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In the late English Renaissance, writers as varied as Shakespeare, Hooker, Bacon, and Hobbes problematically engaged the traditional idea of order and helped define a new, secular one. In this...

Watergate is a story of high drama and low skulduggery, of lies and bribes, of greed and lust for power. With access to the central characters, the public papers, and the trials transcripts, Ambrose...

In nearly all his literary works, Vladimir Nabokov inscribed networks of trees to create meaningful patterns of significance around one or more of his passionate interests – in consciousness, memory,...

This is the first systematic exploration of the nature and extent of sympathy for Nazi Germany at American universities during the 1930s. Universities were highly influential in shaping public...

Andrea Carandini's archaeological discoveries and controversial theories about ancient Rome have made international headlines over the past few decades. In this book, he presents his most important...

The Description for this book, Human Understanding, Volume I: The Collective Use and Evolution of Concepts, will be forthcoming.

When published in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them according to their supposed genetic gifts &...

"[An] ideal bedside-table book....Both the contributors and their contributions are shrewdly arranged"--The New Yorker. "Features a wide range of prose and poetry from the world's literatures dealing...

Like his compositions, Milton Babbitt's writings about music have exerted an extraordinary influence on postwar music and thinking about music. In essays and public addresses spanning fifty years,...

The definitive reference guide to all of Africa's venomous and dangerous snakesAfrica is home to several hundred snake species, including some of the world’s most dangerous. The Dangerous Snakes of...