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Doris Salcedo, a Colombian-born artist, addresses the politics of memory and forgetting in work that embraces fraught situations in dangerous places. This title leads us into intimate encounters with Salcedo's art, encouraging us to consider each work as a 'theoretical object' that invites certain kinds of considerations about history and grief.

Adam Ashforth, an Australian who has spent many years in Soweto, finds his longtime friend Madumo in dire circumstances: his family has accused him of using witchcraft to kill his mother and has thrown him out on the street. Convinced that his life is cursed, Madumo seeks help among Soweto's bewildering array of healers and prophets.

Few countries can boast such a plenitude of traditional folktales as Ireland. In 1935 the creation of The Irish Folklore Commission set in motion the first organized efforts of collecting and studying a multitude of folktales. Represented here are some of this collection.

In this classic analysis, Leo Strauss pinpoints what is original and innovative in the political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. He argues that Hobbes's ideas arose not from tradition or science but from his own deep knowledge and experience of human nature. Tracing the development of Hobbes's moral doctrine from his early writings to his major work "The Leviathan, " Strauss explains contradictions in the body of Hobbes's work and discovers startling connections between Hobbes and the thought of Plato, Thucydides, Aristotle, Descartes, Spinoza, and Hegel.

Elsie Clews Parsons was a pioneering feminist, eminent anthropologist and ardent social critic who challenged Americans to develop flexible and dynamic gender, family and social arrangements. This biography examines the connections linking Parsons' intellectual commitments to her life experience.

In this text, Sarah Beckwith explores the lavish and complex form of the York Corpus Christi plays. She shows how organizing the plays served as a political mechanism for regulating labour, and how theatre and sacrement combined in them to do theological work.

Argues that Schubert envisioned many songs as components of cyclical arrangements that were never published as such. By studying Schubert's original manuscripts, Kramer recovers some of these "distant cycles" and accounts for idiosyncrasies in the songs which other analyses have failed to explain.

The essays in this book present new research on the interactions between Phoenicians, Greeks and indigenous people in the Iberian Peninsula during the first millennium BC.

Are humans at their core seekers of their own pleasure or cooperative members of society? Paradoxically, they are both. This title focuses on the evolution of morality, its meaning, why it came about, and how it influences human attitudes and behavior.

Here, adequately presented for the first time in English, is the fascinating story of a splendid culture that flourished thirty-five hundred years ago in the empire on the Nile: kings and conquests, gods and heroes, beautiful art, sculpture, poetry, architecture.

Originally published in 1979, "The Darwinian Revolution" was a comprehensive synthesis of the history of evolutionary thought. For this edition, Michael Ruse has written an afterword that takes into account the research published since his book's first appearance.

Provides a comprehensive look at the satiric humor that flourished in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s. This book reminds us that the postwar era saw varieties of comic expression that were more challenging and nonconformist than we commonly remember.

Hendershot looks at evangelical religion in America, studying both the ways in which evangelists have successfully utilized communications technology and consumerism to spread their message, and the tensions within the movement that have resulted, leading to allegations of hucksterism.

Examining the intolerance of homosexuality in the early medieval period, this study challenges the long-held belief that the early Middle Ages tolerated same-sex relations. The work focuses on Anglo-Saxon literature but also includes examinations of contemporary opera, dance and theatre.

This text traces the origins of the mathematization of the world, from Galileo to Newton and Laplace, and considers the profound philosophical consequences of submitting the infinite to rational analysis.

An exploration of the natural and cultural act of eating. The author reveals how the various aspects of this phenomenon, and the customs, rituals, and taboos surrounding it, relate to universal and profound truths about the human animal and its deepest yearnings.

Presents the story of the author's journey from hard-drinking bravado to the grave realism of a scarred survivor. This book describes his experience with post-traumatic stress disorder, and grapples with the reality that Iraq - despite the sacrifice in Iraqi and American lives - has descended into a civil war with no end in sight.