-year quest to understand how behavior is regulated in vertebrates.
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Under the Starry Flag

How a Ban of Irish Americans Joined the Fenian Revolt and Sparked a Crisis over Citizenship

by Lucy E. Salyer
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018

In 1867 forty Irish-Americans sailed for Ireland to fight against British rule. Claiming that emigrants to America remained British citizens, authorities arrested the men for treason, sparking a crisis and trial that dragged the U.S. and Britain to the brink of war. Lucy Salyer recounts this gripping tale, a prelude to today’s immigration battles.
Cover of Austrian Reconstruction and the Collapse of Global Finance, 1921–1931
by Nathan Marcus
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018

Although some statesmen and historians have pinned Austria’s—and the world’s—interwar economic implosion on financial colonialism, in this corrective history Nathan Marcus deemphasizes the negative role of external players and points to the greater impact of domestic malfeasance and predatory speculation on Austrian political and financial decline.
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News from Germany

The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900–1945

by Heidi J. S. Tworek
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2019

Heidi Tworek’s innovative history reveals how, across two devastating wars, Germany attempted to build a powerful communication empire—and how the Nazis manipulated the news to rise to dominance in Europe and further their global agenda. When the news became a form of international power, it changed the course of history.
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Life Imprisonment

A Global Human Rights Analysis

by Dirk van Zyl Smit
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019

Life imprisonment has replaced the death penalty as the most common sentence imposed for heinous crimes worldwide. Consequently, it has become the leading issue of international criminal justice reform. In the first survey of its kind, Dirk van Zyl Smit and Catherine Appleton argue for a human rights–based reappraisal of this harsh punishment.
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by Katherine Unterman
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015

Extraordinary rendition—abducting criminal suspects around the world—has been criticized as an unprecedented expansion of U.S. policing. But America’s pursuit of fugitives beyond its borders predates the Global War on Terror. Katherine Unterman shows that the extension of manhunts into foreign lands formed an important chapter in American empire.
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Economic Statecraft

Human Rights, Sanctions, and Conditionality

by Cécile Fabre
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018

Economic sanctions provide an alternative to waging war or a means to advance human rights. But are they morally justifiable? Philosophers have explored the ethics of war but rarely the ethics of carrots and sticks. Cécile Fabre offers a defense of economic statecraft, laying out a normative framework for this critical tool of diplomacy.
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To See Paris and Die

The Soviet Lives of Western Culture

by Eleonory Gilburd
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2018

After Stalin died a torrent of Western novels, films, and paintings invaded Soviet streets and homes. Soviet citizens invested these imports with political and personal significance, transforming them into intimate possessions. Eleonory Gilburd reveals how Western culture defined the last three decades of the Soviet Union, its death, and afterlife.
Cover of Racial Reckoning
by Renee C. Romano
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014

Few whites who violently resisted the civil rights struggle were charged with crimes in the 1950s and 1960s. But the tide of changed in 1994, and more than one hundred murder cases have been reopened, resulting in over a dozen trials. Yet, as Renee C. Romano shows, addressing the nation’s troubled racial past will require more than legal justice.
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Thinking Off Your Feet

How Empirical Psychology Vindicates Armchair Philosophy

by Michael Strevens
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2019

In an original defense of armchair philosophy, Michael Strevens seeks to restore philosophy to its traditional position as an essential part of the quest for knowledge, by reshaping debates about the nature of philosophical thinking. His approach explores experimental philosophy’s methodological implications and the cognitive science of concepts.
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Wehrmacht Priests

Catholicism and the Nazi War of Annihilation

by Lauren Faulkner Rossi
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015

Lauren Faulkner Rossi plumbs the moral justifications of Catholic priests who served willingly and faithfully in the German army in World War II. She probes the Church’s accommodations with Hitler’s regime, its fierce but often futile attempts to preserve independence, and the shortcomings of Church doctrine in the face of total war and genocide.
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Politics in Commercial Society

Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith

by Istvan Hont
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015

Scholars normally emphasize the contrast between the two great eighteenth-century thinkers Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith. Rousseau is seen as a critic of modernity; Smith as an apologist. However, Istvan Hont finds significant commonalities in their work, arguing that both were theorists of commercial society but from different perspectives.
Cover of Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire
by Paul J. Kosmin
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2018

Under Seleucid rule, time no longer restarted with each new monarch. Instead, progressively numbered years, identical to the system we use today, became the measure of historical duration. Paul Kosmin shows how this invention of a new kind of time—and resistance to it—transformed the way we organize our thoughts about the past, present, and future.
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Progressive New World

How Settler Colonialism and Transpacific Exchange Shaped American Reform

by Marilyn Lake
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2019

In a bold argument, Marilyn Lake shows that race and reform were mutually supportive as Progressivism became the political logic of settler colonialism at the turn of the 20th century. She points to exchanges between American and Australasian reformers who shared racial sensibilities, along with a commitment to forging an ideal social order.
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