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The first full account of Whitman's Civil War years sheds new light on the man, his poetry, and the treatment of the war's sick and wounded....

In recent decades, theologians and philosophers of religion have been engaged in a vigorous debate about the status and nature of ecclesiology, and of community. In that discussion, theologians have found resources in political philosophy, particularly communitarianism and political liberalism. In this book, Peter Dula turns to Stanley Cavell to...

The Financial Crisis of Our Time investigates the mechanism by which the housing industry came into crisis beginning in 2006, and the system of incentives that led to financial disaster....

The Real World of EU Accountability examines how the European Union operates in practice and how and where its various institutions are held to account for the decisions they take and the power they wield....

The issue of the canon has been debated in academic circles for over fifteen years.  Pleasure and Change contains two lectures on this important subject-delivered as the Tanner lectures at Berkeley in November of 2001-by the distinguished literary critic Sir Frank Kermode. Kermode bypasses the contentious and now somewhat tired ideological debates...