Buckeye: A study of Coach Woody Hayes and the Ohio State foo

A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts and the Law (The University Center for Human Values Series)…

We are all familiar with the image of the immensely clever judge who discerns the best rule of common law for the case at hand. According to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, a judge like ...

Where We Worked: A Celebration of America's Workers and the Nation They Built

The Character of the Syriac Version of Psalms: A Study of Psalms 90-150 in the Peshitta (Monographs…

This book investigates the character of the "Peshitta" in "Psalms 90-150" in order to facilitate the proper use of this version in textual criticism. It identifies the Peshitta's translation ...

Muhammad: A Story of God's Messenger and the Revelation That Changed the World

“Compassionate and clear…a courageous undertaking.” —Greg Mortenson, New York Times bestselling author of Three Cups of Tea and Stones into Schools

A Time of Silence: Civil War and the Culture of Repression in Franco's Spain, 1936-1945 (Studies in…

The years 1936-1945 in Spain saw catastrophic civil war followed by fierce repression and economic misery. Families were torn apart and social relations were disrupted by death, exile and defeat. ...

Little Daughter: A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West

Zoya Phan was born in the remote jungles of Burma, to the Karen ethnic group. For decades the Karen have been under attack from Burma's military junta; Zoya's mother was a guerrilla soldier, her ...

A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow

The civil rights movement was arguably the most successful social movement in American history. In a provocative new assessment of its success, David Chappell argues that the story of civil rights is ...

The Sinews of Power: War, Money and the English State, 1688-1783

This powerful interpretation of English history provides a completely new framework for understanding how Britain emerged in the eighteenth century as a major international power. ...

Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State, 1877-1917 (American Politics and Political…

Roots of Reform offers a sweeping revision of our understanding of the rise of the regulatory state in the late nineteenth century. Sanders argues that politically mobilized farmers were the ...

The Time of Popular Sovereignty: Process and the Democratic State

Democracy is usually conceived as based on self-rule or rule by the people, and it is this which is taken to ground the legitimacy of the democratic form of government. But who constitutes the ...