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Gravity's Ghost: Scientific Discovery in the Twenty-first Century
In the end, Gravity's Ghost is a dramatic scientific mystery with a completely unexpected conclusion. --Book Jacket.
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Georges Cuvier, Fossil Bones, and Geological Catastrophes: New Translations and Interpretations of the Primary Texts
Here Martin J. S. Rudwick provides the first modern translation of Cuvier's essential writings on fossils and catastrophes and links these translated texts together with his own insightful narrative and interpretive commentary.
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Freedom Is an Endless Meeting: Democracy in American Social Movements
"This is an excellent study of activist politics in the United States over the past century. . .
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Plato's Laws: The Discovery of Being
With this book, the distinguished classicist Seth Benardete offers an insightful analysis and commentary on this rich and complex dialogue.
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The Trial of the Assassin Guiteau: Psychiatry and the Law in the Gilded Age
In this brilliant study, Charles Rosenberg uses the celebrated trial of Charles Guiteau, who assassinated President Garfield in 1881, to explore insanity and criminal responsibility in the Gilded Age.
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Politics and the Architecture of Choice: Bounded Rationality and Governance
Politics and the Architecture of Choice draws on work in political science, economics, cognitive science, and psychology to offer an innovative theory of how people and organizations adapt to change and why these adaptations don't always ...
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Relating Religion: Essays in the Study of Religion
The essays that follow consider the role of taxonomy and classification in the study of religion, the construction of difference, and the procedures of generalization and redescription that Smith takes to be key to the comparative ...
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Antitrust Law
In this thoroughly revised edition, Posner explains the economic approach to new generations of lawyers and students.
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Visible Empire: Botanical Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment
In this lavishly illustrated volume, Daniela Bleichmar gives this archive its due, finding in these botanical images a window into the worlds of Enlightenment science, visual culture, and empire.
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Police: Streetcorner Politicians
"This book . . . examines the problem of police corruption . . . in such a way that the stereotype of the crude, greedy cop who is basically a grown-up delinquent, if not an out-and-out robber, yields to portraits of particular men, often ...
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