Challenges readers to use utopian thinking and practice to counter the conditions of the present and create an alternative future.

Biography of a major figure in modern Chinese history.

Uses the intellectual encounter between Islam and modernity to explore the nature of culture, civilization, religion, and tradition.

Studies Plato's approach to argumentation, exploring his role as logician, rhetorician, and dialectician in a way that sees these three aspects working together.

Originally published in Hebrew in 1944, this fascinating and moving account may well be the first memoir of the Holocaust.

Explores the question of whether heroes matter in the modern republic.

A granddaughter's intimate portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt at her longtime home of Val-Kill as well as on a diplomatic trip to Europe and the Middle East.

Considers how popular Haitian films not only provide entertainment but also help audiences in Haiti and the diaspora think through daily challenges.

Establishes the central role of Afro-Puerto Ricans in the island's history and the creation of its capital city, San Juan.

Detailed assessment of the People's Republic of China as an alternative mode of political system and as a distinctive model of socioeconomic development.

Reveals how the persona of India's most famous emperor was constantly reinvented in ancient times to suit a variety of social visions, political agendas, and moral purposes.

Addresses the question of China's rise and what it portends for the future.

Presents the most important portrayals of the Daoist master Yang Zhu throughout Chinese history, from the Warring States period until today.

Develops a pragmatist approach to the philosophy of the humanities, interpreting history, literature, and religion in terms of pragmatic realism.

Relates Chinese Realism to contemporary political and ethical challenges, such as in international relations and the morality of the public sector.

Examines the colonization of Goa in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the durability of Portuguese rule.

Examines the place of history in the political thought of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, one of the key architects of modern Hindu nationalism.

Examines the struggle of Jewish women to join defense and military activities during the decades leading up to the Israeli War of Independence.

The first complete intellectual biography of one of the most influential and controversial philosophers of the twentieth century, Leo Strauss.

Juxtaposes feminist and queer activism in Britain and the United States in the face of resurgent conservatism during the 1980s.

Drawing on the thought of novelist and cultural critic Daniel Quinn, argues it is not too late to free ourselves from a culture in which we are compelled to destroy the world, one another, and even ourselves.

Follows Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland as they travel together in South America and then go their separate ways, in the process illustrating two very different ways of understanding humanity's place in the natural world.

Describes the profound social impact of the overthrow of the Thai absolute monarchy in 1932, and explains the importance of democracy in a country long known for authoritarian politics.

Illuminates the ways games—from baseball cards to board games, charades to boxing, and croquet to strategies of war—were integral to nineteenth-century life and culture in the United States and Britain.

The first concerted attempt to analyze how the histories Shiji and Hanshu described the technical arts as they were applied in vital areas of the administration of pre-Han and Han China.