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Aggression in Personality Disorders and Perversions
In this important new book, Dr. Otto F. Kernberg, one of the world's foremost psychoanalysts, explores the role of aggression in severe personality disorders and in normal and perverse sexuality, integrating new developments...
Fallen Women, Problem Girls
Unmarried Mothers and the Professionalization of Social Work, 1890-1945
During the first half of the twentieth century, out-of-wedlock pregnancy came to be seen as one of the most urgent and compelling problems of the day. The effort to define its meaning fueled a struggle among three groups of...
Nietzsche and Modern Times
A Study of Bacon, Descartes, and Nietzsche
This major work by Laurence Lampert provides a new interpretation of modern philosophy by developing Nietzsche's view that genuine philosophers set out to determine the direction of culture through their ideas and that they...
The Fourth Discontinuity
The Co-Evolution of Humans and Machines
From Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to current films like The Terminator about menacing androids, writers have expressed concern about computers and biogenetic creations taking over or altering human life. In this...
The Origins of Christian Morality
The First Two Centuries
By the time Christianity became a political and cultural force in the Roman Empire, it had come to embody a new moral vision. This wise and eloquent book describes the formative years—from the crucifixion of Jesus to the end...
American Iconology
New Approaches to Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature
This overview of the "sister arts" of the nineteenth century by younger scholars in art history, literature, and American studies presents a startling array of perspectives on the fundamental role played by images in culture...
The Management of Conflict
Interpretations and Interests in Comparative Perspective
Complex social and political conflicts invariably have multiple roots rather than a single clear cause, and they are therefore difficult to manage effectively. Conflicts are about the interpretations of opponents' motives as...
The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation
New Edition
The Vinland Map, dated to about A.D. 1440—at least fifty years before Columbus landed in the Americas—is a unique map of the world that shows an outline of the northeast American coast and a legend describing its discovery in...
Harry Partch
A Biography
Visionary composer, theorist, and creator of musical instruments, Harry Partch (1901–1974) was a leading figure in the development of an indigenously American contemporary music. A pioneer in his explorations of new...
Cloak and Gown
Scholars in the Secret War, 1939-1961, Second Edition
The CIA and its World War II predecessor, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), were for many years largely populated by members of Ivy League colleges, particularly Yale. In this highly acclaimed book, Robin Winks explores...