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Buildings can make us sick or keep us well. Diseases and toxins course through indoor spaces, making us ill. Meanwhile,…

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Morrison brings her genius to this personal inquiry into the significance of African-Americans in the American literary…

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Spoken by eighty million people, Tamil is one of the great world languages, and one of the few ancient languages that…

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Huntington examines the persistent gap between the promise of American ideals and the performance of American politics. He…

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Andrzej Franaszek's award-winning biography of Czeslaw Milosz-winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature-recounts the poet's…

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Bruner argues that the cognitive revolution, with its fixation on a computational model of mind, has led psychology away…

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Anthropologist Jean L. Briggs spent seventeen months living on a remote Arctic shore as the "adopted daughter" of an Inuit…

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Marcy Norton tells a new history of the European colonization of the Americas, one that places wildlife and livestock at the…

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Francis Cogliano revisits the relationship between Washington and Jefferson, arguing that their vaunted differences mask…

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Durling's edition of Petrarch's poems has become the standard. Readers have praised the translation of the authoritative…

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More than 50 years later the murky circumstances and tragic symbolism of Patrice Lumumba's assassination trouble people…

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The interdisciplinary essays in Global Gold-by scholars of European, American, African, and Asian history and art…

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A representation of Irish poetic achievement in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from poets such as Austin Clarke…

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Philosophers-professionals and the armchair variety-are given to defending comprehensive world views. Raymond Geuss, one of…

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David Wootton guides us through four centuries of Western thought to show how new ideas about politics, ethics, and…

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Cutting a path from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the Panama Canal set a new course for the development of Central…

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The Byzantine Sinbad collects The Book of Syntipas the Philosopher, originally a Persian story, and the sixty-two tales of…

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Homilies collects seven sermons delivered by Sophronios during his short tenure as patriarch of Jerusalem, which coincided…

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Conceived in Paris in 1927 and still in progress when Benjamin fled the Occupation in 1940, The Arcades Project is…

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A single species of fly, Drosophila melanogaster, has been the subject of scientific research for more than one hundred…

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Against Nazi dictatorship,the disillusionment of Weimar, and Christian austerity, Hermann Hesse's stories inspired a…

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The sense of reading as an intimate act of self-discovery-and of communion between authors and book lovers-has a long…

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Juliane Noth shows how art and discussions about the future of ink painting were linked to the reshaping of the country,…

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Key contemporary discussions of distributive justice have formulated egalitarian approaches in terms of responsibility. But…

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Alexis de Tocqueville famously wrote about democracy in America, but he also lauded Catholic society in Quebec, feared the…

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Avant-Garde Post- follows seven Russophone poets as they reinvigorate leftist art in the wake of state socialism. Rejecting…

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The California Gold Rush is thought to exemplify the Wild West, yet miners were expert organizers. Driven by property…

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Dworkin argues that equality, freedom, and individual responsibility are not in conflict, but flow from and into one another…

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Scholars have long claimed that the Eastern Roman Empire, a Christian theocracy, bore little resemblance to ancient Rome.…

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Margarita Fajardo tells the story of the cepalinos, Latin American economists and policymakers, and their dependentista…

Cristanne Miller's major edition of Dickinson's poems presents the 1,100 poems the poet retained during her lifetime, in the…

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Betrayal seems to have lost its grip on the public consciousness in liberal societies, yet it is all around us, dissolving…

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Under French rule, majority Muslim Algeria became one of the world's largest wine producers. Owen White explores the impact…

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In 1960, when Japan revised the postwar treaty that allows a U.S. military presence in Japan, the popular backlash changed…

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Rationality and freedom are among the most profound and contentious concepts in philosophy and the social sciences. In two…

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Charles Maier offers a new narrative of the long twentieth century, focused on institutions that shaped politics and…

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Organizations now measure and rank nearly every aspect of our lives, using data to make predictions about our purchasing…

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The Op-Ed Novel follows a clutch of globally renowned Spanish novelists who swept into the political sphere via the pages of…

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Faced with government's ineptitude, people are attracted to strong leaders and bold action. As Pierre Rosanvallon…

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Nazmul Sultan explores Indian contributions to democratic theory, as anticolonial thinkers developed principles of…

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Leonard Bernstein's Norton Lectures on the future course of music drew cheers from his Harvard audiences and television…

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Woodrow Hartzog develops the underpinning of a new kind of privacy law responsive to the way people actually perceive and…

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The 700-year history of the novel in English defies straightforward telling. Encompassing a range of genres, it is…

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Timbuktu is famous as a center of learning from Islam's Golden Age. Yet it was one among many scholarly centers to exist in…

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Moore presents his summation of 15 years of research, observation, and teaching about what public-sector executives should…

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Vietnam focuses on how the country's governance shapes its politics, economy, social development, and international…

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Almost every town in France has a street named for Louis Pasteur-but did he alone stop people from spitting, persuade them…

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Neeti Nair explores the trend toward legal protection for the religious "sentiments" of majorities in India, Pakistan, and…