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The Russia-China border is a study in contrasts, with booming cities on the Chinese side and sleepy villages on the Russian.…

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Fusing digital humanities with media studies and graphic design history, Graphesis offers a critical language for analysis…

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Drawing on cognitive psychology and other fields, Make It Stick offers techniques for becoming more productive learners, and…

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Harvey C. Mansfield traces the birth of modern political philosophy to MachiavelliÂ’s brief on behalf of rational control of…

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From the 17th to the early 20th century, the population of Martha's Vineyard manifested an extremely high rate of hereditary…

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Imagine beetles ejecting defensive sprays as hot as boiling water; female moths holding their mates for ransom; caterpillars…

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The romantic vision of the civil rights movement is exhausted, and its inverse, Afropessimism, offers a self-defeating…

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The people of Smolensk survived both of the twentieth century's most brutal dictatorships. Michael David-Fox probes their…

A visionary reexamination of the value of privacy in today\'s hypermediated world-not just as a political right but as the…

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Largely forgotten today, the Second Mexican Empire was a transformative nineteenth-century moment. Raymond Jonas explores…

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Transcendentalism went underground for a stretch, but is back in full force in Brandom's new book. An emphasis on our…

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Bonnie Honig invigorates debate over the politics of refusal by insisting that withdrawal from unjust political systems be…

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Works in this volume recount the circumstances of Socrates' trial and execution in 399 BC. Euthyphro attempts to define…

Argues that the chief stumbling block to environmental thinking is the image of nature itself. Ranging widely in…

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Elegant ideas deserve elegant expression. Sword dispels the myth that you can't get published without writing wordy,…

This bold, innovative book promises to radically alter our understanding of the Atlantic slave trade, and the depths of its…

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The fox knows many things, the Greeks said, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. In this title, the author argues that…

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The Metamorphoses (The Golden Ass) of Apuleius (born c. 125 CE) is a romance combining realism and magic. Lucius wants the…

Eugene Fishel asks whether, how, and under what circumstances the United States has considered Ukraine’s sovereignty in…

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This is the epic story of how African-Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed themselves into a…

\nBiotechnologist Leroy Hood and longevity researcher Nathan Price journey to the future of health. Medicine today is a…

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TA-U-RO-QO-RO takes up problems of script and language representation and textual interpretation, ranging from the use of…

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An enduring theme of Western philosophy is that we are all one another's equals. Yet the principle of basic equality is…

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Renowned philosopher of science David Z Albert offers an innovative approach to understanding the fundamental physical…

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Under Seleucid rule, time no longer restarted with each new monarch. Instead, progressively numbered years, identical to the…

\nIn 1739 Bordeaux\'s Royal Academy of Sciences held an essay contest seeking answers to a pressing question: What was the…

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Patricia Williams is a lawyer and a professor of commercial law, the great-great-granddaughter of a slave and a white…

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Craig Calhoun, Dilip Gaonkar, and Charles Taylor argue that democracies have embraced individual freedom at the expense of…

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Stanley Cavell was one of the most distinguished and wide-ranging philosophers of his time. This posthumous volume assembles…

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George Washington spent most of his time farming, often employing experimental methods. Washington saw slave-powered…

Aristotle (384-322 BC), the great Greek thinker, researcher, and educator, ranks among the most important and influential…

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A book which should appeal to both literary theorists and to readers of the novel, this study invites the reader to consider…

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Thompson explores the "explanatory gap" between biological life and consciousness, drawing on sources as diverse as…

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Jacqueline Mitton and Simon Mitton offer the first biography of Vera Rubin, an astronomer who made vital contributions to…

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How does the outsider find community and a sense of place? Chad Bryant tells the stories of five ordinary people over two…

In this volume are three works concerning the campaigns engaged in by the great Roman statesman Julius Caesar (10044 BCE),…

Cyropaedia by Xenophon (c. 430 c. 354 BCE) is a historical romance on the education of the sixth century BCE Persian king…

\nThe Historia Augusta is a biographical collection written by a single author under six pseudonyms that covers the lives of…

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Diogenes Laertius compiled his compendium on the lives and doctrines of the ancient philosophers from hundreds of sources.…

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Intention is one of the masterworks of 20th-century philosophy. First published in 1957, it has acquired the status of a…

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Confessions is a spiritual autobiography of Augustine's early life, family, associations, and explorations of alternative…

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A leading public intellectual gives his authoritative and personal account of the tragic postcolonial fate of Uganda, his…

\nWhy is Israel\'s relatively small and low-budget military also the world\'s most innovative, technologically and…

Dara Shukoh was the heir-apparent to the Mughal throne in 1659, when he was executed by his brother Aurangzeb. Today Dara is…

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Illustrated with many color images, The Annotated Wuthering Heights provides those encountering the novel for the first…