More than 50 years after independence, "Algerian Chronicles, " with its prescient analysis of the dead end of terrorism, appears here in English for the first time. Published in... Læs mere
Give and Take offers a new history of government in Tokugawa Japan (1600–1868), one that focuses on ordinary subjects: merchants, artisans, villagers, and people at... Læs mere
This collection presents six essays by one of France’s most remarkable contemporary authors. A notoriously playful stylist, Cixous here explores how the problematics... Læs mere
The political flexibility of our species is formidable: we can be quite egalitarian, we can be quite despotic. This book traces the roots of... Læs mere
The age of Roach’s Freedom Now Suite, Coltrane’s A Love Supreme, and Mingus’s The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady was a time when jazz became... Læs mere
The authors explain why Mao launched the Cultural Revolution, and show his Machiavellian role in masterminding it (which Chinese publications conceal). In its critical analysis of... Læs mere
Humphries offers an explanation of why consciousness makes compelling evolutionary sense. From sensations that probably began in bodily expression to evolutionary... Læs mere
Incisively and stylishly written, this book constitutes an open challenge to reconsider the fundamental question of the relationship of law to society.
Kistiakovsky railed against Lenin’s concept of a vanguard party to lead the revolution and advocated a... Læs mere
Patterson discusses the internal dynamics of slavery in 66 societies over time. These include Greece and Rome, medieval Europe, China,... Læs mere
Hasegawa rewrites the history of the end of World War II in the Pacific by integrating the key actors in the story—the US, the USSR, and Japan.... Læs mere