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Nicholas Rescher accompanies the text of the Monadology section-by-section with relevant excerpts from some of Leibniz’s widely scattered discussions of the matters at issue. The result serves a dual purpose of providing a commentary of the Monadology by Leibniz himself, while at the same time supplying an exposition of his philosophy using the Monadology as an outline.

Provides a Fresh Perspective on What Science Is and How and Why It Changes

An Interdisciplinary Study on Family Policy in Eastern Europe by Leading Scholars

Offers Fresh Insight into Crucial Debates over the Causes of Diverging and Converging Political Trajectories in the Region

A Literary Exploration of Chicana Coming of Age, Identity, and Belonging

A Radically Different History of AI Spanning Four Centuries of Research on Human Intelligence and Behavior

First-Hand and Documentary Poetic Witness to the War in Ukraine

Positions Bartram’s Illustrations as Central to His Understanding of the Natural World

An exhaustive, balanced analysis of the overthrow of Salvador Allende, and why it occurred. Paul e. Sigmund examines the Allende government, the Frei government that preceeded it, the coup that ended it, and the Pinochet government that succeeded it. He also views the roles of various Chilean political and interest groups, the CIA, and U.S. corporations.

The first book-length analysis of the Bolivian revolution by an American political scientist explains the events of 1952 as a Latin American case study, and links the theme of the revolution with other contemporary insurrection in underdeveloped countries.

A Look at Subnational Regional Identity Formation in Brazil within a Global Perspective

A Richly Illustrated Exploration of John Kane’s Life, the Value and Dignity of Labor, and Who Decides What Is Art and What Is Not

A Rich Ethnography of Grassroots Organizing for Peace in San José de Apartadó

Shows How Catholicism Played a Central Role in the Development of a Scientific Understanding of Race, National Identity, and Human Difference in Chile