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The Mystic Experience

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

Jewish American and Holocaust Literature

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

Margins of Disorder

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

The Mediating Effect of Public Opinion on Public Policy

Examines how public opinion has influenced health care policy.

The Best of All Possible Islands

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

In the Name of Harmony and Prosperity

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

Life in the White House

Edited by Robert P. Watson
Subjects: Politics And Law

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

The Bear River Massacre and the Making of History

Explores how a pivotal event in U.S. history—the killing of nearly 300 Shoshoni men, women, and children in 1863—has been contested, forgotten, and remembered.

Confronting Evil

By Fred Emil Katz
Subjects: History

Using insights from behavioral science, a Holocaust survivor explores how evil actions can seem "moral" to the perpetrators and how we must alter our thinking to prevent this.

A Geography of Hard Times

Unravels the rich complexities of the colonial travel experience.

First Outline of a System of the Philosophy of Nature

Schelling's first systematic attempt to articulate a complete philosophy of nature.

From Great Wilderness to Seaway Towns

Comprehensive study of two towns on either side of the U. S.-Canadian border.

Dante and the Jewish Question

Addresses Jacoff’s own discomfort with Dante’s reiteration of the deicide charge against the Jews in Paradiso 7 and elsewhere.

Beverwijck

Paints a detailed picture of everyday life in an early American community.

Indian Critiques of Gandhi

Through examinations of Gandhi's critics, both individuals and groups, this book shows the complexity of Indian society and opinion at the time of the Indian Independence Movement.

Subdued by the Sword

By James M. Greiner
Subjects: History

Presents the life of Captain John S. Kidder during the Civil War, as told through letters to his wife, Harriet, at home in rural New York.

Traumatic Encounters

By Paul Eisenstein
Subjects: History

Addresses the difficulty of representing the Holocaust in literature and on film.

Ethics and Selfhood

By James R. Mensch
Subjects: History

Argues that a coherent theory of ethics requires an account of selfhood.

About Psychology

A critical and historical overview of psychology.

Deciding to Leave

The first sustained examination of the process by which justices elect to leave the United States Supreme Court.

Calling Down Fire

Explores how the agrarian setting of Jefferson County, New York, influenced the revival methods of Charles Grandison Finney, with implications for the study of revivalism more generally.

Sarajevo Essays

Draws on the Bosnian situation to argue for a reconciliation between modernity and tradition.

The Crusades

Edited by Khalil I. Semaan
Subjects: History

Examines the effects of the Crusades from a variety of perspectives.