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Chinese Animation is the first edited book that explores the multiple histories, geographies, industries, technologies,…

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Today, pardons seem to be astonishingly broad and everywhere, with candidates promising pardons and presidents eagerly…

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The legendary conversation between the Greek King Milinda and the Buddhist monk Nagasena-known in Pali as the…

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\nA successful business deal maximizes value for all parties. Drawing on diverse case studies and decades of experience,…

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Serving prison time with hard labor for the crime of gross indecency, Oscar Wilde wrote some of his most powerful works. A…

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\nFor decades neuroscientists understood sensory perception as a matter of external stimuli \"sparking\" regions of the…

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The threat of cyberwar can feel very Hollywood: nuclear codes hacked, power plants melting down, cities burning. In reality,…

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Many Americans assume that the country was founded by skeptics of "big government," who saw minimal state power as freedom's…

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Bobby Kennedy wasn't the most visible figure in the civil rights movement, but his impact was transformative. As attorney…

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In this richly detailed cultural and political history, David Narrett shows how Cherokee nationhood emerged from the…

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On Leaders and Tyrants contains works, the majority by Renaissance humanist Poggio Bracciolini, relating to a debate on…

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Adult humans have impressive pieces of cognitive equipment, but in Cecilia Heyes's view these cognitive gadgets are not…

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Between 1850 and 1920, western states instituted more than five thousand laws marginalizing Chinese residents and channeling…

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In the tradition of the great dialecticians, Rahel Jaeggi revitalizes the idea of progress by confronting its opposite:…

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Make Your Own Job charts the transformation of the American work ethic in the twentieth century. It is no longer enough to…

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Hrotsvit, who lived at the convent of Gandersheim in Saxony in the tenth century, is the first Latin dramatist since late…

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Since the 1960s, the Supreme Court has enabled mass incarceration through rulings that violate constitutional curbs on…

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Benjamin's famous "Work of Art" essay sets out his boldest thoughts-on media and on culture in general. This book contains…

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What would a plant do? It is an unusual question. But, as Beronda L. Montgomery shows, humans can learn a great deal from…

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In the bone rooms of the Smithsonian Institution and other museums in the late nineteenth century, a scientific revolution…

\nRandy Barnett and Evan Bernick return to the primary sources on the origin, drafting and adoption of the Fourteenth…

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Blaise Pascal is a marquee name, yet little read outside France. Antoine Compagnon provides an ideal introduction to one of…

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The fall of France in 1940 panicked US leaders, leading to their fateful decision to recognize the pro-Nazi Vichy…

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Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen's To Save and to Destroy is a deeply personal reflection on outsiders in literature…

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Produkt No Property in Man - Wilentz, Sean zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard University Press.…

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The Old English Chronicle offer a brief year-by-year summary of important national events such as invasions and the deaths…

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The letters of Bartolomeo Fonzio-a leading literary figure in Florence of the time of Lorenzo de' Medici and Machiavelli-are…

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Dear Unknown Friend relates the story of US and Soviet pen pals amid the early Cold War. The correspondents, all of them…

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After WWII, Ilse Koch became known worldwide as the "Bitch of Buchenwald." She was assuredly guilty of atrocities, but the…

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The thirteenth-century Art of Making Verses, which departs from established critical texts on poetry and seeks to teach the…

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This collection presents six essays by one of France's most remarkable contemporary authors. A notoriously playful stylist,…

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Created worlds may resemble the actual world, but they can just as easily be deemed incomplete, precarious, or irrelevant.…

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If contemporary culture were a school, with all the tasks and expectations meted out by modern life as its curriculum, would…

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Twenty-five years after his prescient Democracy's Discontent, Michael Sandel updates his classic work for our more fractious…

\nIn antebellum New Orleans, whites and Blacks died in droves from yellow fever. But the fortunes of survivors were less…

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For anyone who has blanched at the uphill prospect of finishing a long piece of writing, this book holds out something more…

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"What does it mean to be lonely?" Dumm asks. His inquiry takes us beyond social circumstances into the deeper forces that…

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On the centennial of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, Tony Saich offers the definitive history of the CCP's rise…

The unseeing of the gods was a requirement of Western modernity. Beginning with sixteenth-century debates over Christ's real…

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In a major reinterpretation, Sean McMeekin rejects the standard notion of the war's beginning as either a Germano-Austrian…

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The Democratic Marketplace argues that democracy has been hollowed out by capitalism. Seeking a path to self-governance,…

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In this book, one of the world's preeminent philosophers takes issue with an idea that has found an all-too-prominent place…

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Strevens proposes a novel theory of scientific explanation and understanding that overhauls and augments the familiar causal…

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Like a saint's relics, Dante's bones have been stolen, exhumed, and worshiped. Guy Raffa narrates the Florentine poet's…

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Natasha Piano argues that the Italian School of Elitism-comprising Pareto, Mosca, and Michels-has been consistently misread.…

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Blake takes a detailed look, based almost exclusively on original source material, at the public health history of the town…