This bold and illuminating study examines the role of archaeology in the formation of the modern Japanese nation and explores the processes by which a......
Most current reconstructions of Aegean prehistory are predominantly based on archaeology. This book, however, approaches the subject from the vantage ......
This book provides a theory of the logic of survival of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), one of the most resilient autocratic regimes in t......
In this book, Chiara Bottici argues for a philosophical understanding of political myth. Bottici shows that myth is a process, one of continuous work ......
Socrates was not a moral philosopher. Instead he was a theorist who showed how human desire and human knowledge complement one another in the pursuit ......
Bringing together the most active researchers in late Pleistocene/Holocene Southeast Asian human osteology，this volume considers major approaches to s......
The daring idea that convention - human decision - lies at the root both of necessary truths and much of empirical science reverberates through twenti......
This book is about personal names, something of abiding interest to specialists and lay readers alike. Over a million people have checked the American......
This book explores two basic questions regarding constitutional theory. Firstly, how is the creation of a legitimate constitutional regime possible? S......
This book provides the first English-language history of the postwar labor migration to West Germany. Drawing on government bulletins, statements by p......
Alison Stone offers a feminist defence of the idea that sexual difference is natural, providing a new interpretation of the later philosophy of Luce I......
The history of the Palestinians over the last half century has been one of turmoil, a people living under occupation or exiled from their homeland. Th......
Beginning with a sustained analysis of Seneca's theory of monarchy in the treatise De clementia, Peter Stacey traces the formative impact of ancient R......
Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas, two twentieth-century Jewish philosophers and extremely provocative thinkers, are rarely studied together. In this b......
“A pantheon of economic thinkers grapples with the problems facing Europe. No longer about East vs. West or even rich vs. aspiring, the issue now is w......
Why were urban women veiled in the early 1900s, unveiled from 1936 to 1979, and reveiled after the 1979 revolution? This question forms the basis of H......
This book examines the early modern science of generation, which included the study of animal conception, heredity, and fetal development. Analyzing h......
This book explores the intersection between cognitive sciences and social sciences。 In particular， it explores the intersection between individual cog......
This much-needed systematic exploration of the emerging field of organizational discourse addresses both scholarly perspectives and empirical applicat......
At the end of the Thebaid, Statius enjoins his epic 'not to compete with the divine Aeneid but rather to follow at a distance and always revere its fo......
