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The Religion and Science Debate
Why Does It Continue?
Six acclaimed scholars—including a biologist, a sociologist, a historian, a philosopher, and a physicist—examine the evolution debate. Eighty-one years after America witnessed the Scopes trial...
Bedouin Law from Sinai and the Negev
Justice without Government
Bedouin Law from Sinai and the Negev is the first comprehensive study of Bedouin law published in English, including oral, pre-modern law. The material for the book, collected over the course of forty years of...
Architecture on the Edge of Postmodernism
Collected Essays, 1964-1988
Robert A. M. Stern is one of contemporary architecture’s most influential figures, with a career encompassing every facet of the profession: he has a flourishing private practice; he is a noted authority on New York...
Propaganda State in Crisis
Soviet Ideology, Indoctrination, and Terror under Stalin, 1927-1941
The USSR is often regarded as the world's first propaganda state. Particularly under Stalin, politically charged rhetoric and imagery dominated the press, schools, and cultural forums from literature and cinema to the fine arts...
Lost Worlds
Adventures in the Tropical Rainforest
Unique tales and reflections of a scientist-explorer on his adventures in some of the world’s most remote tropical rainforests Perhaps it is not possible to experience all the mysterious sounds, the...
Plato's Dialectical Ethics
Phenomenological Interpretations Relating to the Philebus
Plato's Dialectical Ethics, Gadamer's earliest work, has now been translated into English for the first time. This classic book, published in 1931 and reprinted in 1967 and 1982, is still important today. It is one of...
Chinese Mythical Stories
This book is designed for students who have had three terms of Chinese and want to read something to reinforce their vocabulary, while at the same time enjoying a modern style novel.
Menachem Begin
A Life
The first full-scale biography of one of the most important—and enigmatic—leaders in Israeli history This riveting biography is the first to provide a satisfactory answer to the question, Who was...
Sibelius
The most balanced and complete biography of Sibelius to date, published on the 50th anniversary of the great composer’s death Informed by a wealth of information that has come to light in recent years,...
The Shameful Peace
How French Artists and Intellectuals Survived the Nazi Occupation
A vivid and poignant account of the struggle of French writers and artists to endure and combat the German occupation that threatened their cultural heritage The German occupation of France from 1940 to...