Product Description: With the publication of French Philosophy of the Sixties, Alain Renaut and Luc Ferry in 1985 launched their famous critique against canonical figures such as Foucault, Derrida, and Lacan, bringing under rigorous scrutiny the entire post-structuralist project that had dominated Western intellectual life for over two decades...read more

Product Description: In his Discourses (1755), Rousseau argues that inequalities of rank, wealth, and power are the inevitable result of the civilizing process. If inequality is intolerable - and Rousseau shows with unparalledled eloquence how it robs us not only of our material but also of our psychological independence - then how can we recover the peaceful self-sufficiency of life in the state of nature? We cannot return to a simpler time, but measuring the costs of progress may help us to imagine alternatives to the corruption and oppressive conformity of modern society...read more

An authority on nuclear nonproliferation and international affairs strategist presents a cautionary exploration of the consequences of America's engagement in Iraq, offering insight into the ideas and policies that prompted the invasion while predicting that the war will be much longer than expected and increasingly costly for future generations. 15,000 first printing.

A vividly rendered historical novel chronicles the life, adventures, and exploits of Grand Duke Nicholas Kostantinovich Romanov, a rebellious member of the royal family whose scandalous affair with Fanny Lear, a beautiful American courtesan, and his implication in a plot to fund revolutionaries by stealing family jewels led to his banishment.

The Moroccan-born author of Racism Explained to My Daughter applies his method to the subject of Islam, attempting to synthesize this complicated religious subject for his daughter while discussing such topics as the meaning of jihad, fatwa, and terrorism. Reprint.

Product Description: Jacques Ninio, an international authority on visual perception, here explores the fascinating world of illusions. His book features a stunning array of illustrations including many images seldom seen in books on the topic. The art ranges from classical illusions inspired by rainbows, mirages, and other oddities of nature; to figures from seventeenth-century physics texts which Ninio himself unearthed; to spectacular new illustrations in which motion is perceived in fixed images...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "I have lived, alone, in a cell, 157,852,800 seconds of solitude and fear. Cause for screaming! They sentence me to live yet another 220,838,400 seconds! To live them or to die from them."—from The Silent EscapeVictim of Stalinist-era terror, Lena Constante was arrested on trumped-up charges of "espionage" and sentenced to twelve years in Romanian prisons...read more

Shows how the rise of nationalism in the former republics reduced the Communist Party's power and led inevitably to the revolution of 1991

Product Description: "Heidegger and Modernity is an intervention in the Heidegger debate in France which many may see as decisive. Its central claim is that the responses of left Heideggerians to continuing disclosures regarding Heidegger's Nazi affiliations fail to come to terms with central ambiguities in his philosophical responses, both early and late, to modernity and technology...read more