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The Tyranny of Opinion - The wide angle

We tend to assume that freedom of speechnaturally accompanies other democratic rights. But the construction of the virtual and physical spaces where modern individuals could publicly and freely use their...

Pablo Piccato

Measuring Tomorrow - The wide angle

Measuring Tomorrow is essentially a guide to the well-being and sustainability transition and as such aims to make four contributions. First, while we have several insightful historical accounts of GDP’s...

Éloi Laurent

Justice Rising - A close-up

Some readers will probably turn to the images first—and that is a good place to start. There are two inserts that tell the story in pictures. We see Kennedy on...

Patricia Sullivan

Violence Taking Place - The wide angle

Trained as an architect and an architectural historian, I was led to re-think destruction when I began to survey its remains in Kosovo for the International Criminal Tribunal for the...

Andrew Herscher

In the Company of Strangers - In a nutshell

In the Company of Strangers is about how different ideas of the family affect the deep narrative structure of novels.The principles of marriage and reproduction seem to be fundamental to...

Barry McCrea

The Fifth Beginning - A close-up

On the first page of The Fifth Beginning, I recount an incident from the late 1980s, early in my teaching career. I had given a closing lecture in which I...

Robert L. Kelly

Morality's Muddy Waters - A close-up

A book reveals itself in its fullness, in its sweat and swagger. But if you must rivet attention on one thing in this volume then I would hope that it...

George Cotkin

Why We Disagree About Climate Change - In a nutshell

Why We Disagree About Climate Change is about the idea of climate change—where it came from, what it means to different people in different places and why we disagree about...

Mike Hulme

That’s Disgusting - The wide angle

The general rubric under which the concepts of this book are laid out is evolutionary biology. The core positions are about how and why the emotion of disgust aids in...

Rachel Herz

Nazi Empire - A close-up

A brief introduction summarizes my argument, and in chapter 5 I also summarize Nazi imperialism.A reader might especially enjoy pages 139-143, chapter 3, which are about Hitler’s conceptions of “living...

Shelley Baranowski

Bombshell - In a nutshell

In my book Bombshell: Women and TerrorismI examine the changing nature of terrorism.The face of terrorism is changing—and it is now often a woman’s face. No longer can we expect...

Mia Bloom

A Global Green New Deal - In a nutshell

They both indicate that the current economic recovery from the global recession is inherently unsustainable.In 2008, the world was confronted with multiple crises—fuel, food and financial—and by December the result...

Edward B. Barbier

Free Speech Beyond Words - A close-up

We think that the book’s cover is a terrific “provocation” for thinking about the problem. We hope that readers (viewers?) will ask themselves, “Why is this covered by the First...

Mark V. Tushnet

The Devil’s Milk - A close-up

Few people today except dentists will have heard of gutta-percha, but one hundred years ago it was a household word. A close cousin of rubber extracted from wild trees in...

John Tully

Partisan Policy Networks - A close-up

There is one particular example in the book that especially highlights its main themes. In 2017, the Heritage Foundation released a new edition of its “Election Fraud Database,” an empirical...

Zachary Albert

Selective Solidarity - The wide angle

Signs from the Future originates from my earlier works—Why Only Art Can Save Us: Aesthetics and the Absence of Emergency (2017), and Being at Large: Freedom in the Age of...

Chelsie Yount

A Tragedy of Democracy - The wide angle

This book is the final product of a long train of circumstances and developments. It was more than ten years ago that I started doing research on the signing of...

Greg Robinson

Total Cure - A close-up

To be meaningful, a proposal to reform the health care system needs to be more than just visionary, it must address the complex issues of how the system will actually...

Harold S. Luft

Istanbul Exchanges - The wide angle

There has been much debate over the last decade about expanding our discipline to create a global history of art, but what precisely are the new methods and protocols for...

Mary Roberts

The History of Islam in German Thought - The wide angle

My book takes issue with a number of positions, the first of which being that a complete and coherent history of European thought can be written without reference to non-Europe....

Ian Almond

Unlikely Collaboration - The wide angle

My book is the first in English to cover the Empire’s entire history and the first in any language to offer a comprehensive reinterpretation of its place in wider European...

Barbara Will

Eve of Destruction - In a nutshell

I wrote Eve of Destruction hoping to get people to understand that the previous era of warfare—one in which there were at least some rules about when and why states...

Thomas M. Nichols

The roots of mental pathologies

The standard view of medicine holds that observant clinicians discover diseases in nature. Accordingly, psychiatrists are no different from other doctors. They, too, discern forms of pathology arising from dysfunctions...

Richard J. McNally

Secular Devotion - In a nutshell

The main argument of Secular Devotion, I suppose, will appear to some people as outrageous. I am saying that popular music in the Americas is popular in part because it...

Timothy Brennan

Permanent Revolution - A close-up

I hope browsing readers will feel the palpable connections between the revolutionary period of the Reformation and our own times. The Introduction and Conclusion would be the places to get...

James Simpson

Hotter Than That - The wide angle

The basic thesis of Hotter Than That is that the trumpet has been associated, rightly or wrongly, with masculinity. The men who have played it have jealously guarded their exclusive...

Krin Gabbard

Power at Ground Zero - A close-up

Chapter 10 relates a particularly compelling episode of how the idea of integrating culture at Ground Zero exposed the tension inherent in accommodating the dual mandate to remember and rebuild.Many...

Lynne Sagalyn

The Rape of Mesopotamia - A close-up

One of the most poignant moments in The Rape of Mesopotamia comes when John Limbert, a diplomat and former Iranian hostage, was ordered to Baghdad by Colin Powell in the...

Lawrence Rothfield

Muhammad is Not the Father of any of Your Men - A close-up

The non-specialist who is browsing through the book should turn to chapter one, where I discuss the foundation narratives of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. It is interesting that all three...

David S. Powers

Unsilencing - In a nutshell

Unsilencing is the first comprehensive study of the Bulgarian gulag— a network of forced-labor camps and prisons that operated throughout the communist era from 1945 to 1989. Referred to as “Little Siberia,” these camps interned thousands without trial, subjected them to inhumane conditions, and silenced them for decades. Drawing on two decades of archival research, oral history interviews...

Lilia Topouzova

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