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The Politics of Prostitution
The most effective way to deal with prostitution has always been hotly debated by governments and women’s movements alike. Feminists want it...
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Digenis Akritis
Digenis Akritis is Byzantium’s only epic poem, telling of the exploits of a heroic warrior of double descent on the frontiers between Byzantine and...
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Folk Poetry of Modern Greece
A wide-ranging study of popular poetry and song in the Greek language from the last years of the Byzantine Empire to the present day. The folk poetry...
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Ancient Hebrew Inscriptions
This is the sequel to the first volume of Ancient Hebrew Inscriptions: Corpus and Concordance, published in 1991. It contains some 750 inscriptions...
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The Gender of Constitutional Jurisprudence
To explain how constitutions shape and are shaped by women’s lives, the contributors to this volume examine constitutional cases pertaining to...
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Justice and Democracy
Justice and democracy have alternated as dominant themes in political philosophy over the last fifty years. Since its revival in the middle of the...
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Justice and Democracy
Justice and democracy have alternated as dominant themes in political philosophy over the last fifty years. Since its revival in the middle of the...
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Psychological Investigations of Competence in Decision Making
The premise of this book is that many of the experiences we encounter are novel, infrequent in our experience, or variable with respect to action to...
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Risk Analysis and Society
This new book views risk analysis as one important basis for informed debate, policy decisions and governance regarding risk issues within societies....
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Christianity and Roman Society
Early Christianity in the context of Roman society raises important questions for historians, sociologists of religion and theologians alike. This...
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De vulgari eloquentia
De vulgari eloquentia, written by Dante in the early years of the fourteenth century, is the only known work of medieval literary theory to have been...
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The Social Life of Emotions
This book showcases new research and theory about the way in which the social environment shapes, and is shaped by, emotion. The book has three...
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Contemporary Psychological Research on Social Dilemmas
A social dilemma is a situation in which the interests of the collective and its individual members clash. In these situations individuals typically...
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Creativity in Science
Psychologists, sociologists, philosophers, historians - and even scientists themselves - have often tried to decipher the basis for creativity in...
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Creativity in Science
Psychologists, sociologists, philosophers, historians - and even scientists themselves - have often tried to decipher the basis for creativity in...
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Bioterrorism
After the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system in 1995 just 12 people died but more than 5000 sought medical care for possible exposure....
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Feelings and Emotions
Emotions are central to human behavior and experience. Yet scientific theory and research ignored emotions during most of the 20th century. This...
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Feelings and Emotions
Emotions are central to human behavior and experience. Yet scientific theory and research ignored emotions during most of the 20th century. This...
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The Internet in the Workplace
The capabilities offered by netcentric technologies might seem to eliminate the need for physical workplace altogether, but the workplace remains,...
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Risk and Reason
What should be done about airplane safety and terrorism, global warming, polluted water, nuclear power, and genetically engineered food? All over the...
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Robert Smithson and the American Landscape
Robert Smithson and the American Landscape is a social history of the artist’s earthworks and their critical reception. Providing a close analysis...
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Paul Klee and the Decorative in Modern Art
One of the goals of Modernism was the presentation of the essence of art, or pure form. Encouraged by theorists, from Immanual Kant to Alois Riegl...
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