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Name any valued human traitintelligence, wit, charm, grace, strengthand you will find an inexhaustible variety and complexity in its expression among individuals. Yet we insist that such diversity does not provide grounds for differential treatmen...

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Eminently suited to classroom use as well as individual study, Roger Myerson's introductory text provides a clear and thorough examination of the models, solution concepts, results, and methodological principles of noncooperative and cooperat...

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Must the sins of America's past poison its hope for the future? Lately the American Left, withdrawing into the ivied halls of academe to rue the nation's shame, has answered yes in both word and deed. In Achieving Our Country, one of Ame...

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Essays discuss the work of William James, logic, meaning, common sense, philosopher's paradoxes, Descartes, perception, and Plato.

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With the rise of science, we moderns believe, the world changed irrevocably, separating us forever from our primitive, premodern ancestors. But if we were to let go of this fond conviction, Bruno Latour asks, what would the world look like? His bo...

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When it comes to the hotly disputed topic of college admissions, the one thing everyone agrees about is that its unfair. But there is little agreement on what a fair process would be. Rebecca Zwick takes a hard look at the high-stakes competition ...

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Michle Lamont takes us into the world inhabited by working-class men--the world as they understand it. Interviewing black and white working-class men who, because they are not college graduates, have limited access to high-paying jobs and other so...

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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 Sociobiology, and how the political and religious uproar that engulfed that book persuaded him to write another book that would b...

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Winner of the 2022 London Hellenic Prize On the bicentennial of the Greek Revolution, an essential guide to the momentous war for independence of the Greeks from the Ottoman Empire. The Greek war for independence (18211830) often goes missing from...

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The Cypria, so named because its poet supposedly came from the island of Cyprus, was an early Greek epic that is known to us primarily through quotations and references to passages by later authors, as well as through a prose summary of its plot a...

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The 10th anniversary edition A Guardian Best Book about Deforestation A New Scientist Best Book of the Year A Taipei Times Best Book of the Year A perfectly grounded account of what it is like to live an indigenous life in communion with ones pers...

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How does science create knowledge? Epistemic cultures, shaped by affinity, necessity, and historical coincidence, determine how we know what we know. In this book, Karin Knorr Cetina compares two of the most important and intriguing epistemic cult...

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Over the past twenty-five years, Bruno Latour has developed a research protocol different from the actor-network theory with which his name is now associateda research protocol that follows the different types of connectors that provide specific t...

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In this extensive inquiry into the sources of modern selfhood, Charles Taylor demonstrates just how rich and precious those resources are. The modern turn to subjectivity, with its attendant rejection of an objective order of reason, has ledit see...

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A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year"e;An intellectual excursion of a kind rarely offered by modern economics."e;-Foreign AffairsThomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century is the most widely discussed work of economics in rece...

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Cyclic verse. Greek epics of the archaic period include poems that narrate a particular heroic episode or series of episodes and poems that recount the long-term history of families or peoples. They are an important source of mythological record. ...

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The Vulgate Bible, compiled and translated in large part by Saint Jerome at the intersection of the fourth and fifth centuries CE, was used from the early Middle Ages through the twentieth century in the Western European Christian (and, later, spe...

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This is the little book that started a revolution, making womens voices heard, in their own right and with their own integrity, for virtually the first time in social scientific theorizing about women. Its impact was immediate and continues to thi...

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Winner of the William James Book Award Winner of the Eleanor Maccoby Book Award A landmark in our understanding of human development. Paul Harris, author of Trusting What Youre Told MagisterialMakes an impressive argument that most distinctly huma...

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The definitive account of the career and legacy of the most influential Western exponent of violent jihad. Anwar al-Awlaki was, according to one of his followers, the main man who translated jihad into English. By the time he was killed by an Amer...

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The passage of texts from scroll to codex created a revolution in the religious life of late antiquity. It played a decisive role in the Roman Empires conversion to Christianity and eventually enabled the worldwide spread of Christian faith. The S...

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Renowned scholar Alan F. Segal offers startlingly new insights into the origins of rabbinic Judaism and Christianity. These twin descendants of Hebrew heritage shared the same social, cultural, and ideological context, as well as the same minority...

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If we want nonscientists and opinion-makers in the press, the lab, and the pulpit to take a fresh look at the relationship between science and religion, Ronald Numbers suggests that we must first dispense with the hoary myths that have masqueraded...

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A discerning analysis of the future effects of climate change on Russia, the major power most dependent on the fossil fuel economy. Russia will be one of the countries most affected by climate change. No major power is more economically dependent ...

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One of the most influential texts in the Middle Ages, The Rule of Saint Benedict offers guidance about both the spiritual and organizational dimensions, from the loftiest to the lowliest, of monastic life. This new Latin-English edition has featur...

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Among all the great thinkers of the past two hundred years, Nietzsche continues to occupy a special place--not only for a broad range of academics but also for members of a wider public, who find some of their most pressing existential concerns ad...

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Any sound practical philosophy must be clear on practical conceptsconcepts, in particular, of life, action, and practice. This clarity is Michael Thompsons aim in his ambitious work. In Thompsons view, failure to comprehend the structures of thoug...

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For this first English edition of his distinguished study of Pythagoreanism, Weisheit und Wissenschajt: Studien zu Pythagoras, Philolaos, und Platon, Walter Burkert has carefully revised text and notes, taking account of additional literature on t...

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Curators make many decisions when they build collections or design exhibitions, plotting a passage of discovery that also tells an essential story. Collecting captures the past in a way useful to the present and the future. Exhibits play to our se...

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George Louis Beer Prize Winner Wallace K. Ferguson Prize Finalist A Marginal Revolution Book of the Year A groundbreaking contributionIntellectual history at its best. Stephen Wertheim, Foreign Affairs Neoliberals hate the state. Or do they? In th...

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