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Modes of Uncertainty
Anthropological Cases
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Modes of Uncertainty offers groundbreaking ways of thinking about danger, risk, and uncertainty from an analytical and anthropological perspective. Our world, the contributors show, is increasingly populated by forms, practices, and events whose uncertainty cannot be reduced to risk—and thus it...
Ain't Love Grand!
Earthworms to Elephant Seals
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
The natural world is filled with diverse—not to mention quirky and odd—animal behaviors. Consider the male praying mantis that continues to mate after being beheaded; the insects, insects, and birds that offer gifts of food in return for sex; the male hip-pocket frog that carries his own tadpoles;...
Strategic Party Government
Why Winning Trumps Ideology
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
Why is Congress mired in partisan polarization? The conventional answer is that members of Congress and their constituencies fundamentally disagree with one other along ideological lines. But Gregory Koger and Matthew J. Lebo uncover a more compelling reason that today’s political leaders devote...
The Seductions of Quantification
Measuring Human Rights, Gender Violence, and Sex Trafficking
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
We live in a world where seemingly everything can be measured. We rely on indicators to translate social phenomena into simple, quantified terms, which in turn can be used to guide individuals, organizations, and governments in establishing policy. Yet counting things requires finding a way to make...
by Lloyd Schwartz
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Called “the master of the poetic one-liner” by the New York Times, acclaimed poet and critic Lloyd Schwartz takes his characteristic tragicomic view of life to some unexpected and disturbing places in this, his fourth book of poetry. Here are poignant and comic poems about personal loss—the...
Why Washington Won't Work
Polarization, Political Trust, and the Governing Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
Polarization is at an all-time high in the United States. But contrary to popular belief, Americans are polarized not so much in their policy preferences as in their feelings toward their political opponents: To an unprecedented degree, Republicans and Democrats simply do not like one another. No...
Nixon at the Movies
A Book about Belief
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Was it an omen? Richard Nixon and the film industry arrived in Southern California in the same year, 1913. As Mark Feeney relates in this unusual and unusually absorbing book, Nixon and the movies have shared a long and complex history. Some of that history—the president's multiple screenings of...
Against Prediction
Profiling, Policing, and Punishing in an Actuarial Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
From random security checks at airports to the use of risk assessment in sentencing, actuarial methods are being used more than ever to determine whom law enforcement officials target and punish. And with the exception of racial profiling on our highways and streets, most people favor these methods...
by Howard Nemerov
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
The former Poet Laureate of the United States, Nemerov gives us a lucid and precise twist on the commonplaces of everyday life.
The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1978.
"Howard Nemerov is a witty, urbane, thoughtful poet,...
Lawyers in Practice
Ethical Decision Making in Context
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
How do lawyers resolve ethical dilemmas in the everyday context of their practice? What are the issues that commonly arise, and how do lawyers determine the best ways to resolve them? Until recently, efforts to answer these questions have focused primarily on rules and legal doctrine rather than the...
by Alan Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
More than a gathering of essays, That Self-Forgetful Perfectly Useless Concentration is part memoir, part literary criticism, and an artful fusion of the two. It is an intimate portrait of a life in poetry that only Alan Shapiro could have written.
In this book, Shapiro brings his characteristic...
Six Days in Marapore
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
In this swiftly paced and lyrical novel about British expatriates at the time of Indian independence, Paul Scott grapples with the themes of race, possession, and history that dominate all four novels of his masterpiece, The Raj Quartet, especially The Jewel in the Crown. As always, Scott fills his...
Aristotle's Politics
Living Well and Living Together
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2011
“Man is a political animal,” Aristotle asserts near the beginning of the Politics. In this novel reading of one of the foundational texts of political philosophy, Eugene Garver traces the surprising implications of Aristotle’s claim and explores the treatise’s relevance to ongoing political...
by Thomas L. Pangle
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
With Aristotle’s Teaching in the “Politics,” Thomas L. Pangle offers a masterly new interpretation of this classic philosophical work. It is widely believed that the Politics originated as a written record of a series of lectures given by Aristotle, and scholars have relied on that fact to explain...