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George Johnson
In the Palaces of Memory: How We Build the Worlds Inside Our Heads
Even as you read these words, a tiny portion of your brain is physically changing. New connections are being sprouted—a circuit that will create a stab of recognition if you encounter the words again. That is one of the theories of memory presented in this intriguing and splendidly readable book, ...
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Lawrence Raab
The Invention Of Everyday Life
There’s nobody else writing quite like Lawrence Raab, with his confident, efficient elegance, about the mysterious ways in which what we think and what can be known so often betray one another. In this marvelous new poem, “The Invention of Everyday Life,” we find the poet recounting several se...
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Adele Berlin
Dynamics of Biblical Parallelism (Biblical Resource Series)
Understanding of biblical poetry is enhanced by the study of its structure. In this book Adele Berlin analyzes parallelism, a major feature of Hebrew poetry, from a linguistic perspective. This new edition of Berlin's study features an additional chapter, "The Range of Biblical Metaphors in Smikhut,...
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Andrew P Smith
The Dimensions Of Experience: A Natural History Of Consciousness
Author's SummaryEvolutionary theory is recognized as one of the most powerful approaches we have for understanding ourselves. But it is only beginning to be applied to our most essential feature, consciousness. This book tells a plausible story of how consciousness evolved, beginning with the simple...
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Paul Graham
Rawls: A Beginner's Guide
‘The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance’ – John Rawls, A Theory of Justice What is justice? How can we know it? How can we make our society more just? The most significant political philosopher since John Stuart Mill, John Rawls (1921 – 2002) grappled with such...
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Shaun Nichols
Sentimental Rules: On the Natural Foundations of Moral Judgment
Sentimental Rules is an ambitious and highly interdisciplinary work, which proposes and defends a new theory about the nature and evolution of moral judgment. In it, philosopher Shaun Nichols develops the theory that emotions play a critical role in both the psychological and the cultural underpinn...
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Robert Scholes
Structuralism in Literature: An Introduction
From time to time a current of thought sweeps through a culture and moves its most disparate elements in the same direction. Such a current is structuralism. Reacting against "modernist" alienation and fragmentation, it is an integrative and holistic way of looking at the world; it seeks reality not...
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P. Edmund Waldstein O.Cist
Integralism and the Common Good: Selected Essays from The Josias (Volume 1: Family, City, and State)
Wisdom, in the full sense, is a matter of knowing something that is not subject to political deliberation, that is, the First Principle and Last End of all things. It includes understanding the order of all things from that Principle and to that End—an order that we, as human beings, ought t...
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Matt Glasby
The Book of Horror: The Anatomy of Fear in Film, updated edition
"... the definitive guide to what properly messes us up."  ― SFX Magazine "Glasby anatomises horror's scare tactics with keen, lucid clarity across 34 carefully selected main films – classic and pleasingly obscure. 4 Stars." ― Total Film​ The Book of Horror  introduces the scariest...
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Elizabeth Callaway
Eden's Endemics: Narratives of Biodiversity on Earth and Beyond (Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Environmental Humanities)
In the past thirty years biodiversity has become one of the central organizing principles through which we understand the nonhuman environment. Its deceptively simple definition as the variation among living organisms masks its status as a hotly contested term both within the sciences and more broad...
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Judy Kronenfeld
King Lear and the Naked Truth: Rethinking the Language of Religion and Resistance
Taking King Lear as her central text, Judy Kronenfeld seriously questions the critical assumptions of much of today’s most fashionable Shakespeare scholarship. Charting a new course beyond both New Historicist and deconstructionist critics, she suggests a theory of language and interpretation th...
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Yasmin Saikia
Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh: Remembering 1971
Fought between India and what was then East and West Pakistan, the war of 1971 led to the creation of Bangladesh, where it is remembered as the War of Liberation. For India, the war represents a triumphant settling of scores with Pakistan. If the war is acknowledged in Pakistan, it is cast as an act...
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Donald M. Nicol
The Immortal Emperor: The Life and Legend of Constantine Palaiologos, Last Emperor of the Romans
Constantine XI Palaiologos was the last Christian Emperor of Constantinople and Byzantium. In 1453, when Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks, he was last seen fighting at the city walls, but the actual circumstances of his death have remained surrounded in myth. In the years that followed it wa...
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Reginald Horsman
The New Republic: The United States of America 1789-1815 (Longman History of America)
Reginald Horsman's powerful and comprehensive survey of the early years of the American Republic covers the dramatic years from the setting up of the US Constitution in 1789, the first US presidency under George Washington, and also the presidencies of Adams, Jeffersen and Madison. A major strength ...
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Stephen Mennell
The American Civilizing Process
Since 9/11, the American government has presumed to speak and act in the name of ‘civilization’. But isthat how the rest of the world sees it? And if not, why not? Stephen Mennell leads up to such contemporary questions through a careful study of the whole span of American development, from th...
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Clare R. Johnson
Sleep Monsters and Superheroes: Empowering Children through Creative Dreamplay
World-renowned contributors across several disciplines reveal how dreams can aid and empower children in daily life. Children can feel powerless in waking life, a fact that is often reflected in their dreams. This book shows how to take an active role in guiding children's dreams to help grow thei...
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Stephen D. Brookfield
Powerful Techniques for Teaching Adults (Jossey Bass: Adult & Continuing Education)
Praise for Powerful Techniques for Teaching Adults "Stephen Brookfield has used his gifts for clear thinking and lucid writing to produce this theoretically informed, immensely practical book on how the dynamics of power and adult teaching intersect. It should be required reading for everyone who t...
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Gary Saul Morson
Anna Karenina in our time
In this invigorating new assessment of Anna Karenina , Gary Saul Morson overturns traditional interpretations of the classic novel and shows why readers have misunderstood Tolstoy’s characters and intentions. Morson argues that Tolstoy’s ideas are far more radical than has been thought: his mas...
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Paul Jeon
Introducing Romans
The letter of Romans has changed countless lives, and it can change your life as well! If you have ever wanted to know God, there is no better introduction other than Romans. The depth and length of the letter, however, have discouraged many people from exploring it. This short book was written to h...
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Mark Lilla
Ignorance and Bliss: On Wanting Not to Know
"A wise and wonderfully enjoyable book. Mark Lilla treats weighty matters with a light touch, in an elegant prose style that crackles with dry wit . . . Invigorating." ―John Banville, The Guardian A dazzling exploration of our wish to remain innocent and ignorant―and its consequences. Ari...
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