Modern Japan is not only responding to threats from North Korea and China but is also reevaluating its dependence on the United States, Sheila Smith shows.... Læs mere
Nicole Fleetwood enters American prisons to explore the creativity flourishing there. Though isolated and degraded, incarcerated artists produce bold... Læs mere
Douglas Baird takes stock of the current state of contract doctrine and in the process reinvigorates the classic framework of Anglo-American contract law, showing that Oliver... Læs mere
Appian (ca. AD 95–161) is a principal source for the history of the Roman Republic. His theme is the process by which Rome achieved her contemporary prosperity, and his method is... Læs mere
The great Athenian philosopher Plato was born in 427 BC and lived to be eighty. Acknowledged masterpieces among his works are the Symposium, which explores love in its many aspects,... Læs mere
Anonymous Old English Lives of Saints includes narratives from the eleventh and twelfth centuries about locally venerated saints like the abbess Seaxburh, as well... Læs mere
It is commonly believed that international law originated in respectful relations among free and equal European states. But as Jennifer Pitts shows,... Læs mere
Maximos the Confessor is one of the most challenging and original Christian thinkers of all time. The Ambigua is his greatest philosophical... Læs mere
Greek mathematics from the sixth century BC to the fourth century AD is represented by works of Pythagoras, Proclus, Thales, Democritus,... Læs mere
Enquiry into Plants and De Causis Plantarum by Theophrastus (ca. 370–ca. 285 BC) are a counterpart to Aristotle’s zoological work and the... Læs mere
Dealing with climate change means accepting tough tradeoffs: giving up certain energy sources, products, and... Læs mere
Fronto (c. 100–176 CE), a much admired orator and rhetorician, was befriended by the emperor Antoninus Pius and teacher of his adopted sons Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus. His... Læs mere