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Hannah Arendt
The Human Condition

A classic work of political thought, more relevant today than everThe twenty-first century has seen a resurgence of interest in the political thinker Hannah Arendt, "the theorist of beginnings,"…

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Alison Bashford
Decoding the Hand

"Delightful."-- Times Literary Supplement - "Intriguing."-- The Sydney Morning Herald - "Fascinating, well-illustrated."-- Nature - "Altogether surprising and hard to ca…

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Gregory Bateson
Steps to an Ecology of Mind

A landmark work that broke new ground in anthropology, psychology, cybernetics, and more--and remains relevant today Gregory Bateson was a philosopher, anthropologist, photographer, naturalist, and poet, …

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Mary Beard
Talking Classics

The incomparable Mary Beard is back, and she's talking all things classics.Why the ongoing fascination with the ancient world? This witty, approachable book asks why--for better or (sometimes) worse--anti…

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Albert Camus
The Complete Notebooks

The first complete translation of Albert Camus's personal notebooks written between 1933 and 1959, published for the first time in one comprehensive volume.Throughout his career, French writer and philoso…

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Marty Crump
Snake Day

An hourly guide that follows twenty-four snakes as they find mates, hunt, and survive a changing world.Does a snake crossing your path trigger delight or dread? The answer is clear for celebrated biologis…

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Allen B. Downey
Probably Overthinking It

An essential guide to the ways data can improve decision making.Statistics are everywhere: in news reports, at the doctor's office, and in every sort of forecast, from the stock market to the weather. Blo…

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James A. van Dyke
Otto Dix in Detail

How small details in the paintings of Otto Dix materialize the realities of a modern German artist.Offering a fresh look at German art during a period of extraordinary transition and precarity, James A. v…

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Gary Alan Fine
Joy to the World

A celebration and exploration of the idea of pleasure and the unique role it serves in bringing individuals and communities together.There are innumerable ways to take pleasure in life: a bite of cake in …

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Felice C. Frankel
The Visual Elements¿Abstraction

For anyone interested in visual communication, a training guide for evaluating and developing visual representations for the big ideas in science and technology, essential skills for journal submissions, …

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Shannon Hoff
How to Read Hegel Now

A powerful exploration of how Hegel's ideas about freedom can speak to social injustice today.One might be forgiven for feeling that the philosophical tradition, notoriously replete with seemingly aloof a…

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Anthony Kaldellis
Phantom Byzantium

How the West appropriated aspects of the eastern Roman empire while portraying it as inferior.Unveiling the ideological foundations of Byzantine studies, Phantom Byzantium is a pioneering survey of wester…

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Maximilian Kasy
The Means of Prediction

"An eye-opening examination of how power-not technology-will define life with AI. AI is inescapable, from its mundane uses online to its increasingly consequential decision-making in courtrooms, empl…

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Simon P. Keefe
Mozart and His World

A collection of essays that reinvigorates our understanding of some of Mozart's best-loved works.One of the world's most revered composers, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) wrote works in almost every …

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George Lakoff, Mark Johnson
Metaphors We Live by

The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. Metaphor, the authors explain, is a fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us to u…

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David W. Macdonald
The Book of Dogs

For all dog lovers, a stunningly illustrated and scientifically informed global guide to our beloved canine companions and their wild kin.Dogs are spectacularly diverse. From the world's smallest wild can…

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Paul Mendes-Flohr
Love Is Strong as Death

A brilliant and engaging biography of one of the great modern Jewish thinkers.Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) was one of the central figures of the Jewish cultural and intellectual renaissance in Weimar Germ…

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Stephanie O'Rourke
Picturing Landscape in an Age of Extraction

"In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, European artists grappled with an enormous transformation of how human beings relate to the natural world. The management and extraction of res…

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Mark O'Shea
The Book of Frogs

An up-to-date, beautifully illustrated, and beloved guide to six hundred of the world's most fascinating frogs.With almost nine thousand known species, frogs display a stunning array of forms and behavior…

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Steven Rings
What Did You Hear?

Named one of PopMatters ' Best Books of 2025! Discover a new side of the songs of Bob Dylan by exploring the virtues of rough sounds, peculiar intonation, and a raspy voice.Folk troubadour, rock star, cou…

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