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Written by the preeminent democratic theorist of our time, this book explains the nature, value, and mechanics of democracy. In a new introduction to this Veritas edition, Ian Shapiro considers how Dahl would respond to the ongoing challenges demo...

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A comprehensive new survey tracing the global history of urbanism and urban design from the industrial revolution to the present An engaging read for urban planners and non-designer urbanists. . . . The extent and detail of Mumfords geographical c...

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The 50th anniversary edition of a classic text, featuring an expanded selection of color studies The landmark 1963 book by Josef Albers . . . isnt just for aspiring artists. Its mesmerizing illustrations are a revelation for anyone interested in c...

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An engaging survey from the Middle Ages to the present, presenting fashion as a complex process that reflects economic, social, and political changes This engaging volume tells the history of Western fashion, exploring how and why it has influence...

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The hidden costs of artificial intelligencefrom natural resources and labor to privacy, equality, and freedom This study argues that [artificial intelligence] is neither artificial nor particularly intelligent. . . . A fascinating history of the d...

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A leading expert on foreign policy reveals how tensions between America, NATO, and Russia transformed geopolitics A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2021 and winner of the Pushkin House Book Prize Sarotte has the receipts, as it were: her authoritativ...

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Has liberalism failed because it has succeeded? "Why Liberalism Failed offers cogent insights into the loss of meaning and community that many in the West feel, issues that liberal democracies ignore at their own peril."President Barack ...

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A pioneering exploration of the differences between the brains right and left hemispheres and their effects on society, history, and cultureone of the few contemporary works deserving classic status (Nicholas Shakespeare, Times, UK) Persuasively a...

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W. E. B. Du Bois' insightful commentary on Black history, racism, and the struggles of Black Americans following emancipationa masterpiece in the African-American canon "Jonathan Holloway introduces W. E. B. Du Bois' 1903 classic fo...

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In this prize-winning book, one of the most prominent political theorists of our time makes a major statement about what democracy is and why it is important. Robert Dahl examines the most basic assumptions of democratic theory, tests them against...

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A compelling account of Christianitys Jewish beginnings, from one of the worlds leading scholars of ancient religion How did a group of charismatic, apocalyptic Jewish missionaries, working to prepare their world for the impending realization of G...

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A brilliant and sobering (Paul Kennedy, Wall Street Journal) look at the history and human costs of pandemic outbreaks As seen on 60 Minutes The World Economic Forum #1 book to read for context on the coronavirus outbreak This sweeping exploration...

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Why are the costs of health care and higher education rising so dramatically? How can we keep them affordable for lower- and middle-income American families? The exploding cost of health care in the United States is a source of widespread alarm. S...

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A fascinating look into how the transformative joys of mathematical experience are available to everyone, not just specialists Math has a reputation for being inaccessible. People think that it requires a special gift or that comprehension is a ma...

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One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.John Gray, New York Times Book Review A powerful, and in many [ways] insightful, explanation as to why grandiose programs of social reform, ...

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"A feminist classic."Judith Shulevitz, New York Times Book Review A pivotal book, one of those after which we will never think the same again.Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Washington Post Book World A pathbreaking book of literary criticism is no...

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How can one European capital be responsible for most of the Wests intellectual and cultural achievements in the twentieth century? Viennese ideas saturate the modern world. From California architecture to Hollywood Westerns, modern advertising to ...

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A groundbreaking examination of a central question in international relations: Do states act rationally? To understand world politics, you need to understand how states think. Are states rational? Much of international relations theory assumes tha...

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A renowned scholar argues that liberal hegemonythe policy America has pursued since the Cold War endedis doomed to fail Named a Financial Times Best Book of 2018 Idealists as well as realists need to read this systematic tour de force.Robert D. Ka...

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A groundbreaking history of women in British intelligence, revealing their pivotal role across the first half of the twentieth century From the twentieth century onward, women took on an extraordinary range of roles in intelligence, defying the co...

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Ian Buruma explores the life and death of Baruch Spinoza, the Enlightenment thinker whose belief in freedom of thought and speech resonates in our own time A New Yorker Best Book of 2024 Selection An elegant, relevant biography of a vital thinker....

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Crushed by the Romans in the first century A.D., the ancient Druids of Britain left almost no reliable evidence behind. Because of this, historian Ronald Hutton shows, succeeding British generations have been free to reimagine, reinterpret, and re...

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"Jonathan Holloway introduces W. E. B. Du Bois' 1903 classic for our time, when visions of a 'post-racial' America clash with the enduring centrality of what Du Bois termed 'the problem of the color-line.' We need Du Bois ...

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An invaluable introduction to the art and craft of musical composition from a distinguished teacher and composer This essential introduction to the art and craft of musical composition is designed to familiarize beginning composers with principles...

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From the author of Lakota America, an award-winning history of the rise and decline of the vast and imposing Comanche empire "Cutting-edge revisionist western history."-Larry McMurtry, The New York Review of Books "A landmark study ...

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An enthralling portrait of the Bloomsbury Groups key figures told through a rich collection of intimate photographs Photography framed the world of the Bloomsbury Group. The thousands of photographs surviving in albums kept by Virginia Woolf, Vane...

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The first-year book in the widely used Ahlan wa Sahlan program, now in its third edition, updated for effective and practical Arabic acquisition and use This textbook provides the first year of Arabic instruction in the Ahlan wa Sahlan program. Th...

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A wide-ranging new history of NATO, from its origins to the present daypublished for the alliances seventy-fifth anniversary For seven decades, NATOs stated aim has been the achievement of world peacebut playing great power politics always involve...

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A world-renowned philosophers genre-defying exploration of the mystery of consciousness [A] masterpiece. . . . The most thorough and rigorous account of the nature of reality to be published in a century.James Matthew Wilson, World Magazine In a b...

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