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The Moral Economy
Why Good Incentives Are No Substitute for Good Citizens
Why do policies and business practices that ignore the moral and generous side of human nature often fail? Should the idea of economic man—the amoral and self-interested Homo economicus—determine how...
Endless Novelties of Extraordinary Interest
The Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger and the Birth of Modern Oceanography
A gripping tale of exploration aboard H.M.S. Challenger, an expedition that laid the foundations for modern oceanography From late 1872 to 1876, H.M.S. Challenger explored the world’s...
The Lessons of Tragedy
Statecraft and World Order
An eloquent call to draw on the lessons of the past to address current threats to international order The ancient Greeks hard-wired a tragic sensibility into their culture. By looking disaster squarely in...
The Social Life of Books
Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home
A vivid exploration of the evolution of reading as an essential social and domestic activity during the eighteenth century Two centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books...
Sparta's First Attic War
The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 478-446 B.C.
A companion volume to The Spartan Regime and The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta that explores the collapse of the Spartan-Athenian alliance "Provocative, intriguing and cogently argued...
Muslims and Citizens
Islam, Politics, and the French Revolution
A groundbreaking study of the role of Muslims in eighteenth‑century France “This elegant, braided history of Muslims and French citizenship is urgently needed. It will be a ‘must read’ for students of...
Violent Appetites
Hunger in the Early Northeast
How hunger shaped both colonialism and Native resistance in Early America “In this bold and original study, Cevasco punctures the myth of colonial America as a land of plenty. This is a book about the past with...
The Marginal Revolutionaries
How Austrian Economists Fought the War of Ideas
A group history of the Austrian School of Economics, from the coffeehouses of imperial Vienna to the modern-day Tea Party The Austrian School of Economics—a movement that has had a vast impact on economics,...
Of Human Kindness
What Shakespeare Teaches Us About Empathy
An award-winning scholar and teacher explores how Shakespeare’s greatest characters were built on a learned sense of empathy"Thoughtful, astute, invitingly readable—and uncommonly timely. Especially now...
Education at the Crossroads
"A document of first-rate importance. . . . Sheer informed common sense. . . . This volume should be compulsory reading for all, whatever their religious beliefs or disbeliefs, who want light on the nature and place of...