Stepping-Stones

a Journey Through the Ice Age Caves of the Dordogne

Foreword, Ian Tattersall. The cave art of France#s Dordogne region is world-famous for the mythology and beauty of its remarkable drawings and paintings. These ancient images of lively bison, horses, and mammoths, as well as symbols of all kinds, are fascinating touchstones in the ...

On Evil

Table of Contents: Introduction 1 1 Fictions of Evil 19 2 Obscene Enjoyment 79 3 Job's Comforters 131 Notes 161 Index 165

Radical Judaism

Rethinking God and Tradition

How do we articulate a religious vision that embraces evolution and human authorship of Scripture? Drawing on the Jewish mystical traditions of Kabbalah and Hasidism, path-breaking Jewish scholar Arthur Green argues that a neomystical perspective can help us to reframe these realities, so they may ...

The Book in the Renaissance

The dawn of print was a major turning point in the early modern world. It rescued ancient learning from obscurity, transformed knowledge of the natural and physical world, and brought the thrill of book ownership to the masses. But, as Andrew Pettegree reveals in this ...

Empty Bottles of Gentilism

Kingship and the Divine in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

In this book#the first volume in his groundbreaking trilogy on the emergence of western political thought#Francis Oakley explores the roots of secular political thinking by examining the political ideology and institutions of Hellenistic and late Roman antiquity and of the early European middle ...

The meaning of property

freedom, community, and the legal imagination

In his latest book, Jedediah Purdy takes up a question of deep and lasting importance: Why is property ownership a value to society? His answer returns us to the foundations of American society and enables us to interpret the writings of the patron saint of ...

Fixing global finance

how to curb financial crises in the 21st Century

'It is neither desirable nor feasible for the US to be the world's dominant borrower forever. Indeed it is absurd for the world economy's stability to depend on the willingness of the world's richest consumers to borrow ever more.'The globalisation of ...

Pivotal decade

how the United States traded factories for finance in the seventies

In this fascinating new history, Judith Stein argues that in order to understand our current economic crisis we need to look back to the 1970s and the end of the age of the factory - the era of postwar liberalism, created by the New Deal, whose ...

Women, work, and politics

the political economy of gender inequality

Looking at women's power in the home, in the workplace, and in politics from a political economy perspective, Torben Iversen and Frances Rosenbluth demonstrate that equality is tied to demand for women's labour outside the home, which is a function of structural, political ...

Islam, science, and the challenge of history

In this wide-ranging and masterful work, Ahmad Dallal examines the significance of scientific knowledge and situates the culture of science in relation to other cultural forces in Muslim societies. He traces the ways in which the realms of scientific knowledge and religious authority were delineated ...

Why the Constitution matters

In this surprising and highly unconventional work, Harvard law professor Mark Tushnet poses a seemingly simple question that yields a thoroughly unexpected answer. The Constitution matters, he argues, not because it structures our government but because it structures our politics. He maintains that politicians and ...

Regulating from nowhere

environmental Law and the search for objectivity

Drawing insight from cross-disciplinary sources, Douglas Kysar exposes a critical flaw in the dominant environmental law and policy paradigm of risk assessment and cost-benefit analysis. To compensate for the shortcomings he identifies, Kysar offers a novel defence of the precautionary principle and concludes by advocating ...

Law's environment

how the Law shapes the places we live

In this insightful book, John Copeland Nagle shows how our reliance on environmental law affects the natural environment through an examination of five diverse places in the American landscape: Adak Island far off the coast of western Alaska; the Susquehanna River running through New York ...

Sudan

Darfur and the failure of an african State

Over the past two decades, the situation in Africa's largest country, Sudan, has progressively deteriorated: the country is in second position on the Failed States Index, a war in Darfur has claimed hundreds of thousands of deaths, President Bashir has been indicted by the ...

Grand strategies

literature, stratecraft, and world order

'The international world of states and their modern system is a literary realm', writes Charles Hill in this powerful work on the practice of international relations. 'It is where the greatest issues of the human condition are played out.' A distinguished lifelong diplomat and educator ...

Nature crime

how we're getting conservation wrong

In this impressively researched, alarming book, Rosaleen Duffy investigates the world of nature conservation, arguing that the West's attitude to endangered wildlife is shallow, self-contradictory and ultimately very damaging. Analysing the workings of the black-market wildlife industry, Duffy points out that illegal trading is ...

Light of the Sufis

the mystical arts of Islam

"Light of the Sufis" introduces the complex and multilayered topic of Sufism, or Islamic mysticism, by concentrating on its expression in the visual arts and offers new insights into the integrative and fluid nature of the Sufi experience that has solicited strong reactions - both negative ...

A republic of statutes

the new american constitution

The Constitution is often conceived as our nation's Grand Blueprint and the embodiment of our Highest Aspirations. The authors, using prominent cases such as Brown v. Board of Education, maintain that this conception is myth. Instead, William Eskridge and John Ferejohn propose an original ...

Galileo

watcher of the skies

Galileo (1564-1642) is one of the most important and controversial figures in the history of science. A hero of modern science and key to its birth, he was also a deeply divided man: a scholar committed to the establishment of scientific truth yet forced to ...

The Wars of the Roses

The Wars of the Roses (1455-85) were a major turning point in English history. But the underlying causes for the successive upheavals have been hotly contested by historians ever since. In this original and stimulating new synthesis, distinguished historian Michael Hicks examines the difficult economic ...