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The End of Race?
Obama, 2008, and Racial Politics in America
How did race affect the election that gave America its first African American president? This book offers some fascinating, and perhaps controversial, findings. Donald R. Kinder and Allison Dale-Riddle assert that racism was in...
Encounters
Chinese Language and Culture, DVD Lab Pack 1
Pattern Sentences of Elementary Chinese
The Mortgage of the Past
Reshaping the Ancient Political Inheritance (1050-1300)
Francis Oakley continues his magisterial three-part history of the emergence of Western political thought during the Middle Ages with this second volume in the series. Here, Oakley explores kingship from the tenth century to...
The Value of Species
We humans value a great variety of plant and animal species for their usefulness to us. But what is the value—if any—of a species that offers no practical use? In the face of accelerating extinctions...
Religion, Politics, and the Moral Life
Michael Oakeshott’s interest in religion and theology was especially prominent in his essays of the 1920s and 1930s. This book consists of four important unpublished pieces, together with six essays by Oakeshott that...
Bellissima
Feminine Beauty and the Idea of Italy
Feminine beauty has been more associated with national cultural identity in Italy than in any other country. From the time of Dante and Petrarch, ideals of beauty have informed artists’ work. This intriguing and gloriously...
A Schoenberg Reader
Arnold Schoenberg’s close involvement with many of the principal developments of twentieth-century music, most importantly the break with tonality and the creation of twelve-tone composition, generated controversy from the...
Regulating Covert Action
Covert activity has always been a significant element of international politics. When it has served their interests, governments have secretly disseminated propaganda in other countries, manipulated foreign...
Spain Betrayed
The Spanish Civil War has long been the stuff of legend. Thousands of brave young men from all over the Western world, most of them organized by their local Communist parties, rushed to Spain to support the democratic...