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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

Murty Classical Library of India

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 Dbcha-yi dvn-i ghurrat al-kaml became a lauded work in its own righ…

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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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Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
The Story of Alice

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst illuminates two entangled lives: the Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and Alice Liddell, the child for whom he invented the Alice stories. This relationship in…

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Donald L Drakeman
The Free Exercise Clause and the Rights of Conscience

Challenging decades of scholarship and Supreme Court jurisprudence, newly discovered historical documents reveal that the First Amendment's Free Exercise Clause was meant to protect only the freedom to wo…

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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

The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures

"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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Ronald C Egan
Exile and Invention in the Prose Writings of Su Shi

In Exile and Invention in the Prose Writings of Su Shi, Ronald Egan pays special attention to a neglected aspect of Su Shi's literary work, those prose forms that had traditionally been considered less pr…

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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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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

The I Tatti Renaissance Library

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

Classical Continuum

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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Paul Friedland
The Other French Revolution

A new history of the Age of Revolutions, from a Caribbean perspective.The Other French Revolution uncovers the Caribbean uprising that shocked the world before vanishing from memory. This revolution initi…

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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

Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library

The complete works of the first known woman playwrightHrotsvit, a canoness at the convent of Gandersheim in Saxony during the tenth century, is the first Latin dramatist since late antiquity whose work su…

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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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