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Justice and Empathy
Toward a Constitutional Ideal
An impassioned argument for the role of courts as a moral and social agent for change and protecting the vulnerable The Supreme Court long considered its highest mission to be the protection of individual...
Jenseits der Stille
A German Reader
Caroline Link’s Jenseits der Stille is the story of Lara, a girl with two deaf parents who is given a clarinet by her favorite aunt. As she hones her natural talent and becomes a skillful musician, Lara feels...
History's Locomotives
Revolutions and the Making of the Modern World
This masterful comparative history traces the West’s revolutionary tradition and its culmination in the Communist revolutions of the twentieth century. Unique in breadth and scope, History’s Locomotives offers a new...
Ambition and Love in Modern American Art
Freud wrote that the artist “desires to win honor, power, wealth, fame, and the love of women.” In this engrossing book, Jonathan Weinberg investigates how an artist’s ambition interacts with his or her art, how wealth and...
Roman Fever
Influence, Infection, and the Image of Rome, 1700-1870
During the 18th and 19th centuries, artists and travellers were lured to Rome, the home of civilized values and artistic beauty. But the history of visiting Rome had a pathological side—not only crisis and disorientation...
Theodore Roosevelt
Preacher of Righteousness
An exploration of Roosevelt’s political thought and the impact of his legacy on modern America"Hawley has pieced together an interesting interpretation of Theodore Roosevelt"—Choice...
Español en Vivo (text)
Conversations with Native Speakers
Español en Vivo emphasizes the richness of hispanic culture and the variations of authentic spoken Spanish. Through filmed interviews with more than twenty native Spanish speakers, students are introduced to a variety of...
The Yale Editions of Horace Walpole's Correspondence, Volume 35
With John Chute, Richard Bentley, the Earl of Stafford, Sir William Hamilton, the Earl and Countess Harcourt, George Hardinge
The Superstitious Mind
French Peasants and the Supernatural in the Nineteenth Century
This intriguing book examines popular religion, traditional medicine, witchcraft, apparitions, demonology, and magic in nineteenth-century rural France. Devlin demonstrates that many of the impulses and mental processes now...
The Journals of James Boswell: 1762-1795
Writer, rake, wit, traveler, and man-about-town, James Boswell kept a diary for thirty-three years, beginning just before his first trip to London and extending over his eventful life till shortly before his death in 1795....