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The Federalist Papers comprise eighty-five essays written to persuade New Yorkers to ratify the Constitution of the United States in 1787-8. Written by key players in the American Revolution, they made a case for a new, united nation. They are the most important work of political thought to have come out of America....

Argentina and the Legacies of Torture, Revised and Updated with a New EpilogueTanks roaring over farmlands, pregnant women tortured, 30,000 individuals "e;disappeared"e;--these were the horrors of Argentina&'s Dirty War. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year and Finalist for the L.L. Winship / PEN New England Award in 1998, A Lexicon of...

What Everyone Needs to Know, Revised and Updated EditionThe Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed by President Obama in March 2010 is a landmark in U.S. social legislation, and the Supreme Court's recent decision upholding the Act has ensured that it will remain the law of the land. The new law extends health insurance to nearly all...

Charmides, Laches, Lysis, MenoIn these four dialogues Plato considers virtue and its definition. Charmides,        Laches, and Lysis investigate the specific virtues of self-control, courage, and        friendship; the laterMeno discusses the concept of virtue as a whole, and whether it        is something that can be taught....

Jane Austen began writing in her early teens, and filled three notebooks with her fiction. Her earliest work reflects her interest in the novel as a genre; in brilliant short pieces she plays with plots, stock characters, diction, and style, developing a sense of form at a remarkably early age.   The characters of these stories have a jaunty and...

The story of how psychoanalysis was used in the war against Nazi Germany - in the        crucial quest to understand the Nazi mind.Daniel Pick brings both the skills of the        historian and the trained psychoanalyst to weave together the story of clinical        encounters with leading Nazis and the Allies' broader interpretations of the...