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A richly illustrated nature tour of Galápagos—now expanded, thoroughly updated, and with more than 650 color photographsGalápagos is a comprehensive, up-to-date, and profusely illustrated natural...

Celebrate more than ninety-five years of Simon & Schuster crossword puzzle excellence with this engaging collection of 300 new, never-before-published crosswords, designed for fans of all skill...

Building on recent transformative theories of influence, John Foster explores the many ways Nietzsche's intellectual and artistic example helped shape an interconnected series of major literary...

We Have Many Histories Of Social Theory-what Different Authors Attempted To Do As They Responded To Previous Theories. But We Know Precious Little About How They Did This In Structural Terms-what...

Winner of the 2023 Minnesota Book Award for PoetryLonglisted for the 2023 National Book Award for PoetryA stunning debut from an award-winning DeafBlind poet, “How to Communicate is a masterpiece”...

How should we remember George Washington's entanglement in slavery? Americans have argued over that question for nearly 250 years. More than any other Founding Father, Washington's ties to slavery...

Sociolinguistics deals with the social life of language, language in its sociocultural context. It is a branch of linguistics that looks less at the shape or sound of words--morphology or...

"[A] fascinating account of the twisted threads of murder, ethnic violence and mob justice in 19th century Southern California." —Jill Leovy, author of Ghettoside: A History of Murder in America, in...

More than 80% of Australia's lavishly abundant species of native orchids are found nowhere else in the world. With their delicate beauty, often brilliant colors, bizarre shapes, and wondrous...

Wes is stuck. He should be spending his twenties finishing the schooling that will help him land a career in movies, just like he's always dreamed about. Instead he divides his time between clerking...

How will future climates be different from today's world--and what consequences will changes in climate have for societies and their development strategies? This book is a primer on the essential...

Despite an abundance of violence occurring in political contexts, no liberal political theorist since Thomas Hobbes has talked directly and coherently about death. John E. Seery does. He contends...

On British Islam examines the history and everyday workings of Islamic institutions in Britain, with a focus on shariʿa councils. These councils concern themselves with religious matters, especially...

The authoritative translations of The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso—together in one volume.Belonging in the immortal company of the great works of literature, Dante Alighieri’s poetic...

As Dwight D. Eisenhower's Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles came to personify the shortcomings of American foreign policy. This collection of essays, representing the first archivally based...

A new vision for the American world orderIn the second half of the twentieth century, the United States engaged in the most ambitious and far-reaching liberal order building the world had yet seen...

Few questions are as pertinent and nettling for Christians as those posed by religious pluralism. Are Christians to see themselves as having an exclusive take on religious truth? Is knowledge of...

The writings of John Stuart Mill have become the cornerstone of political liberalism. Collected for the first time in this volume are Mill’s three seminal and most widely read works: On Liberty, The...

Our self-conception derives mostly from our own experience. We believe ourselves to be conscious, rational, social, ethical, language-using, political agents who possess free will. Yet we know we...

The remarkable transformation of Orwell from journeyman writer to towering iconIs George Orwell the most influential writer who ever lived? Yes, according to John Rodden’s provocative book about the...