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Constitutional concerns
This book is an attempt to explore the process of ‘deconstitutionalization’ happening in India by looking at certain contemporary topics. The chapters, cumulatively, make out a case for cautious political optimism in the face of challenges.
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The boundless biddy mason
How Biddy Mason crossed the continent, broke free from slavery, and built Black Los Angeles.Born in bondage, Biddy Mason endured one of the longest forced migrations in American history—three thousand miles on foot from Georgia to California. She and her daughters labored in slavery in the “free”...
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Setting fire to reason
The responsibilities of speakers and platforms in a world where content can go viralThe debate over free speech is often marked by two extremes: in one corner, those who think that the right to free speech is nearly absolute; in the other, those who defend sweeping prohibitions on harmful speech....
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Faith in space
A cultural history of the American faith in alien life, from the Puritans to Heaven’s GateOver the past three centuries, belief in extraterrestrial life has had a profound influence on American religion. Faith in Space examines the key thinkers and religious leaders throughout American history wh...
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The well-rounded life
An engaging and enlightening book about why having many different pursuits can vastly improve our well-beingIt’s good to be well-rounded. When you do a lot of different things, when you work on expanding your horizons, when you dive into the fascinating diversity of the world around you, your lif...
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Pierogi
Anna D. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann explores the surprising history of pierogi, tracing how Polish cuisine evolved amid the multiethnic landscape of the United States
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African universities from medieval to post-modern
Chapters challenge dominant colonial and Eurocentric narratives by tracing the history of African higher education. Reclaiming medieval and indigenous epistemologies, it reframes the decolonization agenda as a practical strategy for institutional transformation, curriculum reform, and policy design.
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Maps of sorrow
This book takes readers through the polycentric world of the pre-colonial period in AfroAsia, which involved systems, processes and interactions that were interconnected through long-distance trade, slavery and migration.
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Rethinking innovation
How corporations have increasingly embraced the sharing of knowledge as a competitive strategyInnovation is more important than ever, yet breakthroughs are becoming harder to achieve. Modern technologies, from artificial intelligence and 5G networks to biotech, are so complex that they require co...
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The winding trail to newton's principia mathematica
An intellectual biography of the seventeenth-century masterwork that set down the laws of motion and universal gravitation and ushered in modern physicsLong regarded as one of the most important works in the history of science, Isaac Newton’s Principia laid the mathematical foundations of classic...
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An elite education
An examination of the making of privilege at one of Britain’s top boys’ schoolsAlumni of Britain’s elite schools are consistently overrepresented in positions of power and influence. It is no surprise, then, that elite schools play a pivotal role in reproducing inequality. In An Elite Education, ...
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Exhibit g
From National Book Award Finalist Fady Joudah, a collection of poems, essays, and photographs that offers a Palestinian representation of not only the staggering grief, but the unwavering resilience and prevailing life force of a people and place enduring genocide. Fady Joudah writes from the sp...
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Fintech capital
A thorough examination of the worldwide digital transformation of people’s everyday monetary and financial relations driven by the emergence of FinTechHow people pay, make savings and investments, buy insurance, and take on debt is undergoing digital transformation across the globe. This book arg...
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What makes a great composer?
How education, institutions, emotion, and opportunity shape creativity in classical musicWhy do we still listen to Mozart’s music but not Salieri’s? Would Nadia Boulanger be better known as a composer than a teacher if she were a man? Why did so many composers move to Vienna, Paris, and London, d...
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The disraeli myth
Tracing the multifaceted construction and deployment of the Disraeli myth and its legacy in Conservative (and conservative) politicsDuring his lifetime, Benjamin Disraeli, the late-Victorian Conservative Prime Minister (and popular novelist), was often branded as unprincipled and opportunistic—cl...
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Rodin’s egypt
A richly illustrated exploration of how ancient Egyptian art stirred Rodin’s imagination and inspired his sculptureCelebrated as one of the fathers of modern European sculpture, Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) created expressive and emotive human bodies in works that abandoned narrative and embraced th...
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China's aristocratic age
A new perspective on the Springs-and-Autumns period, China’s longest experiment with polycentrismThe Springs-and-Autumns period (770–453 BCE)—the longest aristocratic age in Chinese history—marks a break from what is often associated with the normative orientations of Chinese political life. Duri...
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In rome's long shadow
Julius Caesar, Lucretia, Cincinnatus, Augustus, the Gracchi brothers: Roman figures have had an extraordinary influence on modern republics from the United States to France. Historian Jamie Gianoutsos traces the Roman republic and its afterlives through the revolutionary birth of these modern rep...
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The origins of the new
A visionary look at how novel attributes arise and become transformative innovations in nature, culture, and technologyThe Origins of the New presents a revolutionary approach to evolutionary success in all realms of life. In this groundbreaking book, Douglas Erwin takes readers on a dazzling exc...
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Democratizing participation
Democratizing Participation presents a critical examination of voter participation in the Citywide and Community Education Council (CCEC) elections of New York City, revealing deep disparities and systemic shortcomings in democratic engagement.
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Collateral damage
A riveting account of how the US criminal legal system punishes millions without conviction—asking us to rethink the freedoms we give up for the illusion of safety.Every encounter with the criminal legal system, from a traffic stop to a day in jail, carries a human cost. This cost rests on a frag...
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Signs and meanings
Signs and Meanings explores the range of divinatory techniques that appear in Jewish texts of the Greco-Roman era, from lot oracles and death oracles to human physiognomy and use of the Scriptures. Pushing back against the view of divination as irrational and superstitious, Hanna Tervanotko looks...
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Contingent expectations
An empirical analysis and new theoretical framework for understanding economic expectations and decision-making in different historical settings.Expectations play a crucial role in shaping economic behavior. But how are expectations actually formed, and how has this changed over time? The financi...
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Modern methods of construction
Modern Methods of Construction: Foundations, Processes and Applications is an essential reference on the role of modern methods of construction in construction process improvement. It serves as a valuable resource for professionals also offering a well-rounded perspective for advanced constructio...
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Must the sun set in the west?
How an elitist concept of democracy promoted by the American political and academic establishments constrained Japan’s political development Japan’s historic pursuit of a full membership in “the West” may finally be close to fruition—even as the value of such membership seems greatly diminished. ...
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The toll it takes
How gun violence is making Americans sickGun violence is often treated as a narrow criminal justice problem or an episodic tragedy rather than a persistent public health crisis. In this timely and necessary book, Daniel Semenza reframes gun violence as a widespread and unevenly distributed health...
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Innovative learning environments
This book contains an Open Access Chapter. Innovative Learning Environments offers a comprehensive conceptual and theoretical toolkit to support thorough investigations of transformative, innovative, and non-traditional learning spaces in schools.
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Beyond belief
The remarkable story of the global movement championing the idea that evidence, not opinions, should guide our decisionsToday, more and more people around the globe are using scientific evidence to figure out what works—in health, government and business as well as conservation, schools and paren...
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A state of change
A magnificently illustrated classic of California natural history, now updated in a long-awaited reissue."This wonderful book is a vivid reminder of how things began, and also as a vision of the rich and beautiful world we can work toward in our shared future." —Kim Stanley Robinson"This brings a...
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Unlocking justice
How we can challenge social injustice—with data and humanityThe American legal system does not offer equal justice to all; we can see obvious racial disparities in sentencing, policing, and incarceration. In Unlocking Justice, Chad Topaz offers a concrete way forward, demonstrating how a candid d...
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Empire of violence
A landmark history that redefines our understanding of the Armenian Genocide and the causes of ethnic violenceDuring the First World War, the Ottoman Turks carried out the systematic destruction of the Armenians and their culture, with around one million people killed through starvation, death ma...
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The fox, the shrew, and you
A leading neuroscientist describes the long evolutionary process that led to the human brainOur human brain is both unique and similar to that of other species. The only way we can trace its evolution is by comparing it to the brains of animals alive today. In this book, leading neuroscientist Ro...
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Middlemen
A revealing account of how agents have shaped book publishing and the literary canon from the 1950s to todayMiddlemen rewrites literary history from the perspective of one of its most important but least visible figures: the literary agent. Chronicling the story of agents in the United States fro...
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The environmental republic
A bold new conception of the republic for a planet in crisisRepublicanism is arguably the most powerful political idea in history, an extraordinary feat of human imagination that balances individual liberty with collective responsibility. The Environmental Republic reclaims this idea as the path ...
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The beauty of the trinity
In this book Justin Shaun Coyle remembers the theology of beauty of the forgotten Summa Halensis, an early-thirteenth-century text written by Franciscan friars at the University of Paris. Many scholars vaunt the Summa Halensis—conceived but not drafted entirely by Alexander of Hales (d. 1245)—for...
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The jews of italy
A sweeping history of the Italian Jewish experience from antiquity to todayJews arrived in ancient Rome before Christianity existed, and they have maintained a continuous and influential presence in Italy for more than twenty centuries—the longest in Western Europe. The Jews of Italy is an engagi...
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The song dynasty
A definitive new history of China’s influential Song dynasty and its pivotal role in East Asia and beyond, by one of its leading historiansDespite constant pressure from the powerful steppe empires on its borders, the Song dynasty lasted for more than three centuries, from 960 to 1279, becoming o...
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The world atlas of fermented foods and drinks
A global tour of the fascinating world of fermentation.The World Atlas of Fermented Foods and Drinks explores the many ways that people across the world use fermentation to transform their cuisines. Elegantly illustrated with beautiful photos and maps, this book provides a complete guide to 140 f...
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How to compete
An energetic new translation of the ancient Greek satirist Lucian’s humorous and enlightening dialogue on the pros—and cons—of athletics, fitness, and competitionSports and philosophy went hand in hand for the ancient Greeks and Romans, and philosophical conversation was a recognized part of gym ...
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Why china needs democracy
A realist defense of constitutional democracy in China that challenges the assumptions of the so-called China ModelWith liberal democracies under strain and the Chinese government delivering stability and prosperity to its citizens, is democracy still an ideal worth pursuing in China? In Why Chin...
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Street knowledge
A philosophical framework for resistance that connects Socrates to the streetDoes social change happen “top down” or “bottom up”—brought about by those who hold power or by those who struggle against the powerful? In Street Knowledge, Darien Pollock argues that the most powerful change comes from...
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Astral space
From three of today’s top researchers in machine learning, a groundbreaking new theory for understanding convex minimization at infinityNumerous fields of study rely on methods for minimizing convex functions. Not all convex functions, however, have finite minimizers; some can only be minimized b...
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How to travel
A transporting anthology of ancient Greek and Roman travel writings that capture the thrill of exploration and discovery—from Europe to the Holy Land and Egypt to IndiaAt long last, a travel guide to the ancient world for the modern tourist—written by the ancients themselves. How to Travel gather...
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The ends of race
A new history of the scientific inquiry into raceThe attempt to define the concept of race in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is often described as a corrupt “pseudo-science,” but in this strikingly original account, Geoffrey Galt Harpham describes the inquiry into race as a serious scien...
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When things get personal
How to avoid the trap of taking conflicts so personallyWe’re all imperfect. Good relationships require seeing each other through these imperfections—distinguishing what is signal, and what is noise. But sometimes we mistake noise for signal—or worse, signal for noise. And even when we get things ...
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Jefferson on race
From The New York Times–bestselling and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello, a groundbreaking collection of Thomas Jefferson’s writings on race that every American should readAmong America’s Founding Fathers, none was more deeply, personally, or controversially entangled ...
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Explosive emotions
Understanding the source of our current political and social malaise through our emotional responses to itWe are in an explosive cultural moment. Whatever explanation for this is offered—inequalities, disaffection of political institutions, traumatic memory, woke culture, the rise of populism, th...
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The ai paradox
A user’s guide to navigating the intricate, often contradictory relationship between artificial intelligence and human intelligenceArtificial intelligence will shape our future in unforeseen ways, and it is easy to fall into the trap of thinking that it could someday dictate the terms of our very...
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Crossing the danube
A richly illustrated history that reveals how the peoples living along the Danube frontier helped transform the Roman EmpireCrossing the Danube offers a new account of the peoples who lived along Europe’s greatest river—the nearly 2,000-mile-long Danube—during the dramatic centuries leading up to...
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Southern visions of nature
Aravena-Ortiz examines how Chilean environmental organisations use visual digital media to shape public discourse, build collective identity, and collaborate during political upheaval, revealing the unique intersections of environment, politics, and communication in a Global South context.
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