Anthony C. Yu's celebrated translation of 'The Journey to the West' reinvigorated one of Chinese ...

Properly analyzed, the collective mythological and religious writings of humanity reveal that aro...

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Our stories of industrial innovation tend to focus on individual initiative and lone breakthrough...

Make Room For TV combines a powerful analysis of growth of electronic culture with a nuanced soci...

Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) came to America in 1831 to see what a great republic was like. Wh...

Hermann von Helmholtz was a towering figure of nineteenth-century scientific and intellectual lif...

The most famous book on politics ever written, 'The Prince remains as lively and shocking today a...

Attitudes toward homosexuality in the premodern Arab-Islamic world are commonly depicted as schiz...

'This catalogue is published on the occasion of 'In Poetry and Silence: The Work and Studio of Le...