Category: Social Sciences

Veiled women in the West appear menacing. Their visible invisibility is a cause of obsession. What is beneath the veil …

La Désobéissance civile, titre original Civil Disobedience est un essai de Henry David Thoreau publié en 1849. H.D. Thoreau écrit …

Follow Odysseus as he hides in the Trojan horse and retakes Troy, fights the Cyclops, or fights enslavement by the …

Fukuyama’s essential thesis is that Liberal Democracy is the political system best suited for human beings. He takes his cue …

An excellent and well-written explanation of the philosophy of Husserl and particularly of the Cartesian Meditations, for philosophy students which …

The Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece

The history of coffee is much more than the tale of one luxury good—it is a lens through which to …

Introduces the fundamentals of social network analysisn- Discusses key concepts and important analysis techniquesn- Highlights, with real-world examples, how large …

The philosophy of science is the branch of philosophy that examines the profound philosophical questions that arise from scientific research …

In this cogent and accessible introduction to philosophy, the distinguished author of Mortal Questions and The View From Nowhere sets …

The Law, original French title La Loi, is a 1849 book by Frédéric Bastiat. It was published one year after …

Now in its fourth edition, Criminal Profiling is an established text centered on the deductive profiling method developed by the …

The book is not what I expected. I expected an "organized account" of the schools of thought in India and …

A magisterial mappa mundi of the terrain that Pierre Hadot has so productively worked for decades, this ambitious work revises …

The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, commonly referred to as the Articles of Confederation, was the first constitution of …

Since Theodor Geisel published his first children’s book in 1937 under the pseudonym Dr. Seuss, children and adults alike have …

This collection, with contributions from leading philosophers, places analytic philosophy in a broader context comparing it with the methodology of its most …

What is the mind? How does it relate to the body and the world? What is consciousness? What is experience? …

Thomas Pynchon and the Postmodern Mythology of the Underworld is devoted to the work of one of the most highly …

(en el original en italiano: Il principe) es un tratado de doctrina política compuesto por Nicolás Maquiavelo en 1513 mientras …

Philosophy written in English is overwhelmingly analytic philosophy, and the techniques and predilections of analytic philosophy are not only unhistorical …

From award-winningNew Yorkerstaff writer Patrick Radden Keefe, a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its …

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Bringing together for the first time all of G.W.F. Hegel’s major Introductions in one place, this book ambitiously attempts to …

There is a hunger for conspiracy news in America. Hundreds of Internet websites, magazines, newsletters, even entire publishing houses, disseminate …

Full-color photography is paired with clearly written text in these exciting first reference books about history and the natural world.

The first definitive history of the Mossad, Shin Bet, and the IDF’s targeted killing programs, from the man hailed by …

A mayor’s inspirational story of a Midwest city that has become nothing less than a blueprint for the future of …