In 1978, as the protests against the Shah of Iran reached their zenith, philosopher Michel Foucault was working as a special correspondent for Corriere della Sera and Le Monde. During his...
In the early 19th century, body snatching was rife because the only corpses available for medical study were those of hanged murderers. With the Anatomy Act of 1832 the bodies of those who died...
Jaroslav Pelikan begins this volume with the crisis of orthodoxy that confronted all Christian denominations by the beginning of the eighteenth century and continues through the twentieth century...
The essays collected in "Persecution and the Art of Writing" all deal with one problem--the relation between philosophy and politics. Here, Strauss sets forth the thesis that many...
It is a widespread prejudice of modern, scientific society that "magic" is merely a ludicrous amalgam of recipes and methods derived from primitive and erroneous notions about nature....
Billy, Alfred, and General Motors is the tale not just of the two extraordinary men of its title but also of the formative decades of twentieth-century America, through two world wars and sea...
The perfect companion to Generation One and the #1 New York Times bestselling I Am Number Four series! Fan-favorite characters Six and Sam Goode return in this new saga, which is X-Files meets the...
The "Nicomachean Ethics" is one of Aristotle's most widely read and influential works. Ideas central to ethics - that happiness is the end of human endeavor, that moral virtue is formed...
Thirty years ago, a group of women from Saint Paul's Church decided to put together a Greek cookbook to preserve some of the traditional recipes and at the same time raise money for their...
In 1987, the University of Chicago Press published "Primate Societies", the kanon reference in the field of primate behavior for an entire generation of students and scientists. But in the...
A momentous look at the private companies driving a revolutionary new economy in space, from the New York Times bestselling author of Elon MuskWith the launch of the Falcon 1 rocket in 2008, Elon...
Celebrate the 10th anniversary of Divergent with a special edition of Insurgent, the second book in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that captured the hearts of millions of readers and...
A fun, fresh, and twisty debut whodunnit about a grandmother-mother-daughter trio who come together as amateur sleuths to solve a murder in their coastal California town."A lively and tender...