Over the course of more than six decades as an author, journalist, and professor, Max Lerner studied and assessed many presidents, yet Thomas Jefferson received his most sustained attention. To Lerner
A prominent Catholic philosopher, Wilhelmsen (1923-96) presents eight essays each addressing a philosophical problem generated by history. Most of them locate that problem within its conception of som
Writing from a distinctly Zionist perspective worried that the so-called "Arab Spring" is leading to an "Islamic Winter" in which "clouds of tension and war would gather over the skies of the Middle E
In this book of absorbing stories, Bruce Mazlish illuminates the lives of intellectual and political leaders with the penetrating light of psychohistory and in doing so illuminates our own lives as we
The author explores the ubiquity of "mobile symmetries" of nature (such as in human walking or fish swimming) in nature and the ways in which the biomechanics of such symmetry, balance, and angular mo
When originally published in 1971, Hollywood Studio Musicians was the first detailed analysis of the work and careers of production personnel in an industry devoted to mass culture. Previously, most r
Murray (1893-1988), who taught at Harvard for many years, influenced psychology through "the study of lives" as dynamic wholes and development of the Thematic Apperception Test. In a reprinted volume
This volume encompasses a wide range of empirical research on a variety of topics that are related by their focus on the importance of attitudes, culture, and perceptions. The significance of public a
Broadening the Contours in the Study of Black Politics, volume 17 of the National Political Science Review (NPSR), is divided thematically into two books, available separately or as a set. The first c
Professor Emeritus of History, Felix, presents his unauthorized biography of the diplomat and later public intellectual, George F. Kennan (1904-2005). Speaking Russian and well-versed in the Soviet ec
Editors Smith and Kirkpatrick bring together expert contributions from a wide variety of disciplines to examine possible interventions to move the city of Detroit forward from its current state of fis
Professor Emeritus Goodheart cites, for starters, the need for loosening the grip of ideology in the political arena. He quotes the founding father of modern conservatism, Edmund Burke (1729-1797): “R
In this text, Wilhelmsen explores the Thomistic doctrines of being and knowing and their reliance on two basic assertions of St. Thomas Aquinas’s philosophy--that metaphysics is the science of existen
This festschrift celebrates the accomplishments of renowned social scientist Irving Louis Horowitz as he turned sixty-five. Since Horowitz’s views were global and his discourse was never restricted to
Founders, classics, and canons have been vitally important in helping to frame sociology’s identity. Within the academy today, a number of positions—feminist, postmodernist, postcolonial—question the
Best known for his The Liberal Tradition in America, Hartz (1919-89) was also lauded for his dynamic teaching style, but never published his lecture notes, and they have never been found. Here Paul Ro
Sociology of Religion represents a documented introduction to the history of sociological thought as applied to religious phenomena. It examines both the substantive and functional definitions of reli
Drawing on his field world during the early 1970s, Siegal presents a sociological study of how people drastically lacking in material resources could construct a social world capable of satisfying the
The games that human societies devised over the centuries can be considered one of the most comprehensive and fertile symbolic systems ever created by human ingenuity. In all societies, members feel c
Faith, War, and Violence analyzes the age-old links between religion and violence perpetrated in the name of God, and the role religion performs in politically infusing the state with romantic spiritu
