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Frederick douglass's american founding
The remarkable story of how Frederick Douglass went from condemning the Constitution as a proslavery pact to celebrating it as a “glorious liberty document” that promises freedom to everyoneThe speeches and writings of Frederick Douglass contain some of the most probing examinations ever of the r...
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Justice for jehanne
A spellbinding narrative history that defies modern assumptions about women’s lives in the Middle Ages and informs contemporary debates about sexual violence and the limits of justiceIn the winter of 1472, the city of Dijon, France, became the stage for a remarkable legal drama. On the mayor’s or...
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Sunni chauvinism and the roots of muslim modernism
Muslim intellectuals who sought to establish the boundaries of modern Muslim identityMuslim modernism was a political and intellectual movement that sought to redefine the relationship between Islam and the colonial West in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Spearheaded by Muslim ...
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The jewish south
A panoramic history of the Jewish American South, from European colonization to todayIn 1669, the Carolina colony issued the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, which offered freedom of worship to “Jews, heathens, and other dissenters,” ushering in an era that would see Jews settle in cities a...
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Wild indigo
A stunning poetic narrative about a painter and his lover living on a former Southern slave plantationWild Indigo is a remarkable poetic debut—a lyric narrative set on a former slave plantation in rural Louisiana, where love, art, and history exert competing claims. The speaker, a Black painter, ...
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Degas, manet, morisot
A collection of Valéry’s writings on the visual arts, including his book on his friend Degas and his personal recollection of RenoirPaul Valéry spent as much of his life among painters as writers—in a house filled with the memory and works of Berthe Morisot and her friends Manet, Degas, and Renoi...
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Translation and violence
Rethinking the ethics and politics of translation in the age of AIThe rapid development of AI-powered translation tools is making translation more accessible than ever before, raising in a dramatic new way the old utopian promise of translation—to allow transparent dialogue across linguistic barr...
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American classicist
A biography of the remarkable woman whose bestselling Mythology has introduced millions of readers to the classical worldEdith Hamilton (1867–1963) didn’t publish her first book until she was sixty-two. But over the next three decades, this former headmistress would become the twentieth century’s...
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Wilhelm meister's apprenticeship
The definitive English version of a landmark of world literatureWilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship (1795–1796), Goethe’s second novel, is a foundational work in the history of the genre—perhaps the first Bildungsroman, a coming-of-age story focusing on the growth and self-realization of the main ch...
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Cities of gods
How cities and religions have shaped each other through historyIn Cities of Gods, Jörg Rüpke offers an entirely new vision of the history of religion—one in which religion has shaped cities and cities have shaped religion. Rüpke shows how religious actions and ideas have produced cities since urb...
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Verse plays and epic
Five enduring works that demonstrate Goethe’s mastery of poetic form and engagement with neoclassical idealsThis volume presents the four plays and the narrative poem that, along with Faust, established Goethe as one of the masters of European verse drama and epic. These timeless works display a ...
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The brain, in theory
Why engineering and computational analogies are poorly suited to the study of biological cognitionMainstream theories of the brain are often expressed through engineering concepts—computation, code, control, reverse-engineering, optimization. These theories cast the living organism as a machine a...
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History and politics
A collection of Valéry writings on politics and international affairsPaul Valéry was deeply interested in politics and actively involved in international affairs as a spokesperson for the League of Nations and as France’s representative to two of the League’s bodies—the Committee on Intellectual ...
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Try turning it off and on again
A fun and fact-filled guide for anyone who has ever wondered why a technology that runs virtually every aspect of our lives is so bafflingly weirdSoftware is an engineering material that has transformed human society in profound ways. It can truly work marvels—except when it doesn’t work. Part of...
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Erased
How a field built on the intellectual labor and expertise of women erased them The academic field of international relations presents its own history as largely a project of elite white men. And yet women played a prominent role in the creation of this new cross-disciplinary field. In Erased, Pat...
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From my life, poetry and truth (part four) and campaign in france 1792 / siege of mainz
An authoritative English translation of Goethe’s classic autobiographical account of war and conquest in the age of revolutionIn August 1792, Goethe accompanied Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, during the unsuccessful Prusso-Austrian invasion of revolutionary France to restore Lou...
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Yesterday
The first major account of this transformative period in the history of Great BritainBetween 1990 and 2020, the United Kingdom experienced tension between unparalleled social change and a pragmatic political culture which sought continuity, compromise and gradualism. Thatcher’s legacy was slowly ...
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The language of bees
A rich and engaging look at social bees, master communicators of the insect worldWith senses that often seem alien to us, bees navigate complex decisions about where to find food, when to fight or flee, and how to work together. The Language of Bees invites readers into the hidden world of bee co...
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Masters and friends
A collection of Valéry’s essays and speeches on a wide range of philosophers, novelists, and poetsMasters and Friends is a collection of Paul Valéry’s essays and speeches on writers who shaped his mind, interests, and affections: Descartes, Voltaire, Stendhal, Goethe, Villon, Nietzsche, Pascal, P...
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The walden experiments
Reading Thoreau as a scientist for modern timesHenry David Thoreau’s Walden stands as the foundational text for the environmental movement and as a model for the practice of nature writing. In The Walden Experiments, Robert Thorson tells the story of how, after several discarded drafts of social ...
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Gobsmacked!
A spot-on guide to how and why Americans have become so bloody keen on Britishisms—for good or illThe British love to complain that words and phrases imported from America—from French fries to Awesome, man!—are destroying the English language. But what about the influence going the other way? Bri...
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Early verse drama and prose plays
Eight early plays by Goethe that revolutionized German dramaGoethe’s early plays bear witness to his urgent desire to enliven German theater, an ambition that followed him to the National Theater in Weimar, where he was named director in the early 1790s. Early Verse Drama and Prose Plays brings t...
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Defending democracy in the european parliament
The rise of the far right in the European Parliament and the institutional pushback it provokedIn recent years, far-right political parties have grown in influence not only in the domestic politics of such countries as Hungary, Brazil, and the United States but also in international institutions ...
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The letter of the law in j. e. casely hayford's west africa
The first book devoted to the the career of anglophone West Africa’s most important early twentieth-century statesman and intellectualThe African Gold Coast writer and statesman J. E. Casely Hayford (1866–1930) was a key figure in liberal anticolonial thought as well as African and British imperi...
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Physics of the tropical atmosphere and tropical cyclones
A comprehensive text and reference on tropical meteorology and hurricane science for graduate students and scholarsPhysics of the Tropical Atmosphere and Tropical Cyclones provides readers with a firm grounding in the observations, theory, and modeling of tropical weather systems and tropical cyc...
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From my life, poetry and truth (parts one to three)
This authoritative English translation of Goethe’s memoirs paints a vibrant picture of his youth and formative yearsCovering the period from his birth in 1749 to his departure for Weimar in 1775, Goethe recalls his childhood and youth as the son of well-to-do, middle-class parents, his education ...
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Those who remain
A vivid portrait of rural and working-class life that links the dynamics of social ties to far-right political alignments Rural and working-class voters in France have increasingly supported the politics—and the worldview—of the country’s far right. What accounts for this realignment? In Those Wh...
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The rational use of cognitive resources
A new approach to understanding irrational behavior and modeling human cognitionWhat does it mean to act rationally? Mathematicians, economists, and statisticians have argued that a rational actor chooses actions that maximize their expected utility. By this standard, people routinely behave irra...
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Nationalism
A global perspective on the nature and evolution of nationalism, from the early modern era to the presentThe current rise of nationalism across the globe is a reminder that we are not, after all, living in a borderless world of virtual connectivity. In Nationalism, historian Eric Storm sheds ligh...
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The art of poetry
An authoritative collection of Valéry’s important essays on poetryThis volume collects all of Paul Valéry’s major meditations on the theory and practice of poetry. These pieces range from his first essay, “On Literary Technique” (1889), to his last, “Variations on the Eclogues” (1944). Among them...
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Italian journey
An authoritative English translation of Goethe’s correspondence and diary entries from his travels in ItalyContaining the letters and diaries that Goethe wrote during his journey to Italy at age thirty-seven, Italian Journey reveals his tremendous range of interests. His writings cover literature...
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An enchanted world
Uncovering the vibrant spiritual life of Late AntiquityIn Late Antiquity (ca. 200–600 CE), the world was alive with unseen forces—divine agents who influenced every aspect of daily life. For most ordinary people, religion was not found in temples, synagogues, and churches, but in lived experience...
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A is for amoeba
A lively and engaging biography of amoebas that reveals why these tiny amorphous splotches with a spot in the middle have more to teach us than we ever imaginedMany of us are introduced to the amoeba in science class at school but know very little about the amazing life of this versatile, shape-s...
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Research
A short, bold, and timely history and defense of research in the humanities and sciences and its incalculable importanceIf there were a single tool that could cure disease, improve the quality of human life, send people into outer space, and uncover vital riddles from the deepest past, wouldn’t w...
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Essays on art and literature
Authoritative English translations of Goethe’s most illuminating essays on art and literatureGoethe’s lifelong reflections on art and literature serve as the foundation of his work as a poet, novelist, and man of science. Anyone interested in the history of European literary criticism, art, archa...
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The age of choice
A New York Times Notable Book of the YearWinner of the István Hont Book Prize, Institute of Intellectual HistoryFinalist for the Cundill History PrizeA sweeping history of the rise of personal choice in the modern world and how it became equated with freedomChoice touches virtually every aspect o...
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Geometry, dynamics, and rigidity
A generously illustrated textbook and reference for graduate students and researchers that integrates two major areas of mathematicsGeometry, Dynamics, and Rigidity is an introduction to the modern interface between Riemannian geometry and dynamical systems. Organized in three parts, the book bui...
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Chasing independence
How independence works as an unquestioned ideal for aging in America—and why it is never quite realizedIn twenty-first-century America, as people live longer than ever before, it’s taken for granted that older adults should be active and self-reliant. News stories describe nonagenarians who run m...
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Monsieur teste
The National Book Award–winning translation of Valéry’s singular novel, a strange and powerful philosophical exploration of human consciousnessPaul Valéry was obsessed with exploring the conscious mind, and it was this preoccupation that produced the unusual masterpiece of modern fiction that is ...
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Comic enlightenment
How the seventeenth-century translations of notoriously obscene tales by Rabelais shaped some of the great works of eighteenth-century English fictionFrançois Rabelais’s Gargantua and Pantagruel—loosely related tales of gluttonous, drunken giants and their fantastic adventures—was one of the most...
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The third reich of dreams
“This is the kind of book that haunts your dreams. Essential reading for anyone who has known what it is like to live within a totalitarian state—or is worried they’re about to find out.”—Zadie Smith, author of White TeethThe hidden history of a nation sleepwalking its way into evilCharlotte Bera...
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Outsider animals
“This is a truly compelling book, rich with scientific expertise and humor.”—Isabella RosselliniFrom one of our foremost experts on behavioral evolution, an entertaining exploration of what raccoons, rats, and other animal intruders teach us about intelligence, adaptability, and ourselvesWhen we ...
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The question of unworthy life
The dark history of eugenic thought in Germany from the nineteenth century to today—and the courageous countervoicesBetween 1939 and 1945, Nazi genocide claimed the lives of nearly three hundred thousand people diagnosed with psychiatric illness or cognitive deficiencies. Not until the 1980s woul...
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Venice and the mongols
A global history of commercial and cultural exchange between two great powers of the medieval ageIn the mid-thirteenth century, Europe was shaken by the Mongol invasions. Realizing the immense potential for accessing remote markets in the East, Venetian merchants, diplomats, and seafarers establi...
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Rome and the rise of the west
How the Roman empire shaped the West and the emergence of the modern economyMost historians recounting the rise of the West begin their narratives somewhere in the Middle Ages. In this groundbreaking account, historian Taco Terpstra argues that if we want to understand how the rise of the West un...
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Hopeful pessimism
Why “hopeful pessimism” is not a contradiction in terms but a powerful source of moral and political commitmentThe climate debate is rife with calls for optimism. While temperatures rise and disasters intensify, we are asked to maintain optimism and hope, as if the real threat is pessimism and de...
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Iran's grand strategy
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Shia RevivalNow with a new afterword by the author, this gripping account overturns simplistic portrayals of Iran as a theocratic pariah state, revealing how its strategic moves on the world stage are driven by two pervasive threats—external aggre...
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The civic bargain
A powerful case for democracy and how it can adapt and survive—if we want it toIs democracy in trouble, perhaps even dying? Pundits say so, and polls show that most Americans believe that their country’s system of governance is being “tested” or is “under attack.” But is the future of democracy n...
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Basic equality
An innovative argument that vindicates our normative commitment to basic equality, synthesising philosophy, history, and psychologyWhat makes human beings one another’s equals? That we are "basic equals" has become a bedrock assumption in Western moral and political philosophy. And yet establishi...
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Natural magic
A captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of natureEmily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was known as natural philosophy, a pastime for poets, priests, and schoolgirls. The world began to chang...
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