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Fara Dabhoiwala
What Is Free Speech?

Fara Dabhoiwala argues that free speech, though a central democratic value, owes its origin and evolution less to high-minded ideals than to venal interests. Shaped by greed, technological change, and the…

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Aisha Dad
Through the Looking Glass

Informed by oral poetics, performance theory, and memory studies, Through the Looking Glass approaches Anarkali-the supposed lover of both the Mughal emperor Akbar and his son Jahangir- not as a historica…

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Audun Dahl
Between Fixed and Fickle

Killing and cheating seem obviously wrong, yet such moral infractions are common. So is morality selfish or irrational? "No," says psychologist Audun Dahl. Moral views are not permanently fixed,…

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Raffaele Danna
The Craft of Indo-Arabic Numerals

"A must-read." -Joel Mokyr, Nobel Prize-winning author of A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern EconomyAn illuminating, fine-grained account of how Indo-Arabic numerals facilitated the …

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Robert Darnton
The Writer's Lot

The Writer's Lotexplores the working lives of eighteenth-century French authors-celebrities and unknowns-at a time when their example, if not often their ideas, changed the course of history. Taking the m…

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Michael David-Fox
Crucibles of Power

The people of Smolensk survived both of the twentieth century's most brutal dictatorships. Michael David-Fox probes their experiences under Stalinist and Nazi rule to unravel the threads of authoritariani…

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Dagomar Degroot
Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean

Changes in cosmic environments, from solar storms to asteroid impacts, have altered the course of history. Tracing how such events shaped geopolitics and spurred scientific and cultural innovation, Dagoma…

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George E Demacopoulos
Sacralizing Violence in Byzantium

Sacralizing Violence in Byzantium is the first book to examine the complex and shifting perceptions of premodern Christians toward violence and war through the lens of hymnography, with a profound transfo…

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Elena Denisova-Schmidt
Breaking the Bonds of Corruption

In Breaking the Bonds of Corruption, Elena Denisova-Schmidt takes a broad view of corruption and its prevalence in global societies, using the case of Ukraine to examine practices that are considered corr…

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Elena Denisova-Schmidt
Breaking the Bonds of Corruption

In Breaking the Bonds of Corruption, Elena Denisova-Schmidt takes a broad view of corruption and its prevalence in global societies, using the case of Ukraine to examine practices that are considered corr…

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Barbara Di Gennaro Splendore
The State Drug

A revelatory account of the "wonder drug" theriac, which became a powerful tool in the hands of medical and political authorities at the height of the Italian Renaissance.From the 1490s, one of …

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Emily Dickinson,
Emily Dickinson's Letters to Dr. and Mrs. Josiah Gilbert Holland

The ninety-three letters-and the poems, over thirty in all, which she included in the letters or sent in place of them-written by Emily Dickinson to her dear friends the Hollands, are intimate, spontaneou…

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Emily Dickinson,
The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition

A foremost scholar of Dickinson's manuscripts has prepared an authoritative one-volume edition of all extant poems--1,789 in all--by the reclusive poet.

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Christa Dierksheide, Nicholas Guyatt
Jefferson's Wolf

A decisive reassessment of Thomas Jefferson's long-debated views on slavery, showing that his chief antislavery strategy was racial exclusion: the removal of emancipated Black people from the United State…

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Amir Khusraw Dihlavi,
Exquisite Things and Strange Wonders

A defense of poetry from a towering figure of the medieval Persianate world.Written in 1294 as the introduction to a book of poetry, the Dībācha-yi dīvān-i ghurrat al-kamāl became a lauded work in its own…

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Assa Doron, Alex Broom
A World of Resistance

A sweeping analysis uncovers the causes of-and solutions to-one of the most daunting public health challenges facing the world today: antibiotic resistance exploding in India.The discovery of antibiotics …

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Katie Ebner-Landy
The Character Sketch as Philosophy

Katie Ebner-Landy shows that early modern Europeans, inspired by the ancient philosopher Theophrastus, embraced the character sketch as a source of moral and political education. Yet Enlightenment thinker…

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Umberto Eco
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods

"Erudite, wide-ranging, and slyly humorous." -The AtlanticOne of the great novelists and public intellectuals of our time gives a master class on the philosophy of fiction.Umberto Eco was fond o…

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Jamal J Elias
After Rumi

The thirteenth-century Persian poet and scholar Rumi is revered to this day. Jamal J. Elias sheds light on the Sufi community he founded: the Mevlevis, whose devotion to Rumi was rooted in ideas of emotio…

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Johannes Scotus Eriugena,
Periphyseon

Called the "final achievement" of ancient philosophy, Periphyseon draws on knowledge of both the Greek and Latin Christian theological traditions, remarkable in the Carolingian world. It present…

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