Rousseau's ideas have influenced almost every major political development of the last two hundred years, and are crucial to an understanding of phenomena as diverse as the French Revolution, modern educational theory, and the contemporary environmental movement. This is reason enough to draw attenti[...]

Economics has much to do with incentives - not least, incentives to work hard, to produce quality products, to study, to invest, and to save. Although Adam Smith amply confirmed this more than two hundred years ago in his analysis of sharecropping contracts, only in recent decades has a theory begun[...]

A travel friendly journal, which is a lined and squared paper notebook containing holiday-theme art from cartoonist, Jean-Jacques Sempe.[...]

This hardback notebook features cartoons and illustrations on the theme of psychoanalysis by New Yorker cover artist Jean-Jacques Sempe, who is one of the best-loved illustrators in the world today, as well as lined and blank pages to write down thoughts, ideas and dreams. The illustrations collecte[...]

The most extensive collection of cartoons by one of the world's best-loved illustrators.

This important volume includes key papers which outline the history, concepts, research findings and recent controversies in medical anthropology - the cross-cultural study of health, illness and medical care. Among the topics covered are transcultural psychiatry, food and nutrition, anthropology of[...]

Newly translated by Peter Constantine
Introduction by Leo Damrosch
"The Essential Writings of Rousseau" collects the best and most indispensable work of one of the world's most influential writers. A towering figure of Enlightenment thought, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was also one of that movement[...]

This charming book will delight any child - or adult - who appreciates ballet, Paris, New York, childhood, and mystery (not necessarily in that order). The book's plot is deceptively simple: Catherine, the eponymous heroine, begins her story watching her own daughter demonstrate jazz steps in their [...]

Providing a clear demonstration of all its techniques, this guide presents an integrated, nonpartisan approach to grappling with and without a gi. Highlighting gi and no-gi techniques from major positions found in mixed-martial arts, Brazilian jiu-jitsu and submission fighting, this handbook builds [...]