Well-versed in and appreciative of the latest developments in physics and cosmology, biology and neuroscience, Sharpe provides fascinating accounts of how contemporary knowledge expands stodgy notions of reality. He also…

Spin and photo opportunities may appear to have emerged on to the political scene only recently, but in fact image and its manipulation have always been vital to the authority…

Anchored in classical philosophy, this book nonetheless makes telling use of the work of a great number of modern philosophers from Tarski and Dewey to Quine and Rorty. Representing the…

The outstanding essays in this volume explore the interdependency of literature and history in seventeenth-century England. The relation of text to society is examined both as theory and as practice…

Features 30 examples of American Impressionist painting by the artists who redefined the movement for American audiences. This work also includes an essay that examines the unintentional circumstances and deliberate…

Following the Civil War, the United States turned its attention to the unexplored territories between the Mississippi and the Pacific. This is the story of Edwin Drinker Cope and Othniel…

The last of four volumes comprising a biographical dictionary of state speakers from 1911 to 1994, this book covers Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania…