Jul 30, 2025
Caleb Smith
Thoreau's axe: Distraction and discipline in American culture
Today, we’re driven to distraction, our attention overwhelmed by the many demands upon it—most of which emanate from our beeping and blinking digital devices. This may seem like a decidedly twenty-first-century problem, but, as Caleb Smith...
Jun 16, 2025
Henry David Thoreau A
Very Short Introduction
Lawrence
Buell
The first concise account of Thoreau's life, thought, work, and
impact in more than half a century
Builds upon the explosion of new scholarship on Thoreau during the
decade of the bicentennial of his birth
Treats Thoreau's two most famous and influential works...
May 22, 2025
Man-Devil: The Mind and Times of Bernard Mandeville, the Wickedest Man in Europe
John J. Callanan
A lively and provocative account of Bernard Mandeville and the work that scandalized and appalled his contemporaries—and made him one of the most influential thinkers of the eighteenth century
In 1714, doctor,...