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"[Veyne's] present book has some kinship with his sprightly theoretical work "Comment on ecrit l'histoire"; and he declares…

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One of Modern Library's 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Twentieth Century In this classic study of how people learned to…

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Written during the prolonged world war between totalitarian and democratic forces, this book takes up the question of how…

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\nA trusted editor turns his attention to the most important part of writing: revision.\n…

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In presenting stories of men's intimacies with men during the 19th century--in a world before the words "gay" and "straight"…

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Speculative Communities investigates the financial world’s influence on the social imagination, unraveling its radical…

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This seminal work chronicles George B. Schaller's two years of travel and observation of gorillas in East and Central Africa…

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This ia an account of the origins, influences and legacy of Jungian psychology. By delineating the social, personal,…

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From two experts in the field comes an accessible, how-to guide that will help researchers think more productively about the…

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Was it a trick of the light that drew our Stone Age ancestors into caves to paint in charcoal and red hematite, to watch the…

Originally published in 1948, at the height of post-World War II optimism and confidence in collective security, Ideas Have…

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Initially denounced as a collection of sinister maxims and as a recommendation of tyranny, this text has more recently been…

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The essays in this collection by the noted French philosopher Paul Ricoeur grew out of a series of invited lectures given in…

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Explores the implications of chance and uncertainty in social theory and offers a new interpretation of the sociological…

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Long recognized as one of the most important 18th-century works on the aesthetics of the visual arts, Johann Gottfried…

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Written in the intense political and intellectual tumult of the early years of the Weimar Republic, "Political Theology"…

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