This is the first revised, expanded, and updated edition of "Psychoanalytic Terms and Concepts" since its third edition in 1994. It presents a scholarly exposition of English-language psychoanalytic terms and concepts, including those from all contem...

When do governments merit our allegiance, and when should they be denied it? Ian Shapiro explores this most enduring of political dilemmas in this innovative and engaging book. Building on his highly popular Yale courses, Professor Shapiro evaluates...

Originally published over one hundred years ago, "Radioactive Transformations" describes Ernest Rutherford's Nobel Prize-winning research on radioactive matter. Rutherford outlines the scientific investigations that led to and coincided with Rutherfo...

Drawing on primary source material and interviews with statisticians and other scientists, "The Theory That Would Not Die" is the riveting account of how a seemingly simple theorem ignited one of the greatest scientific controversies of all time. Bay...

In this beautifully illustrated volume, published in celebration of the Renwick Gallery's fortieth anniversary, author Nicholas Bell highlights forty artists (all under the age of forty) actively engaged in creating objects that are transforming cont...

In the opening pages of this irresistible book, William Ian Miller warns, "the general themes... may strike some as glum and grim". Yet humour leavens each page as he confronts old age, its humiliations, and its undeniable hardships. Taking an enti...

This book is the first user-friendly regional guide devoted to ants – the "little things that run the world". Lavishly illustrated with over 500 line illustrations, 300 photographs, and regional distribution maps for every species, this guide will in...

Thomas Babington Macaulay's "History of England" was a phenomenal Victorian best-seller defining a nation's sense of self, its triumphant rise to a powerfully homogenous nation built on a global empire and its claim to be the modern nation, marking t...

Over his thirty years as a master printer, Craig Zammiello has established himself as a foremost specialist of intaglio printmaking in the United States. Through lively discussions between Zammiello, Elisabeth Hodermarsky, and ten contemporary artist...

Sakai Hoitsu was one of the most prominent painters of late 18th- and early 19th-century Japan, known for technical bravura, arresting compositions, and striking use of colour. After becoming a Buddhist monk, Hoitsu was able to dedicate himself to pa...