Philip Selznick's wide-ranging writings engaged with fundamental questions concerning society, politics, institutions, law, and morals. Never confined by a single discipline or approach, he proved him
This book offers an account of the origins of modern English autobiographical writing, which the author locates in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and it links the development of this genre
In its broadest sense, this lavishly illustrated book is about the relationship between topography and the language of visual symbols a painter manipulates, or must invent, to suggest specific places.
Resisting the Bomb continues the story, begun in the award-winning One World or None, of humanity’s efforts to avert nuclear destruction. Beginning with the catastrophic atmospheric nuclear weapons te
This anthology of Yiddish poetry contains a range of examples of the genre from the proletarian poetry of the late 19th-century, to the individualistic poetry of post-World War I "Introspectivists" to
Recent economic and political developments in the Third World and in Communist and advanced industrial societies have challenged some of the most cherished assumptions of social science, forcing socia
Although everything in this imaginative and compelling biography of the martyred Chilean president Salvador Allende is solidly based on fact, it is cast in the form of a novel by the author, who was a
In asymmetric interstate conflicts, great powers have the capability to coerce weak states by threatening their survivalbut not vice versa. It is therefore the great power that decides whether to esca