What is tragedy? This work argues that it is, at once, art and science an absorbing art and precisely observed empirical inquiry into human psychology, whose subject matter is the…

This book argues that there is an important connection between ethical resistance to British imperialism and the ethical discovery of gay rights. By closely examining the roots of liberal resistance…

This book tells the stories of historical figures who resisted patriarchal laws around adultery and gay and lesbian sex. Studies of George Eliot, Benjamin Britten, Eleanor Roosevelt, and James Baldwin…

The author provides his own personal interpretation of Amendments 13, 14 and 15 of the US Constitution. Linking history, law and political theory, his analysis of the Reconstruction Amendments progresses…

Why have the issues of religious liberty, free speech and constitutional privacy come to figure so prominently in our society? What are the origins of the basic principles of our…

Darkness Now Visible addresses readers who are concerned about the future of democracy in the US and elsewhere. This book offers a bold and original thesis and explains why feminism…

An ideal introduction to one of Dicken’s most popular novels, this text includes autobiography, text interpretations, period illustrations, stage and screen history and key passages carefully cross-referenced to earlier material.

The second edition of Electronic Publishing and Libraries. It aims to quantify the future size of the electronic publishing industry, and provides practical data to support investment decisions as an…