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by Elaine Scarry
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Have we become beauty-blind? For two decades or more in the humanities, various political arguments have been put forward against beauty: that it distracts us from more important issues; that it is the handmaiden of privilege; and that it masks political interests. In On Beauty and Being Just Elaine...
Early Modern Jewry
A New Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Early Modern Jewry boldly offers a new history of the early modern Jewish experience. From Krakow and Venice to Amsterdam and Smyrna, David Ruderman examines the historical and cultural factors unique to Jewish communities throughout Europe, and how these distinctions played out amidst the rest of...
by Marjorie Garber
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
In this lively and provocative book, cultural critic Marjorie Garber, who has written on topics as different as Shakespeare, dogs, cross-dressing, and real estate, explores the pleasures and pitfalls of the academic life. Academic Instincts discusses three of the perennial issues that have surfaced...
Kierkegaard's Writings, I, Volume 1
Early Polemical Writings
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2009
Early Polemical Writings covers the young Kierkegaard's works from 1834 through 1838. His authorship begins, as it was destined to end, with polemic. Kierkegaard's first published article touches on the theme of women's emancipation, and the other articles from his student years deal with freedom...
The Loneliness of the Black Republican
Pragmatic Politics and the Pursuit of Power
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2014
Covering more than four decades of American social and political history, The Loneliness of the Black Republican examines the ideas and actions of black Republican activists, officials, and politicians, from the era of the New Deal to Ronald Reagan's presidential ascent in 1980. Their unique stories...
Ideas of Liberty in Early Modern Europe
From Machiavelli to Milton
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Europe's long sixteenth century—a period spanning the years roughly from the voyages of Columbus in the 1490s to the English Civil War in the 1640s—was an era of power struggles between avaricious and unscrupulous princes, inquisitions and torture chambers, and religious differences of ever more...
When Brute Force Fails
How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2009
Since the crime explosion of the 1960s, the prison population in the United States has multiplied fivefold, to one prisoner for every hundred adults--a rate unprecedented in American history and unmatched anywhere in the world. Even as the prisoner head count continues to rise, crime has stopped falling,...
Designing San Francisco
Art, Land, and Urban Renewal in the City by the Bay
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
A major new urban history of the design and development of postwar San Francisco
Designing San Francisco is the untold story of the formative postwar decades when U.S. cities took their modern shape amid clashing visions of the future. In this pathbreaking and richly illustrated book, Alison...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2005
In recent years, scholarship on translation has moved well beyond the technicalities of converting one language into another and beyond conventional translation theory. With new technologies blurring distinctions between "the original" and its reproductions, and with globalization redefining...
by Sharon Marcus
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
A bold new account of how celebrity works
Why do so many people care so much about celebrities? Who decides who gets to be a star? What are the privileges and pleasures of fandom? Do celebrities ever deserve the outsized attention they receive?
In this fascinating and deeply researched...
The Ethical Engineer
Contemporary Concepts and Cases
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
An exploration of the ethics of practical engineering through analyses of eighteen rich case studies
The Ethical Engineer explores ethical issues that arise in engineering practice, from technology transfer to privacy protection to whistle-blowing. Presenting key ethics concepts and real-life...
Boko Haram
The History of an African Jihadist Movement
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
A comprehensive history of one of the world's deadliest jihadist groups
Boko Haram is one of the world’s deadliest jihadist groups. It has killed more than twenty thousand people and displaced more than two million in a campaign of terror that began in Nigeria but has since spread to Chad,...
Equal Recognition
The Moral Foundations of Minority Rights
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2014
Conflicting claims about culture are a familiar refrain of political life in the contemporary world. On one side, majorities seek to fashion the state in their own image, while on the other, cultural minorities press for greater recognition and accommodation. Theories of liberal democracy are at odds...
by Zoltan Barany
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Why have Russian generals acquired an important political position since the Soviet Union's collapse while at the same time the effectiveness of their forces has deteriorated? Why have there been no radical defense reforms in Russia since the end of the cold war, even though they were high on the...