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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

A preeminent scholar of Islamic history chronicles the rise of the Mevlevis, the influential Sufi community founded by Rumi.The thirteenth-century Persian poet and scholar Rumi is revered to this day. How…

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Jon Else
Frenchman Flat

The story of a single nuclear bomb's deep origins, brief life during the Cold War, and lasting environmental and political legacies-as a fresh path to consider the entire sweep of the American nuclear ent…

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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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Caleb Everett
A Myriad of Tongues

Exploring breakthroughs in language and cognition research, Caleb Everett finds that fundamentals of human perception are culturally encoded by the words and sentences we use. The experience of time, spac…

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Adams Family,
Adams Family Correspondence

Adams Papers

From Quincy, MA, John and Abigail Adams watched and felt the impact of a US embargo on British trade, while Senator John Quincy Adams drew Federalist ire for his role in its passage. In 236 letters, Volum…

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Nancy Felson
Regarding Penelope

In this updated and expanded second edition of Regarding Penelope, Nancy Felson explores the relationship between Homer's construction of Penelope and his more general approach to poetic production and re…

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Tamara Surani Fernando
Shallow Blue Empire

Harvard Historical Studies

A nuanced history of seafaring communities in the Indian Ocean, where the force of British imperial power depended on the expertise of local divers and sailors to feed a global demand for pearls.In the la…

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Marsilio Ficino,
Commentary on Plotinus

A preeminent Renaissance philosopher on the founder of NeoplatonismMarsilio Ficino (1433-1499) was the leading Platonic philosopher of the Renaissance and is generally recognized as the greatest authority…

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Dov Fox
The Conscience of Care

American law categorically protects clinicians who invoke conscience to refuse standard care, from Plan B to IVF. Yet clinicians enjoy no conscience protections when they offer prohibited care, as in stat…

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Douglas Frame
Hippota Nestor and Beyond

In Hippota Nestor and Beyond: Selected Essays, Douglas Frame revisits the Homeric figure of Nestor, who he argues derives from twin figures in Indo-European myth, and dates the composition and performance…

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Robert Frost,
The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 4

A revelatory new volume of Robert Frost's correspondence, illuminating one of America's most renowned poets at the height of his literary fame and the depths of personal tragedy.By the late 1930s, Robert …

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Hrotsvit Of Gandersheim,
The Works of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim

Hrotsvit, a canoness at the convent of Gandersheim in Saxony during the tenth century, is the first Latin dramatist since late antiquity whose work survives. While her plays are still frequently performed…

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Manon Garcia
The Joy of Consent: A Philosophy of Good Sex

In the #MeToo age, US debate over licit sex has split into two camps: one insists that consent solves the problem of sexual coercion, while the other equates sexual pleasure with the patriarchal erotics o…

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Eddie Glaude
We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking for

From the author of the New York Times bestseller Begin Again, a politically astute, lyrical meditation on how ordinary people can shake off their reliance on a small group of professional politicians and …

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Sarah Gold McBride
Whiskerology

Whiskerology traces how hair became a significant marker of identity and belonging in nineteenth-century America. Viewed during the colonial period as disposable, to be donned or removed like clothing, ha…

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Leon Golub
The Turbulent Sun

The story of the turbulent space around the sun-and the artisans and scientists who revealed its nature, elucidating the origins and fate of the solar system.We often imagine the solar system as a family …

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David Gooblar
One Classroom at a Time

From the author of The Missing Course, an essential guide to pedagogy that serves all members of an ever more diverse undergraduate population.A century ago, a typical US college campus was a sanctuary of…

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Dylan Gottlieb
Yuppies

How the rise of Wall Street in the 1980s lured a generation of young upstarts to New York, unleashing a political and cultural transformation whose national repercussions are still felt today.Yuppies may …

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Anthony Grafton
Magus

Anthony Grafton explores the art and influence of an opaque historical figure: the magus, or learned magician. A distinctive intellectual type in Renaissance Europe, magi contributed to the humanistic cur…

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