In the early 1990s, competitive elections in the Russian Federation signaled the end to the authoritarian political system dominated by a single polit......
How were the dead remembered in early medieval Britain? This innovative study demonstrates how perceptions of the past and the dead, and hence social ......
This book, by one of the most prominent interpreters of Leo Strauss's thought, is the first to examine the theme that Leo Strauss considered to be key......
A genuinely comparative study of the cultural impact of the Great War on British and German societies in the first half of the twentieth century. Taki......
This book demonstrates the complex unity of Plato's Gorgias. Thought a careful analysis of the dialogue's three main sections, including Socrates' fam......
In this book, Daniel Shapiro argues that the dominant positions in contemporary political philosophy - egalitarianism, positive rights theory, communi......
In a world where many experience unprecedented levels of wellbeing，chronic poverty remains a major concern for many developing countries and the inter......
Mainstream and Formal Epistemology provides the first, easily accessible, yet erudite and original analysis of the meeting point between mainstream an......
Does democracy reduce state repression as human rights activism, funding, and policy suggest? What are the limitations of this argument? Investigating......
The distinction between norms and facts is long-standing in providing a challenge for psychology. Norms exist as directives, commands, rules, customs ......
The holy sites in Jerusalem exist as objects of international veneration and sites of nationalist contest. They stand at the heart of the Israeli-Pale......
“This is a terrific book。With its focus on different situational mechanisms linking social contexts to individual actions，it will appeal not only to c......
This provocative book describes the sharp right turn the United States has taken following the election of Ronald Reagan as president in 1980. The tre......
Beatrice Forbes Manz uses the history of Iran under the Timurid ruler Shahrukh (1409-1447) to analyze the relationship between government and society ......
Anthony Parel affords a novel perspective on the philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi. He explores how Gandhi connected the spiritual with the temporal. As Pa......
A Primer on Ugaritic is an introduction to the language of the ancient city of Ugarit, a city that flourished in the second millennium BCE on the Leba......
The central philosophical challenge of metaethics is to account for the normativity of moral judgment without abandoning or seriously compromising mor......
This book explains how and why Berlin became the symbolic capital of the Cold War. Paul Steege anchors his account of this emerging global conflict in......
This is a book on how to think - strategically - about foreign policy. Focusing on the American experience, it defines the national interest as a conc......
The Second World War marked the beginning of the end of literary modernism in Britain. However, this late period of modernism and its response to the ......
