Shareholder litigation and class action suits play a key role in protecting investors and regulating big businesses. But Directors and Officers liability insurance shields corporations and their managers from the financial consequences of many illega...

Over the course of a distinguished career, critic Leo Bersani has tackled a range of issues in his writing, and this collection gathers together some of his finest work. Beginning with one of the foundations of queer theory – his famous meditation on...

"Jewish stories", writes Adam Biro, "resemble every people's stories". Yet at the same time there is no better way to understand the soul, history, millennial suffering, or, crucially, the joys of the Jewish people than through such tales – "There's...

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In 1922, the same year that saw the establishment of the Czechoslovak Football Association, a former singer and cabaret director from Prague published a novel about soccer. Eighty-six year...

Following the attack on Pearl Harbor and the entry of the United States into World War II, many commercial advertisers and their Madison Avenue ad agencies instantly switched from selling products and services to selling the home front on ways to sup...

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! A collaborative effort of the Archaeological Institutes of the universities of Prague and Vienna, "Atlas of the Prehistoric Archaeology of Europe" documents the spread of prehistoric cultu...

Tackling the myriad issues raised by Sander Gilman's provocative opening salvo – "Are Jews Musical?" – this volume's distinguished contributors present a series of essays that trace the intersections of Jewish history and music from the late nineteen...

The dictionary. The ubiquitous high-gloss fashion ad. The fraught relationship between artist and critic".Sleeping Beauty" ties these disparate strands of our everyday lives together only to strip away everything we thought we knew about each of them...

In 1933 eminent philosopher Ernst Cassirer (1874-1945) fled Nazi Germany for the United States. His fame in Europe having already been established through a public debate with Martin Heidegger in 1929, Cassirer would go on to become a noteworthy infl...

When Mieke Bal reread the story of Joseph and Potiphar's wife as an adult, she was struck by differences between her childhood memories of a moral tale and what she read today. In "Loving Yusuf", Bal seeks to resolve this clash between memory and tex...