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The nineteenth century in the United States witnessed the end of slavery and the expansion of another form of confinement: the asylum. How did enslaved and free Black people encounter psychiatric...

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The incomparable Borges delivered these seven lectures in Buenos Aires in 1977; attendees were treated to Borges' erudition on the following topics: Dante's The Divine Comedy, Nightmares, Thousand...

Text: English (translation)Original Language: French

The story of personal debt in modern AmericaBefore the twentieth century, personal debt resided on the fringes of the American economy, the province of small-time criminals and struggling merchants...

A paperback edition of the classic guide for new therapists seeing clients for the first time.Veteran therapist and mental health writer Louis Cozolino’s classic text contains all of the things he...

“An engrossing and impossibly wide-ranging project . . . In The Free World, every seat is a good one.” —Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post“The Free World sparkles. Fully original, beautifully written...

"An engrossing and impossibly wide-ranging project . . . In The Free World, every seat is a good one." ―Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post"The Free World sparkles. Fully original, beautifully written...

Louis XIV is one of history’s most notorious rulers. Ruling for three quarters of a century, the King of France had the longest reign in European history, and the effects of his rule would create the...

Is it permissible to use a human embryo in stem cell research, or in general as a means for benefit of others? Acknowledging each embryo as an object of moral concern, Louis M. Guenin argues that it...

Wayside School is back in session in this brand-new, fourth installment in the perennially beloved and bestselling series by Newbery Medal-winning author Louis Sachar. Your favorite students and...

Who makes constitutional law? Is constitutional doctrine the monopoly of the courts? In accessible and persuasive prose Louis Fisher explains that constitutional law is not solely or even primarily...

The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas, in the broadest sense – economic and political, artistic and personal.In The Free World, the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize–winning...

Product Description Exhumé des archives de l’épuration, voici le « rapport » Sadosky, ou comment un policier des RG, collaborateur exemplaire, découvre le quotidien de la Gestapo à Berlin en...

A rediscovered classic, and the only known novel by Black abolitionist and political exile Louis Timagène Houat, The Maroons is a fervid account of slavery and escape on nineteenth-century Réunion...

Who makes constitutional law? Is constitutional doctrine the monopoly of the courts? In accessible and persuasive prose Louis Fisher explains that constitutional law is not solely or even primarily...

From Vaux-le-Vicomte to Versailles, the buildings of Louis Le Vau shaped the image of French court society. None, however, has had as dramatic an effect as Mazarin's Collège (1661-70), the Parisian...