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Krista Lawlor
Being Reasonable

A leading philosopher explores what it means to be reasonable-and why it matters for the well-being of our society.Reasonableness plays many roles in our lives. In Anglo-American law, it is the yardstick …

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Ashton Lazarus
Performing Transgression

What happens when performance defies social and political boundaries? Performing Transgression offers a new cultural history of non-elite spectacle in Heian Japan (794-1185), uncovering how performances o…

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Zachary Leader
Ellmann's Joyce

The story of the most acclaimed literary biography of the twentieth century-an ingeniously plotted, behind-the-scenes account of how the literary critic and scholar Richard Ellmann shaped James Joyce's re…

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Joseph E LeDoux
The Four Realms of Existence: A New Theory of Being Human

Joseph LeDoux argues that ideas like the self are increasingly barriers to discovery and understanding. He offers a new framework, theorizing four realms of existence-bodily, neural, cognitive, and consci…

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Ching Kwan Lee
Forever Hong Kong

An on-the-ground account of the dramatic 2019 Hong Kong protests, showing how they represent the latest stage of a decades-old decolonization struggle.Long known for its glamour and affluence, Hong Kong s…

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Neil van Leeuwen
Religion as Make-Believe

"A masterly new book." --New Yorker"A major achievement in the study of religious attitudes." --Notre Dame Philosophical ReviewsTo understand the nature of religious belief, we must lo…

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Chad Levinson
The President's Echo System

A sharp analysis of the propaganda partnerships between US presidents and private organizations that fueled the Cold War and paved the way for the War on Terror.How do US presidents motivate public suppor…

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Theresa Levitt
Elixir

AFinancial TimesBest History Book of the Year AFinancial TimesSummer Reading Favorite"[V]ividly evokes cultural life in Bohemian Paris, the turbulence of the French Revolution and its aftermath, and …

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Beth Lew-Williams
John Doe Chinaman

A revelatory history of the laws that conditioned the everyday lives of Chinese people in the American West-and of those who negotiated, circumvented, and resisted discrimination.Legal discrimination agai…

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Sarah Lewis
The Unseen Truth

The award-winning art historian and founder of Vision & Justice uncovers a pivotal era in the story of race in the United States when Americans came to ignore the truth about the false foundations of …

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Zongyuan Zoe Liu
Sovereign Funds

"A fascinating insight into the evolution of China's financial policy and its strategic investments using leveraged foreign exchange reserves." -Diane Coyle, Enlightened Economist"[Liu] sho…

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Paul Lockhart
The Mending of Broken Bones

A joyful and intimate celebration of the beauty and creativity of algebra from one of the foremost math educators of our time.For many of us, algebra conjures up memories of dull classes spent wondering w…

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Lucian,
Lucian, Volume I

Antiquity's satirist supreme.Lucian of Samosata on the Euphrates (fl. AD 160-190) ranks among the most dazzlingly creative, virtuosic, and boldly original writers of antiquity. Although he more than once …

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Diego Javier Luis
The First Asians in the Americas

Diego Javier Luis tells the story of transpacific Asian movement to and through the Spanish Americas. On arrival in Mexico, diverse Asian peoples became "chinos" subject to the colonial caste sy…

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Edward N Luttwak, Eitan Shamir
The Art of Military Innovation

"Rich with rare detail, much of it a result of the authors' access to the IDF's inner sanctums and their intimate knowledge of grand strategy and military history." -Wall Street JournalA world-l…

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Sergio Luzzatto
The First Fascist

The First Fascist tells the story of Marquis de Morès, an architect of the Dreyfus Affair and a pioneer of blending populism, white supremacy, and open antisemitism. Through violent stunts and media savvy…

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Mahmood Mamdani
Slow Poison: Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the Making of the Ugandan State

Idi Amin's crimes on behalf of Black empowerment in Uganda made him a monster in the world's eyes. Yet Yoweri Museveni has enjoyed decades of Western support in exchange for adopting neoliberal policies a…

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Konstantinos Manos,
Kleanthes and Habrokome

Harvard Early Modern and Modern Greek Library

"Kleanthes and Habrokome" by Konstantinos Manos, a Phanariot Greek high officer in late-eighteenth/early-nineteenth-century Romania, is an important landmark in the reception of ancient Greek no…

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Harvey Claflin Mansfield
The Rise and Fall of Rational Control

Harvey C. Mansfield traces the birth of modern political philosophy to Machiavelli's brief on behalf of rational control of human affairs, which became the basis of liberalism. But Rousseau, Kant, Marx, a…

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Avishai Margalit, Assaf Sharon
Captive Minds

From philosophers Avishai Margalit and Assaf Sharon, an erudite yet approachable inquiry into political manipulation and the grave threat it poses to human freedom today.Manipulation is as old as history …

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