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Focuses on large questions about our relation to birds and the natural world. This book encourages birders to see their pursuits in a broader human context - and it shows non birders what they may be missing.

Presents an analysis of one of history's greatest intellectual epochs: the Enlightenment. Arguing that there was a common foundation beneath the diverse strands of thought of this period, this book shows how Enlightenment philosophers drew upon the ideas of the preceding centuries even while radically transforming them to fit the modern world.

Reinvestigates medical writings and cultural performance to reveal the continued relevance of a disorder thought to be a romantic formulation of the past. Through a critical rereading, this book develops a concept of hysteria, one that challenges traditional gender-based theories linking it to dissatisfied feminine sexual desire.

Examines contemporary debates about Ciceronian, Cynic, and Cartesian moral philosophy, as well as subjects ranging from music and the origins of government to property and the nature of the human soul. This book opens up fresh perspectives on the Enlightenment, and eighteenth-century moral and political philosophy.

The Canal du Midi, which threads through southwestern France and links the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, was an astonishing feat of seventeenth-century engineering - in fact, it was technically impossible according to the standards of its day. This book looks at the mystery of its success as well as the canal's surprising political significance.

Presents the iconic figure of the Native American in the British cultural imagination, examining how Native Americans regarded the British and how they challenged their cultural image in Britain. This title argues that native perspectives are essential to our understanding of transatlantic relations and the development of transnational modernity.

Attempting to steer moral philosophy away from abstract theorizing, this title argues that moral philosophy should be a practical, rational, and argumentative engagement with reality, and that moral reflection should have direct effects on our lives and the world in which we live.

The modern prison is commonly thought to be the fruit of an Enlightenment penology that stressed man's ability to reform his soul. This book challenges this view by tracing the institution's emergence to a much earlier period beginning in the late thirteenth century, and provides a view of medieval prison life.

Deals with the twentieth-century philosophy. This title includes essays by philosopher Michael Williams and literary scholar David Bromwich, as well as the essay "The Philosopher as Expert".

Provides an interpretation of the proliferation of regional trade agreements (RTAs) at the end of the twentieth century. This book offers evidence of differences in the legal architectures erected to standardize the worldview of market participants and the reaction of key societal organizations to a broader marketplace.

Documents the uneasy place Jews have held in America's racial culture since the late nineteenth century. This book traces Jews' often tumultuous encounter with race from the 1870s through World War II, when they became vested as part of America's white mainstream and abandoned the practice of describing themselves in racial terms.

Explores why genetic changes do not cause organisms to fail catastrophically and how evolution shapes organisms' robustness. This book looks at this problem, starting with the alphabet of DNA, the genetic code, RNA, and protein molecules, moving on to genetic networks and embryonic development, and working his way up to whole organisms.

From humble beginnings, Rome became perhaps the greatest intercontinental power in the world. This book demonstrates the important link between the history of Rome and its geologic setting. It contains chapters that are arranged geographically, based on the seven hills, the Tiber floodplain, the ancient creeks that dissected the plateau, and more.

Offering an explanation for the revolutionary transformation of the Church, this book includes a collection of interviews with the Council's key bishops and cardinals, and primary documents from the Vatican Secret Archive. It says that the pronouncements of the Council are the product of a confrontation between progressives and conservatives.

Beginning with an interpretation of the Third Reich's sexual politics and ending with the revisions of Germany's past facilitated by communism's collapse, this book examines the intertwined histories of capitalism and communism, pleasure and state policies, religious renewal and secularizing trends.

'How much does it cost?' We think of this question as one that preoccupies the nation's shoppers, not its statesmen. This book shows, the twentieth-century American polity in fact developed in response to that very consumer concern. It offers an interpretation of state power by integrating popular politics and policymaking.

Covers a range of subjects of concern to portfolio managers - investment style, benchmark replication and customization, managing credit and mortgage portfolios, managing central bank reserves, risk optimization, and performance attribution. Divided into two parts, this book provides solutions and methodologies based on investor inquiries.

Examines the Soviet effort in the 1920's and 1930's to create a modern, socialist nation in the Central Asian Republic of Turkmenistan. This book argues that the focus on the Soviet state as a 'maker of nations' overlooks another vital factor in Turkmen nationhood: the complex interaction between Soviet policies and indigenous notions of identity.

Explores the moral terrain of America, analyzing the widely held perception that the nation is in moral decline. This book looks at the question from a variety of angles, examining traditional values, secular values, religious values, family values, economic values, and others.

Tells the story of the modern discovery of biodiversity. This work argues that the work begun by Linnaeus culminated around 1900, when collecting and inventory were organized on a grand scale in natural history surveys.

Taking up the problem of territorial dynamics - why some polities at certain times expand and at other times contract - this book shows that a similar research program can advance our understanding of dynamical processes in history. It investigates the dynamics predicted by the models, and contrasts model predictions with empirical patterns.

This work is based on a six year study of African wild dogs, lycaon pictus, in Tanzania's Selous Game Reserve, the largest protected area in Africa and one of the least-studied.

Looks at a feature of Roman culture: dining posture. This book investigates the meaning and importance of the three principal dining postures - reclining, sitting, and standing - in the period 200 BC-200 AD. It explores the social values and distinctions associated with each of the postures and with the diners who assumed them.

A remarkable lecturer, W H Auden could inspire his listeners to great feats of recall and dictation. This title features lectures, where we hear him alluding to authors from Homer, Dante, and St Augustine to Kierkegaard, Ibsen, and T S Eliot, drawing upon the full range of European literature and opera, and also referring to the day's newspapers.

Surveys the places, performers, and techniques of necromancy as well as the reasons for turning to it. This book investigates the cave-based sites of oracles of the dead at Heracleia Pontica and Tainaron, as well as the oracles at the Acheron and Avernus, which probably consisted of lakeside precincts.