Paris without regret

Abstract This book provides a comprehensive examination of the nature of regret and its role in decision-making. Contrary to influential philosophical accounts of re...

Abstract We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads, Lillian Hellman once wrote. “It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mis...

What kind of an emotion is regret? What difference does it make whether, how, and why we experience it, and how does this experience shape our current and future thoughts, decision...

Drawing upon a vast body of historical scholarship, Casey Harison’s Paris in Modern Times provides the first detailed academic history of Paris in the modern age. Chronologica...

"Armchair historians in particular will appreciate McAuliffe’s readable yet detailed history supplemented with illustrations and bibliography." Booklist, Starred Review Acclaimed h...

Chapter 3 explores the rhetoric of witnessing that contemporary Western officials regularly employ as an instrument of national and international statecraft. The idea that civic le...

“A decision the Court and the Nation will come to regret.”Ten years ago, the United States Supreme Court struck down two local school board initiatives meant to reverse extreme rac...

This revealing portrait of the real Paris Hilton gets underneath the hype and hate, the glamour and greed. Unlike other biographies that range from the expos’ to the gushing, ...