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The Great William
Writers Reading Shakespeare
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
The Great William is the first book to explore how seven renowned writers—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Virginia Woolf, Charles Olson, John Berryman, Allen Ginsberg, and Ted Hughes—wrestled with Shakespeare in the very moments when they were reading his work. What emerges is a constellation...
by Tom Rockmore
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2013
Despite its foundational role in the history of philosophy, Plato’s famous argument that art does not have access to truth or knowledge is now rarely examined, in part because recent philosophers have assumed that Plato’s challenge was resolved long ago. In Art and Truth after Plato, Tom Rockmore...
Code of the Suburb
Inside the World of Young Middle-Class Drug Dealers
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
When we think about young people dealing drugs, we tend to picture it happening on urban streets, in disadvantaged, crime-ridden neighborhoods. But drugs are used everywhere—even in upscale suburbs and top-tier high schools—and teenage users in the suburbs tend to buy drugs from their peers, dealers...
Miss Cutler and the Case of the Resurrected Horse
Social Work and the Story of Poverty in America, Australia, and Britain
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Social workers produced thousands of case files about the poor during the interwar years. Analyzing almost two thousand such case files and traveling from Boston, Minneapolis, and Portland to London and Melbourne, Miss Cutler and the Case of the Resurrected Horse is a pioneering comparative study...
by R. H. Coase
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
How do economists decide what questions to address and how to choose their theories? How do they tackle the problems of the economic system and give advice on public policy? With these broad questions, Nobel laureate R. H. Coase, widely recognized for his seminal work on transaction costs, reflects...
Foreign News
Exploring the World of Foreign Correspondents
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Foreign News gives us a fascinating, behind-the-scenes look into the practices of the global tribe we call foreign correspondents. Exploring how they work, Ulf Hannerz also compares the ways correspondents and anthropologists report from one part of the world to another.
Hannerz draws on extensive...
Romantic Things
A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Our thoughts are shaped as much by what things make of us as by what we make of them. Lyric poetry is especially concerned with things and their relationship to thought, sense, and understanding. In Romantic Things, Mary Jacobus explores the world of objects and phenomena in nature as expressed in...
The Birds of Paradise
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Paul Scott is most famous for his much-beloved tetralogy The Raj Quartet, an epic that chronicles the end of the British rule in India with a cast of vividly and memorably drawn characters. Inspired by Scott’s own time spent in India during World War II, this powerful novel provides valuable insight...
by Aristotle
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
The Nicomachean Ethics is one of Aristotle’s most widely read and influential works. Ideas central to ethics—that happiness is the end of human endeavor, that moral virtue is formed through action and habituation, and that good action requires prudence—found their most powerful proponent in...
Aristotle's "Politics"
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
One of the fundamental works of Western political thought, Aristotle’s masterwork is the first systematic treatise on the science of politics. For almost three decades, Carnes Lord’s justly acclaimed translation has served as the standard English edition. Widely regarded as the most faithful to...
No Exit
Arab Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Decolonization
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
It is a curious and relatively little-known fact that for two decades—from the end of World War II until the late 1960s—existentialism’s most fertile ground outside of Europe was in the Middle East, and Jean-Paul Sartre was the Arab intelligentsia’s uncontested champion. In the Arab world,...
On Tyranny
Corrected and Expanded Edition, Including the Strauss-Kojève Correspondence
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
On Tyranny is Leo Strauss’s classic reading of Xenophon’s dialogue Hiero, or Tyrannicus, in which the tyrant Hiero and the poet Simonides discuss the advantages and disadvantages of exercising tyranny. Included are a translation of the dialogue from its original Greek, a critique of Strauss’s...
Coming to Mind
The Soul and Its Body
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
How should we speak of bodies and souls? In Coming to Mind, Lenn E. Goodman and D. Gregory Caramenico pick their way through the minefields of materialist reductionism to present the soul not as the brain’s rival but as its partner. What acts, they argue, is what is real. The soul is not an ethereal...
Petrarch
A Critical Guide to the Complete Works
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2009
Although Francesco Petrarca (1304–74) is best known today for cementing the sonnet’s place in literary history, he was also a philosopher, historian, orator, and one of the foremost classical scholars of his age. Petrarch: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works is the only comprehensive, single-volume...