"[A] bracingly original book." -Harold Holzer,?Wall Street Journal

How a band of antislavery leaders recovered the radical philosophical inspirations of the first American Revolution to defeat the slaveholders' oligarchy in…

How the pioneering co-founder of the field of positive psychology can help us navigate our increasingly complicated world

Over the years since Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi first published Flow: The Psychology of…

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Longlisted for the National Book Award. Where did the ideas come from that became the cornerstone of American democracy?

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…

Tells the story of Wallace Stegner and his family as they made a home just outside of Palo Alto, California, during its transition from the Valley of Heart’s Delight to…

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…

Focusing on the socialization of the human use of other animals as resources in contemporary Western society, this book explores the cultural reproduction of human-nonhuman animal relations in childhood.