Markets are artifacts of language - so Douglas R. Holmes argues in this deeply researched look at central banks and the…

A reference and guide for students, scholars, and practitioners of ethnography and beyond. It discusses about the deskwork…

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Examines the role of an influential neurological institute in shaping a new, interdisciplinary science—neuroscience—and…

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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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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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How have ruins become so valued in Western culture and so central to our art and literature? Covering a vast chronological…

"Behemoth, or The Long Parliament" is essential to any reader interested in the historical context of the thought of Thomas…

Ask a scientist about Hollywood, and you ll probably get eye rolls. But ask someone in Hollywood about science, and they ll…

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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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One of the most popular and widely read books of the Middle Ages, "Physiologus" contains allegories of beasts, stones, and…

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How well do we really know dogs? People may enjoy thinking about them as "man's best friend," but what actually drives the…

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In "Unsimple Truths", Sandra D. Mitchell argues that the long-standing scientific and philosophical deference to reductive…

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Two months after the attacks of 9/11, the Bush administration, in the midst of what it perceived to be a state of emergency,…

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Provides students and teachers alike with pedagogical guidelines for studying history Kniha 9780226357218 Why Learn History…

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We live in an age in which we are repeatedly reminded--by scientists, by the media, by popular culture--of the looming…

Nina Auerbach shows how every age embraces the vampire it needs, and gets the vampire it deserves. Working with a wide range…

This collection of the most brilliant and characteristic letters of Niccolo Machiavelli displays the vital and penetrating…

With radical formal innovations that scandalized the European art world, cubism revolutionized modern art and opened the…

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Psychoanalyst, teacher, and scholar, Heinz Kohut was one of the twentieth century's most important intellectuals. A rebel…

There's little doubt that most humans today are better off than their forebears. Stunningly so, the economist and historian…

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

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This expanded new edition features six new chapters that confront, in different ways, the growing understanding of literary…

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

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Scientists, theologians, and philosophers have all sought to answer the questions of why we are here and where we are going.…

In The Dominion of the Dead, Robert Pogue Harrison explores the many places where the dead cohabit the world of the living -…

'I shall reconsider human knowledge by starting from the fact that we can know more than we can tell', writes Michael…

Features two intellectuals who engage in a dialogue about the problems and possibilities of human intimacy. In this book,…

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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…

A major figure in American blues and folk music, Big Bill Broonzy (1903-58) left his Arkansas Delta home after World War I,…

"Of those who created the intellectual capital used to launch the enterprise of professional sociology, Georg Simmel was…

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Humanity is by many measures the biggest success story in the animal kingdom; but what are the costs of this triumph? Over…

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In "Believing and Seeing", Roland Recht argues that preoccupation with vision as a key to religious knowledge profoundly…

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In this timely and provocative critique of modern psychiatry, Allan V. Horwitz examines current conceptions of mental…

This text explores three of Bernini's baroque chapels to show how Bernini achieved his effects. Careri examines the ways in…

This is a behind-the-scenes look at the search for human origins, analyzing how the biases and preconceptions of…

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David McNeill, a pioneer in the ongoing study of the relationship between gesture and language, here argues that gestures…

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This work seeks to delve beneath the chaos and brutality of the Norse world to discover a complex interplay of ordering and…

\nTimed for the 200th anniversary of John Keats\'s death, these intimate essays show why we love Keats still, and why his…

In the first two volumes of this work, Paul Ricoeur examined the relations between time and narrative in historical writing,…

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A commentary on the text of Richmond Lattimore's English translation of Homer's Iliad.…

The esteemed French philosopher Pierre Hadot’s final work, now available in English. With a foreword by Arnold I. Davidson…

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"The Wealth of Nations" was recognized as a landmark of human thought upon its publication in 1776. As the first scientific…

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A Financial Times Best Book of the Year "A must-read, with key lessons for the future."—Thomas Piketty A groundbreaking…

There is nowhere else in the world quite like Chungking Mansions, a dilapidated seventeen-story commercial and residential…

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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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There have been numerous studies in recent decades of the medieval inquisitions, most emphasizing larger social and…

This text examines a mode of mystical discourse, "apophasis", which literally means "speaking away." Sometimes translated as…