Focusing on the 17th-century play of mourning, Walter Benjamin identifies allegory as the constitutive trope of modernity,…

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Everyone in academia stresses quality. But what exactly is it, and how do professors identify it? The author reveals what…

Presents the story of Plenty Coups, the last great Chief of the Crow Nation. This title contains a philosophical and ethical…

Seamus Heaney, Denis Donoghue, William Pritchard, Harold Bloom, and many others have praised the author as one of the most…

Combining personal narratives with decades of research, a vivid account of how the gaokao-China\'s high-stakes college…

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What is it about free-market ideas that gives them staying power in the face of such failures as persistent unemployment,…

Somewhere in Africa, more than a million years ago, a line of apes began to rear their young differently than their Great…

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The violence wrought by climate change, toxic drift, deforestation, oil spills, and the environmental aftermath of war takes…

\nExploring breakthroughs in language and cognition research, Caleb Everett finds that fundamentals of human perception are…

Offers a comprehensive account of the evolutionary origins of art and storytelling. This title explains why we tell stories,…

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

Management experts Frank Dobbin and Alexandra Kalev sift through decades of data to show why workplace diversity training…

Liz Bucar navigates the thorny terrain of religious appropriation, from yoga classes to non-Muslims who signal allyship by…

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

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How do we judge whether an action is morally right or wrong? If an action is wrong, what reason does that give us not to do…

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Offers a selection of nuggets drawn from 33 of antiquity's major authors, including poetry, dialogue, philosophical writing,…

The authors basic argument is that while learning is an essential and lifelong activity, people frequently use exactly the…

Through readings of Herman Melville, Nella Larsen, Sigmund Freud, Alfred Hitchcock, Gertrude Stein, Ralph Ellison, and Bruce…

The world of letters has always seemed a matter more of metaphor than of global reality. Rejecting facile talk of…

Traces the black freedom struggle in all its diversity, from the first years of freedom during the Civil War to President…

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

Jerome Bruner shows that the basic concepts of science and the humanities can be grasped intuitively at a very early age.…

From the 17th to the early 20th century, the population of Martha's Vineyard manifested an extremely high rate of hereditary…

Reframes philosophical debates and explores the moral permissibility of an action. This book presents an analysis that leads…

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The fox knows many things, the Greeks said, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. In his most comprehensive work, Ronald…

Patricia Williams is a lawyer and a professor of commercial law, the great-great-granddaughter of a slave and a white…

\nAs immigrants and others are engulfed by dominant societies, the connection to their ancestral tongues is routinely…

We know more of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 43 BCE), lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, than of any other Roman.…

Lucretius lived ca. 99 ca. 55 BCE, but the details of his career are unknown. In his didactic poem De Rerum Natura (On the…

\nBranko Milanovic charts 200 years of the fascinating history of the discourse on inequality through portraits of six key…

\nThe United States is the global leader in higher education, but this was not always the case and may not remain so.…

Aurelius Augustine (354-430 CE), one of the most important figures in the development of western Christianity and…

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

Nearly all the works Aristotle (384 322 BCE) prepared for publication are lost; the priceless ones extant are…

Nearly all the works Aristotle (384 322 BCE) prepared for publication are lost; the priceless ones extant are…

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The poetry of Horace is richly varied, its focus moving between public and private concerns, urban and rural settings, Stoic…

Nearly all the works Aristotle (384 322 BCE) prepared for publication are lost; the priceless ones extant are…

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

In Moral Essays, Seneca (c. 4 65 CE) expresses his Stoic philosophy on providence, steadfastness, anger, forgiveness,…

Works such as those of the mime-writer Publilius Syrus, who flourished c. 45 BCE, and Rutilius Namatianus, who gave a…

The poetry of Horace (born 65 B.C.) is richly varied, its focus moving between public and private concerns, urban and rural…

Seneca (c. 4 65 CE) devotes most of Naturales Quaestiones to celestial phenomena. In Book 1 he discusses fires in the…