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The Philology of the Future

This book gathers a group of scholars whose work has been influenced by the distinctive dialogue between ancient philosophy (and rhetoric) and critical theory promoted by the scholarship of James I. Porte…

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Raúl Rojas,
The Language of Mathematics

A marvelous compendium of mathematical symbols and their fascinating historiesGalileo famously wrote that the book of nature is written in mathematical language. The Language of Mathematics is a wide-rang…

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George Boys-Stones
Apuleius on the Cosmos

Apuleius' De Mundo ('On the Cosmos') has never been published in English translation. One reason for this may be that it has itself been viewed as a mere translation of a work that survives in the Aristot…

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Global Asias

Global Asias: Tactics & Theories is the inaugural volume in an exciting new series that explores critical concerns animating Global Asias scholarship. It challenges the silos of academic knowledge for…

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Ronald Bishop, Ron Bishop
The Total Black Experience

The Total Black Experience is the first book to chronicle the history and social significance of Positively Black , one of the longest-running public affairs shows in the history of television. Spurred on…

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Ronald Bishop, Ron Bishop
The Total Black Experience

The Total Black Experience is the first book to chronicle the history and social significance of Positively Black , one of the longest-running public affairs shows in the history of television. Spurred on…

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Christopher Hass
Free Chicago

Free Chicago: 50 Years of the Reader is an oversized coffee table book that tells the incredible story of the nation's longest surviving free city paper.In Chicago in 1971, a group of friends gathered aro…

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Christine R Yano
Speak American

Speak American explores how language tied together race, power, and citizenship in Territorial Hawai'i from 1924 to 1960 via the public K--12 English Standard School System. In this segregated system, chi…

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Christine R Yano
Speak American

Speak American explores how language tied together race, power, and citizenship in Territorial Hawai'i from 1924 to 1960 via the public K--12 English Standard School System. In this segregated system, chi…

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Kate Mattingly
Shaping Dance Canons

American Society for Aesthetics Selma Jeanne Cohen Prize in Dance AestheticsExamining a century of dance criticism in the United States and its influence on aesthetics and inclusionDance criticism has lon…

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Blake Scott Ball
Charlie Brown's America

Despite--or because of--its huge popular culture status, Peanuts enabled cartoonist Charles Schulz to offer political commentary on the most controversial topics of postwar American culture through the vo…

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Anonymous Sounds

This cross-disciplinary collection provides the first comprehensive study of library music practices in the 1960s and 1970s.Library music was inexpensive, off-the-shelf music available to license for a sm…

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Joshua S Mostow
Hyakunin'shu

"Hyakunin'shu: Reading the Hundred Poets in Late Edo Japan explores the "popular literary literacy" of the Japanese at the edge of modernity. By reproducing and translating a popular annota…

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Telmo Pievani
Multiplicity

The awe-inspiring, little-known story of Nobel laureate Frances Arnold's discovery of directed enzyme evolution---and how it was sparked by reading Jorge Luis Borges.In 1976, a young engineering student f…

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Xiaochang Li
Divination Engines

A revealing and surprising origin story, showing how attempts to render human speech and language computable led from the era of big data to today's AI.Since the advent of computers, society has fantasize…

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Anthony Kenny
A New History of Western Philosophy

This book is no less than a guide to the whole of Western philosophy the ideas that have undergirded our civilization for two-and-a-half thousand years. Anthony Kenny tells the story of philosophy from an…

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Gayle Feldman
Nothing Random

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • The "exhilarating" (The Boston Globe) story of the legendary Random House founder, whose seemingly charmed life at the apogee of the American Centu…

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Lisa Pease
Lie Too Big to Fail

A thorough and groundbreaking addition to our understanding of the RFK assassination based on newly released police reports and government documents.In A Lie Too Big to Fail, longtime Kennedy researcher (…

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Francine Prose
1974

"In this remarkable memoir, the qualities that have long distinguished Francine Prose's fiction and criticism---uncompromising intelligence, a gratifying aversion to sentiment, the citrus bite of iro…

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Emily Wilson
Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea

Drawing on twenty years of scholarship and translation experience, Emily Wilson-renowned translator of Homer's Odyssey and Iliad -explores the difficult choices that translators must make, the pleasures o…

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