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School shootings, police misconduct, and sexual assault where people are injured and die dominate the news. What are the connections between such i...

School shootings, police misconduct, and sexual assault where people are injured and die dominate the news. What are the connections between such i...

'You're 82 years old. You've shrunk six centimetres, you only weigh 45 kilos yet you're still beautiful, graceful and desirable' – so begins André ...

'You're 82 years old. You've shrunk six centimetres, you only weigh 45 kilos yet you're still beautiful, graceful and desirable' – so begins André ...

'My dears: this is but a brief note to welcome you to the new world, where you are now no longer all too far away from us. ‘ So begins Adorno’s let...

'There is something absolute about the letters between you & me; … The letter is a form of communion of the soul-spirit – … one that is faded &...

'There is something absolute about the letters between you & me; … The letter is a form of communion of the soul-spirit – … one that is faded &...

Between 1925 and 1945 thousands of ordinary Germans of both sexes and all ages wrote letters to Hitler. Lost for decades, a large cache of these le...

Academic, writer, figure of melancholy, aesthete – Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009) not only transformed his academic discipline, he also profoundly...

In recent years, there has been substantial progress on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights in the United States. W...

In recent years, there has been substantial progress on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights in the United States. W...

This book of essays by the a leading figure in the new generation of American IR theorists explores the theoretical, historical, and foreign policy...

This book of essays by the a leading figure in the new generation of American IR theorists explores the theoretical, historical, and foreign policy...

Security is meant to make the world safer. Yet despite living in the most secure of times, we see endangerment everywhere. Whether it is the thr...

Security is meant to make the world safer. Yet despite living in the most secure of times, we see endangerment everywhere. Whether it is the thr...

Liberalism is an innovative introductory textbook exploring the dominant discourse of contemporary political theory and the core ideas that underpi...

Liberalism is an innovative introductory textbook exploring the dominant discourse of contemporary political theory and the core ideas that underpi...

The essence of libertarianism is the view that coercive political institutions, such as the state, are justified only insofar as they function to p...

The essence of libertarianism is the view that coercive political institutions, such as the state, are justified only insofar as they function to p...

All aspire to liberty and security in their lives but few people truly enjoy them. This book explains why this is so. In what Conor Gearty calls o...

All aspire to liberty and security in their lives but few people truly enjoy them. This book explains why this is so. In what Conor Gearty calls o...

Libya is teetering on the edge of collapse, having become a new haven for terrorist organizations and an epicenter of the refugee crisis. Few could...

Libya is teetering on the edge of collapse, having become a new haven for terrorist organizations and an epicenter of the refugee crisis. Few could...

Covering almost 8 percent of the earth's terrain, lichens are living beings which are familiar to everyone, known to no one. They are one of those ...