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In 1880s Britain, philosophers developed what would become a half-century obsession with time.In that era, time was widely held to be “unreal”; by the 1920s, it was widely held to be real. This sea change was gradual but sweeping. Early time realists focused on...
Variation is an inherent component of biology, essential to selection among alternatives during evolution. It is most often associated with genetic variation, or differences among the genes encoded in the DNA inherited from ancestors. Individual organisms receive their...
Moses Maimonides is undoubtedly the most famous rationalist of the Jewish tradition, portraying all of Torah as an intellectual project to know the deepest secrets of God and nature. This book, however, argues that this characterization of Maimonides is only partially...
Health equity represents the opportunity for everyone to live the healthiest life possible, no matter their identity, address, background, or income. To achieve true equity, healthcare providers everywhere must seek to address the pervasive racial bias and...
We now have abundant evidence that structural racism is a ubiquitous social force that shapes health in the United States. However, despite this growing recognition, structural racism and its influence on health outcomes have received insufficient research attention....
The United States opioid crisis has wrought devastation on a massive scale. With closure elusive, much of the blame has fallen on a single pill, a long-acting oxycodone tablet called OxyContin. Perhaps one of the most notorious prescription painkillers on the market,...
Research that occurs in the context of disasters requires attention to challenging contexts and circumstances. In Qualitative Disaster Research, Brenda D. Phillips walks readers through the ways in which those contexts can be managed to produce careful, rigorous, and...
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, governments around the world have expelled, en masse, more than 30 million people. Yet despite its prevalence, mass expulsion remains an understudied phenomenon as scholarly attention has been directed toward the gravest...
Which form of capitalism serves justice, not just at home, but worldwide? In Debating Capitalism: Market Liberalism or Social Democracy, leading philosophers Richard J. Arneson and Jason Brennan square off in a clear, forceful, and timely debate about how market...
Forgiveness is at one and the same time a very ordinary and quite challenging moral phenomenon. It is expected of children as a part of their moral development and of our moral exemplars. At the same time, we debate whether we could or even should forgive in certain...
Armed Conflict and International Law in the Indo-Pacific Region provides a timely and regionally grounded analysis of how international law applies to potential armed conflict in one of the world's most strategically dynamic regions. Adopting a multi-domain approach,...
Black Queer Girlhood on the Musical Theatre Stage offers a new perspective on the creativity of contemporaryBlack women musical theatre artists, their representations ofBlack girlhood, and theBlack queer feminist spectators who engage with their work. Creating a new...
This book analyzes the political thought of Frederick Douglass within the larger Black Republican tradition of the nineteenth century. It argues that Douglass's overriding goal during five decades of public life was to cultivate a political order across the western...
Is it rational to be moral?Is it irrational to not care at all about anybody but yourself? In Empathic Reason, Luke Roelofs defends Empathic Rationalism, a new account of the relationship between morality and rationality. They vindicate the idea that we rationally have...
Both scholars and decision-makers recognize that the functioning of an organization is the result of a complex interplay between purposively designed elements, such as structures and processes, and emergent elements, like the informal networks of relationships that...
How does China pursue science, technology, and innovation? China has emerged as a leading technology power in recent years, and its policies shape issues ranging from geopolitical rivalry to climate change to artificial intelligence. Yet if China's pursuit of science,...
When Kiss Me, Kate premiered in its first try-out performance, its future was anything but certain. Conceived and staged in just nine months of intense, sometimes chaotic collaboration, the show was a bold experiment: a backstage musical built around a Shakespearean...
Human rights have been embedded in the work of the United Nations since its creation. The very purpose of the United Nations, set forth in the UN Charter, is to "reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights" and "encourag[e] respect for human rights and for fundamental...
This book delves into the dynamic and increasingly complex world of New Psychoactive Substances (NPS). Between 2009 and 2023, more than 1,250 distinct NPS were identified worldwide, with a record number reported in 2023 alone.This surge reflects a growing diversity,...
A new, comprehensive history of the Ottoman Empire from its beginnings in 1300 to its dissolution in 1922 written by North America's leading expert in the field. The Ottoman Empire was one of the mightiest empires in world history, ruling parts of Eastern Europe, the...
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