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Hailed by Terry Eagleton in The Guardian as "definitive," this is the only complete and authoritative edition of Antonio Gramsci's deeply personal and vivid prison letters.

This monograph argues that the best way to describe the character of Imperial Germany after 1878 is "illiberal" - voicing a commitment in mind and policy against further concessions to democracy. It describes how German society embraced the move towards totalitarianism fostered by illiberalism.

Studlar looks at four major Hollywood male stars of the silent era--Rudolph Valentino, Douglas Fairbanks, John Barrymore, and Lon Chaney--to illuminate the cultural, ideological, and historical implications of these stars in relation to contemporary debates over changing sexual and social norms.

The first rigorous psychoanalytic investigation into the heart and mind of Nixon explores the forces and events that shaped his complex personality, presenting an enlightening portrait of a troubled man whose insecurities doomed him to suffer the most sensational downfall in American political history.

A highly provocative and original volume that examines the issues, themes, and difficulties emerging out of the new anthropological concern with history.

This book brings together the essay collection "Written in the margins of life (Xie zai ren sheng bian shang)" and the short story collection "Human, beast, ghost (Ren shou gui)."

Long before he probed the workings of time, human choice, and human frailty in "Infinite Jest," Wallace wrote a brilliant philosophical critique of Richard Taylor's argument for fatalism. This volume reproduces Taylor's original article and other works on fatalism cited by Wallace in his critique.

Presents the comprehensive and revealing investigation of Stalinism and political developments in the Soviet Union from 1922-1953. This book contains material on: purges in 1929-1931 and terror against the peasantry, the Kirov assassination and show trials, and, Trotsky's revolutionary activity and Stalin's involvement with his murder in Mexico.

Examines the Buddhist priest Kukai's influence on Japanese culture. This book contends that the importance of Kukai's transmission of esoteric Buddhism to Japan lay in his creation of a general theory of language grounded in the ritual speech of mantra. It explores the rhetorical strategies Kukai employed in his works.

Casts the evolution of cinema as an ongoing struggle to relate audiences to their historical moment.

The first book to apply advances in neuroscience to the greatest problem of personal strategy: "What should I do with my life?"

Presenta a new synthesis of the authors' core ideas on evaluating communities, organisms, populations, biomes, models, and management.