ISBN: HB: 9780674983700,
Harvard University Press,
May 2019
472 pp.,
23.5x15.6 cm, 21 photos; 4 illus.
Facebook makes us lonely. Selfies breed narcissism. On Twitter and comment boards, hostility reigns. Pundits and psychologists warn us that digital technologies substantially alter our emotional states. But in this lively and surprising account, we l...
ISBN: HB: 9780674987661,
Harvard University Press,
March 2019
384 pp.,
23.5x15.6 cm, 15 photos, 2 maps, 2 tables
"African Catholic" examines how French imperialists and the Africans they ruled imagined the religious future of French sub-Saharan Africa in the years just before and after decolonization. The story encompasses the political transition to independen...
ISBN: HB: 9780674986428,
Harvard University Press,
March 2019
416 pp.,
23.5x15.6 cm, 85 illus., 34 tables
Authors Duncan Foley, Thomas Michl, and Daniele Tavani present Classical and Keynesian approaches to growth theory, in parallel with Neoclassical ones, and introduce students to advanced tools of intertemporal economic analysis through carefully deve...
ISBN: HB: 9780674984349,
Harvard University Press,
January 2019
295 pp.,
25.4x17.8 cm, 24 colour illus., 64 line lliustrations, 7 maps
Raute and Rawat are endangered languages belonging to the Raji-Raute language cluster within the large Sino-Tibetan family of languages spoken across Asia. The Raute and Rawat people are forest foragers in the central Himalayan region, living by hunt...
ISBN: PB: 9780674986589,
ISBN: HB: 9780674055230,
Harvard University Press,
December 2018
326 pp.,
23.5x15.7 cm
Virgil, Ovid, Cicero, Horace, and other authors of ancient Rome are so firmly established in the Western canon today that the birth of Latin literature seems inevitable. Yet, Denis Feeney boldly argues, the beginnings of Latin literature were anythin...
ISBN: HB: 9780674986374,
Harvard University Press,
October 2018
352 pp.,
23.5x16.2 cm, 51 photos, 3 maps, 2 illus., 4 tables
Despite declining stocks worldwide and increasing health risks, artisanal whaling remains a cultural practice tied to nature's rhythms. "The Wake of the Whale" presents the art, history, and challenge of whaling in the Caribbean and North Atlantic, b...
Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) was the leading Platonic philosopher of the Renaissance and is generally recognized as the greatest authority on ancient Platonism before modern times. Among his finest accomplishments as a scholar was his 1492 Latin trans...
ISBN: HB: 9780884024354,
Harvard University Press,
September 2018
40 pp.,
27.9x21.6 cm, 42 colour illus.
Once upon a time, there lived a humble juggler, Barnaby by name, who was skillful but suffered every winter from poverty. A devotee of the Virgin, he had few failings apart from enjoying drink a little too much. One day he met a monk, who persuaded h...
ISBN: HB: 9780884024347,
Harvard University Press,
September 2018
78 pp.,
27.9x21.6 cm, 74 colour illus.
Once upon a time, there lived a humble juggler, Barnaby by name, who was skillful but suffered every winter from poverty. A devotee of the Virgin, he had few failings apart from enjoying drink a little too much. One day he met a monk, who persuaded h...
At least since Athenian trade sanctions helped to spark the Peloponnesian War, economic coercion has been a prominent tool of foreign policy. In the modern era, sovereign states and multilateral institutions have imposed economic sanctions on dictato...