Deterrence by diplomacy

Why are countries often able to communicate critical information using diplomacy? Why do countries typically use diplomacy honestly, despite incentives to bluff? Why are they often able to deter attacks using merely verbal threats? International relations theory is largely pessimistic about the prospects for effective ...

Classical and nonclassical logics

an introduction to the mathematics of propositions

So-called classical logic--the logic developed in the early twentieth century by Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, and others--is computationally the simplest of the major logics, and it is adequate for the needs of most mathematicians. But it is just one of the many kinds of reasoning ...

The company of strangers

a natural history of economic life

Human beings are the only species in nature to have developed an elaborate division of labor between strangers. Even something as simple as buying a shirt depends on an astonishing web of interaction and organization that spans the world. But unlike that other uniquely human ...

A new World order

Global governance is here--but not where most people think. This book presents the far-reaching argument that not only should we have a new world order but that we already do. Anne-Marie Slaughter asks us to completely rethink how we view the political world. It's ...

The ethics of identity

Race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexuality: in the past couple of decades, a great deal of attention has been paid to such collective identities. They clamor for recognition and respect, sometimes at the expense of other things we value. But to what extent do "identities ...

The question of Zion

Zionism was inspired as a movement - one driven by the search for a homeland for the stateless and persecuted Jewish people. Yet it trampled the rights of the Arabs in Palestine. Today, it has become so controversial that it defies understanding and trumps reasoned public ...

The handless maiden

moriscos and the politics of religion in early modern Spain

In 1502, a decade of increasing tension between Muslims and Christians in Spain culminated in a royal decree that Muslims in Castile wanting to remain had to convert to Christianity. Mary Elizabeth Perry uses this event as the starting point for a remarkable exploration of ...

Advanced international trade

theory and evidence

Advanced International Trade is the first major graduate textbook in international trade in a generation. Trade is a cornerstone concept in economics, taught in all departments both in the United States and abroad. The past twenty years have seen a number of new theoretical approaches ...

The future of money

Is globalization leading us toward a world of fewer and fewer currencies and, consequently, simplified monetary management? Many specialists believe this is the case, as the territorial monopolies national governments have long claimed over money appears to be eroding. In The Future of Money, Benjamin ...

Mathematical techniques in finance

tools for incomplete markets

Modern finance overlaps with many fields of mathematics, and for students this can represent considerable strain. Mathematical Techniques in Finance is an ideal textbook for Masters finance courses with a significant quantitative element while also being suitable for finance Ph.D. students. Developed for the ...

My life is a weapon

a Modern History of suicide bombing

Growing up palestinian

israeli occupation and the Intifada generation

Waging peace

Israel and the Arabs, 1948-2003

Islam and chalenge of democracy

a Boston Review Book

The hanged man

a story of miracle, memory, and colinialism in the Middle Ages

The seduction of unreason

the intellectual romance with fascism from Nietzsche to postmodernism

Mothers and children

jewish family life in medieval Europe

This book presents a synthetic history of the family - the most basic building block of medieval Jewish communities - in Germany and northern France during the High Middle Ages. Concentrating on the special roles of mothers and children, it also advances recent efforts to write a ...

A jewish Renaissance in Fifteenth-Century Spain

The invention of racism in Classical Antiquity

Proving woman

female spirituality and inquisitional culture in the Later Middle Ages

In this provocative and forceful book, Dyan Elliott considers the impact of an institutional procedure on the phenomena it was used to assess. "Proving Woman" examines sacramental confession, the inquisition of heretics, and the discernment of spirits as parallel cases of a growing medieval concern ...

Hiding from humanity

disgust, shame, and the Law

The humor of Kierkeggard

an anthology