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Best known as the author of Moby-Dick (1851), Herman Melville is one of America's greatest writers. …

What is faith? It usually means religious belief, and sometimes diverse religions are grouped togeth…

Almost every society has professional judges, but from ancient Athens to modern Asia, cultures have …

This Very Short Introduction introduces listeners to the key concepts of political philosophy: autho…

In Politics: A Very Short Introduction, Kenneth Minogue begins with a discussion of issues arising f…

Amid the many catastrophes of the twentieth century, the Spanish Civil War continues to exert a part…

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was one of the major intellectual figures of the twentieth century. Born i…

Populism is a central concept in the current media debates about politics and elections. However, li…

Long before the United States was a nation, it was a set of ideas, projected onto the New World by E…

Elections occur in all democracies and many nondemocratic regimes as well. They determine who will h…