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This work argues that evolutionary theorists' emphasis on sexual competition among males for access to females overlooks…

The human brain evolved to prioritize short-term rewards over long-term goals. But while this adaptation served our…

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This book examines "the great contraction" of 2007 - 2010 within the context of the neoliberal globalization that began in…

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"The Philosophy of Childhood" is an account of children's philosophical potential and of childhood as an area of…

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Our subjective inner life is what really matters to us as human beings - and yet we know relatively little about how it…

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"Every line we succeed in publishing today...is a victory wrested from the powers of darkness." So wrote Walter Benjamin in…

• Rok vydání 1995

This text proposes a theory of evolving ways of knowing that allows a view of adult development similar to that of child…

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Zbigniew Brzezinski's impact on America's role in the world extends far beyond his years in the Carter White House. Justin…

Coluccio Salutati (1332 1406) was chancellor of the Florentine Republic (1375 1406) and the leader of the humanist movement…

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Bitcoin has been hailed as an Internet marvel and decried as the preferred transaction vehicle for criminals. It has left…

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

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Acclaimed critic Sianne Ngai theorizes the gimmick as an aesthetic category reflecting the fundamental laws of capitalism.…

Argues that various forms of life are connected in a vast, entangling mesh and this interconnectedness penetrates different…

Written by a recipient of a MacArthur award, this book focuses on the challenge posed by the isolated child to teachers and…

Despite American education's mania for standardized tests, testing misses what matters most about learning: the desire to…

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\nAmerican law assumes that individuals are autonomous, defined by their capacity to choose, and not obligated to each…

• Rok vydání 2002

Magisterial in vision, sweeping in scope, this monumental work presents a seamless account of Japanese society during the…

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Does globalization help everyone or just the rich? Is it the enemy of sustainability or the only hope against climate…

• Rok vydání 1997

A small child looks at a dripping faucet and says that it is drooling." Another calls a centipede a "comb." An older child…

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Tracing the structure and evolution of Idealism as a doctrine, this title exposes an objective, or realist, strain running…

The well-known Italian semiotician and novelist Umberto Eco discloses for the first time to English-speaking readers the…

• Rok vydání 1993

This bold book asks the ultimate question of the life sciences: How did the human mind acquire its incomparable power? In…

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No detailed description available for "The Evolution of a Judicial Philosophy". Kniha 9780674865990 Evolution of a Judicial…

Distinction is at once a vast ethnography of contemporary France and a dissection of the bourgeois mind. Bourdieu's subject…

In this practical and funny book, an experienced teaching consultant offers many creative strategies for dealing with…

• Rok vydání 2014

Every liberal democracy has laws or codes against hate speech except the United States. For constitutionalists, regulation…

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

This text aims to provide a guide to the sonnets of Shakespeare. Commentaries, presented alongside the original text and a…

Although eugenics is now widely discredited, some groups and individuals claim a new scientific basis for old racist…

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Aimed at law students and upper-level undergraduates, this primer on legal reasoning is also an original exposition of basic…

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

• Rok vydání 2011

This book is an intellectual tour de force: a comprehensive Darwinian interpretation of human development. Looking at the…

• Rok vydání 1994

From the fossil collecting methods of 18th-century geologists to the development of high resolution mass spectronomy, this…

• Rok vydání 2011

We began as savages, and savagery has served us well--it got us where we are. But how do our tribal impulses, still in place…

• Rok vydání 1998

Aiming to take a fresh look at what the Greeks and Romans thought about the Jews, this book firmly locates the origins of…

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Ge Zhaoguang addresses sensitive questions of identity that shape the politics of the world's most populous country. This…

• Rok vydání 1998

Drawing on a dozen years of research among managers, officers and politicians in the public realm and the private sector,…

• Rok vydání 1999

The question addressed in this book is: if women once had access to effective means of birth control, why was this knowledge…

This volume brings together Bourdieu's highly original writings on language and on the relations among language, power, and…

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In her notes and introduction to this final volume in Harvard's annotated Austen series, Deidre Shauna Lynch outlines the…

• Rok vydání 2013

Legality is a profound work in analytical jurisprudence, the branch of legal philosophy which deals with metaphysical…

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The definitive new translation of Max Weber’s classic work of social theory—arguably the most important book by the foremost…

For anyone who has blanched at the uphill prospect of finishing a long piece of writing, this book holds out something more…

For Tommie Shelby, the persistence of ghettos raises many thorny questions of morality, and he offers practical answers…

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"A probing critique of a modern public sphere that overwhelms the private realm . . . Pressly offers a unique vision of what…

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"A timely account of how the 1% holds on to their wealth...Ought to keep wealth managers awake at night."--Wall Street…

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