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Abraham's Children
Liberty and Tolerance in an Age of Religious Conflict
Fifteen prominent thinkers turn to the sacred writings of their different theological traditions to defend religious tolerance Scarcely any country in today's world can claim to be free of intolerance....
Black Ranching Frontiers
African Cattle Herders of the Atlantic World, 1500-1900
In this groundbreaking book Andrew Sluyter demonstrates for the first time that Africans played significant creative roles in establishing open-range cattle ranching in the Americas. In so doing, he provides a new way of...
Safe Among the Germans
Liberated Jews After World War II
This book tells the little-known story of why a quarter-million Jews, survivors of death camps and forced labor, sought refuge in Germany after World War II. Those who had ventured to return to Poland after liberation...
The Jewish King Lear
A Comedy in America
The Jewish King Lear, written by the Russian-Jewish writer Jacob Gordin, was first performed on the New York stage in 1892, during the height of a massive emigration of Jews from eastern Europe to America. This...
Hans-Georg Gadamer
A Biography
The first English-language biography of one of the leading intellectuals of the twentieth century Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900–2002) was one of the greatest philosophers of our era. He was also at the...
First in Line
Tracing Our Ape Ancestry
Despite Darwin’s bold contention in 1871 that the likely ancestor for Homo sapiens was an African ape, the scientific community hesitated for decades before accepting small-brained but bipedal walking “apes” from...
Unmodern Observations (Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen)
This translation of Nietzsche’s early Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen consists of four long essays and notes for a fifth. Nietzsche planned these works as part of an extremely ambitious critique of German culture....
Forms of Life
Character and Moral Imagination in the Novel
The novel contains imagined lives that achieve a kind of meaning and intensity our own lives do not. Out of the novelist’s moral imagination—the breadth and depth of his awareness of human motivations, tensions, and...
Readings in Modern Chinese Literature
Plays and Poems
Third Edition
Readings in Modern Chinese Literature is designed as a textbook for the student who, after several semesters of study, has acquired sufficient knowledge of Chinese and is now ready to approach reading original plays, poems...
Philip V of Spain
Philip V, who reluctantly assumed the Spanish throne in 1700, was the first of the Bourbon dynasty which continues to reign today. Philip’s forty-six-year reign, briefly curtailed in 1724 when he abdicated in favor of his...