Richard PosnerPosner analyzes the two basic remedial approaches to the crisis, which correspond to the two theories of the cause of the Great Depression. | David EdwardsScientists are famous for believing in the proven and peer-accepted, the very ground that pioneering artists often subvert; they recognize correct and incorrect where artists see only true and false. |
EDUARDO ROJASThe book provides a wide panorama of the most complex problems that the cities of the LAC region currently face and shows—with examples of projects under execution—that it is possible to solve them through the expansion of the scale of interventions. | Milad DoueihiIn a world largely divided between giddy celebrants and dire detractors of digital culture, Milad Doueihi is one of the very few who speak with broadly informed and measured authority about what the rise of the digital means. |
Matthew ConnellyFatal Misconception is the disturbing story of our quest to remake humanity by policing national borders and breeding better people. | Peter Morey, Amina YaqinCan Muslims ever fully be citizens of the West? Can the values of Islam ever be brought into accord with the individual freedoms central to the civic identity of Western nations? Not if you believe what you see on TV. |
Esther M. SternbergEven the ancients understood that some places had healing powers. But in the late 20th century, scientists began to study how space affects both mental and physical health for good and ill. | Justin VaïsseNeoconservatism has undergone a transformation that has made a clear identity almost impossible to capture. The Republican foreign policy operatives of the George W. Bush era seem far removed from the early liberal intellectuals.. |
DOMINIQUE LÉVY, GÉRARD DUMÉNILThis book examines “the great contraction” of 2007–2010 within the context of the neoliberal globalization that began in the early 1980s. | Sari NusseibehFor over sixty years, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been subjected to many solutions and offered many answers by diverse parties. Yet, answers are only as good as the questions that beget them. |
Julia C. OttThe financial crisis that began in 2008 has made Americans keenly aware of the enormous impact Wall Street has on the economic well-being of the nation and its citizenry. |