Mao Tse tung and I were beggars

By Siao Yu

Few world figures can have so extra-ordinary a tale to tell of their childhood and young manhood as Mao Tse-Tung: it is a life story that belongs to a poet or a philosopher rather than a political...

The rise of the Greeks

By Michael Grant

Visions of the Sociological Tradition

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The Revenge Of Captain Paine: A Pyke Mystery

By Andrew Pepper

It is 1835, and with the birth of the Industrial Revolution, railway fever sweeps the country. Pyke is uneasy with the luxury his aristocratic marriage has brought him, and when he is unofficially...

The Price of Civilization: Economics and Ethics After the Fall

By Jeffrey D. Sachs

Looks at the economic challenges of the United States in the 21st century and why short term solutions like stimulus spending and tax cuts won't work.

The Columbia History of Western Philosophy

By Richard H. Popkin

The Magazine

By Gwen Allen

The artist's magazine as a place where new ideas and forms can be imagined and created, from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first.The multiple platforms of the digital era have not diminished...

When the Gods Changed: The Death of Liberal Canada

By Peter C. Newman

Picasso and Chicago: 100 Years, 100 Works

By Stephanie D Alessandro

The Art Institute of Chicago was the first American museum to exhibit works by Pablo Picasso when it hosted the Armory Show in February 1913. Published to commemorate this landmark event in the his...

The Hare Krishna Movement: The Postcharismatic Fate of a Religious Transplant

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