Jean-Pierre Vernant delineates a compelling new vision of ancient Greece that takesus far from the calm and familiar images of Polykleitos and the Parthenon, and reveals a culture ofslavery, of blood
More than a simple expository history, A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History sketches the outlines of a renewed materialist philosophy of history in the tradition of Fernand Braudel, Gilles Deleuze,
The significance of panorama painting in the nineteenth century is frequently cited in contemporary debates about visuality and the emergence of the modern spectator. Stephan Oettermann's The Panoram
Hearing has traditionally been understood as the second sense---less rational and modern than seeing, the master of all senses, the first sense. Reason and Resonance is the first full-length study to
There had never been art like the art produced by women artists in the 1970s—and there has never been a book with the ambition and scope of this one about that groundbreaking era. WACK! documen
The Culture of the Copy is an unprecedented attempt to make sense of our Western fascination with replicas, duplicates, and twins. Through intriguing historical analysis and case studies in contempor
This book brings together prominent scholars and political activists to assess the evolution of the international human rights agenda since the end of the Cold War. It ar
Just as speech can be acquired, so can it be lost. Speakers can forget words,phrases, even entire languages they once knew; over the course of time peoples, too, let go of thetongues that were once th
In this strikingly original contribution to our understanding of Chinese philosophy,Françle;ois Julien, a French sinologist whose work has not yet appeared in English usesthe Chinese concept
For centuries, both mathematical and military thinkers have used game-like scenariosto test their visions of mastering a complex world through symbolic operations. By the end of WorldWar I, mathematic
Predictions about global climate change have produced both stark scenarios ofenvironmental catastrophe and purportedly pragmatic ideas about adaptation. This book takes adifferent perspective, explori
Certain ideas have preoccupied thinkers since ancient times: the nature of mind, thesources of knowledge and belief, the nature of the self, ethics and the best way to lead our lives,the question of f
An ancient tradition holds that Pythagoras discovered the secrets of harmony within aforge when he came across five men hammering with five hammers, producing a wondrous sound. Four ofthe five hammers
How should capital income be taxed to achieve efficiency and equity? In this detailed study, tax policy analyst Jane Gravelle brings together comprehensive estimates of effective tax rates on a wide v
Ideals of democratic participation and rational self-government have long informedmodern political theory. As a recent elaboration of these ideals, the concept of deliberativedemocracy is based on the
Ferdinand Boberg (1860-1946) was the preeminent architect ofSweden at the turn of the century, and judged the dominantarchitectural force not only in his country but byin
In his latest book, Robert Harbison offers a novel interpretation of what architectural theory might look like. The title, like everything Harbison selects, is not what it seems at first glance. It is
Productivity and American Leadership examines and analyzes the long-run productivityperformance of the United States, comparing it with that of the other industrialized nations. Itshows that the U.S.
This major work covers almost all that has been learned about the acoustics ofstringed instruments from Helmholtz's 19th-century theoretical elaborations to recentelectroacoustic and holographic measu
Although the work of Pierre Francastel (1900-1970) has long carried the label "sociology of art," it bears little resemblance to anything conventionally sociological. For too long Francaste
