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"Maurice Bloch is so ferociously smart that one can always enjoy tangling with his ideas, even when--perhaps especially when--one doesn't agree with him. This is an important and provocative book."...

A major account of the failings of the European Union—and why it has to goThe European Union is a besieged institution. It is struggling in vain to overcome the eurozone crisis and faces an influx of...

Already climbing the bestseller lists-and garnering rave reviews—this "little masterpiece" sheds brilliant light on the equation that changed the world.Bodanis begins by devoting chapters to each of...

Perché riconosciamo un gatto come tale non è problema filosofico di poco conto, almeno da Platone ai giorni nostri. Perché concordiamo nell'assegnargli il nome "gatto" sarebbe già di per sé problema...

“Las dificultades que continúan obstaculizando mi investigación sobre el aquelarre, nacen del descubrimiento que creo irrefutable, de un núcleo mítico que por siglos –tal vez milenios– ha mantenido...

W. E. B. Du Bois was the pre-eminent African American intellectual of the twentieth century. As a pioneering historian, sociologist and civil rights activist, and as a novelist and autobiographer, he...

How the United States and China can avoid future conflict and establish stable cooperative relationsAfter forty years of largely cooperative Sino-U.S. relations, policymakers, politicians, and...

"Each year, as many as 250 million Americans face civil legal problems like eviction, debt collection, and substandard housing. These problems are disproportionately shouldered by racially and...

An "astonishing encyclopedic compilation"* "Probably the most important single work on longitudinal psychiatric research ever published and ... perhaps the most important book on psychiatric...

Here a physicist and a professor of literature guide general readers through the ideas that revolutionized our conception of the physical universe.

How individuals and the government are changing life in China's polluted citiesOver the past thirty years, even as China's economy has grown by leaps and bounds, the environmental quality of its...