Power & Choice An Introduction to Political Science

By W. Phillips Shively

W. Phillips Shively’s Power & Choice offers an in-depth look into the nuances of politics, both domestic and international, through the use of multiple comparative perspectives and theoretical approaches. The major theme reflected in the title is based on Shively’s definition of politics as the making of collective choices for a group or state through the use of power. Using extended case examples from around the world, Power & Choice provides undergraduate students with a clear and engaging introduction to political philosophy, comparative legal systems, and international politics.

W. Phillips Shively is professor of political science at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of The Craft of Political Research, tenth edition (2017), as well as numerous articles on elections and methods of analysis.

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Rowman & Littlefield

October 2018

464 pages

Paperback

978 1 5381 1412 4 eBook

978 1 5381 1413 1

Political Science • Political Ideologies / General

A History of the Popes From Peter to the Present

By John W. O’Malley, SJ

A History of the Popes tells the story of the oldest living institution in the Western world—the papacy. From its origins in Saint Peter, Jesus’ chief disciple, through Pope Benedict XVI today, the popes have been key players in virtually all of the great dramas of the western world in the last two thousand years. Rather than describe each pope one by one, this engaging narrative focuses on the popes that shaped pivotal moments in both church and world history.

John W. O’Malley, S.J., is a Roman Catholic priest and professor of religion at Georgetown University. He lives in Washington, D.C., and is the author of numerous books, including What Happened at Vatican II and Four Cultures of the West.

When Paris Sizzled

The 1920s Paris of Hemingway, Chanel, Cocteau, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, and Their Friends

By Mary McAuliffe

When Paris Sizzled vividly portrays the City of Light during the fabulous 1920s when Parisians emerged from the horrors of war to find that a new world greeted them. Mary McAuliffe traces a decade that saw seismic change on almost every front, from art and architecture to music, literature, fashion, entertainment, transportation, and, most notably, behavior.

Mary McAuliffe holds a PhD in history from the University of Maryland and has lectured at the Smithsonian Institution. She has traveled extensively in France, and for many years she was a regular contributor to Paris Notes

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Sheed & Ward

January 2010 • 368 pages

Paperback 978 1 5805 1228 2

Previously published as hardback 978 1 5805 1227 5 eBook 978 1 5805 1229 9

Religion • Christian Theology / History

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Rowman & Littlefield

February 2019 • 344 pages

Paperback 978 1 5381 2180 1

Previously published as hardback 978 1 4422 5332 2 eBook 978 1 4422 5333 9

History • Europe / France

Racism without Racists

Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America, Sixth Edition

By Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva’s acclaimed Racism without Racists examines in detail how Whites talk, think, and account for the existence of racial inequality and makes clear that color-blind racism is as insidious now as ever. The sixth edition includes new material on systemic racism and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva is the James B. Duke Professor of Sociology at Duke University.

Recursivity and Contingency

By Yuk Hui

This book employs recursivity and contingency as two principle concepts to investigate into the relation between nature and technology, machine and organism, system and freedom.

Yuk Hui is the author of On the Existence of Digital Objects and The Question Concerning Technology in China.

Nihilism and Technology

By Nolen Gertz

This investigation is carried out by using Nietzsche’s philosophy of nihilism in order to explore the ways in which our values mediate how we design technologies and how we use technologies. Examining our technological practices reveals how our nihilism and our technologies have become intertwined, creating a world of techno-hypnosis, data-driven activity, pleasure economics, herd networking, and orgies of clicking.

Nolen Gertz is Assistant Professor of Applied Philosophy at the University of Twente.

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Rowman & Littlefield

December 2021 • 392 pages

Paperback 978 1 5381 5141 9

Hardback 978 1 5381 5140 2 eBook 978 1 5381 5142 6

Social Science • Discrimination & Race Relations

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Rowman & Littlefield

January 2019 • 336 pages

Part of the Media Philosophy series

Paperback 978 1 7866 0053 0

Hardback 978 1 7866 0052 3 eBook 978 1 7866 0054 7

Philosophy • Movements / Critical Theory

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Rowman & Littlefield

June 2018 • 298 pages

Paperback 978 1 7866 0703 4

Hardback 978 1 7866 0702 7 eBook 978 1 7866 0704 1

Philosophy • Ethics & Moral Philosophy

Dear Professor Einstein

Albert Einstein’s Letters to and from Children

Edited by Alice Calaprice

This enchanting book displays a small sampling of the amusing, touching, and sometimes precocious letters sent to Albert Einstein by children from around the world, and his often witty and very considerate responses. Alice Calaprice has compiled a delightful and charming collection of more than 60 letters, most never published before, from children to perhaps the greatest scientist of all time. Enhancing this correspondence are numerous photographs showing Einstein amid children, wearing an Indian headdress, carrying a puppet of himself, donning furry slippers, among many other wonderful pictures. They reveal the intimate human side of the great public persona, a man who, though he spent his days contemplating the impersonal abstractions of mathematics and physics, was very fond of children and enjoyed being in their company.

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Prometheus

September 2002 • 200 pages

Hardback 978 1 5910 2015 8 eBook 978 1 6159 2276 5

Literary Collections • Letters

Einstein’s Brainchild Relativity Made Relatively Easy!

By Barry R. Parker, illustrated by Lori Scoffield-Beer

Physicist and popular science writer Barry Parker speaks to the broadest possible audience in bringing Einstein’s theories to life. While tracing the story of Einstein’s life, Parker seizes on the crucial groundbreaking theories that Einstein envisioned. Not since Isaac Newton had anyone conceived the universe in such a revolutionary, startling new way. Through Parker’s eloquence, eye for detail, and clever use of Einsteinian cartoons and vivid illustrations, he enables the reader to see and appreciate for perhaps the first time the full meaning and scope of Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity and General Theory of Relativity.

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Prometheus

April 2007 • 280 pages

Paperback 978 1 5910 2522 1

Previously publishes as hardback 978 1 5739 2857 1 eBook 978 1 6159 2368 7

Science • Relativity

Leonardo’s Brain Understanding Da Vinci’s Creative Genius

By Leonard Shlain

Best-selling author Leonard Shlain explores the life, art, and mind of Leonardo da Vinci, seeking to explain his singularity by looking at his achievements in art, science, psychology, and military strategy and then employing state of the art left-right brain scientific research to explain his universal genius. Shlain shows that no other person in human history has excelled in so many different areas as da Vinci and he peels back the layers to explore the how and the why.

Shlain asserts that Leonardo’s genius came from a unique creative ability that allowed him to understand and excel in a wide range of fields. From here Shlain jumps off and discusses the history of and current research on human creativity that involves different modes of thinking and neuroscience. The author also boldly speculates on whether or not the qualities of Leonardo’s brain and his creativity presage the future evolution of the human species.

Leonard Shlain was a best-selling author and San Francisco surgeon. Admired among artists, scientists, philosophers, anthropologists and educators, Shlain authored three best-selling books: Art & Physics, Alphabet vs. The Goddess and Sex, and Time and Power

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Lyons Press

December 2015

240 pages

Paperback

978 1 4930 0939 8 eBook

978 1 4930 1557 3

History • Europe / Renaissance