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Presents a book-length treatment of a key religious practice in ancient Mediterranean civilizations. Besides setting forth a typology that applies to many acts of supplication in both Greek and Latin sources, this book traces the links between a quasi-legal practice into features of Greek and Roman legal systems.

Claiming more than 600,000 lives, the American Civil War had a devastating impact on countless numbers of common soldiers and civilians, even as it brought freedom to millions. This book shows how average Americans coped with despair as well as hope during this vast upheaval.

A literary/biographical study of the course of Melville's career. Four of the ten essays deal with Melville's life and work after his novelistic career ended with the "The Confidence-Man" in 1857. This book takes its origin from Ishmael's account of "the larger, darker, deeper part of Ahab".

This ground-breaking book considers one of the most popular musicals of all time, Lerner and Loewe's "My Fair Lady." Using previously-unpublished letters and documents, author Dominic McHugh presents a completely new behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the show, revealing the tensions that went into the making of this beloved musical.

The Baseball Trust is about the origins and persistence of baseball's strange exemption from antitrust law. Told through a frequently riveting and always entertaining history of America's pastime, author Stuart Banner emphasizes the strategies baseball has used to achieve a protected legal status enjoyed by no other industry in America.

Xenophon's Anabasis, or The Expedition of Cyrus, is one of the most famous survival stories ever written and the most important autobiographical work to have survived from ancient Greece. This book places the Anabasis in its historical and literary context and opens up for the reader different ways of interpreting its major themes.

Paul Weithman offers a fresh, rigorous, and compelling interpretation of John Rawls's reasons for taking his so-called "political turn."

Engaged with previous scholarship and bringing to bear new material and literary evidence, this book offers a new understanding of the history, identity, and relationship of early Samaritans and Jews.

This study explains what modern advances in molecular biology, evolutionary biology, embryology, neurophysiology and neonatology can contribute to an understanding of what is unique about being human, and when the properties that define "humans" develop.

Acclaimed author and historian Robert Dallek's insightful biography of William Dodd, the U.S. Ambassador to Germany during the ascension of Hitler and the Nazi party, exposes the dark underbelly of 1930s Germany and the terrible burden of those who realized the horror that was to come.

Louis E. Fenech offers a compelling new examination of one of the only Persian compositions attributed to the tenth Sikh Guru, Guru Gobind Singh (1666-1708): the Zafar-namah or 'Epistle of Victory.'

What if "liberal democracy" were a contradiction in terms? This book distinguishes liberalism (a logic of order) from democracy (a principle of disordering) to defend a Rancierean vision of impure politics. Disclosing Ranciere's refusal of ontology as political, The Lessons of Ranciere enacts a critical theory beyond unmasking and a democratic politics beyond liberalism.

Featuring over fifty rare and hard-to-find illustrations, Writing with Scissors presents a fascinating cultural history of scrapbooks in America.

On Literary Worlds develops new strategies and perspectives for understanding aesthetic worlds.

The Language of Disenchantment explores how Protestant ideas about language inspired British colonial critiques of Hindu mythological, ritual, linguistic, and legal traditions.

Democratic theorists frequently assume that the "people" must have something in common, or else democracy will fail. This produces an ironically anti-democratic tendency to emphasize the passive possession of commonality. Sharing Democracy counters this tendency with a radical vision of democracy grounded instead in the active exercise of political freedom.

Belief and Truth: A Skeptic Reading of Plato explores a Socratic intuition about belief, doxa - belief is "shameful." In aiming for knowledge, one must aim to get rid of beliefs. Vogt shows how deeply this proposal differs from contemporary views, but that it nevertheless speaks to intuitions we are likely to share with Plato, ancient skeptics, and Stoic epistemologists.

In this, the first critical study of the major theologians of pentecostalism, Christopher A. Stephenson establishes four original categories that classify recent pentecostal theologians' methodologies in systematic/constructive theology.