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Nicolas Cornell
Wrongs and Rights Come Apart

It is common to regard rights and wrongs as mirror images: to be wronged is to have one's rights violated. Nicolas Cornell rejects this view. Drawing on diverse real-world examples, he argues that rights …

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Allan Rohan Crite
Were You There When They Crucified My Lord

One of the best loved of the American spirituals is here interpreted by an artist whose birthright is an authentic understanding of the spirituals. He gives us that understanding in terms of an art having…

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Christina J Cross
Inherited Inequality

Christina Cross decisively refutes culture-of-poverty narratives blaming family structure for persistent racial inequality. Marshaling extensive longitudinal data, Cross shows that Black kids raised in tw…

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Fara Dabhoiwala
What Is Free Speech?

Fara Dabhoiwala argues that free speech, though a central democratic value, owes its origin and evolution less to high-minded ideals than to venal interests. Shaped by greed, technological change, and the…

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Aisha Dad
Through the Looking Glass

Informed by oral poetics, performance theory, and memory studies, Through the Looking Glass approaches Anarkali-the supposed lover of both the Mughal emperor Akbar and his son Jahangir- not as a historica…

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Audun Dahl
Between Fixed and Fickle

Killing and cheating seem obviously wrong, yet such moral infractions are common. So is morality selfish or irrational? "No," says psychologist Audun Dahl. Moral views are not permanently fixed,…

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Robert Darnton
The Writer's Lot

The Writer's Lotexplores the working lives of eighteenth-century French authors-celebrities and unknowns-at a time when their example, if not often their ideas, changed the course of history. Taking the m…

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Michael David-Fox
Crucibles of Power

The people of Smolensk survived both of the twentieth century's most brutal dictatorships. Michael David-Fox probes their experiences under Stalinist and Nazi rule to unravel the threads of authoritariani…

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Dagomar Degroot
Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean

Changes in cosmic environments, from solar storms to asteroid impacts, have altered the course of history. Tracing how such events shaped geopolitics and spurred scientific and cultural innovation, Dagoma…

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George E Demacopoulos
Sacralizing Violence in Byzantium

Sacralizing Violence in Byzantium is the first book to examine the complex and shifting perceptions of premodern Christians toward violence and war through the lens of hymnography, with a profound transfo…

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Barbara Di Gennaro Splendore
The State Drug

In Renaissance Italy, the Galenic "wonder drug" theriac became a vehicle for political, pharmaceutical, and commercial power. The State Drug shows how regimes and medical authorities secured sup…

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Emily Dickinson,
Emily Dickinson's Letters to Dr. and Mrs. Josiah Gilbert Holland

The ninety-three letters-and the poems, over thirty in all, which she included in the letters or sent in place of them-written by Emily Dickinson to her dear friends the Hollands, are intimate, spontaneou…

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Frank Dobbin, Alexandra Kalev
Getting to Diversity

"This book has the potential to change CEO mindsets, human resource practices, manager behavior, and employee well-being-if only enough people grab it and heed its powerful messages." -Rosabeth …

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Assa Doron, Alex Broom
A World of Resistance

India is the center of the global antibiotic resistance crisis. Examining the enormous social and environmental costs of overreliance on antibiotics in India, A World of Resistance shows why embracing cul…

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Katie Ebner-Landy
The Character Sketch as Philosophy

Katie Ebner-Landy shows that early modern Europeans, inspired by the ancient philosopher Theophrastus, embraced the character sketch as a source of moral and political education. Yet Enlightenment thinker…

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Umberto Eco
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods

In six lectures covering everything from James Bond to antisemitic conspiracy theories, Umberto Eco offers a master class in the philosophy of fiction. Dissecting the rhythms and ambiguities of narrative,…

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Jamal J Elias
After Rumi

The thirteenth-century Persian poet and scholar Rumi is revered to this day. Jamal J. Elias sheds light on the Sufi community he founded: the Mevlevis, whose devotion to Rumi was rooted in ideas of emotio…

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Caleb Everett
A Myriad of Tongues

Exploring breakthroughs in language and cognition research, Caleb Everett finds that fundamentals of human perception are culturally encoded by the words and sentences we use. The experience of time, spac…

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Adams Family,
Adams Family Correspondence

From Quincy, MA, John and Abigail Adams watched and felt the impact of a US embargo on British trade, while Senator John Quincy Adams drew Federalist ire for his role in its passage. In 236 letters, Volum…

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Nancy Felson
Regarding Penelope

In this updated and expanded second edition of Regarding Penelope, Nancy Felson explores the relationship between Homer's construction of Penelope and his more general approach to poetic production and re…

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