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China transformed
"This bold, intellectually ambitious, and wholly original book challenges the way in which Western social science understands China. . . . It will set the standard for all future comparative and theoretical research on China."―Timothy Brook, Stanford University"This is a most extraordinary book. Wong's approach is to explore carefully similarities and differences between Chinese and European devel...
2000
Clements Checklist of Birds of the World
<p>Birds have long held a unique dual role as a model group for scientists and as the focus of birders' passionate quests. Despite centuries of observation, each year brings the discovery and description of several entirely new avian species and hundreds of other taxonomic "splits" or "lumps" based on DNA data. In this arena of continual and increasing taxonomic change, The...
2007
Democracy and displacement in colombias civil war
Democracy and displacement in colombias civil war
2017
Expense of Spirit
<p>A public and highly popular literary form, English Renaissance drama affords a uniquely valuable index of the process of cultural transformation. <em>The Expense of Spirit</em> integrates feminist and historicist critical approaches to explore the dynamics of cultural conflict and change during a crucial period in the formation of modern sexual values. Comparing Elizabethan and Jacobean dramati...
2018
From Mobility to Accessibility
<p>In <em>From Mobility to Accessibility</em>, an expert team of researchers flips the tables on the standard models for evaluating regional transportation performance. Jonathan Levine, Joe Grengs, and Louis A. Merlin argue for an "accessibility shift" whereby transportation planning, and the transportation dimensions of land-use planning, would be based on people's ability to reach ...
2019
From Plato to Platonism
<p>Was Plato a Platonist? While ancient disciples of Plato would have answered this question in the affirmative, modern scholars have generally denied that Plato's own philosophy was in substantial agreement with that of the Platonists of succeeding centuries. In <em>From Plato to Platonism</em>, Lloyd P. Gerson argues that the ancients were correct in their assessment. He arrives at this conc...
2017
Kant's Rational Theology
In <I>Kant's Rational Theology</I>, Allen W. Wood explores Kant's views on the concept of God and on the attempt to demonstrate God's existence. "We cannot have a full or balanced understanding of Kant's thought on religious subjects," he writes, "as long as we fail to take account of his reflections, often exceedingly abstract, obscure, and subtle, concerning the rational origin, content, and sta...
2009
Making Space for the Dead
<p>The dead of Paris, before the French Revolution, were most often consigned to mass graveyards that contemporaries described as terrible and terrifying, emitting "putrid miasmas" that were a threat to both health and dignity. In a book that is at once wonderfully macabre and exceptionally informative, Erin-Marie Legacey explores how a new burial culture emerged in Paris as a result of ...
2019
Many-Minded Man
<p>In <em>The Many-Minded Man</em>, Joel Christensen explores the content, character, and structure of the Homeric<em> Odyssey</em> through a modern psychological lens, focusing on how the epic both represents the workings of the human mind and provides for its audiences-both ancient and modern-a therapeutic model for coping with the exigencies of chance and fate.</p><p><br></p><p>By reading the<e...
2020
Not According to Plan
<p>In Not According to Plan, Maria Belodubrovskaya reveals the limits on the power of even the most repressive totalitarian regimes to create and control propaganda. Belodubrovskaya's revisionist account of Soviet filmmaking between 1930 and 1953 highlights the extent to which the Soviet film industry remained stubbornly artisanal in its methods, especially in contrast to the more industrial a...
2020