2017 Sunburst Award for Adult Fiction Finalist Necessity: the sequel to the acclaimed The Just City and The Philosopher Kings, Jo Walton's tales of gods, humans, and what they have to learn from one another.

"This book is valuable as expounding in full a theory of meaning that has its roots in the work of Frege and has been of the widest influence. . . . The chief virtue of the book is its systematic character.

Williams's book questions this picture of history and posits that we are not very different from the Greeks in our conceptions of ethical life.

The author is a philosopher, but much of his book is directed to writers such as Homer and the tragedians, whom he discusses as poets and not just materials for philosophy.

If there is such a thing as essential reading in metaphysics or in philosophy of language, this is it. Ever since the publication of its original version, Naming and Necessity has had great and increasing influence.

Thomas Crocker urges Congress, the courts, and other bodies to put those checks into practice.

A senator has confessed to stabbing the president of the United States to death—but has invoked the “Law of Necessity,” which states that a crime is justified if it serves the greater good.

NECESSITY is the riveting new thriller from bestselling Edgar Award nominee D.W. Buffa in which criminal defense attorney Joseph Antonelli finds himself embroiled in the most controversial and explosive trial in American history, ...

Rich with historical and cultural value, these works are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

In this controversial book, Edward S. Reed warns that secondhand experience has become so dominant in our technological workplaces, schools, and even homes that primary experience is endangered.