Theophrastus of Eresus in Lesbos, born about 370 BCE, is the author of the most important botanical works that have survived…

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\nThe alternate self is a persistent theme of modern culture. From Robert Frost to Sharon Olds, Virginia Woolf to Ian…

Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 10643 BCE), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other…

Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BCE, was the son of…

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Cicero was a prodigious letter writer, and happily a splendid treasury of his letters has come down to us: collected and in…

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Here, George Kateb asks what human dignity is and why it matters for the claim to rights. He proposes that dignity is an…

Feeling Backward weighs the costs of the contemporary move to the mainstream in lesbian and gay culture. While the widening…

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Here is the first reliable edition of Keats's complete poems designed expressly for general readers and students. Upon its…

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Jacopo Sannazaro (1456-1530), considered by some authorities the finest Neo-Latin poet of the Italian Renaissance, spent…

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A Seminary Co-op Notable BookA BBC Sky at Night Best Book“An impressively comprehensive bird’s-eye view of a research topic…

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Does the world make you sick? If the distractions and distortions around you, the jarring colors and sounds, could shake up…

Breakthroughs in genetics present us with a promise and a predicament. Although most people find at least some forms of…

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A cutting-edge neuroscientist and a leading clinical psychologist look to religious, mystical, and mind-altering experience…

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\nSelected Stories by Franz Kafka offers new renderings of the author’s finest work. Mark Harman’s English translations…

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Ralph Franklin, the foremost scholar of Dickinson's manuscripts, has prepared an authoritative one-volume edition of all…

\nPresented in a new edition with expanded notes, this genre-defying meditation on the semiotics of late-1920s Weimar…

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This collection examines the forces, both external and internal, that lead corporations to behave efficiently and to create…

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The Greek poetry of the archaic period that we call elegy was composed primarily for banquets and convivial gatherings. Its…

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Though ubiquitous today, available as a single microchip and found in any electronic device requiring sound, the synthesizer…

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George Vaillant discusses these and other questions in terms of a clearly defined scheme of "adaptive mechanisms" that are…

The philosopher Philo was born about 20 BCE to a prominent Jewish family in Alexandria, the chief home of the Jewish…

The great Russian psychologist L. S. Vygotsky has long been recognized as a pioneer in developmental psychology. But…

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Elegant data and ideas deserve elegant expression, argues Helen Sword in this lively guide to academic writing. For scholars…

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More than five million Americans suffer from eating disorders, according to the National Institute of Mental Health, and an…

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\"Erudite, wide-ranging, and slyly humorous.\" -The Atlantic One of the great novelists and public intellectuals of our time…

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Wendy Brown diagnoses a late-modern nihilism that trivializes values-including truth itself-and reduces politics to…

\nFrom MOOCs to autograders to computerized tutors, technologies designed for large-scale learning have never lived up to…

This is a primer on the Capabilities Approach, Martha Nussbaum's innovative model for assessing human progress. She argues…

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A Financial Times Book of the YearA Fortune Book of the Year"This book compels us to change our position, move out of our…

As they immerse themselves in foreign cultures, trained anthropologists find that accepting difference is one thing,…

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T. H. Breen introduces us to the ordinary men and women who took responsibility for the course of the American revolution.…

\nWendy Brown diagnoses a late-modern nihilism that trivializes values-including truth itself-and reduces politics to…

Can a parrot understand complex concepts and mean what is says? Since the early s, most studies on animal-human…

Several of these essays have been printed whole in journals; others are in varying degrees new. Two main themes run through…

A collection of six essays, translated from the French, in which Cixous explores how the problematics of the sexes - viewed…

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When the complete "Letters of Emily Dickinson" appeared in three volumes in 1958, Robert Kirsch welcomed them in the "Los…

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Conflict is inevitable, in both deals and disputes. Yet when clients call in the lawyers to haggle over who gets how much of…

Venantius Fortunatus, a master of the short praise poem and a canonical Christian Latin poet, wrote eleven volumes of hymns,…

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Denis Donoghue turns his attention to the practice of metaphor and to its lesser cousins, simile, metonym, and synecdoche.…

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In the half-century since his death, the Hungarian analyst Sandor Ferenczi has amassed a large following within the…

The great Athenian philosopher Plato was born in 427 BCE and lived to be eighty. Acknowledged masterpieces among his works…

In the wake of a suicide, the most troubling questions are invariably the most difficult to answer: How could we have known?…

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Branko Milanovic presents a bold account of the dynamics that drive inequality on a global scale. Using vast data sets, he…

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'What does it mean to be lonely?' Thomas Dumm asks. His inquiry, documented in this book, takes us beyond social…

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\nHow do we know what we think we know? The answer is evidence, but evidence is no simple thing. What counts as evidence in…

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A Times Higher Education Book of the WeekA virulent strain of antifeminism is thriving online that treats women's…

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The story of Black education is about more than desegregation and inclusion in mainstream schooling. Jarvis Givens returns…

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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice"Everyone worried about the state of contemporary politics should read this…