In 1932 Sigmund Freud and diplomat William Bullitt completed a well-informed psychobiography... Læs mere
The Seventy-Five Folios and Other Unpublished Manuscripts contain early versions of six episodes later included in Marcel Proust’s In Search of... Læs mere
Branko Milanovic charts 200 years of the fascinating history of the discourse on inequality through portraits of six key... Læs mere
Established to calm intracolonial tensions, the Mason-Dixon Line first marked a region of breakneck development and Native American resistance, then the boundary... Læs mere
The Image of the European in African Art-a companion to The Image of the Black in Western Art series-is profusely illustrated, including little-known works,... Læs mere
Luna Sabastian traces the evolution of Hindutva since the 1920s, arguing that it is a form of fascism. Influenced by Euro-American race thought, but also... Læs mere
In the tradition of the great dialecticians, Rahel Jaeggi revitalizes the idea of progress by confronting its opposite: regression. Reckoning with growing inequality, ecological... Læs mere
Krista Lawlor offers the first comprehensive study of reasonableness. Being reasonable is critical to law, politics, and daily life. But what exactly... Læs mere
American law categorically protects clinicians who invoke conscience to refuse standard care, from Plan B to IVF. Yet clinicians enjoy no... Læs mere
Jay Belsky argues for a Darwinian interpretation of childhood trauma leading to “antisocial” adult behavior. There is... Læs mere
The unity of the organism—an assembly of organs, tissues, cells, and genes working toward a common goal—has long been taken for granted. The... Læs mere
Using real-world examples, from brewing beer to finding a lost submarine, What Are the Odds? illuminates the core concepts of statistical thinking, asking not just what the data... Læs mere