The history of FDR's Office of Government Reports.

Argues that leaders sometimes promote international conflicts to keep their own military politically divided.

Discusses the first decades of Peking University and its role in shaping Chinese intellectual culture.

Shows how Chinese intellectuals with varying politics envisioned the peasantry and its role in changing society during the first half of the twentieth century.

Explores the origin and evolution of the Greek concept of nature up until the time of Plato.

Essays on the early disciplinary history of international relations.

Examines how Israel was caught by surprise in the opening stages of the 1973 Yom Kippur War.

Writings by twentieth-century imprisoned authors examining confinement, enslavement, and political organizing in prison.

Argues that universities can help revitalize poor neighborhoods.

Examines the politics behind the funding of NASA.

A boy's world is shattered by the Holocaust.

A historical romp through the fascinating subject of murder jurisprudence in the United States from the colonial period to the present, showing how changing social mores have influenced the application of murder law.

A collection of historical articles and essays by a pioneer in the field of masculinity studies.

An award-winning teacher takes a journey into alien territory: Austria, Hitler's birthplace, and the territory of her own hatred. A teaching memoir that offers a pedagogy of hope.

Looks at how foreigners were regarded in three ancient civilizations, finding that cultural, not biophysical, differences were key in distinguishing "us" from "them. "

Brings the writings of de Cleyre out of undeserved obscurity.

Explores the larger social, political, and philosophical contexts in which the current vitriolic science vs. anti-science debates occur.

Exposes the cultural roots of Spanish fascism.

Explores the human experience of mysticism and looks at it within the spiritual traditions around the world.

Deepens and enriches our understanding of the Jewish literary tradition and the implications of the Shoah.

Traces how progressive liberals in Edwardian Britain responded to contemporary intellectual trends.

Examines how public opinion has influenced health care policy.

Uses the world's fair of 1992 to spotlight changes in the political cultures of Spain and Europe.

Offers an analysis of the dynamics of Taiwan's export-oriented industrialization, particularly its impact on women and other workers.

Interdisciplinary essays on the White House and the lives of first families.