In The Interpretation of Cultures, the most original anthropologist of his generation moved far beyond the traditional confines of his discipline to develop an important new concept of culture. This groundbreaking book, winner of the 1974 Sorokin Awa Zobraziť viac
Is sexual identity biologically determined or a product of social convention? In this brilliant and provocative classic, the distinguished feminist scholar Anne Fausto-Sterling argues that even the most fundamental knowledge about... Zobraziť viac
The definitive story behind the self-destruction of the autocratic Romanov dynasty, by the world's foremost expert... Zobraziť viac
What happens when a young child is traumatized? How does terror affect a child's mind-and how can that mind recover... Zobraziť viac
Cleopatra: lover, seductress, and Egypt's greatest queen. A woman more myth than history, immortalized in poetry, drama, music, art, and film. She captivated Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, the two greatest Romans of the day, and died in a blaze of... Zobraziť viac
Playing on the phrase “a theory of everything” in physics, Michael Muthukrishna offers a unified theory of human behavior, culture, and society – a theory of everyone... Zobraziť viac
The principles of the French Revolution remain the only possible basis for a just society — even if, after more than two hundred years, they are more contested than ever before. In A New World Begins, Jeremy D. Popkin offers a riveting account... Zobraziť viac
Basic Books: This is an expanded edition of the classic text on Jewish theology, by the renowned Talmudic scholar who... Zobraziť viac
Around 2000, people began to believe that books were on verge of extinction. Their obsolescence, in turn, was expected to doom the habits of mind that longform print had once prompted: the capacity to follow a demanding idea from start to finish, to look Zobraziť viac
