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Guides general readers through the ideas that revolutionized our conception of the physical universe.

Describes the history of economic thought, focusing on the development of economic theory from Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations" to the late twentieth century. This text examines how important economists have reflected on the sometimes conflicting goals of efficient resource use and socially acceptable income distribution.

A translation of one the major writings of Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911), a philosopher and historian of culture who continues to have a significant influence on Continental philosophy and a broad range of scholarly disciplines. It presents Dilthey's main theoretical works from the 1890s.

With more than 130 reading selections and 300 photographs of ancient art, architecture, and artifacts, this title provides an introduction to some of the most significant and widely studied texts of the ancient Near East, including the "Epic of Gilgamesh", "the Creation Epic (Enuma elish)", "the Code of Hammurabi", and "the Baal Cycle".

A work on the wartime letters of Dr Konrad Jarausch, a German high-school teacher of religion and history who served in a reserve battalion of Hitler's army in Poland and Russia, where he died of typhoid in 1942.

Brings together some of the top American historians to offer a look at one of the most controversial US presidencies. This book examines the successes as well as the failures, covering different major aspect of Bush's two terms in office.

An anthology featuring the year's finest writing on mathematics from around the world. It helps readers discover why Freeman Dyson thinks some mathematicians are birds while others are frogs; why Keith Devlin believes there's more to mathematics than proof; and what Samuel Arbesman can tell us about the epidemiology of the undead in zombie flicks.

Considers the ways Americans understand the relationship between their religious beliefs and the political arena. This work covers such topics as: how religious diversity affects American democracy, how religion is implicated in America's partisan battles, and how religion affects ideas about race, ethnicity, and gender.

Dystopic imagery has figured prominently in modern depictions of the urban landscape. The city is often portrayed as a terrifying world of darkness, crisis, and catastrophe. This book traces the history of the modern city through its critical representations in art, cinema, print journalism, literature, sociology, and architecture.

Dealing with subjects ranging from a Swedish hotel made of ice to the enigma of UFOs, from a tragedy on Lake Minnetonka to the gold mine of cyberpornography, this book presents over 90 essays. It covers various topics such as the environment, terrorism, education, sports, politics, and music.

Emile Durkheim's work has traditionally been viewed as a part of sociology removed from economics. Rectifying this perception, this book looks at the contributions made to economic sociology by Durkheim and his followers. It demonstrates the relevance of economic factors to sociology and shows how the Durkheimians inform today's economic systems.

A collection of essays and source material that repositions Berg as the pivotal figure of Viennese musical modernism. It explores the specific qualities of Berg's brand of musical modernism, and present translated letters and documents that illuminate his relationship to the politics and culture of his era.

Presents an account of the Italian Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1573-1610) and the artist's revolutionary achievement. This book focuses on the emergence of the full-blown 'gallery picture' in Rome during the last decade of the sixteenth century and the first decades of the seventeenth.

Offers a panoramic view of mathematics in contemporary society; Terence Tao discusses aspects of universal mathematical laws in complex systems; Ian Stewart explains how in mathematics everything arises out of nothing; and Erin Maloney and Sian Beilock consider the mathematical anxiety experienced by many students and suggest effective remedies.

Gives legal advice, including an opinion on whether perjury can be committed before a grand jury. This title attempts to bring Destutt de Tracy's Treatise on Political Economy into print, offers biographical information for Delaplaine's Repository, and recommends revisions to a forthcoming biography of Patrick Henry.

Still shaken by the closing of the right of deposit at New Orleans, the author confronts the potential political consequences of a cession of Louisiana to France that might result in a denial of American access to the Mississippi. This title drafts instructions and a cipher for Meriwether Lewis and arranges for the needed instruments.

The Erligang culture is best known for the remains of an immense walled city at Zhengzhou, a smaller site at Panlongcheng in Hubei, and a large-scale bronze industry of remarkable artistic and technological sophistication. This book deals with Erligang culture.

The Erligang culture is best known for the remains of an immense walled city at Zhengzhou, a smaller site at Panlongcheng in Hubei, and a large-scale bronze industry of remarkable artistic and technological sophistication. This book deals with Erligang culture.

With more than 5,000 entries totalling over a million words, this dictionary of Buddhism in English covers terms from all of the canonical Buddhist languages and traditions: Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. It also includes an appendix of Buddhist lists, a timeline, six maps, and two diagrams.

A guide to the world's primates covers nearly 300 species, from the feather-light and solitary pygmy mouse lemurs of Madagascar - among the smallest primates known to exist - to regal mountain gorillas of Africa. This book features 72 splendid color plates, facing-page descriptions of key features of each family, and 86 color distribution maps.

Develops a theory of trust in international relations and applies it to the Cold War. Contrary to the common view that both sides were willing to compromise but failed because of mistrust, this work argues that most of the mistrust in the Cold War was justified, because the Soviets were not trustworthy.

Aims to instruct, inform, and inspire students of Chinese by presenting selected historical texts and their annotations. Taken from the seminal works known as the Four Histories, the fourteen included texts offer insights into the political, social, economic, and cultural aspects of China over a long period of time.

Offers a view of the physicist's world. Providing a review of the 20th century's transformation of physics, this work checks in on the findings from particle physics, astrophysics, chaos theory, and cosmology. It explains how superstring theory may unite quantum mechanics with general relativity to produce a consistent quantum theory of gravity.

Offers an illustrated compendium of the menagerie of imaginary animals that humans have conjured up over the ages. This book take us on a journey through five thousand years of art, examining the symbolic meanings of such creatures and what they say about the unconscious life of the human mind.

Using principles from the anthropological theory of legal evolution, this book locates the works, which reflect crises in the evolution of Western law in their legal contexts and traces through them the gradual dissociation over the centuries of law and morality.

Introduces the Rasa Lila, a dramatic love poem of exquisite poetry and profound theology to the Western world. This book explores the historical context and literary genre of the work and elucidates the aesthetic and emotional richness of the composition, highlighting poignant details of this drama of divine love.

In the decade after World War II, up to 350,000 ethnic Italians were displaced from the border zone between Italy and Yugoslavia known as the Julian March. This book reveals the repercussions of this episode of European history. It explores displacement from both the viewpoints of the exiles and those who stayed behind.

Shows why aiding an industry can be a politically efficient way for a government to redistribute resources from one industrial sector to another. This book explores how electoral rules, party strength, and industrial geography affect redistribution politics across countries.

The description for this book, From Insurrection to Revolution in Mexico: Social Bases of Agrarian Violence, 1750-1940, will be forthcoming.

From the art of the Greeks to that of Renoir and Moore, this work surveys the ever-changing fashions in what has constituted the ideal nude as a basis of humanist form.