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The United States is the global leader in higher education, but this was not always the case and may not remain so. William…

In Heroides, Ovid (43 BCE 17CE) allows legendary women to narrate their memories and express their emotions in verse letters…

In a tour of Western culture that is at once exhilarating and alarming, Nelson shows us the distorted forms in which the…

The solution to inequality, environmental degradation, and other deficits of capitalism is better capitalism. The Power of…

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\nIn this powerful new work, Thomas Piketty reminds us that rising inequality is not inevitable. Over the centuries, we have…

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Presented in a new edition with expanded notes, this genre-defying meditation on the semiotics of late-1920s Weimar culture,…

\nThe author of the best-selling What the Best College Teachers Do is back with humane, doable, and inspiring help for…

\nIn his final work, Richard Rorty provides the definitive statement of his political thought. Rorty equates pragmatism with…

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The crises of American democracy and criminal justice are intimately connected. David A. Sklansky shows how police, courts,…

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Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 10643 BCE), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other…

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More than five million Americans suffer from eating disorders, according to the National Institute of Mental Health, and an…

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Electrifying when first delivered in 1973, legendary in the years since, Dieter Henrich's lectures on German Idealism were…

This book sets forth both a theory and a comparative empirical analysis of stagflation, that peculiar combination of high…

Through the first half of the twentieth century, analytic philosophy was dominated by Russell, Wittgenstein, and Carnap.…

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Russian psychologist A. R. Luria presents a compelling portrait of a man's heroic struggle to regain his mental faculties. A…

Since 1955, moving from early work in psychopharmacology to studies of clinical method and the psychiatric schools, Leston…

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Eugene McCarraher challenges the conventional view of capitalism as a force for disenchantment. From Puritan and evangelical…

Judith Butler elucidates the dynamics of public assembly under prevailing economic and political conditions. Understanding…

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

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The American working class didn't disappear with the manufacturing economy. It transformed. Instead of unionized blue-collar…

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\nMondegreen tells the story of a refugee from Ukraine\'s Donbas region who has escaped to Kyiv at the onset of the…

\nFrom MOOCs to autograders to computerized tutors, technologies designed for large-scale learning have never lived up to…

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Generations of Russians have pursued wealth and power in the East, colonizing Pacific regions and spreading political…

\nThe current model of economic expansion driven by fossil fuels is unsustainable, leading many to toy with the idea of…

Breakthroughs in genetics present us with a promise and a predicament. Although most people find at least some forms of…

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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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“A fascinating book.”—James Ryerson, New York Times Book ReviewA Smithsonian Best Science Book of the YearWinner of the…

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

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Serving prison time with hard labor for the crime of gross indecency, Oscar Wilde wrote some of his most powerful works. A…

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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…

Addresses the utopian developments of the modern media. This collection tracks the author's observations on the media as…

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

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In detailed commentaries on Shakespeare's 154 sonnets, Vendler reveals previously unperceived imaginative and stylistic…

'What does it mean to be lonely?' This book takes us beyond social circumstances and into the deeper forces that shape our…

In this look at the moral dimensions of the classroom, MacArthur Prize-winning educator Vivian Paley introduces a new rule -…

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Harvey C. Mansfield traces the birth of modern political philosophy to Machiavelli's brief on behalf of rational control of…

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