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A Terry Teachout Reader
Terry Teachout’s thought-provoking observations on everyone from Louis Armstrong to The Sopranos, and on everything from American opera to serials on TV Terry Teachout, one of our most acute...
David Hume
The Philosopher as Historian
In this book—a new and revised edition of his 1989 classic—Nicholas Phillipson shows how Hume freed history from religion and politics, and became one of the most important philosophers ever to write in English.
The Ingenious Gentleman and Poet Federico García Lorca Ascends to Hell
A modern Spanish masterpiece by one of the most extraordinary novelists of our time In Carlos Rojas’s imaginative novel, the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca, murdered by Francoist rebels in August...
Origins, Invention, Revision
Studying the History of Art and Architecture
An illuminating collection of essays from the preeminent scholar of architectural history and theory One of the most distinguished scholars in the fields of architectural history and theory today, James...
Return from the Natives
How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War and Lost the Cold War
Celebrated anthropologist Margaret Mead, who studied sex in Samoa and child-rearing in New Guinea in the 1920s and '30s, was determined to show that anthropology could tackle the psychology of the most complex, modern...
Montage and the Metropolis
Architecture, Modernity, and the Representation of Space
Montage has been hailed as one of the key structural principles of modernity, yet its importance to the history of modern thought about cities and their architecture has never been adequately explored. In this groundbreaking...
Post-Polio Syndrome
A Guide for Polio Survivors and Their Families
The effects of polio that occur decades after the disease has run its course—weakness, fatigue, pain, intolerance to cold, difficulty with breathing and swallowing—are often more devastating than the original disease. This...
Empire in Retreat
The Past, Present, and Future of the United States
A sweeping history of the United States through the lens of empire—and an incisive look forward as the nation retreats from the global stage A respected authority on international relations and foreign...
Democracy in Plural Societies
A Comparative Exploration
While it may be difficult to achieve and maintain stable democratic governments in countries with deep religious, ideological, linguistic, cultural, or ethnic cleavages, Lijphart argues that it is not at all impossible....
Alexis de Tocqueville
A Life
“Magisterial. . . . The authoritative life for our time."—Washington Post Book World Alexis de Tocqueville was one of the greatest political thinkers of all time. Born a French aristocrat...