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The culture wars are pitting us against each other with a vitriol that is fueling outright violence. Slotkin looks to the foundational myths that have shaped American identity?the Frontier, the...

The first complete English-language collection of Simone Weil's letters to her loved ones, A Life in Letters deepens appreciation of one of the twentieth century's great thinkers by offering insight...

Francis Cogliano revisits the relationship between Washington and Jefferson, arguing that their vaunted differences mask mutual investments in the Revolution itself. Their later divergence...

Blaise Pascal is a marquee name, yet little read outside France. Antoine Compagnon provides an ideal introduction to one of the great intellects, contextualizing Pascal in his own time and offering...

Julia Rombough explores the regulation of sound in women's residential institutions in early modern Florence. Silence was tied to ideals of feminine purity and spiritual discipline, yet enclosed...

David Rabban provides the first comprehensive synthesis of the case law on academic freedom and the First Amendment at American universities. Responding to the judicial decisions and drawing on the...

After Appomattox: Military Occupation And The Ends Of WarAuthor: Gregory P. DownsPublisher: Harvard University PressPublication Date: Aug 13, 2019Number of Pages: 352 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

This data-rich sociological study uses everything from census figures to Who's Who to analyze how, over 125 years, the British elite have used status, elite education, and powerful social networks to...

The white power movement in America wants a revolution. It has declared all-out war against the federal government and its agents, and has carried out?with military precision?an escalating campaign...

In this concise, pragmatic guide, Cass Sunstein presents a range of scenarios involving students, professors, and administrators, and demonstrates how to distinguish reasonable restrictions from...

Charles Taylor delves into the poetry of the Romantics and their heirs, a foundation of his distinctive philosophy of language. Taylor holds that Romantic poetry responded to disenchantment: with old...

Dear Unknown Friend relates the story of US and Soviet pen pals amid the early Cold War. The correspondents, all of them women, approached each other with curiosity and an eye toward coexistence...

Daniel Susskind traces the rich, surprisingly brief history of economic growth and responds to its ills. We cannot focus only on growth's upsides, but nor is degrowth a viable policy: the benefits of...

Largely forgotten today, the Second Mexican Empire was a transformative nineteenth-century moment. Raymond Jonas explores the conspiracy of European rulers and Mexican conservatives to erect an Old...

Philip Schaff Prize, American Society of Church History S-USIH Book Award, Society for U.S. Intellectual History Merle Curti Award in Intellectual History, Organization of American Historians ?A...

After the Second World War, Britain's overseas empire disintegrated. But over the next seventy years, empire came to define Britain and its people as never before. Drawing on a mass of new research,...

A New York Times Book Review Editors? Choice ?Charming and brilliant.? ?Times Literary Supplement ?Provocative, stimulating, wise?the book that our success-obsessed age needs to read.??Tom Holland...

Anthropologist Harvey Whitehouse offers a sweeping account of how three ancient biases--conformism, religiosity, and tribalism--shaped humanity's past and imperil its future.Author: Harvey...

?A civil but honest dialogue...As illuminating as it is fascinating.? ?Ayaan Hirsi Ali Is Islam a religion of peace or war? Is it amenable to reform? Why do so many Muslims seem to be drawn to...

Author: Tom ZoellnerPublisher: Harvard University PressPublication Date: Mar 08, 2022Number of Pages: 376 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0674271157ISBN-13: 9780674271159

Winner of the Bancroft Prize Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Book of the Year A Publishers Weekly Book of the Year "The main thrust of Horowitz's account is to make us understand Katrina--the...

The story of three couples who are about to discover that a marriage's happiness has many entrances but only one emergency exit. Living a life immersed in the questions of relationships that never...

Elizabeth Ingleson explores the roots of bilateral trade between the United States and China. Telling the story of the 1970s US activists and entrepreneurs who pressed for access to China's vast...

Mathematician Paulina Rowinska leads us across the globe to discover the myriad connections between math and maps, and how they've shaped not just our sense of space but our worldview.Author: PAULINA...

A Guardian "Favourite Reads--as Chosen by Scientists" Selection "Tackles some of science's most enduring misconceptions." --Discover A falling apple inspired Isaac Newton's insight into the law of...

Numbers And The Making Of Us: Counting And The Course Of Human CulturesAuthor: Caleb EverettPublisher: Harvard University PressPublication Date: Apr 22, 2019Number of Pages: 312 pagesLanguage:...

A Financial Times Best Economics Book of the Year A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year ?A highly intelligent, fact-based defense of the virtues of an open, competitive economy and society.?...

Selected Stories by Franz Kafka offers new renderings of the author?s finest work. Mark Harman?s English translations convey the uniqueness of Kafka?s German?the wit, irony, and cadence. Expert...

A Telegraph Best Science Book of the Year "Nerdily engaging (and often funny)...Technology and science fiction enthusiasts will find much here to delight them...He is a sensible skeptic, yet also...

?Lively in style and backed by solid, unobtrusive scholarship...In her call for responsibility in borrowing, Liz Bucar singles out for criticism forms of exploitation close to her own identity as...