Moses Chao argues that activity in the peripheral nervous system predicts the onset of neurological and psychiatric conditions... Læs mere
Marcy Norton tells a new history of the European colonization of the Americas, one that places wildlife and livestock at the center of the story. She... Læs mere
The sense of reading as an intimate act of self-discovery—and of communion between authors and book lovers—has a long history. Lina Bolzoni... Læs mere
Why is Israel’s relatively small and low-budget military also the world’s most innovative, technologically and logistically? Edward... Læs mere
In Strange Tales from Edo, William Fleming paints a sweeping picture of Japan’s engagement with Chinese fiction in the early modern... Læs mere
Meanings of Antiquity is the first dedicated study of how the oldest Japanese myths, recorded in the eighth-century texts Kojiki and Nihon... Læs mere
Leon Battista Alberti was among the most famous figures of the Italian Renaissance. Biographical and Autobiographical Writings includes On the Advantages and... Læs mere
Renowned philosopher of science David Z Albert offers an innovative approach to understanding the fundamental physical... Læs mere
Written in about 1340 by the Benedictine preacher Pierre Bersuire, The Moralized Ovid was a highly influential interpretation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in the High Middle Ages. It... Læs mere
David Kennedy and Martti Koskenniemi, two leading critics of law’s role in global life, join together to explore the... Læs mere
Political theorist Jeremy Waldron makes a bracing case against identifying rule of law with predictability. Seeing the rule of law as just one value to which... Læs mere
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” of the Indian people offered a democratic justification for imperial domination.