Katharine Park has written a social, intellectual, and institutional history of medicine in Florence during the century after the Black Death of 1348.Originally published in 1985.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to...

Research into newly opened archives and private papers clarifies the circumstances, decisions, and official intentions that, by 1947, created the Cold War and the overriding concept and demands of national security.

Rationalist theories of political behavior have recently risen in status to that of a new--or, more accurately, rediscovered--paradigm in the systematic study of politics. Brian Barry's short, provocative book played no small part in the debate that...

Examines the history of the American labor movement and recommends reforms in the structure and organization of labor unions

Strange and scary days for an ecology movement that was conceived in fierce opposition to power. Fractured, as ever, by divisions and competing agendas, the movement must now confront the dangerous tendency of those in power to invoke nature’s laws as a...

The Description for this book, David Hume: Common-Sense Moralist, Sceptical Metaphysician, will be forthcoming.

Jean Bethke Elshtain has been hailed as one of this country's most influential public intellectuals. Michael Walzer called her award-winning Democracy on Trial "the work of a truly independent, deeply serious, politically engaged, and wonderfully...

The development of photomontage techniques during the early 1920s and 1930s in the US, Germany and Soviet Union had a profound influence on contemporary art and mass media. Montage and Modern Life uncovers the roots of this complex relationship. Through...

"In an age of too much wishful, faith-based conventional wisdom on the right and left, and too much intellectual endeavor squeezed into prefab ideological containers, Freakonomics is politically incorrect in the best, most essential way. Levitt and...

Toussaint L'Ouverture was the leader of the Haitian Revolution in the late eighteenth century, in which slaves rebelled against their masters and established the first black republic. In this collection of his writings and speeches, former Haitian...

From comforting oven bakes and hearty stews, to vibrant salads and mouth-watering pasta dishes (and, of course, a whole chapter dedicated to potatoes!), Poppy has you covered with 90 fuss-free, flavour-packed one-pan recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner...

"A supernova of creativity whose light is still arriving at our shores." - Giles Harvey, The New Yorker A North American journalist in Paris is woken at 4 a.m. by a mysterious caller with urgent information. For V. S. Naipaul, the prevalence of sodomy in...

Introduced by James Rebanks, The Lake Poets is a beautiful anthology which showcases some of the best writing from ‘The Lake Poets’ and celebrates the isolated beauty of the English Lakes. ‘The Lake Poets’ were a group of English Romantic writers who...

REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A shocking story, made all the more stunning by the fact that it has its roots in true history.”—Jodi Picoult, author of By Any Other Name “A new generation of survival story . . . an extraordinary book...