347 results for '"Durkheim, Emile'

An updated edition of this classic survey illustrated in color throughout, this book is the definitive overview of Paul Cézanne’s life and work.For Picasso he was “like our father”; for Matisse, “a...

In this pithy two-part essay, Marshall Sahlins reinvigorates the debates on what constitutes kinship, building on some of the best scholarship in the field to produce an original outlook on the...

Beyond the Market launches a sociological investigation into economic efficiency. Prevailing economic theory, which explains efficiency using formalized rational choice models, often simplifies human...

Sex, smoking, and social stratification are three very different social phenomena. And yet, argues sociologist Randall Collins, they and much else in our social lives are driven by a common force:...

An anthology that examines the historical and contemporary relationship between religion and violenceThis groundbreaking anthology provides the most comprehensive overview for understanding the...

Widely regarded as the first modern autobiography, The Confessions is an astonishing work of acute psychological insight. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) argued passionately against the inequality he...

In this penetrating and daring biography of Paul Gauguin (1848–1903), Nancy Mowll Mathews traces the themes of sex and violence through the artist's life, from the near-murderous quarrels of his...

Philosophic Pride is the first full-scale look at the essential place of Stoicism in the foundations of modern political thought. Spanning the period from Justus Lipsius's Politics in 1589 to...

Continuum's Guides for the Perplexed are clear, concise and accessible introductions to thinkers, writers and subjects that students and readers can find especially challenging. Concentrating...

The star of a theater troupe of mice disappears just before opening night in this charming middle-grade novel from New York Times bestselling mother-daughter duo Julie Andrews and Emma Walton...

A reporter embarks on an investigation of a string of unconnected suicides—which then leads into an exploration of the phenomenon of suicide itself—in this elegant existential novel, the third and...

A New York Times Bestseller"Sciolino’s sharply observed account serves as a testament to…Paris―the city of light, of literature, of life itself." ―The New YorkerElaine Sciolino, the former Paris...

Situé dans Rome, ville, par l'Antiquité, de l'histoire et non de la fiction, par le catholicisme, de la religion et non du roman, ce genre a été ouvert par Madame de Staël avec Corinne ou l'Italie...

Finalist for the Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award of the Jewish Book CouncilIs relativity Jewish? The Nazis denigrated Albert Einstein’s revolutionary theory by calling it “Jewish science,” a...

Based on the author's Efroymson lectures at Hebrew Union College. Jews were emancipated at a time when high culture was becoming an integral part of German citizenship. German Jews felt a powerful...

From the immensely talented author of The Blood of Heaven comes a gothic portrait of a city ravaged by war and struck by vice and disease--Civil War New Orleans. With his virtuosic, richly historical...

One can rightly say of Peter Sloterdijk that each of his essays and lectures is also an unwritten book. That is why the texts presented here, which sketch a philosophical physiognomy of Martin...

The eight volumes in this boxset reveal the manifold creative talents of René Lalique, an exceptional artist, Art Nouveau jeweler, and later Art Deco glassmaker, as well as those of his successors...

A Palestinian-Israeli poet declares a new state whose language, "Homelandic," is a combination of Arabic and Hebrew. A Jewish-Israeli author imagines a "language plague" that infects young Hebrew...

This book offers a definitive and wide-ranging overview of developments in behavioral finance over the past ten years. In 1993, the first volume provided the standard reference to this new approach...