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They Thought They Were Free
The Germans, 1933–45
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
“When this book was first published it received some attention from the critics but none at all from the public. Nazism was finished in the bunker in Berlin and its death warrant signed on the bench at Nuremberg.”
That’s Milton Mayer, writing in a foreword to the 1966 edition of They...
The Fortunes of Liberalism
Essays on Austrian Economics and the Ideal of Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
The Reagan and Thatcher "revolutions." The collapse of Eastern Europe dramatically captured in the tearing down of the Berlin Wall. F. A. Hayek, "grand old man of capitalism" and founder of the classical liberal, free-market revival which ignited and inspired these world events,...
by Peter Campion
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
In El Dorado, Peter Campion explores what it feels like to live in America right now, at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Splicing cell-phone chatter with translations of ancient poems, jump-cutting from traditional to invented forms, and turning his high-res lens on everything from box...
Two Weeks in the Midday Sun
A Cannes Notebook
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
A paragon of cinema criticism for decades, Roger Ebert—with his humor, sagacity, and no-nonsense thumb—achieved a renown unlikely ever to be equaled. His tireless commentary has been greatly missed since his death, but, thankfully, in addition to his mountains of daily reviews, Ebert also left...
French Lessons
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Brilliantly uniting the personal and the critical, French Lessons is a powerful autobiographical experiment. It tells the story of an American woman escaping into the French language and of a scholar and teacher coming to grips with her history of learning. Kaplan begins with a distinctly American...
The Substance of Shadow
A Darkening Trope in Poetic History
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
John Hollander, poet and scholar, was a master whose work joined luminous learning and imaginative risk. This book, based on the unpublished Clark Lectures Hollander delivered in 1999 at Cambridge University, witnesses his power to shift the horizons of our thinking, as he traces the history of shadow...
The American Warfare State
The Domestic Politics of Military Spending
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
How is it that the United States—a country founded on a distrust of standing armies and strong centralized power—came to have the most powerful military in history? Long after World War II and the end of the Cold War, in times of rising national debt and reduced need for high levels of military...
City of Dreadful Delight
Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
From tabloid exposes of child prostitution to the grisly tales of Jack the Ripper, narratives of sexual danger pulsated through Victorian London. Expertly blending social history and cultural criticism, Judith Walkowitz shows how these narratives reveal the complex dramas of power, politics, and sexuality...
Loving Faster than Light
Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
In November 1919, newspapers around the world alerted readers to a sensational new theory of the universe: Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity. Coming at a time of social, political, and economic upheaval, Einstein’s theory quickly became a rich cultural resource with many uses beyond physical...
Galileo's Instruments of Credit
Telescopes, Images, Secrecy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
In six short years, Galileo Galilei went from being a somewhat obscure mathematics professor running a student boarding house in Padua to a star in the court of Florence to the recipient of dangerous attention from the Inquisition for his support of Copernicanism. In that brief period, Galileo made...
The Pseudoscience Wars
Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Properly analyzed, the collective mythological and religious writings of humanity reveal that around 1500 BC, a comet swept perilously close to Earth, triggering widespread natural disasters and threatening the destruction of all life before settling into solar orbit as Venus, our nearest planetary...
The Essential Tension
Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
"Kuhn has the unmistakable address of a man, who, so far from wanting to score points, is anxious above all else to get at the truth of matters."—Sir Peter Medawar, Nature
News
The Politics of Illusion, Tenth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
For over thirty years, News: The Politics of Illusion has not simply reflected the political communication field—it has played a major role in shaping it. Today, the familiar news organizations of the legacy press are operating in a fragmenting and expanding mediaverse that resembles a big bang...
John Locke
Economist and Social Scientist
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
In John Locke: Economist and Social Scientist Karen Iversen Vaughn presents a comprehensive treatment of Locke's important position in the development of eighteenth century economic thought.