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In The Inner Life of Catholic Reform, Ulrich Lehner offers a longue durée overview of the sentime...

In the mid-1960s, Steve Reich radically renewed the musical landscape with a back-to-basics sound...

As the 'Giant of Africa,' Nigeria is home to about twenty percent of the population of Sub-Sahara...

Are human lives ultimately meaningless? Is our inevitable death bad? Would immortality be better?...

Despite the spread of democratization following the Cold War's end, all signs indicate that we ar...

Daniel W. Drezner's The Ideas Industry looks at how we have moved from a world of public intellec...

China's rise is altering global power relations, reshaping economic debates, and commanding treme...

This volume is a wide-ranging examination of denial and ideological denialism. It offers a readab...

Published by Sinauer Associates, an imprint of Oxford University Press.Phylogenies (evolutionary ...

This volume collects my published papers on the relationship between literature and philosophy, e...

From the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Terracotta Army, ancient artifacts have long fascinated the mode...

Hypatia: The Life and Legend of an Ancient Philosopher brings to life Hypatia's intellectual and ...

Research polls, media interviews, and everyday conversations reveal an unsettling truth: citizens...

In this fully revised and updated third edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs...

What configuration of institutions and policies is most conducive to human flourishing? The histo...

Around 1900, physicists started to discover particles like electrons, protons, and neutrons, and ...

In Sonidos Negros, readers learn how Flamenco's sensuality, quixotic idealism, and fierce soulful...

People tend to be penny wise and pound foolish and cry over spilt milk, even though we are taught...

'This is, for my money, the best single-source primer on the state of climate change.' (New York ...

This volume contains translations, by a range of leading scholars, focusing on core themes in the...

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: What Everyone Needs To Know® offers an accessible and balanced ...

Arie W. Kruglanski, Jocelyn J. Bélanger, and Rohan Gunaratna present a new model of radicalizatio...

Are Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft too powerful? Martin Moore and Damian Tambini d...

Nolan McCarty's Polarization: What Everyone Needs to Know ® is an accessible introduction to pola...

In recent years 'leaderless' social movements have proliferated around the globe, from North Afri...

Studies of 'near-death experiences' show that such experiences not only provide a new certainty o...

One in ten adults over 65 has some form of mild cognitive impairment or MCI--thinking problems th...

Gestural Imaginaries offers a new interpretation of European modernist dance by addressing it as ...

This book presents a new theory of what happens at the very early stages of innovation. It descri...

Age is an important number, but it can also be deceiving. After 40, most people say they feel you...

Former chief CNN India correspondent and award-wining journalist Ravi Agrawal takes readers on a ...

Baseball is a strange sport: it consists of long periods in which little seems to be happening, p...

Modern Control Theory and the Limits of the Criminal Justice develops and extends the theory of s...

What is Vladimir Putin up to? This book shows how the mentality of Putin and his team - the code ...

With original essays by philosophers, psychologists, musicians, literary critics, and ethno-music...

Misogyny is a hot topic, yet it's often misunderstood. What is misogyny, exactly? Who deserves to...

David Tudor is remembered today in two guises: as an extraordinary pianist of post-war avant-gard...

Much has been written about Leonard Bernstein, a musician of extraordinary talent who was legenda...

As the threat of global climate change becomes a reality, many look to the Arctic Ocean to predic...

3000. That's the number of marketing messages the average American confronts on a daily basis fro...

Werner Herzog's 2011 film Cave of Forgotten Dreams, about the painted caves at Chauvet, France br...

In Better than Human?, noted bioethicist Allen Buchanan grapples with the ethical dilemmas of the...

The internet has transformed the ways in which scholars and scientists share their findings with ...

The causes and consequences of terrorism are matters of considerable debate and great interest. S...

The Editors of this unique volume asked some of the world's leading emotion researchers to addres...

Diplomatic expert Patrick McEachern unpacks the contentious and tangled relationship between the ...