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In his final work, Richard Rorty provides the definitive statement of his political thought. Rorty equates pragmatism with anti-authoritarianism, arguing that because there is no authority we can rely on to ascertain truth, we can only do so intersubjectively. It follows that we must learn to think and care about what others think and care about.

Drinking a glass of tap water, strolling in a park, hopping a train for the suburbs: some aspects of city life are so familiar that we don t think twice about them. But such simple actions are structured by complex relationships with our natural world. The contours of these relationships social, cultural, political, economic, and legal were established during America s first great period of urbanization in the nineteenth century, and Boston, one of the earliest cities in America, often led the nation in designing them. A richly textured cultural and social history of the development of nineteenth-century Boston, this book provides a new environmental perspective on the creation of America s first cities. "Eden on the Charles" explores how Bostonians channeled country lakes through miles of pipeline to provide clean water; dredged the ocean to deepen the harbor; filled tidal flats and covered the peninsula with houses, shops, and factories; and created a metropolitan system of parks and greenways, facilitating the conversion of fields into suburbs. The book shows how, in Boston, different class and ethnic groups brought rival ideas of nature and competing visions of a city upon a hill to the process of urbanization and were forced to conform their goals to the realities of Boston s distinctive natural setting. The outcomes of their battles for control over the city s development were ultimately recorded in the very fabric of Boston itself. In Boston s history, we find the seeds of the environmental relationships that for better or worse have defined urban America to this day. "

What equality means in three modern democracies, both to leaders of important groups and to challengers of the status quo, is the subject of this wide-ranging canvass of perceptions and policy. It is based on extensive questionnaire data gathered from leaders in various segments of society in each countrybusiness, labor unions, farm organizations, political parties, the media-as well as from groups that are seeking greater equalityfeminists, black leaders in the United States, leaders of the Burakumin in Japan. The authors describe the extent to which the same meanings of equality exist, both within and across nations, and locate the areas of consensus and conflict over equality. No other book has compared data of this sort for these purposes. The authors address several major substantive and theoretical issues: the role of values in relation to egalitarian outcomes; the comparison of values and perceptions about equality in economics (income equality) and politics (equality of influence); and the difference among the nations in the ways political institutions affect the incorporation of new demands for equality into the policymaking process. They pay particular attention to how policy is set on issues of gender equality. This book will be controversial, for some see no room in the understanding of political economy for the analysis of values. It will be consulted by a general audience interested in politics and culture as well as by social scientists. Elites and the Idea of Equality is an informative sequel to Equality in America by Sidney Verba and Gary R. Orren (Harvard University Press), which considers similar topics in a national context.

The Samaveda contains the earliest tradition of music from India. It presents largely Rigvedic textual material in a form arranged for singing in the solemn Srauta ritual. This edition is based on manuscripts collected from all over India and Europe. B. R. Sharma presents the accented text, its Padapatha, and commentaries.

Love Life follows Yora, an immigrant to the United States from Ukraine, as she becomes enmeshed with the seductive Sebastian. The second novel by the award-winning Ukrainian writer and poet Oksana Lutsyshyna, Love Life is a fascinating story of self-discovery amidst the complexities of adapting to a new life.

Love Life follows Yora, an immigrant to the United States from Ukraine, as she becomes enmeshed with the seductive Sebastian. The second novel by the award-winning Ukrainian writer and poet Oksana Lutsyshyna, Love Life is a fascinating story of self-discovery amidst the complexities of adapting to a new life.

Cornerstone of the Nation is the first historical account of the complex alliance of forces that catapulted South Koreäs modernization under Park Chung Hee. Kwon makes the case that arms development may be the most durable and yet least acknowledged factor behind the country¿s rise to economic prominence in the late twentieth century.

This volume covers the five-year period in which Garrison's three sons were born and he entered the arena of social reform with full force.

The events of World War I form a somber canvas for the exchanges in Volume 2 (July 1914 through December 1919). Uncertainty pervades the letters: Will Ferenczi be called up? Will food, fuel, and cigar shortages continue? Will Freud's enlisted sons and son-in-law come through the war intact? And will Freud's "problem-child," psychoanalysis, survive?

If existing models of the structure of the universe are correct, then 85 percent of the cosmos comprises a substance called dark matter. Yet no direct evidence of dark matter exists. Award-winning science journalist Govert Schilling details the quest to detect dark matter and how the search has helped us to understand the universe we inhabit.

Long before Greeks dominated the ancient Mediterranean, Phoenicians were the lords of the sea. Setting out from their Levantine cities, they introduced their alphabet, art, technology, and gods to places as far as off as Iberia. Carolina López-Ruiz highlights the enduring Phoenician imprint, displacing the Hellenocentric model of the ancient world.

Bobby Kennedy wasn¿t the most visible figure in the civil rights movement, but his impact was transformative. As attorney general, he protected the Freedom Riders and turned the Justice Department from an enemy of civil rights into an enforcer of antiracist policies. Patricia Sullivan gives Kennedy his rightful place as a force for racial justice.

Although Cicerös oratory is well attested¿of 106 known speeches, fifty-eight survive intact or in large part¿the sixteen speeches that survive only in quotations by later authors nevertheless fill gaps in our knowledge of Rome¿s greatest orator. This edition includes all speeches with attested fragments, together with testimonia.

Justin¿s artfully condensed version of the lost Philippic History of Trogus, a contemporary of Livy, is a universal history of the world apart from Rome, from mythic beginnings through Alexander the Great, the Hellenistic kingdoms, and Parthia, and was among the most widely read and influential books in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

Justin¿s artfully condensed version of the lost Philippic History of Trogus, a contemporary of Livy, is a universal history of the world apart from Rome, from mythic beginnings through Alexander the Great, the Hellenistic kingdoms, and Parthia, and was among the most widely read and influential books in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

In the first comprehensive account of the Supreme Court¿s race-related jurisprudence, a distinguished historian and a renowned civil rights lawyer scrutinize a legacy too often blighted by racial injustice. Discussing nearly 200 cases in historical context, the authors show the Court can still help fulfill the nation¿s promise of equality for all.

In his description of Ulysses in Inferno, Dante subjected the legendary Greek hero to a thoroughgoing revision. Dante portrays a profoundly restless character who finds not fulfillment but death. Ulysses and the Limits of Dante¿s Humanism / Ulisse o dei limiti dell¿umanesimo dantesco offers a bilingual English and Italian examination.

The Making of Chinäs Post Office traces the origins and early development¿and the political maneuverings and economic imperatives¿of the institution. Using Chinese archives, Tsai illustrates the extent to which local agency shaped the design and development of the first nationwide modernization project to directly impact people¿s daily lives.

The Collapse of Heaven investigates a long-neglected century in Chinese literature through the lens of the Taiping War (1851¿1864). Huan Jin examines manifold literary and cultural transformations through pamphlets, diaries, poetry, fiction, and drama. The book offers an important comparative perspective on the global nineteenth century.

Transpatial Modernity offers the first in-depth account of the relationship among Chinese, Japanese, and Russian literature in the modern era. Xiaolu Ma discusses leading cultural figures such as Leo Tolstoy, Futabatei Shimei, and Lu Xun and demonstrates the central role of relay transculturation as the key to understanding East Asian modernity.

Drawing on both contemporaneous historical sources and modern literary criticism, Navigating Narratives offers unique insights into Heian Japan through one of its most enigmatic and consequential texts, Tosa nikki (The Tosa Diary)¿the world¿s first short novelistic work of fiction, which purports to record the voyage of an anonymous woman.

Anthony Grafton explores the art and influence of an opaque historical figure: the magus, or learned magician. A distinctive intellectual type in Renaissance Europe, magi contributed to the humanistic currents of the time and had a transformative impact on public life, influencing advances in sculpture, painting, engineering, and other fields.

The interdisciplinary essays in Global Gold¿by scholars of European, American, African, and Asian history and art history¿explore gold¿s monetary, economic, and aesthetic roles within the crucible of a unique historical period of transition, conquest, and the exploitation of natural and human resources.

Organizations now measure and rank nearly every aspect of our lives, using data to make predictions about our purchasing power, tastes, and character. The Ordinal Society shows how these predictions structure life chances, producing a hollow morality that launders familiar forms of social advantage into an illusion of merit.