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The attempt to repress a majority of its own population backfired on the Confederate States of America as the…

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Every day, corporations are connecting the dots about our personal behavior-silently scrutinizing clues left behind by our…

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Stories pervade our daily lives. We use them to make sense of the world. But how does this work? In Making Stories, the…

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Brian Boyd explains why we tell stories and how our minds are shaped to understand them. After considering art as…

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No account is more critical to our understanding of Joan of Arc than the contemporary record of her 1431 trial. The record,…

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Usually when we're bored, we try to distract ourselves. But soon enough, boredom returns. James Danckert and John Eastwood…

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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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In early modern Italy, a wave of Inquisition trials prosecuted radical dissenters for their claims that Adam and Eve had…

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

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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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Alcibiades was one of the most dazzling figures of Athens's Golden Age. A friend of Socrates, he was spectacularly rich,…

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By the late 19th century Odessa was the most polyglot and cosmopolitan city in the empire. In the first decades of the 20th…

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Christina Cross decisively refutes culture-of-poverty narratives blaming family structure for persistent racial inequality.…

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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was the revolutionary scientific thinker who discovered what stars are made of. But her name is…

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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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The history of US Catholicism is the history of confession. For I Have Sinned charts the rise of confession as the defining…

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Grounded in extensive fieldwork and archival research, Echoes from the Sino-Burmese Borderlands explores the clandestine…

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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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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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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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Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century showed that capitalism, left to itself, generates deepening inequality.…

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One day they'll be like us. That was once the West's complacent assumption about countries emerging from poverty, imperial…

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The Making of Iranian Modernity brings together a diverse array of scholars from a wide variety of disciplinary backgrounds…

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David Rabban provides the first comprehensive synthesis of the case law on academic freedom and the First Amendment at…

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The first and only successful slave revolution in the Americas began in 1791 when brutally exploited slaves rose up against…

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It is tempting to believe that dehumanization is an excess of rhetoric-that no one thinks his foe is truly monstrous. David…

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In a sequence of short, condensed entries, Ferenczi's diary records self-critical reflections on conventional psychoanalytic…

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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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Exploring 150 years of American marriage, Hartog shatters the myth of a golden age of stable marriage in the 19th century.…

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

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