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More than Kin and Less than Kind: The Evolution of Family Conflict by Douglas W. Mock
RRP: $34.77Booksplease Price: $29.84Sibling rivalry and intergenerational conflict are not limited to human beings. Among seals and piglets, storks and burying beetles, in bird nests and beehives, from apples to humans, family... -
The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business by Alfred D. Chandler
RRP: $39.93Booksplease Price: $34.24The role of large-scale business enterprise-big business and its managers-during the formative years of modern capitalism (from the 1850s until the 1920s) is delineated in this pathmarking book... -
The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians by Don Michael Randel
Booksplease Price: $31.58This new compact guide to the history and performance of music is both authoritative and a pleasure to use. With entries drawn and condensed from the widely acclaimed The New Harvard Dictionary of... -
Journey to the East: The Jesuit Mission to China, 1579-1724 by Liam Matthew Brockey
Booksplease Price: $39.54It was one of the great encounters of world history: highly educated European priests confronting Chinese culture for the first time in the modern era. This "journey to the East" is explored by Liam... -
Beyond Terror and Martyrdom: The Future of the Middle East by Gilles Kepel
RRP: $34.77Booksplease Price: $29.84Since 2001, two dominant worldviews have clashed in the global arena: a neoconservative nightmare of an insidious Islamic terrorist threat to civilized life, and a jihadist myth of martyrdom through... -
Dictionary of American Regional English: v. 4 by Frederic G. Cassidy
RRP: $140.55Booksplease Price: $115.38Every page in this new volume of the Dictionary of American Regional English makes it wonderfully clear that regional expressions still flourish throughout the United States.Depending on where you... -
What Is Mental Illness? by Richard J. McNally
RRP: $27.03Booksplease Price: $23.09According to a major health survey, nearly half of all Americans have been mentally ill at some point in their lives-more than a quarter in the last year. Can this be true? What exactly does it mean,... -
The Warren Court and American Politics by Lucas A. Powe
RRP: $38.64Booksplease Price: $33.23The Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren was the most revolutionary and controversial Supreme Court in American history. But in what sense? Challenging the reigning consensus that the Warren... -
![The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume II: From the Early Christian Era to the "Age of Discovery", Part 2: Africans in the Christian Ordinance of the World: New Edition by David Bindman](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/732144/731857/9780674052581__26230.1687553152.jpg?c=1 "The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume II: From the Early Christian Era to the "Age of Discovery", Part 2: Africans in the Christian Ordinance of the World: New Edition by David Bindman")
The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume II: From the Early Christian Era to the "Age of Discovery", Part 2: Africans in the Christian Ordinance of the World: New Edition by David Bindman
RRP: $108.30Booksplease Price: $90.24In the 1960s, art patron Dominique de Menil founded an image archive showing the ways that people of African descent have been represented in Western art. Highlights from her collection appeared in... -
Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume III: Essays: Second Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson
RRP: $140.55Booksplease Price: $112.67Ralph Waldo Emerson's second collection of essays appeared in 1844, when he was forty-one. It includes eight essays-"The Poet," "Experience," "Character," "Manners," "Gifts," "Nature," "Politics,"... -
Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form by Helen Vendler
RRP: $39.93Booksplease Price: $34.24The fundamental difference between rhetoric and poetry, according to Yeats, is that rhetoric is the expression of one's quarrels with others while poetry is the expression (and sometimes the... -
The Bear: History of a Fallen King by Michel Pastoureau
RRP: $32.19Booksplease Price: $28.20The oldest discovered statue, fashioned some fifteen to twenty thousand years ago, is of a bear. The lion was not always king. From antiquity to the Middle Ages, the bear's centrality in cults and... -
China between Empires: The Northern and Southern Dynasties by Mark Edward Lewis
RRP: $28.32Booksplease Price: $20.78After the collapse of the Han dynasty in the third century CE, China divided along a north-south line. Mark Lewis traces the changes that both underlay and resulted from this split in a period that... -
Ancient Religions by Sarah Iles Johnston
Booksplease Price: $37.75Religious beliefs and practices, which permeated all aspects of life in antiquity, traveled well-worn routes throughout the Mediterranean: itinerant charismatic practitioners journeying from place to... -
One-Way Street by Walter Benjamin
RRP: $20.58Booksplease Price: $15.42One-Way Street is a thoroughfare unlike anything else in literature-by turns exhilarating and bewildering, requiring mental agility and a special kind of urban literacy. Presented here in a new... -
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 9780674057920
RRP: $59.28Booksplease Price: $45.69The Picture of Dorian Gray altered the way Victorians understood the world they inhabited. It heralded the end of a repressive Victorianism, and after its publication, literature had-in the words of... -
Napalm: An American Biography by Robert M. Neer 9780674088085
RRP: $34.77Booksplease Price: $33.00Napalm, incendiary gel that sticks to skin and burns to the bone, came into the world on Valentine's Day 1942 at a secret Harvard war research laboratory. On March 9, 1945, it created an inferno that... -
God's Universe Owen Gingerich 9780674023703
RRP: $73.47Booksplease Price: $59.99We live in a universe with a very long history, a vast cosmos where things are being worked out over unimaginably long ages. Stars and galaxies have formed, and elements come forth from great stellar... -
Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries by Helen Vendler 9780674066380
RRP: $28.32Booksplease Price: $20.78Seamus Heaney, Denis Donoghue, William Pritchard, Marilyn Butler, Harold Bloom, and many others have praised Helen Vendler as one of the most attentive readers of poetry. Here, Vendler turns her... -
Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, 3: 1935-1938 by Walter Benjamin 9780674019812
RRP: $37.35Booksplease Price: $32.21Radical critic of a European civilization plunging into darkness, yet commemorator of the humane traditions of the old bourgeoisie--such was Walter Benjamin in the later 1930s. This volume, the third... -
No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems by Xiaobo Liu 9780674072329
RRP: $27.03Booksplease Price: $23.48When the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on December 10, 2010, its recipient, Liu Xiaobo, was in Jinzhou Prison, serving an eleven-year sentence for what Beijing called "incitement to subvert state... -
Ordinary Vices by Judith N. Shklar 9780674641761
RRP: $39.93Booksplease Price: $32.64The seven deadly sins of Christianity represent the abysses of character, whereas Judith Shklar's "ordinary vices"-cruelty, hypocrisy, snobbery, betrayal, and misanthropy-are merely treacherous... -
The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes 9780674034020
RRP: $34.77Booksplease Price: $29.84Much more than an historical examination of liability, criminal law, torts, bail, possession and ownership, and contracts, The Common Law articulates the ideas and judicial theory of one of the... -
The Making of Modern Japan by Marius B. Jansen 9780674009912
Booksplease Price: $43.92Magisterial in vision, sweeping in scope, this monumental work presents a seamless account of Japanese society during the modern era, from 1600 to the present. A distillation of more than fifty... -
Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa 9780674022416
RRP: $33.48Booksplease Price: $27.67With startling revelations, Tsuyoshi Hasegawa rewrites the standard history of the end of World War II in the Pacific. By fully integrating the three key actors in the story-the United States, the... -
Philosophy the Day after Tomorrow by Stanley Cavell 9780674022324
RRP: $37.35Booksplease Price: $31.82Nietzsche characterized the philosopher as the man of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow--a description befitting Stanley Cavell, with his longtime interest in freedom in the face of an uncertain... -
Palaces of Time: Jewish Calendar and Culture in Early Modern Europe by Elisheva Carlebach 9780674052543
RRP: $38.64Booksplease Price: $33.23From one of the leading historians of the Jewish past comes a stunning look into a previously unexamined dimension of Jewish life and culture: the calendar. In the late sixteenth century, Pope... -
Ghettostadt: Lodz and the Making of a Nazi City by Gordon J. Horwitz 9780674045545
RRP: $30.90Booksplease Price: $27.21Under the Third Reich, Nazi Germany undertook an unprecedented effort to refashion the city of Lodz. Home to prewar Poland's second most populous Jewish community, this was to become a German city of... -
Fighters in the Shadows: A New History of the French Resistance by Robert Gildea 9780674286108
RRP: $36.06Booksplease Price: $34.37The French Resistance has an iconic status in the struggle to liberate Nazi-occupied Europe, but its story is entangled in myths. Gaining a true understanding of the Resistance means recognizing how... -
Global Interdependence: The World after 1945 by Akira Iriye 9780674045729
RRP: $54.12Booksplease Price: $45.94Global Interdependence provides a new account of world history from the end of World War II to the present, an era when transnational communities began to challenge the long domination of the... -
The Prime of Life by Steven Mintz 9780674047679
RRP: $46.38Booksplease Price: $39.27Adulthood today is undergoing profound transformations. Men and women wait until their thirties to marry, have children, and establish full-time careers, occupying a prolonged period in which they... -
Political Emotions: Why Love Matters for Justice by Martha C. Nussbaum 9780674503809
RRP: $29.61Booksplease Price: $25.80How can we achieve and sustain a "decent" liberal society, one that aspires to justice and equal opportunity for all and inspires individuals to sacrifice for the common good? In this book, a... -
Agent Orange on Trial: Mass Toxic Disasters in the Courts, Enlarged Edition Peter H. Schuck 9780674010260
RRP: $52.83Booksplease Price: $43.91Agent Orange on Trial is a riveting legal drama with all the suspense of a courtroom thriller. One of the Vietnam War's farthest reaching legacies was the Agent Orange case. In this unprecedented... -
Henry Kissinger and the American Century by Jeremi Suri 9780674032521
RRP: $43.80Booksplease Price: $36.86What made Henry Kissinger the kind of diplomat he was? What experiences and influences shaped his worldview and provided the framework for his approach to international relations? Jeremi Suri offers... -
The Invention of Law in the West by Aldo Schiavone 9780674047334
RRP: $72.18Booksplease Price: $60.02Law is a specific form of social regulation distinct from religion, ethics, and even politics, and endowed with a strong and autonomous rationality. Its invention, a crucial aspect of Western... -
Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry by Ralph Waldo Emerson 9780674049598
RRP: $46.38Booksplease Price: $42.14Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry, like its companion prose volume, presents a selection of definitively edited texts drawn chiefly from the multivolume Collected Works. Accompanying each poem is... -
Presidents and Their Generals: An American History of Command in War by Matthew Moten 9780674058149
RRP: $52.83Booksplease Price: $44.30Since World War II, the United States has been engaged in near-constant military conflict abroad, often with ill-defined objectives, ineffectual strategy, and uncertain benefits. In this era of... -
Orlando Furioso: A New Verse Translation by Ludovico Ariosto 9780674060128
RRP: $34.77Booksplease Price: $30.22The appearance of David R. Slavitt's translation of Orlando Furioso ("Mad Orlando"), one of the great literary achievements of the Italian Renaissance, is a publishing event. With this lively new... -
The Age of Equality: The Twentieth Century in Economic Perspective by Richard Pomfret 9780674062177
RRP: $46.38Booksplease Price: $38.88In 1900 the global average life expectancy at birth was thirty-one years. By 2000 it was sixty-six. Yet, alongside unprecedented improvements in longevity and material well-being, the twentieth... -
The Axial Age and Its Consequences by Robert N. Bellah 9780674066496
RRP: $54.12Booksplease Price: $45.29The first classics in human history-the early works of literature, philosophy, and theology to which we have returned throughout the ages-appeared in the middle centuries of the first millennium bce...