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Astronomers have recently discovered thousands of exotic planets that orbit stars throughout our Milky Way galaxy. With his…

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

A Times Higher Education Book of the WeekApproximately 200,000 years ago, as modern humans began to radiate out from their…

For decades, top scientists in colleges and universities pursued a clear path to success: enroll in a prestigious graduate…

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A Wall Street Journal Favorite Read of the YearA Guardian Top Science Book of the YearTool-making or culture, language or…

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A magisterial mappa mundi of the terrain that Pierre Hadot has so productively worked for decades, this ambitious book…

A majority of evolutionary biologists believe that we now can envision our biological predecessors - not the first, but…

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After the collapse of the Han dynasty in the third century CE, China divided along a north-south line. Mark Lewis traces the…

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Produkt Moral Education zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard University Press.…

How malleable is human nature? Can an individual really change in meaningful ways? Or, are there immutable limits on the…

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“Thoughtful, probing…a worthy successor to the famous histories of Fairbank and Spence [that] will be read by all students…

\nVersions of the Snow White story have been shared across the world for centuries. Acclaimed folklorist and translator…

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Friction, the force that resists motion, has shaped technological progress for millennia. Jennifer Vail shows how the quest…

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The author argues that the Left wing in America sees the sins of America's past poisoning hope for the future, and…

At a time when people are living into their tenth decade, the longest longitudinal study of human development ever…

\nThe author of the best-selling What the Best College Teachers Do is back with humane, doable, and inspiring help for…

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

Now and then, writes Lionel Triling it is possible to observe the moral life in process of revising itself. In this new book…

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Some central questions in the natural and social sciences can't be answered by controlled laboratory experiments, often…

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These notes are about the process of design: the process of inventing things which display new physical order, organization,…

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Frozen sadness - what we have when we cannot really know what we have lost. This is what Pauline Boss illuminates, and helps…

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

With his customary incisiveness, W. V. Quine presents logic as the product of two factors, truth and grammar--but argues…

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Drawing on extensive observations of wild chimpanzees' behavior and social dynamics, Craig Stanford portrays a complex and…

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To find out why reasonable people are drawn to the seemingly bizarre practices of magic and witchcraft, Luhrmann immersed…

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The primacy of words over images has deep roots in Western culture. But what if the two are inextricably linked in…

"Leaps straight onto the roster of essential reading for anyone even vaguely interested in Grant and the Civil War."--Ron…

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An Economist Book of the YearA Financial Times Book of the YearA Foreign Affairs Best Book of the YearA Prospect Best Book…

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Eugene McCarraher challenges the conventional view of capitalism as a force for disenchantment. From Puritan and evangelical…

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Does class determine economic options, or is class in our heads—a matter of interpreting symbols and meanings? Cultural…

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

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The Frontline collects essays in a companion volume to Plokhy's The Gates of Europe and Chernobyl. The essays present…

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More than fifty years after Algerian independence, Albert Camus "Algerian Chronicles" appears here in English for the first…

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

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If children were little scientists who learn best through firsthand observations and mini-experiments, how would a child…

Six lectures discuss the mind-body problem, artificial intelligence, the workings of the brain, the mental aspect of human…

In Heroides, Ovid (43 BCE 17CE) allows legendary women to narrate their memories and express their emotions in verse letters…

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Through an intensive clinical study of 40 incest victims and numerous interviews with professionals in mental health, child…

Aeneas was perhaps a general, and certainly author of several didactic military works of which the sole survivor is that on…

In Tetrabiblos, a core text in the history of astrology, the preeminent ancient astronomer Ptolemy (c. 100 178 CE) treats…

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Through the first half of the twentieth century, analytic philosophy was dominated by Russell, Wittgenstein, and Carnap.…

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

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

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One of America’s leading political theorists analyzes the nihilism degrading—and confounding—political and academic life…

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Over the past twenty-five years, Bruno Latour has developed a research protocol different from the actor-network theory with…