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Dressing Dangerously
Dysfunctional Fashion in Film
A thought-provoking examination of the challenging and sometimes sinister roles that fashion has played in the history of cinema When Marlene Dietrich makes her entrance in Alfred Hitchcock’s Stage...
Islam and Revolution in the Middle East
Why did an Islamic revolution occur only in Iran? Why have most Muslim fundamentalists elsewhere been incapable of mobilizing mass support? In this compellingly argued book, Henry Munson, Jr., addresses these...
Spirit in Ashes
Hegel, Heidegger, and Man-Made Mass Death
Contemporary phenomena of mass death—such as Hiroshima and Auschwitz—have brought with them the threat of annihilation of human life. In this provocative and disturbing book, Edith Wyschogrod shows that the various...
Cold War Ecology
Forests, Farms, and People in the East German Landscape, 1945-1989
A new way of measuring the health of a political system: by examining the health of its landscapes and ecosystems East Germany, its economy, and its society were in decline long before the country’s...
Science as Autobiography
The Troubled Life of Niels Jern
This biography probes the unusual mind, the dramatic life, and the outstanding scientific work of Danish-born immunologist Niels Jerne (1911–1994). Jerne’s Nobel Prize-winning achievements in the field of immunology...
The Dialogues of Plato, Volume 3
Ion, Hippias Minor, Laches, Protagoras
R.E. Allen's superb new translations of four Socratic dialogues—Ion, Hippias Minor, Laches, and Protagoras—bring these classic texts to life for modern readers. Allen introduces and comments on the...
Untimely Thoughts
Essays on Revolution, Culture, and the Bolsheviks, 1917-1918
One of the most renowned Soviet writers of the twentieth century, Maxim Gorky was an early supporter of the Bolsheviks who became disillusioned with the turn of events after the 1917 revolution. This brilliant and...
Green Squall
Announcing the 2005 recipient of the prestigious Yale Younger Poets prize Jay Hopler's Green Squall is the winner of the 2005 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. As Louise Glück observes in her...
Haunted by Parents
A distinguished psychoanalyst offers a humanistic reflection on the parent-child bond and how it affects our ability—or inability—to change In this book the eminent psychoanalyst Leonard Shengold looks at...
Saving Nature's Legacy
Origins of the Idea of Biological Diversity
Biological diversity is considered one of today’s most urgent environmental concerns, yet the term was first coined only twenty-five years ago. Why did the concept of biological diversity so quickly capture public...