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Christina J Cross
Inherited Inequality

A groundbreaking study challenges basic tenets of US social welfare policy with proof that raising Black children in two-parent families does not close racial gaps in life outcomes.Ever since Daniel Patri…

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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

Classical Continuum

Anarkali, an Orientalized persona assigned to the harem of the Mughal Emperor Akbar, is also the lover of Akbar's son, Salim, the future Mughal Emperor Jahangir. Her body and narrative occupy the liminal …

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Audun Dahl
Between Fixed and Fickle

A psychologist explains why-and how-moral views change across different life stages, situations, and historical eras.We like to believe that moral truths are obvious and unchangeable: cheating is wrong, k…

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Raffaele Danna
The Craft of Indo-Arabic Numerals

"A must-read." -Joel Mokyr, Nobel Prize-winning author of A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern EconomyAn illuminating, fine-grained account of how Indo-Arabic numerals facilitated the …

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Kevin Davies
Curved Air

How sickle cell anemia led the quest to edit the human genome while patients endured decades of racial discrimination and medical neglect.In December 1904, Walter Clement Noel, a dental student from Grena…

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Natalie Zemon Davis
The Return of Martin Guerre

A classic account of stolen identity in a sixteenth-century village, by one of the world's greatest modern historians-now in a new edition for the first time in over forty years.In 1548, a French peasant …

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Dagomar Degroot
Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean

A Scientific American , Nautilus , and New Scientist Best Book of the YearThe untold story of how environmental change throughout the cosmos shaped five hundred years of human civilization.Our solar syste…

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Elena Denisova-Schmidt
Breaking the Bonds of Corruption

Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies

In Breaking the Bonds of Corruption, Elena Denisova-Schmidt takes a broad view of corruption and its prevalence in global societies, using the case of Ukraine to examine practices that are considered corr…

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Elena Denisova-Schmidt
Breaking the Bonds of Corruption

Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies

In Breaking the Bonds of Corruption, Elena Denisova-Schmidt takes a broad view of corruption and its prevalence in global societies, using the case of Ukraine to examine practices that are considered corr…

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Barbara Di Gennaro Splendore
The State Drug

I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History

A revelatory account of the "wonder drug" theriac, which became a powerful tool in the hands of medical and political authorities at the height of the Italian Renaissance.From the 1490s, one of …

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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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Emily Dickinson,
The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition

The most reliable reading edition of Emily Dickinson's poetry available anywhere, edited and introduced by a renowned Dickinson scholar.Emily Dickinson wrote nearly 1,800 poems in her lifetime-an astonish…

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Christa Dierksheide, Nicholas Guyatt
Jefferson's Wolf

A decisive reassessment of Thomas Jefferson's long-debated views on slavery, showing that his chief antislavery strategy was racial exclusion: the removal of emancipated Black people from the United State…

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Amir Khusraw Dihlavi
Exquisite Things and Strange Wonders

Murty Classical Library of India

A defense of poetry from a towering figure of the medieval Persianate world.Written in 1294 as the introduction to a book of poetry, the Dbcha-yi dvn-i ghurrat al-kaml became a lauded work in its own righ…

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Assa Doron, Alex Broom
A World of Resistance

A sweeping analysis uncovers the causes of-and solutions to-one of the most daunting public health challenges facing the world today: antibiotic resistance exploding in India.The discovery of antibiotics …

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Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
The Story of Alice

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst illuminates two entangled lives: the Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and Alice Liddell, the child for whom he invented the Alice stories. This relationship in…

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Donald L. Drakeman
The Free Exercise Clause and the Rights of Conscience

Challenging decades of scholarship and Supreme Court jurisprudence, newly discovered historical documents reveal that the First Amendment's Free Exercise Clause was meant to protect only the freedom to wo…

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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

The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures

"Erudite, wide-ranging, and slyly humorous." -The AtlanticOne of the great novelists and public intellectuals of our time gives a master class on the philosophy of fiction.Umberto Eco was fond o…

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