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Mindful Tech
How to Bring Balance to Our Digital Lives
Through a series of lucid and engaging exercises, readers are invited to discover healthier and more effective digital practices From email to smart phones, and from social media to Google searches, digital...
Allan Kaprow and Claes Oldenburg
Art, Happenings, and Cultural Politics
This new interpretation of the structure and meaning of the Happenings produced by Allan Kaprow (1927–2006) and Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929) in the late 1950s and 1960s sheds light on the context, theoretical framework, and...
Type Tells Tales
A fresh look at typographic design as an art and as a storytelling device that expresses narratives, emotions, and voice Stretching the boundaries of typographic expression, Type Tells Tales is a...
The Jewish Political Tradition
Volume III: Community
The third of four volumes in a distinguished series, this volume includes chapters on the nature of the communal bond, marriage and family, welfare, taxation, government, and criminal justice The four...
Reform Catholicism and the International Suppression of the Jesuits in Enlightenment Europe
An investigation into the role of Reform Catholicism in the international suppression of the Jesuits in 1773? The Jesuits devoted themselves to preaching the word of God, administering the sacraments, and...
The Dawn of Eurasia
On the Trail of the New World Order
A bold, eye-opening account of the coming integration of Europe and Asia Weaving together history, diplomacy, and vivid personal narratives from his overland journey across Eurasia from Baku to Samarkand,...
Origins of Order
Project and System in the American Legal Imagination
An examination of how two fundamental concepts of order influence our ideas about sovereignty, citizenship, law, and history Western accounts of natural and political order have deployed two basic ideas:...
Overcoming Necessity
Emergency, Constraint, and the Meanings of American Constitutionalism
An argument for why emergencies are no excuse for extralegal action by presidents Using emergency as a cause for action ultimately leads to an almost unnoticed evolution in the political understanding of...
The Strike That Changed New York
Blacks, Whites, and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Crisis
On May 9, 1968, junior high school teacher Fred Nauman received a letter that would change the history of New York City. It informed him that he had been fired from his job. Eighteen other educators in the Ocean Hill...
Toward Perpetual Peace and Other Writings on Politics, Peace, and History
Immanuel Kant’s views on politics, peace, and history have lost none of their relevance since their publication more than two centuries ago. This volume contains a comprehensive collection of Kant’s writings on international...