Why are people continually surprised to discover that money is "just" meaning? Mutual Life, Limited spends time among those who, in acknowledging the ...

In a postcolonial world, where structures of power, hierarchy, and domination operate on a global scale, writers face an ethical and aesthetic dilemma: ...

Convolution and Equidistribution explores an important aspect of number theory--the theory of exponential sums over finite fields and their Mellin transforms--from ...

This book seeks to explain why different systems of sovereign states have built different types of fundamental institutions to govern interstate relations. ...

"No author who lives in Greece," writes Peter Bien, "can avoid politics." This first volume of his major intellectual biography of Nikos Kazantzakis approaches ...

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Before Palm Pilots and iPods, PCs and laptops, the term "computer" referred to the people who did scientific calculations by hand. These workers were ...

These essays are, according to Majorie Nicholson, "the most illuminating articles we have on the important subject of prose style. They were pioneer articles ...

Over the past several decades, civil and ethnic wars have undermined prospects for economic and political development, destabilized entire regions of ...

Why the increasing use of boilerplate is eroding our rights Boilerplate-the fine-print terms and conditions that we become subject to when we click ...