The Great Disorder
This book presents a comprehensive study of the most famous and spectacular instance of inflation in modern industrial society--that of Germany in the years during and following World War I. A broad, probing narrative, this book studies inflation ...
Scorpions
A group biography of the relationship between FDR and four of his Supreme Court justices: Felix Frankfurter, Hugo Black, Robert Jackson, and William O. Douglas, written by one of the most brilliant legal scholars at work today.
Credo
Tamás Vekerdy, one of the most well-known Hungarian psychologists, called Credo an 'essential insight not just into Feldmár's life but into the world and the era that we currently live in.' Feldmár was three and a half years old when the Arrow Cro...
Nanolithography
Integrated circuits, and devices fabricated using the techniques developed for integrated circuits, have steadily gotten smaller, more complex, and more powerful. The rate of shrinking is astonishing - some components are now just a few dozen atom...
What Is This Thing Called Happiness?
According to an ancient and still popular view -- sometimes known as 'eudaimonism' -- a person's well-being, or quality of life, is ultimately determined by his or her level of happiness. According to this view, the happier a person is, the better...
Pleasure and the Good Life
Fred Feldman's fascinating new book sets out to defend hedonism as a theory about the Good Life. He tries to show that, when carefully and charitably interpreted, certain forms of hedonism yield plausible evaluations of human lives. Feldman begins...
Trouble in the Middle
This book will help readers better understand the ethical and cultural assumptions that both American and Chinese business cultures bring to business relationships in China. It analyzes the relationships developed between the two cultures, areas w...
Distributive Justice
This book presents and defends a novel theory of distributive justice, according to which political economic distributive justice reigns in a state if the government of that state ensures that citizens receive the benefits and burdens they deserve...
