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Why the Civil War Came brings a talented chorus of voices together to recapture        the feel of a very different time and place, helping the reader to grasp more fully        the commencement of our bloodiest war. From William W. Freehling's discussion of the        peculiarities of North American slavery to Charles Royster's disturbing piece on...

Hume's Moral AtheismThomas Holden presents a historical and critical interpretation of Hume's        rejection of the existence of a deity with moral attributes. Hume's 'moral atheism'        is a central plank both of his naturalistic agenda in metaphysics and his        secularizing program in moral theory. It threatens to rule out any religion...

A rich, atmospheric Viking journey into Iceland....

The renormalization group is one of most important theoretical concepts that has emerged in physics during the twentieth century. It explains important properties of fundamental interactions at the microscopic scale, as well as universal properties of continuous macroscopic phase transitions....

The Global Auction offers a timely expose of the realities of the auction for middle class jobs that threatens the livelihoods of millions of American and European workers and their families. It traces the major trends shaping the global labor market and calls for a radical rethinking of the ideas-the promise of opportunity through education-that...