
Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language - Groce, Nora Ellen
From the 17th to the early 20th century, the population of Martha's Vineyard manifested an extremely high rate of hereditary…
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From the 17th to the early 20th century, the population of Martha's Vineyard manifested an extremely high rate of hereditary…
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Imagine beetles ejecting defensive sprays as hot as boiling water; female moths holding their mates for ransom; caterpillars…
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A landmark reinterpretation of the civil rights movement that challenges reductive heroic narratives of the 1950s and 1960s…
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Transcendentalism went underground for a stretch, but is back in full force in Brandom's new book. An emphasis on our…
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Scanlon reframes current philosophical debates as he explores the moral permissibility of an action. Blame, he argues, is a…
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Bonnie Honig invigorates debate over the politics of refusal by insisting that withdrawal from unjust political systems be…
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In the 1970s, whites mobilized around a new version of the epic tale of plucky immigrants in the New World. Although this…
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In his new Preface E.O. Wilson reflects on how he came to write this book: how The Insect Societies led him to write…
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The two extant poems of Hesiod (eighth or seventh century BC) are Theogony, in which he charts the history of the divine…
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The fox knows many things, the Greeks said, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. In this title, the author argues that…
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\nTA-U-RO-QO-RO takes up problems of script and language representation and textual interpretation, ranging from the use of…
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An enduring theme of Western philosophy is that we are all one another's equals. Yet the principle of basic equality is…
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\nRenowned philosopher of science David Z Albert offers an innovative approach to understanding the fundamental physical…
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\nCraig Calhoun, Dilip Gaonkar, and Charles Taylor argue that democracies have embraced individual freedom at the expense of…
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Moses Chao argues that activity in the peripheral nervous system predicts the onset of neurological and psychiatric…
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![Memory Speaks - Sedivy, Julie [EN] (2021, Firma, Harvard University Press)](/img/image-placeholder.png)
\nAs immigrants and others are engulfed by dominant societies, the connection to their ancestral tongues is routinely…
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Gilroy offers a new understanding of W. E. B. Du Bois' intellectual and political legacy and revitalizes the study of…
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\nSchooling has become less about learning and more about the scramble for good grades, high test scores, and spotless…
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With the rise of science, we moderns believe, the world changed irrevocably, separating us forever from our primitive,…
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Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BCE. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the…
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Though ubiquitous today, available as a single microchip and found in any electronic device requiring sound, the synthesizer…
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A book which should appeal to both literary theorists and to readers of the novel, this study invites the reader to consider…
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Intention is one of the masterworks of 20th-century philosophy. First published in 1957, it has acquired the status of a…
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\nBranko Milanovic charts 200 years of the fascinating history of the discourse on inequality through portraits of six key…
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Confessions is a spiritual autobiography of Augustine's early life, family, associations, and explorations of alternative…
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The great Athenian philosopher Plato was born in 427 BC and lived to be eighty. Acknowledged masterpieces among his works…
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Though attributed to Hesiod (eighth or seventh century BC) in antiquity, the Catalogue of Women, a presentation of legendary…
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In his treatises Hygiene, Thrasybulus, and On Exercise with a Small Ball, Galen of Pergamum addresses topics of preventive…
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Vol. 2 unrevised ed., originally published 1927.…
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We know more of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 43 BCE), lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, than of any other Roman.…
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In letters to his friend Atticus, Cicero (106-43 BC) reveals himself as to no other of his correspondents except perhaps his…
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Nearly all the works Aristotle (384 322 BCE) prepared for publication are lost; the priceless ones extant are…
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![Greek Lyric [EN] (1991, Vázaná, Harvard University Press)](/img/image-placeholder.png)
The most important poets writing in Greek in the sixth century BCE came from Sicily and southern Italy. They included…
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We know more of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, than of any other Roman.…
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Dionysius of Halicarnassus, born ca. 60 BC, aimed in his critical essays to reassert the primacy of Greek as the literary…
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The great Athenian philosopher Plato was born in 427 BCE and lived to be eighty. Acknowledged masterpieces among his works…
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In Moral Essays, Seneca (c. 4 65 CE) expresses his Stoic philosophy on providence, steadfastness, anger, forgiveness,…
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Works such as those of the mime-writer Publilius Syrus, who flourished c. 45 BCE, and Rutilius Namatianus, who gave a…
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The great Athenian philosopher Plato was born in 427 BC and lived to be eighty. Acknowledged masterpieces among his works…
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![Ennead - Plotinus [EN] (1989, Vázaná, Harvard University Press)](/img/image-placeholder.png)
Plotinus (204/5 270 CE) was the first and greatest of Neoplatonic philosophers. His writings were edited by his disciple…
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The poetry of Horace (born 65 BC) is richly varied, its focus moving between public and private concerns, urban and rural…
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Libanius, one of the last great publicists and teachers of Greek paganism, has much to tell us about the tumultuous world of…
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Volume IX of the nine-volume Loeb edition of Early Greek Philosophy includes the so-called sophists Antiphon, Lycophron, and…
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![Naturales Quaestiones - Lucius A. Seneca [EN] (1989, Vázaná, Harvard University Press)](/img/image-placeholder.png)
Seneca (c. 4 65 CE) devotes most of Naturales Quaestiones to celestial phenomena. In Book 1 he discusses fires in the…
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Letters of Augustine (354 430CE) are important for the study of ecclesiastical history and Augustine s relations with other…
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We know more of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 43 BCE), lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, than of any other Roman.…
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Bite and wit characterize two seminal and stellar authors in the history of satirical writing, Persius (34 62 CE) and…
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