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Princeton Readings in Political Thought
Essential Texts since Plato - Revised and Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
A thoroughly updated and substantially expanded edition of an acclaimed anthology
This is a thoroughly updated and substantially expanded new edition of one of the most popular, wide-ranging, and engaging anthologies of Western political thinking, one that spans from antiquity to the twenty-first...
by Richard Bulliet, David Cook, Khaled Fahmy
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
The first encyclopedia of Islamic political thought from the birth of Islam to today, this comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible reference provides the context needed for understanding contemporary politics in the Islamic world and beyond. With more than 400 alphabetically arranged entries...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
This groundbreaking anthology provides the most comprehensive overview for understanding the fascinating relationship between religion and violence--historically, culturally, and in the contemporary world. Bringing together writings from scholarly and religious traditions, it is the first volume to...
by Vincent Brown, Laurent Dubois, Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2015
Between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries, the connections among Africa, the Americas, and Europe transformed world history—through maritime exploration, commercial engagements, human migrations and settlements, political realignments and upheavals, cultural exchanges, and more. This book,...
by John Kricher
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
This full-color illustrated textbook offers the first comprehensive introduction to all major aspects of tropical ecology. It explains why the world's tropical rain forests are so universally rich in species, what factors may contribute to high species richness, how nutrient cycles affect rain forest...
Real Analysis
Measure Theory, Integration, and Hilbert Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2009
Real Analysis is the third volume in the Princeton Lectures in Analysis, a series of four textbooks that aim to present, in an integrated manner, the core areas of analysis. Here the focus is on the development of measure and integration theory, differentiation and integration, Hilbert spaces, and...
by Michael Ignatieff, Kwame Anthony Appiah, David A. Hollinger
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2011
Michael Ignatieff draws on his extensive experience as a writer and commentator on world affairs to present a penetrating account of the successes, failures, and prospects of the human rights revolution. Since the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, this revolution...
The King's Two Bodies
A Study in Medieval Political Theology
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Originally published in 1957, this classic work has guided generations of scholars through the arcane mysteries of medieval political theology. Throughout history, the notion of two bodies has permitted the post mortem continuity of monarch and monarchy, as epitomized by the statement, "The king...
Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels
How Human Values Evolve
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2015
Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth century thought just the opposite. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, biology, and history, Ian Morris...
Private Government
How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It)
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Why our workplaces are authoritarian private governments—and why we can't see it
One in four American workers says their workplace is a "dictatorship." Yet that number probably would be even higher if we recognized most employers for what they are—private governments with sweeping...
A Different Kind of Animal
How Culture Transformed Our Species
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
How our ability to learn from each other has been the essential ingredient to our remarkable success as a species
Human beings are a very different kind of animal. We have evolved to become the most dominant species on Earth. We have a larger geographical range and process more energy than...
Keywords;
For Further Consideration and Particularly Relevant to Academic Life, &c.
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
An irreverent critical lexicon of academic life and culture
The university: The very name evokes knowledge, culture, and the magnificently universal ambition at the heart of this essential institution. Bastions of free inquiry and a free society, engines of social transformation and economic...
by Philip Fisher, Judith Jarvis Thomson, Martha C. Nussbaum
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
How should we live? What do we owe to other people? In Goodness and Advice, the eminent philosopher Judith Jarvis Thomson explores how we should go about answering such fundamental questions. In doing so, she makes major advances in moral philosophy, pointing to some deep problems for influential...
Striking First
Preemption and Prevention in International Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2011
Does the United States have the right to defend itself by striking first, or must it wait until an attack is in progress? Is the Bush Doctrine of aggressive preventive action a justified and legal recourse against threats posed by terrorists and rogue states? Tackling one of the most controversial...