Oxford University Press

Imagining the Balkans examines how an innocent geographic appellation was transformed into a powerful and widespread pejorative designation. In a new afterword, Maria Todorova discusses the reaction to her dubbing of the term Balkanism and recent events in the Balkans....

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The Crafting of Networked Politics from Howard Dean to Barack ObamaTaking Our Country Back presents the previously untold history of the uptake of        new media in Democratic electoral campaigning over the last decade. Drawing on        open-ended interviews with more than fifty political staffers, fieldwork during the        2008 primaries and...

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Written by Derrida scholars, philosophers, and classicists, Derrida and Antiquity analyses a dialogue with the ancient world in the work of one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. The volume is prefaced by a previously untranslated essay by Derrida, 'We Other Greeks'....

This book provides a coherent explanation of human nature, which is to say how people think, act, and feel, what they want, and how they interact with each other. The central idea is that the human psyche was designed by evolution to enable people to create and sustain culture....