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African Rain Forest Ecology and Conservation
An Interdisciplinary Perspective
Extending from west Africa to Madagascar, from the vast lowland Congo Basin to the archipelago of forest islands on its eastern rim, the African rain forest is surpassed in size only by the Amazon. This book sheds light on...
British Theatre Since the War
British theatre of the past fifty years has been brilliant, varied, and controversial, encompassing invigorating indigenous drama, politically didactic writing, the formation of such institutions as the National Theatre, the...
Whose Freud?
The Place of Psychoanalysis in Contemporary Culture
One hundred years after the publication of The Interpretation of Dreams, Freud remains the most frequently cited author of our culture—and one of the most controversial. To some he is the presiding genius of...
Mass Atrocity, Ordinary Evil, and Hannah Arendt
Criminal Consciousness in Argentina`s Dirty War
Is it possible that the soldiers of mass atrocities—Adolph Eichmann in Nazi Germany and Alfredo Astiz in Argentina’s Dirty War, for example—act under conditions that prevent them from recognizing their crimes? In the...
Friends Hold All Things in Common
Tradition, Intellectual Property, and the Adages of Erasmus
Erasmus’ Adages—a vast collection of the proverbial wisdom of Greek and Roman antiquity—was published in 1508 and became one of the most influential works of the Renaissance. It also marked a turning point in the...
The Hausa Language
An Encyclopedic Reference Grammar
This book is a comprehensive grammar of Hausa, one of the largest and most important languages of Africa. Hausa is spoken by some 35 million people as a first language and approximately 15 million more as a second...
My Life with Benjamin Franklin
This delightful book is a collection of incidental pieces that reveal little-known aspects of the life and personality of Benjamin Franklin. Written by the doyenne of Franklin scholars, it conveys Franklin’s humor,...
True Security
Rethinking American Social Insurance
Social insurance in the United States—including the Social Security Act of 1935 and the Medicare, Medicaid, and disability insurance programs that were added later—may be the greatest triumph of American domestic policy....
What Is Philosophy?
In this stimulating book, six leading philosophers—Karl-Otto Apel, Robert Brandom, Karsten Harries, Martha Nussbaum, Barry Stroud, and Allen Wood—consider the nature of philosophy. Although each of them has a unique...
The Comedy and Tragedy of Machiavelli
Essays on the Literary Works
The Italian statesman and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli, well known as the author of The Prince, wrote not only grave, cold-blooded political tracts but also comedies, poems, fables, and letters that are...