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Cruel and Unusual
The Culture of Punishment in America
Scandals at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo signal alarming changes in America’s attitudes toward criminals, punishment, and democratic ideals The statistics are startling. Since 1973, America’s imprisonment...
Learning to Teach Through Discussion
The Art of Turning the Soul
This sequel to Sophie Haroutunian-Gordon’s acclaimed Turning the Soul: TeachingThrough Conversation in the High School presents a case study of two people learning to teach. It shows them engaging two groups of fourth...
Fruitlands
The Alcott Family and Their Search for Utopia
The fascinating story of Bronson Alcott’s utopian experiment This is the first definitive account of Fruitlands, one of history’s most unsuccessful—but most significant—utopian experiments. It was...
Creating the Administrative Constitution
The Lost One Hundred Years of American Administrative Law
This groundbreaking book is the first to look at administration and administrative law in the earliest days of the American republic. Jerry Mashaw demonstrates that from the very beginning Congress delegated vast discretion to...
The Wars of the Roses
The Wars of the Roses (1455–85) were a major turning point in English history. But the underlying causes for the successive upheavals have been hotly contested by historians ever since. In this original and stimulating new...
The Enlightened Economy
An Economic History of Britain 1700-1850
This book focuses on the importance of ideological and institutional factors in the rapid development of the British economy during the years between the Glorious Revolution and the Crystal Palace Exhibition....
Slaves of One Master
Globalization and Slavery in Arabia in the Age of Empire
In this wide-ranging history of the African diaspora and slavery in Arabia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Matthew S. Hopper examines the interconnected themes of enslavement, globalization, and empire and...
Learn to Read Latin, Second Edition (Workbook Part 1)
Learn to Read Latin helps students acquire an ability to read and appreciate the great works of Latin literature as quickly as possible. It not only presents basic Latin morphology and syntax with clear explanations...
Mary in Early Christian Faith and Devotion
For the first time a noted historian of Christianity explores the full story of the emergence and development of the Marian cult in the early Christian centuries. The means by which Mary, mother of Jesus, came to prominence...
John Knox
The definitive biography of John Knox, a leader of the Protestant Reformation in sixteenth-century Scotland“Never before has there been such a thoroughly and sympathetically critical treatment of the...