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Natural Histories
Winner of the 1978 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition
The Triumph of Provocation
This masterful political treatise, first published in 1962, examines the history and nature of Communism as it developed in the Soviet Union and in Poland. Józef Mackiewicz, known for his relentless opposition to...
Constitutional Courts and Democratic Values
A European Perspective
In this book, Víctor Ferreres Comella contrasts the European “centralized” constitutional court model, in which one court system is used to adjudicate constitutional questions, with a decentralized model, such as...
Czeslaw Milosz and Joseph Brodsky
Fellowship of Poets
This intimate portrayal of the friendship between two icons of twentieth-century poetry, Czeslaw Milosz and Joseph Brodsky, highlights the parallel lives of the poets as exiles living in America and Nobel Prize...
A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851
This remarkable dictionary provides information on the work of over 3,000 sculptors working in Britain between 1660 and 1851. It is a substantially expanded edition of Gunnis’s Dictionary of British Sculptors, the...
Comparative Studies and the Politics of Modern Medical Care
This book offers a timely account of health reform struggles in developed democracies. The editors, leading experts in the field, have brought together a group of distinguished scholars to explore the ambitions and...
A Smart Energy Policy
An Economist's Rx for Balancing Cheap, Clean, and Secure Energy
While everyone wants energy that is clean, cheap, and secure, these goals often conflict: traditional fossil fuels tend to be cheaper than alternative fuels, but they are hardly clean or (in the case of oil) secure....
Resurrection
The Power of God for Christians and Jews
Two scholars—one a Christian and the other a Jew—find deep and meaningful connections between their two faiths This book, written for religious and nonreligious people alike in clear and accessible...
Spiritual Radical
Abraham Joshua Heschel in America, 1940-1972
The first full account of the life of one of America’s greatest religious thinkers during World War II and in the decades afterward Born in Warsaw, raised in a Hasidic community, and reaching maturity in...
Since 1950
Art and Its Criticism
This is an original and incisive contribution to the discussion of modern and postmodern art and of the theories by which it has been influenced and explained, from someone who has been closely involved in the art of...