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Frank Dobbin, Alexandra Kalev
Getting to Diversity

Management experts Frank Dobbin and Alexandra Kalev sift through decades of data to show why workplace diversity training fails and what works. Arguing that it's time to focus on changing systems rather t…

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Assa Doron, Alex Broom
A World of Resistance

India is the center of the global antibiotic resistance crisis. Examining the enormous social and environmental costs of overreliance on antibiotics in India, A World of Resistance shows why embracing cul…

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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

In six lectures covering everything from James Bond to antisemitic conspiracy theories, Umberto Eco offers a master class in the philosophy of fiction. Dissecting the rhythms and ambiguities of narrative,…

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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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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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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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Julian Gewirtz
Never Turn Back

The 1980s saw spirited debate in China, as officials and the public pressed for economic and political liberalization. But after Tiananmen, the Communist Party erased the reform debate from memory. Julian…

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Kathryn Gin Lum
Heathen

American ideas about race owe much to the notion of an undifferentiated "heathen world" held together by its need of assistance. This religious notion shaped American racial governance and under…

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Anthony Gregory
New Deal Law and Order

Anthony Gregory traces the origins of America's modern law-and-order politics to a surprising source: the New Deal, the crucible of modern liberalism. FDR's tough-on-crime agenda played a crucial role in …

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Hrotsvit Of Gandersheim,
The Works of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim

Hrotsvit, who lived at the convent of Gandersheim in Saxony in the tenth century, is the first Latin dramatist since late antiquity whose work survives. Her plays are preeminently written for women and mo…

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Manon Garcia
The Joy of Consent

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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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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David Gooblar
One Classroom at a Time

College students are more diverse and less financially privileged than ever, but achievement gaps persist. Offering straightforward, research-driven advice for educators who want all students to attain th…

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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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Edward G Gray
Mason-Dixon

Established to calm intracolonial tensions, the Mason-Dixon Line first marked a region of breakneck development and Native American resistance, then the boundary between pro- and antislavery regimes. Edwa…

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Udi Greenberg
The End of the Schism

After centuries of enmity, why did Europe's Catholics and Protestants reconcile? Udi Greenberg argues that modern Christian cooperation arose not from tolerance but from fears of socialism, feminism, and …

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Merilee Grindle
In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl

The first biography of Zelia Nuttall (1857-1933), a pioneering Mexican-American anthropologist whose work on Aztec cosmology and mastery of ancient codices helped shape our understanding of pre-Columbian …

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Jeffrey F Hamburger
Flesh and Fabric

In Flesh and Fabric, Jeffrey F. Hamburger explores the historical context and technique of a largely overlooked panel by Pietro Lorenzetti. Through its unparalleled allegorical presentation of the Crucifi…

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John Thomas Hamilton
Without Within: Parenthetic Interferences in Reception History

Classical reception implies a parenthetical relationship where Antiquity appears to be inserted into while remaining alongside Modernity. By investigating exemplary instances of reception across several e…

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