Harvard University Press

A landmark work of social and political philosophy that finds this leading heir to the Frankfurt School at the height of her powers. Despite widespread technological innovation, scientific and medical breakthroughs, and strides toward...

38,20 € *

Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope

A landmark reinterpretation of the civil rights movement that challenges reductive heroic narratives of the 1950s and 1960s and invigorates new debates and possibilities for the future of the struggle for liberation. We are all familiar...

38,20 € *

The Shape of Content

"The clearest, most forceful statement on art by an artist of our time that I have read." -Frank Getlein, New Republic An illustrated guide to artistic creation from one of the twentieth century's most provocative and expressive...

25,80 € *

Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons

Timeless lessons on the pleasures of listening, the dilemmas of composition, and the meaning of artistic freedom from a founder of musical modernism. In October 1939, Igor Stravinsky took the stage at Harvard not as a conductor but as a...

25,80 € *

The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery

A landmark account of the origins of American slavery, revealing how ancient Roman ideas were used to defend the establishment of a slave empire in the English Atlantic world. The period from 1550 to 1700 was critical in the development...

30,70 € *

NEU

The Highest Exam

Combining personal narratives with decades of research, a vivid account of how the gaokao-China's high-stakes college admissions test-shapes that society and influences education debates in the United States. Each year, more than ten...

32,00 € *

Other Traditions

"An entertaining and shrewd little book ... Ashbery is an accomplished raconteur." -Charles Simic, New York Review of Books The most influential American poet of his generation appraises the lesser-known writers who shaped his own...

25,80 € *