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The Jewish Political Tradition
Volume I: Authority
This book launches a landmark four-volume collaborative work exploring the political thought of the Jewish people from biblical times to the present. Each volume includes a selection of texts—from the Bible and Talmud,...
Art and Architecture in Italy, 1600–1750
Volume 3: Late Baroque and Rococo, 1675–1750
This classic survey of Italian Baroque art and architecture focuses on the arts in every center between Venice and Sicily in the early, high, and late Baroque periods. The heart of the study, however, lies in the architecture...
Privatopia
Homeowner Associations and the Rise of Residential Private Government
Condominiums, co-ops, planned unit developments of single-family homes—these and other forms of common interest housing developments (CIDs) have become a familiar sight in America. Currently there are approximately 130,000 of...
King's Dream
The Legacy of Martin Luther King’s "I Have a Dream" Speech
A new evaluation of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s, renowned speech, now hailed as the most powerful American address of the twentieth century Includes the entire text of "I Have A Dream" “I have a dream”—no...
The Kingdom of Infinite Space
A Portrait of Your Head
A joyful tour of the human head and of what we make of the astonishing processes that take place within it In this pathbreaking book, one of Britain’s most eloquent and original thinkers writes...
Andrew Marvell
The Chameleon
The seventeenth-century poet Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) is one of the most intriguing figures in English literature. A noted civil servant under Cromwell’s Protectorate, he has been variously identified as a patriot, spy,...
The Woman Reader
How have women read differently from men through the ages? In all manner of ways, this book asserts. This lively story has never been told before: the complete history of women's reading and the...
The Making of the First World War
An original and spellbinding reinterpretation of the most significant events of the Great War Nearly a century has passed since the assassination of Austria-Hungary's Archduke Ferdinand, yet the...
The Black Mirror
Looking at Life through Death
A physician-philosopher celebrates the mystery and delight of everyday life from an imagined posthumous perspective In this beautifully written personal meditation on life and living, Raymond Tallis...
Escaping the Dark, Gray City
Fear and Hope in Progressive-Era Conservation
A compelling and long-overdue exploration of the Progressive-era conservation movement, and its lasting effects on American culture, politics, and contemporary environmentalism The turn of the twentieth...