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?Eminently readable, and anybody who cares about the future of American democracy in these perilous times can only hope that it will be widely read and carefully considered.? ?James Pope, Washington...

Author: Stephen BreyerPublisher: Harvard University PressPublication Date: Sep 14, 2021Number of Pages: 128 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10: 0674269365ISBN-13: 9780674269361

A Forbes Best Business Book. ?ital reading for today? and tomorrow? leaders.??rianna Huffington ?urnout seems to be everyone? problem, and this book has solutions. As trailblazers in burnout...

?Wise and illuminating...Merrill?s treatment of the rise of Chevron, and its various twists and turns over the decades, is keenly insightful.? ?Cass R. Sunstein, New York Review of Books ?Merrill is...

Author: Khalil Gibran MuhammadPublisher: Harvard University PressPublication Date: Jul 22, 2019Number of Pages: 416 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0674238141ISBN-13: 9780674238145

The definitive biography of Hu Yaobang, who, as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party in the 1980s, promoted popular reforms and took aim at Mao's personality cult. When Hu's popularity...

In the early to mid-1990s, the Western media, policymakers, and academics alike warned that Crimea was a potential center of unrest and instability in the aftermath of the Soviet Union's dissolution...

In a duel with his self-confidence Paul is about to find out that he cannot quarrel with his future without quarreling with his favorite version of his own past as well, the one his self-confidence...

Diego Javier Luis tells the story of transpacific Asian movement to and through the Spanish Americas. On arrival in Mexico, diverse Asian peoples became "chinos" subject to the colonial caste system...

The Letters of Emily Dickinson collects, redates, and recontextualizes all of the poet's extant letters, including dozens newly discovered or never before anthologized. Insightful annotations...

Oswyn Murray charts the shifting uses of the ancient past, showing how three centuries of scholars interpreted ancient Greece in the light of contemporary political interests. Rich in stories and...

Frederic W. Ness Book Award, American Association of Colleges and Universities A Forbes Best Higher Education Book ?A practical guide to more effective and engaged college teaching.??Forbes ?Everyone...

The American working class didn't disappear with the manufacturing economy. It transformed. Instead of unionized blue-collar men, today's working class is dominated by underpaid women in service...

Ælfric's Catholic Homilies convey mainstream Christian thought at the turn of the millennium. The first series draws on the works of Augustine and Bede, among others, to create forty sermons for use...

A groundbreaking history of philosophy and punishment, The Prison before the Panopticon traces the influence of ancient political philosophy on the modern institution of the prison, showing how...

Constant digital surveillance has inspired a heated but also limited privacy debate. Lowry Pressly looks beyond the narrow discourse of rights and information to extol privacy as a tool for living...

Rising prosperity was supposed to bring democracy to China, yet the Communist Party's political monopoly endures. How? Minxin Pei looks to the surveillance state. Though renowned for high-tech...

Sarah Lewis unearths the critical moment when Americans were confronted with the fictions shoring up the nation's racial regime and learned to disregard them. When popular nineteenth-century images...

Nandi Timmana's Theft of a Tree recounts how Krishna stole the wish-granting parijata tree from the garden of Indra, king of the gods, to appease his wife Satyabhama. This is the first English...

Nazmul Sultan explores Indian contributions to democratic theory, as anticolonial thinkers developed principles of peoplehood and self-rule. Indians contested British claims that the "backwardness"...

Based on the Du Bois Lectures delivered at Harvard in 2011, We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For argues for the importance of self-cultivation in pursuit of justice as a critical feature of...

Zhou Enlai, China's first premier, is overshadowed by Mao, but Zhou's influence in his own time and since has been vast. Chen Jian shows Zhou using his political and bureaucratic skills and...