In a brisk revisionist history, William Rowe challenges the standard narrative of Qing China as a decadent, inward-looking state that failed to keep pace with the... Læs mere
The unrivaled doyenne of close reading offers an interpretive introduction to Emily Dickinson’s brilliant, enigmatic verse. In commentaries accompanying 150... Læs mere
Huntington examines the persistent gap between the promise of American ideals and the performance of American politics. He shows how Americans have always... Læs mere
The Yiddish socialist movement shaped Jewish communities across the U.S. well into the 20th century and left a political legacy that extends to the... Læs mere
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For constitutionalists, regulation of hate speech violates the First Amendment and damages a free society. Waldron rejects this view, and makes the case that hate speech should... Læs mere
The Evolving Self focuses upon the most basic and universal of psychological problems—the individual’s effort to make sense of experience, to... Læs mere
The authors argue that corporate law’s rules and practices mimic contractual provisions that parties would reach if they bargained about every contingency at zero... Læs mere
A series of closely interrelated essays on game theory, this book deals with an area in which progress has been least satisfactory—the... Læs mere
When this Pulitzer Prize–winning biography first appeared in 1976, it rescued T. E. Lawrence from mythologizing. In it, Mack explores the relationship... Læs mere
The story of Heidegger’s life and philosophy, a quintessentially German story in which good and evil, brilliance and blindness are inextricably entwined and the passions and disasters of a whole century come into play, is told in this brilliant biography.