Dignity plays a central role in thinking about law and human rights, but there is sharp disagreement about its meaning.…

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

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The rise of webtoons has altered the Korean cultural market due to the growth of transmedia storytelling-the flow of a story…

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An authoritative biography of Jozef Pilsudski, a key figure in interwar Europe regarded as the founding hero of a…

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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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This study makes the psychological case against the reliability of the eyewitness. By shedding light on the many factors…

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Arguing that within the next fifty years machines will equal humans not only in reasoning power but also in their ability to…

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Breaking the Vicious Circle is a tour de force that should be read by everyone who is interested in improving our regulatory…

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The Therigatha," composed more than two millennia ago, is an anthology of poems in the Pali language by and about the first…

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

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

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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…

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Wendy Brown diagnoses a late-modern nihilism that trivializes values-including truth itself-and reduces politics to…

As they immerse themselves in foreign cultures, trained anthropologists find that accepting difference is one thing,…

T. H. Breen introduces us to the ordinary men and women who took responsibility for the course of the American revolution.…

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An assessment of psychological misinterpretations of women attempts to refocus perspectives on female personality and…

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

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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…

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Around the world, more than a million people die by suicide each year. Yet many of us know very little about a tragedy that…

No one in this century can speak with greater authority on the progress of ideas in biology than Ernst Mayr. And no book has…

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To understand the way children develop, Bronfenbrenner believes that it is necessary to observe their behavior in natural…

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Winner of the American Medical Writers' Association Book Award, this volume describes, with observations on the process of…

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By means of a series of personal anecdotes, protocols, fables, and plays, the eminent family therapist probes and assesses…

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In America, we are eager to claim ownership: our homes, our ideas, our organs, even our own celebrity. But beneath our…

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The author postulates that we are all captives of the images we carry with us. Psychotherapy seeks to free the captive from…

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From antiquity to the Enlightenment, Persian culture has been integral to European history. Interest in all things Persian…

\nThis book is both a handbook for defining and completing a research project and an astute introduction to the neglected…

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

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An examination of the changes in the language used by the media in Greece since the fall of the dictatorship, Greek Media…

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

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Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today's idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on…

A Hacker Manifesto deftly defines the fraught territory between the ever more strident demands by drug and media companies…

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

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In the context of the recent financial crisis, the extent to which the U.S. economy has become dependent on financial…

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

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Are humans by nature hierarchical or egalitarian? Hierarchy in the Forest addresses this question by examining the…

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

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No detailed description available for "Children Drawing". Kniha 9780674492141 Children Drawing | Jacqueline Goodnow Pevná…

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Until his death in 1982, Karl von Frisch was the world's most renowned authority on bees. "The Dance Language and…

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Did you know that you are more closely related to a mushroom than to a daisy? That crocodiles are closer to birds than to…

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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…

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\nHow do we know what we think we know? The answer is evidence, but evidence is no simple thing. What counts as evidence in…

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The first complete English-language collection of Simone Weil's letters to her loved ones, A Life in Letters deepens…

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A major new work by Charles Taylor: the long-awaited follow-up to The Language Animal, exploring the Romantic poetics…

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

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In a work as much about the present as the past, Gregory identifies the unintended consequences of the Reformation for the…

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