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A fascinating medical detective story about the unusual reception for a promising new drug by a skeptical medical community reluctant to abandon its age-old Hippocratic Oath of Do No Harm. Stewart Justman explains how a pill called finasteride, proven to dramatically reduce the incidence of prostate... More

The Dow Jones average crossing new highs is hailed as a psychological breakthrough. Athletes consult sports psychologists. Therapists practice over the radio. Psychology supplies our common language. What does this mean?Stewart Justman's The Psychological Mystique weighs the extraordinary influence ... More

As a cancer patient himself, the author explores the cancer culture and looks into the sources of our fascination with publicity as an instrument of enlightenment and a cure for what ails us. In finaly drawn reflections, he registers a powerful vote for privacy and humility in the face of cancer's g... More

Award-winning essayist Stewart Justman traces the inspiration of the pop psychology movement to the utopianism of the 1960s and argues that it consistently misuses the rhetoric that grew out of the civil rights movement. Speaking as it does in the name of our right to happiness, pop psychology promi... More

The Springs of Liberty takes up questions of literary history and theory even as it explores sources of power harnessed by modern political doctrines and the journalism that conveys them to the public. These forces of opinion are traced to a tradition deeper and older than either: satire. In that tr... More

Shakespeare: The Drama of Generations offers a new interpretation of many of Shakespeare’s plays, among them A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Henry IV, The Tempest, Hamlet, King Lear and Macbeth. Like the world of myth and legend, Shakespeare’s plays are haunted with the killing of the young. King... More

This is the first guidebook specifically written for people who speak no Chinese but would like to go hiking on their own in China off the beaten track. The hikes are through the beautiful Qinling and Daba Mountains in Sichuan and Shaanxi Province along the few remaining stretches of one of China's ... More

Technological Infrastructure Policy provides a systematic treatment of technological infrastructure (TI) and Technological Infrastructure Policy (TIP) which are emerging fields of interest both for academic economists and for policy makers in both advanced and developing economies. The specific topi... More

The dominant role played by the state in the financing, regulation, and provision of primary and secondary education reflects the widely-held belief that education is necessary for personal and societal well-being. The economic organization of education depends on political as well as market mechani... More