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Trent, the Catholic Church’s attempt to put its house in order after the Reformation, has long been praised and blamed for things it never did. This one-volume... Læs mere
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Hirschman maps the diffuse and treacherous world of reactionary rhetoric in which conservative public figures, thinkers, and polemicists have been... Læs mere
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In a major reinterpretation, Sean McMeekin rejects the standard notion of the war’s beginning as either a Germano-Austrian pre-emptive strike or a... Læs mere
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“Slow violence” from climate change, toxic drift, deforestation, oil spills, and the environmental aftermath of war occurs gradually and often... Læs mere
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Horses were domesticated about 6000 years ago on the vast Eurasian steppe. Michel-Antoine Leblanc presents an encyclopedic synthesis of... Læs mere
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Lockhart’s Mathematician’s Lament outlined how we introduce math to students in the wrong way. Measurement explains how math should be done. With plain English and pictures, he makes complex... Læs mere
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W. E. B. Du Bois never felt so at home as when he was a student in Berlin. Germany was the first place white people had treated him as an... Læs mere
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What gives statistics its unity as a science? Stephen Stigler sets forth the seven foundational ideas of statistics—a scientific discipline related to but... Læs mere
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Writing in the digital age has been as messy as the inky rags in Gutenberg’s shop or the molten lead of a Linotype machine. Matthew Kirschenbaum... Læs mere
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Hilary Putnam’s writings have shaped epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, philosophy of physics and mathematics, and philosophy of mind. This volume illustrates his... Læs mere
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American courts routinely hand down harsh sentences to individuals, but a very different standard of justice applies to corporations. Too Big... Læs mere
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As a Europe grew rich in the Middle Ages, the well-made clothes, linens, and wares of households often substituted for hard currency.... Læs mere