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The strategic and political implications of an already-nuclear rogue power.…

Reconsiders the political, cultural, and legal nature of modernity in relation to religion. This title argues that the work…

The philosopher Jorge J. E. Gracia engages fifteen prominent scholars on race, ethnicity, nationality, and Hispanic/Latino…

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In a hard-hitting book that refutes conventional wisdom, Katherine Sender explores the connection between the business of…

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While philosophy is experienced at admiring, resenting, celebrating, and, at times, renouncing language, philosophers have…

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The development of an American science establishment began early in the twentieth century when the federal government began…

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Aarthi Vadde shows why modernist literary form is essential to understanding the aspirational and analytical force of…

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Based on little-known or hitherto unpublished material, and enhanced by a wealth of rarely seen illustrations, this book…

How Much Inequality Is Fair? synthesizes concepts from economics, political philosophy, game theory, information theory,…

Examines the struggle for school integration in New York City. The text focuses on integrationist and Presbyterian pastor…

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The first book in English to trace the resurrected skeleton, this text translates major adaptations while drawing parallels…

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During the English reformation, writers like John Skelton, Shakespeare, John Milton, and Andrew Marvell grappled with the…

Spanning aesthetics, cultural studies, intellectual history, and political theory, this volume unpacks the significance of…

Approaches Negritude as an experimental, text-based poetic movement developed by diasporic authors of African descent…