Through an intensive clinical study of 40 incest victims and numerous interviews with professionals in mental health, child protection, and law enforcement,... Læs mere
This book is significant for its concept of “openness”—the artist's decision to leave arrangements of some constituents of a work to the public or to chance—and for its anticipation of two... Læs mere
Tracing the structure and evolution of Idealism as a doctrine, this title exposes an objective, or realist, strain running from Kant to Hegel and identifies the role of the early romantics as the founders of absolute Idealism.
Plotinus was the first and greatest of Neoplatonic philosophers. His writings were edited by his disciple Porphyry, who published them sometime between AD 301 and 305 in six sets of... Læs mere
This rigorous but brilliantly lucid book presents a self-contained treatment of modern economic dynamics. Stokey, Lucas, and Prescott develop the basic methods of recursive analysis and illustrate the many areas where they can usefully be applied.
Diogenes Laertius compiled his compendium on the lives and doctrines of the ancient philosophers from hundreds of sources. It ranges over three centuries, from Thales to Epicurus, portraying forty-five important figures, and is enriched by numerous quotations.
Edward Rugemer’s comparative history, spanning 200 years, reveals the political dynamic between slaves’ resistance and slaveholders’... Læs mere
An innovator in contemporary thought on economic and political development looks here at decline rather than growth. Hirschman makes a basic distinction between alternative ways of reacting to deterioration in business firms and, in general, to dissatisfaction with organizations.
Beginning with the painterly preoccupation with the trope of the bathing nude, Linda Nochlin tracks the subtle permutations of beauty, femininity, and the nude body, from impressionism to postmodernism.
Evolution is the one theory that transcends all of biology. Nowak draws on the languages of biology and mathematics to outline the mathematical... Læs mere
In 1764 a peasant girl was killed and partially eaten while tending sheep. Eventually, over a hundred victims fell prey to a mysterious creature whose... Læs mere