The Daily Life of the Ancient Greeks
Garland, Robert
9780313358142

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Lear's Daughters
Kellogg, Marjorie
9780756405342

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Cultivating Science, Harvesting Power: Science and Industrial Agriculture in California
Henke, Christopher
9780262083737

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Reason, Faith, and Politics: Essays in Honor of Werner J. Dannhause
Kraynak, Robert
9780739118351

This collection of essays honoring Werner J. Dannhauser addresses the timeless issue - lately become very timely - of the rivalry between reason and religion, especially as both relate to politics. Get more information.

Tibetan Buddhism and Modern Physics: Toward a Union of Love and Knowledge
Mansfield, Vic
9781599471372

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Taxi!: A Social History of the New York City Cabdriver
Hodges, Graham
9780801885549

Taxi! is the first book-length history of New York City cabdrivers and the community they comprise. More information. 

Friends of Liberty: A Tale of Three Patriots, Two Revolutions, and a Tragic Betrayal of Freedom in the New Nation
Hodges, Graham and Gary Nash
9780465048144

The tragic history of an African-American soldier, a Polish revolutionary, and a flawed statesman who betrayed a friend and failed a nation. More information.

An Enquiry Concerning the Intellectual and Moral Faculties, and Literature of Negroes
Hodges, Graham (Introduction by)
9781563249136

Henri Gregoire was a 19th-century French Catholic bishop, an abolitionist, and one of the first to treat the subject of blacks in society. First published in English in 1810, this edition contains an introduction by Graham Hodges.

People and the Sky
Aveni, Anthony
9780500051528

"People and the Sky" explores how ancient hunters, farmers, sailors, rulers, and storytellers were all once cosmically connected. Anthony Aveni reveals how !Kung and Mursi hunter-gatherers depended on signals in the sky for their survival and sustenance; how master Polynesian sailors navigated a seemingly limitless watery world by star bearings; how social cohesion in cultures as diverse as the Pawnee and the Inca was mirrored in celestial imagery; and how the cosmic connection between the arrangement of Aztec and Chinese cities and the constellations served as an expression of political authority. More information.

Foundations of New World Cultural Astronomy: A Reader with Commentary
Aveni, Anthony
9780870819001

 In this new reader, Anthony Aveni--one of cultural astronomy's founders and top scholars and a former National Professor of the Year--offers a selection of the essays that built the field, from foundational works to contemporary scholarship. Aveni also serves up incisive commentary, background for the uninitiated, suggested reading, and more.

Civil Society and Corruption: Mobilizing for Reform
Johnston, Michael
9780761831259

   
This volume, based on a yearlong series of events sponsored by Colgate University's Center for Ethics and World Societies, analyzes civil society and corruption from several perspectives and in several parts of the world.

Syndromes of Corruption: Wealth, Power, and Democracy
Johnston, Michael
9780521618595

This book recently won the 2009 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order. 

Johnston earned the prestigious Grawemeyer Award for ideas he set forth in his 2005 book, Syndromes of Corruption: Wealth, Power, and Democracy (Cambridge University Press).

Armenian Golgotha
Balakian, Peter (translator)
9780307262882

This eyewitness account of the Armenian Genocide from priest Grigoris Balakian, translated by his grandson, Colgate professor Peter, provides a dramatic and comprehensive eyewitness account of the first modern genocide. Click here for more about the book, and here for a complete list of Professor Balakian's works.