This volume ranges from studies of Baudelaire, Brecht, and the historian Carl Jochmann to appraisals of photography, film, and poetry. At their core is the question of how art adapts to survive and thrive in an age of violence and repression.
Constantly revised and refined over three decades, Rawls's lectures on various historical figures reflect his developing and changing views on the history... Læs mere
Solove offers a comprehensive overview of the difficulties involved in discussions of privacy and ultimately provides a provocative resolution. He argues that are multiple forms of... Læs mere
To Free a Family tells the remarkable story of Mary Walker, who in August 1848 fled her owner for refuge in the North and spent the next seventeen years... Læs mere
Stanley Fish is one of America's most stimulating literary theorists. In this book, he undertakes a reexamination of some of... Læs mere
Patricia Williams is a lawyer and a professor of commercial law, the great-great-granddaughter of a slave and a white southern lawyer. The Alchemy of Race and Rights is an eloquent autobiographical essay in which the author reflects on the intersection of race, gender, and class.
Most of Barnard’s career was spent in executive practice. A Mount Hermon and Harvard education, cut off short of the bachelor’s degree, was... Læs mere
Nelson and Winter focus their critique on the basic question of how firms and industries change overtime. They marshal significant objections to the fundamental... Læs mere
In detailed commentaries on Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets, Vendler reveals previously unperceived imaginative and stylistic features of the poems, pointing out not only new... Læs mere
This is the first extensive study of how anti-Semitism pervaded and shaped Nazi propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust,... Læs mere
This book not only reviews the basic aspects of social behavior, ecology, anatomy, physiology, and genetics, it also summarizes major controversies in contemporary honey bee... Læs mere
Everyone in academia stresses quality. But what is it, and how do professors identify it? Lamont observed deliberations for fellowships... Læs mere