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Transforming Lives
People's lives can be dramatically transformed by psychoanalysis. Yet the decision to undertake this enterprise can seem so formidable that many deny themselves an extraordinary …
Holy Monsters, Sacred Grotesques
Holy Monsters, Sacred Grotesques examines the intersection of religion and monstrosity in a variety of different time periods in the hopes of addressing two gaps in scholarship …
Art of Nonfiction Movie Making
The past few years have featured such blockbusters as Super-Size Me, Fahrenheit 9/11, Sicko, March of the Penguins, and An Inconvenient Truth. And as news articles proclaim a new …
Advances in Genetics
Volume 32 of Advances in Genetics: Incorporating Molecular Genetic Medicine focuses on important and fast moving subjects in modern human genetics and medicine. This volume also …
Nature of Belief Systems Reconsidered
In the foundational document of modern public-opinion research, Philip E. Converse's "e;The Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics"e; (1964) established the U.S. public's …
Facets of Liberty
Facets of Liberty is a collection of historical articles by well-known liberty activists and theorists from the early days of the libertarian, voluntaryist, classical liberal and …
Isaiah Berlin
Isaiah Berlin's liberalism seems both dated and essential in an era of ideological extremes. Berlin's vision of liberalism rejected metaphysics, philosophies of history, and …
Societal Complexity
The complexity of the modern world makes it difficult to predict the effects of political actions. In his 1992 book, System Effects, Robert Jervis underscored this difficulty by …
Power without Knowledge
Technocrats claim to know how to solve the social and economic problems of complex modern societies. But as Jeffrey Friedman argues in Power without Knowledge, there is a …
New Perspectives on Populism
Populism has taken the world by storm--but what is it? In this volume, twelve political scientists and political theorists approach this question from a variety of new …
Empirical Models for Biblical Criticism
Modern critical scholarship has concluded that the books of the Hebrew Bible have not reached us in their original form but are the products of lengthy evolution. Many of these …
Guide to Protecting and Litigating Trade Secrets, Second Edition
Trade secrets are of great and increasing importance to the U.S. economy, representing the vast majority of U.S. intellectual property. Corporations spend billions of dollars to …