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Law and the Unconscious
A Psychoanalytic Perspective
How do we bring the law into line with people’s psychological experience? How can psychoanalysis help us understand irrational actions and bad choices? Our legal system relies on the idea that people act...
Randomistas
How Radical Researchers Are Changing Our World
A fascinating account of how radical researchers have used experiments to overturn conventional wisdom and shaped life as we know it Experiments have consistently been used in the hard sciences, but in...
Nine-Tenths of the Law
Enduring Dispossession in Indonesia
An exploration of the relationship between possession and legalization across Indonesia, and how people navigate dispossession ?The old aphorism “possession is nine-tenths of the law” is particularly...
Sexual Harassment of Working Women
A Case of Sex Discrimination
Sexual harassment of working women has been widely practiced and systematically ignored. Men’s control over women’s jobs has often made coerced sexual relations the price of women’s material survival. Considered trivial...
Bitter Fruit
The Politics of Black-Korean Conflict in New York City
Conflict between Blacks and Koreans has increased in American cities during the past two decades. In this timely book, Claire Jean Kim investigates the most prolonged episode of such conflict—the Flatbush Boycott of 1990,...
An Inquiry into the Good
An Inquiry into the Good represented the foundation of Nishida’s philosophy—reflecting both his deep study of Zen Buddhism and his thorough analysis of Western philosophy—and established its author as the...
The Gospel According to John, XIII-XXI
This volume concludes Raymond E. Brown's commentary on the Gospel of John. Continuing his study begun in Anchor Bible Volume 29, the author translates the original Greek text into today's English. which allows all...
The Good and Evil Serpent
How a Universal Symbol Became Christianized
A pathbreaking study of the serpent’s symbolic meanings from 40,000 BCE to the present day In a perplexing passage from the Gospel of John, Jesus is likened to the most reviled creature in Christian...
Treacherous Alliance
The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States
The first book to untangle the complex and often duplicitous relations among Israel, Iran, and the United States In this era of superheated rhetoric and vitriolic exchanges between the leaders of Iran...
Presidential Government
Noted political scientist Benjamin Ginsberg has written an essential text for courses on the United States presidency. An invaluable resource, Ginsberg’s comprehensive analysis emphasizes the historical, constitutional, and...