Books

A Methodological Study of Going to the Movies as Cultural and Societal Practice

Concepts and Their Role in Knowledge offers scholarly analysis of key elements of Ayn Rand’s radically new approach to epistemology. The four essays, by contributors intimately familiar with this area of her work, discuss Rand’s theory of concepts—including its new account of abstraction and essence—and its central role in her epistemology; how that view leads to a distinctive conception of the justification of knowledge; her realist account of perceptual awareness and its role in the acquisition of knowledge; and finally, the implications of that theory for understanding the growth of scientific knowledge. The volume concludes with critical commentary on the essays by distinguished philosophers with differing philosophical viewpoints and the author’s responses to those commentaries.

Poems That Urgently Remind Us Love Keeps Us Alive

Explains the Nuts-and-Bolts of Collective Indoctrination and Political Integration Programs and the Resulting Cultural Changes

Poetry That Demands We Face the Lies We Tell Ourselves and Others

An Exploration of the Collective Present Moment through the Combination of Scientific Fact and the Lyrical

Intimate Memories and Public Histories Sustain a Woman’s Quest for Meaning and Peace

Kathryn E. O’Rourke offers a new interpretation of the development of modern architecture in the Mexican capital, showing close links between design, evolving understandings of national architectural history, folk art, and social reform.

A New Collection on the Complexities of Modern Life from an Award-Winning Poet

An Innovative Approach to Studying the Relationship between Politics, Crime, and Violence

Explores Mexico’s Long History of State-Influenced Engineering

Traces the Evolution of Radium from a Scientific Object to a Desirable Commodity

Death of the Daily News Sounds a Warning for an Unfolding American Crisis

The First Systematic Academic History of the Study of Biological Rhythms

Winner of the 2021 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry