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Population, Development, and the Environment: Challenges to Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in the Asia Pacific

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book takes the reader into some of the most intransigent social, economic, and political issues that impact achieving sustainable development in Asia and the Pacific. Through meticulous analysis of the integrated relationships between population, development, and the environment, the chapters in this volume investigate the impacts of...

The Lessons of Tragedy: Statecraft and World Order

Yale University Press, 2019

An eloquent call to draw on the lessons of the past to address current threats to international order

The ancient Greeks hard?wired a tragic sensibility into their culture. By looking disaster squarely in the face, by understanding just how badly things could spiral out of control, they sought to create a...

George Eliot: Interdisciplinary Essays (Bicentennial Collection)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This collection brings together new articles by leading scholars who reappraise George Eliot in her bicentenary year as an interdisciplinary thinker and writer for our times. Here, researchers, students, teachers and the general public gain access to new perspectives on Eliot’s vast interests and knowledge, informed by the...

Liberalism as Utopia: The Rise and Fall of Legal Rule in Post-Colonial Mexico, 1820-1900 (Cambridge Latin American Studies)

Cambridge University Press, 2017

The book explores the creation of the post-colonial Mexican state by comparing the legal culture of mestizo towns, indigenous towns and agricultural estates (haciendas). More broadly, it is for readers interested in the social origins of liberalism and authoritarianism in the nineteenth-century world....

The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life

Random House, 2020

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Everybody tells you to live for a cause larger than yourself, but how exactly do you do it? The author of The Road to Character explores what it takes to lead a meaningful life in a self-centered world.

“Deeply moving, frequently eloquent and...

Place and Identity: The Performance of Home (Routledge Focus on Housing and Philosophy)

Routledge, 2018

The UK is experiencing a housing crisis unlike any other. Homelessness is on the increase and more people are at the mercy of landlords due to unaffordable housing. Place and Identity: Home as Performance highlights that the meaning of home is not just found within the bricks and mortar; it is constructed from the network of...

African Americans and Africa: A New History

Yale University Press, 2019

An introduction to the complex relationship between African Americans and the African continent

What is an “African American” and how does this identity relate to the African continent? Rising immigration levels, globalization, and the United States’ first African American president...

The Paradigm of Simias: Essays on Poetic Eccentricity (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes)

De Gruyter, 2019

This book's concern is with notoriously obscure ancient poets-riddlers, whom it argues to have been an essential, albeit necessarily marginal, element of the literary landscape of Antiquity, which, in addition, exerted subtle yet lasting influence on European culture. The three first essays in this book trace a direct line of influence...

Batman and Ethics

John Wiley & Sons, 2019

Batman has been one of the world’s most beloved superheroes since his first appearance in Detective Comics #27 in 1939. Clad in his dark cowl and cape, he has captured the imagination of millions with his single-minded mission to create a better world for the people of Gotham City by fighting crime, making use of expert...

Grinnell: America's Environmental Pioneer and His Restless Drive to Save the West

Liveright, 2019

Winner • National Outdoor Book Award (History/Biography)
Longlisted • PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography

Before Rachel Carson, there was George Bird Grinnell?the man whose prophetic vision did nothing less than launch American conservation.

George...

Gilded Youth: Privilege, Rebellion and the British Public School

Reaktion Books, 2019

The British public school is an iconic institution, a training ground for the ruling elite and a symbol of national identity and tradition. But beyond the elegant architecture and evergreen playing fields is a turbulent history of teenage rebellion, sexual dissidence, and political radicalism. James Brooke-Smith wades into the...

Why You Like It: The Science and Culture of Musical Taste

Flatiron Books, 2019

From the chief architect of the Pandora Radio’s Music Genome Project comes a definitive and groundbreaking examination of how your mind, body, and upbringing influence the music you love.

Everyone loves music. But what is it that makes music so universally beloved and have such a powerful effect on us?

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