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Erik Baker
Make Your Own Job

Make Your Own Job charts the transformation of the American work ethic in the twentieth century. It is no longer enough to be reliable; now, workers must lead with creative vision. Erik Baker argues that …

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Mou Banerjee
The Disinherited

The British Crown's 1813 legalization of Christian evangelism among its Indian subjects set off a storm of criticism in Bengal. Mou Banerjee shows that Hindu and Muslim detractors energetically marginaliz…

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Brooke Barbier
King Hancock

Today John Hancock is known for his signature, but during the revolutionary era, he was famed for his pragmatic statesmanship. Brooke Barbier explores Hancock's position as a revolutionary who nonetheless…

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Rachel Elise Barkow
Justice Abandoned

Since the 1960s, the Supreme Court has enabled mass incarceration through rulings that violate constitutional curbs on pretrial detention, coercive plea bargaining, excessive sentences, and other forms of…

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Jay Belsky
The Nature of Nurture

Jay Belsky argues for a Darwinian interpretation of childhood trauma leading to "antisocial" adult behavior. There is no reason to believe that such conduct is dysfunctional and that "well-…

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Theresa S Betancourt
Shadows Into Light

For over two decades, Theresa S. Betancourt researched former child soldiers from Sierra Leone's civil war to find out if they could reintegrate into communities where they had been forced to commit atroc…

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He Bian, Marten Soderblom Saarela
The Manchu Mirrors and the Knowledge of Plants and Animals in High Qing China

The Manchu Mirrors and the Knowledge of Plants and Animals in High Qing China is the first systematic study of the codification of Manchu and Chinese words for animals and plants in the eighteenth century…

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Sarah Bilston
The Lost Orchid

Sarah Bilston unfolds the story of orchid mania, the nineteenth-century craze among European and North American collectors vying to own the world's most coveted flowers. Focusing the hunt for the so-calle…

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Brandon Bloch
Reinventing Protestant Germany

Brandon Bloch examines the remarkable transformation of German Protestantism after WWII. As avid nationalists and militarists, Protestant leaders had largely backed the Nazi regime. Yet after 1945, they r…

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Montserrat Bonvehi Bonvehi Rosich, Seth Denizen
Thinking Through Soil

In addition to its agricultural role, soil has become the primary agent of carbon storage in climate models, and it is also crucial for biodiversity and flood control. Through a sustained analysis of the …

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Jorge Luis Borges,
This Craft of Verse

In a series of incandescent lectures given at Harvard in 1967-1968, Jorge Luis Borges explores poetic meaning, prose forms, literary history, translation theory, and philosophical aspects of communication…

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Ulbe Bosma
The World of Sugar

Traversing 2,500 years of global history, Ulbe Bosma shows how sugar, once a luxury reserved for Eastern emperors, stoked a mania in the West, transforming diets and ecosystems, destroying and creating cu…

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Henry De Bracton
Bracton, H: On the Laws and Customs of England

This publication, issued in cooperation with the Selden Society, reproduces completely the Yale edition of 1915-1942, which has long been unobtainable. To it has been added an English translation, the fir…

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Costica Bradatan
In Praise of Failure

Success is all very well, but failure teaches us what is most important: humility. Costica Bradatan tells the stories of four thinkers who, for all their external success, courted failure throughout their…

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Richard Breitman
A Calculated Restraint

Why did the Allied leaders-Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin-largely keep quiet about the Holocaust? Richard Breitman examines the competing political and military considerations that drove their responses…

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Wendy Brown
Nihilistic Times

Wendy Brown diagnoses a late-modern nihilism that trivializes values-including truth itself-and reduces politics to narcissism and power-mongering. Rereading Max Weber, who saw a similar predicament in hi…

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Nikolas Broy
Flourishing Fasts

Flourishing Feasts is the first book to explore the socioreligious history of the Zhaijiao, "vegetarian sects," that originated in China during the Ming and Qing dynasties and are still active i…

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Liz Bucar
Stealing My Religion

Liz Bucar navigates the thorny terrain of religious appropriation, from yoga classes to non-Muslims who signal allyship by donning hijabs. Exploring the ethics of alleged appropriations, Bucar argues that…

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Stephanie Burt
Super Gay Poems

Esteemed scholar, poet, and critic Stephanie Burt anthologizes five decades of verse for and by queer Americans. Interpreted by Burt, the poems of Frank O'Hara, Audre Lorde, Judy Grahn, James Merrill, Tho…

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Lucy Caplan
Dreaming in Ensemble

Lucy Caplan explores the flourishing of Black composers, performers, and critics of opera in America during the early twentieth century. Working outside mainstream opera houses, these artists fostered cou…

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