Books

This volume, edited by Patrick Laude and Peter Jonkers, gathers the proceedings of the international conference of the Council for Research in Values and Philosophy “Re-learning to be Human for…

Wasserman’s Politics in Action: Cases from the Frontlines of American Government shows contemporary politics in action. The book illustrates core political science concepts, and helps the reader become familiarized with…

This book, “Pragmatic Reasons: A Defence of Morality and Epistemology” shows how a sophisticated version of pragmatism, resting on a novel conception of rationality, can justify a range of important…

Why and how should one pray? This anthology, Pray Without Ceasing: the Way of the Invocation in World Religions is an attempt at answering this question in the most essential…

The state of nature, the origin of property, the origin of government, the primordial nature of inequality and war – why do political philosophers talk so much about the Stone…

In the twentieth century, when much of present-day Kenya was controlled by the British Empire, many secular newspapers emerged as the products of tensions between Asian and European immigrants, the…

This book offers the first, full academic analysis of the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup. Adopting an international relations perspective, the authors critically interrogate the politics and controversy that has…

Qatar has fewer than two million inhabitants, virtually no potable water, and has been an independent nation only since 1971. Yet its enormous oil and gas wealth has permitted the…

Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as Americans increasingly came into contact with the Islamic world, U.S. diplomatic, cultural, political, and religious beliefs about Islam began to shape their…

Saudi Arabia in the Balance brings together today’s leading scholars in the field to investigate the domestic, regional, and international affairs of a Kingdom whose policies have so far eluded…

In this pioneering work of comparative metaphysics, Patrick Laude delves into Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Islamic, and Jewish concepts of Reality and Appearance to offer a uniquely lucid exploration of metaphysical…