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Across western Eurasia in the 1930s, Marxists developed, and disagreed on, the best methods to combat fascism. The literatures on this period are vast but rarely do they intersect, primarily because many studies stay within tight national or political...
Trafalgar: the full story of one of the most famous naval engagements in history During the Napoleonic War, the British Royal Navy faced French and Spanish fleets off the South-Western coast of Spain in one of the most recognised naval engagements in history. In the...
Sense and Action develops a systematic account of the way sensory systems like thirst, hunger, sleep drive, itch, pain, and thermoreception drive and influence human action, a topic hitherto lacking in sustained philosophical examination. These are all sensory systems,...
'Very thin indeed is the curtain between us and the unknown' The short stories of H. G. Wells are about many things, but they are nearly always about contact between the extraordinary and the everyday. There are few mighty statesmen or square-jawed heroes in his...
In 1967, the Russian writer and dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote, 'Looking back, even a fool would have been able to predict it today: the Soviet regime could certainly have been breached only by literature.'In Writing the Nation after Stalin, Erin Hutchinson...
AIDS at a Crossroads: How Antiretrovirals and Community Transformed the HIV Response chronicles the global HIV response through 2023, and the remarkable progress achieved toward epidemic control through innovation in biomedicine, the resolve of political leadership, and...
Jason Gaiger explores the evolution of aesthetics in the German philosophical tradition from the mid eighteenth to the early nineteenth century. Focusing on figures such as Lessing, Herder, Kant, Schiller, and Hegel, he examines how their ideas about art, nature, and...
The concrete world contains a great diversity of phenomena. There are quarks, molecules, galaxies, trees, wombats, persons, nerf balls, nations, and more.The properties those entities have, and the relations in which they stand, are no less varied. But is there an...
Mental Means offers a systematic treatment of intentional mental action: what you do intentionally with your mind. You can think of a word to decide on a password, call to mind how something looks to imagine it, or make a judgment to answer a question. When using a...
Within the global history framework, books written on warfare frequently focus on West Europe and the United States of America. Asian militaries are too often understood or measured in terms of the 'West', with scholars contending that bureaucratic polities, standing...
John Milton, England's greatest narrative poet, and Isaac Newton, England's greatest natural philosopher, are rarely thought of together. While one is regarded as the last great figure of the English Renaissance and the other as the first great figure of the English...
The life of the mind offers a resource for discovering the basic categories of the cosmos. This is a distinctive impetus shared by the Christian heritage, especially from Jesus, Augustine, and Anselm, and the modern critical turn to the subject, especially Kant, Hegel,...
Co-creation refers to public managers increasingly working jointly with service users and local communities to improve both the design and delivery of public services. These state-society arrangements foster collaboration, partnership, and participation in policymaking....
What is the purpose of art? In the middle of the nineteenth century, English artists and art writers argued that painting was a powerful, untapped vehicle of social reform. Art had the ability--indeed, the responsibility--to provoke real change to improve lives in the...
Visualising Women in Late Antiquity examines depictions of contemporary women in the late antique Mediterranean as a rich source for social history. Most histories of women in this period focus on the copious surviving textual sources, the majority of which were written...
Most people agree that we can have duties to prevent harm to others. But there is significant disagreement about what these duties demand of us and what they permit others to do to us. In Help! The Ethics of Rescue, Helen Frowe develops an account of the theoretical...
Salvation: Ethical Life III examines the meaning of salvation in Christian theology. Viewing all theological writing as a cultural production, Graham Ward rethinks key aspects of salvation^—^sin, death, atonement, and sanctification^—^through various lenses drawn from...
Interpersonal Diplomacy offers a pioneering theory of how emotional connection and trust between world leaders can shape the outcomes of international crises, especially those involving nuclear weapons. Drawing on microsociological theory, particularly Randall Collins'...
Policymakers around the world often aim to learn from ordinary people through participatory institutions like consultations, petitions, complaint mechanisms, townhalls, constituent communications, crowdsourcing platforms, participatory budgeting, and citizen assemblies....
The Italian Fascist dictator Mussolini was killed in 1945 and his body was exhibited upside down in Milan before an angry crowd.The repudiation of the dictator who had led his people to disaster was complete. But his story did not end there.The Duce lived on thanks to a...
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