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The Course of Recognition (Institute for Human Sci...
$33.93
Recognition, though it figures profoundly in our understanding of objects and persons, identity and ideas, has never before been the subject of a single, sustained philosophical inquiry. This work, by one of contemporary philosophy’s most distinguished voices, pursues recognition through its various..
The Creation and Destruction of Value: The Globali...
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Harold James examines the vulnerability and fragility of processes of globalization, both historically and in the present. This book applies lessons from past breakdowns of globalization-above all in the Great Depression-to show how financial crises provoke backlashes against global integration: aga..
The Criminal Process in the People's Republic of C...
$20.77
Review Harvard University Press and Professor Cohen should be congratulated for this significant work on the criminal process in Communist China before the Cultural Revolution. Combining published sources and interviews, this volume is the fruit of years of devoted research and thorough scholarship...
The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition
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Ambitious and elegant, this book builds a bridge between evolutionary theory and cultural psychology. Michael Tomasello is one of the very few people to have done systematic research on the cognitive capacities of both nonhuman primates and human children. The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition ide..
The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition
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Ambitious and elegant, this book builds a bridge between evolutionary theory and cultural psychology. Michael Tomasello is one of the very few people to have done systematic research on the cognitive capacities of both nonhuman primates and human children. The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition ide..
The Culture of Education
$10.77
What we don't know about learning could fill a book--and it might be a schoolbook. In a masterly commentary on the possibilities of education, the eminent psychologist Jerome Bruner reveals how education can usher children into their culture, though it often fails to do so. Applying the newly emergi..
The Culture of Literacy
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At the onset of modernity in the sixteenth century, literature and history were wrenched apart. Wlad Godzich, one of the animators of the turn toward literary theory, seeks to restore historical consciousness to criticism after a period of painful depression. In this sweeping study, he considers the..
The Deadly Truth: A History of Disease in America
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The Deadly Truth chronicles the complex interactions between disease and the peoples of America from the pre-Columbian world to the present.Grob's ultimate lesson is stark but valuable: there can be no final victory over disease. The world in which we live undergoes constant change, which in turn cr..
The Deadly Truth: A History of Disease in America
$22.83
The Deadly Truth chronicles the complex interactions between disease and the peoples of America from the pre-Columbian world to the present.Grob's ultimate lesson is stark but valuable: there can be no final victory over disease. The world in which we live undergoes constant change, which in turn cr..
The Death of Socrates (Profiles in History)
$37.57
There were heroic lives and deaths before and after, but none quite like Socrates'. He did not die by sword or spear, braving all to defend home and country, but as a condemned criminal, swallowing a painless dose of poison. And yet Socrates' death in 399 BCE has figured large in our world ever sinc..
The Decent Society
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Avishai Margalit builds his social philosophy on this foundation: a decent society, or a civilized society, is one whose institutions do not humiliate the people under their authority, and whose citizens do not humiliate one another. What political philosophy needs urgently is a way that will permit..
The Declaration of Independence: A Global History
$30.34
In a stunningly original look at the American Declaration of Independence, David Armitage reveals the document in a new light: through the eyes of the rest of the world. Not only did the Declaration announce the entry of the United States onto the world stage, it became the model for other countries..
The Declaration of Independence: A Global History
$11.45
In a stunningly original look at the American Declaration of Independence, David Armitage reveals the document in a new light: through the eyes of the rest of the world. Not only did the Declaration announce the entry of the United States onto the world stage, it became the model for other countries..
The Dialectical Biologist
$36.07
Scientists act within a social context and from a philosophical perspective that is inherently political. Whether they realize it or not, scientists always choose sides. The Dialectical Biologist explores this political nature of scientific inquiry, advancing its argument within the framework of Mar..
The Disorder of Things: Metaphysical Foundations o...
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The great dream of philosophers and scientists for millennia has been to give us a complete account of the order of things. A powerful articulation of such a dream in this century has been found in the idea of a unity of science. With this manifesto, John Dupré systematically attacks the ideal of sc..
The Drama of Everyday Life
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Psychologists, says the old joke, know everything there is to know about the college sophomore and the white rat. But what about the rest of us, older than the former, bigger than the latter, with lives more labyrinthine than either In this ambitious book, Karl E. Scheibe aims to take psychology ou..
The Echo of Battle: The Army's Way of War
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From Lexington and Gettysburg to Normandy and Iraq, the wars of the United States have defined the nation. But after the guns fall silent, the army searches the lessons of past conflicts in order to prepare for the next clash of arms. In the echo of battle, the army develops the strategies, weapons,..
The Ecology of Human Development: Experiments by N...
$88.07
To understand the way children develop, Bronfenbrenner believes that it is necessary to observe their behavior in natural settings, while they are interacting with familiar adults over prolonged periods of time. His book offers an important blueprint for constructing a new and ecologically valid psy..
The Economic Structure of Corporate Law
$114.67
The authors argue that the rules and practices of corporate law mimic contractual provisions that parties would reach if they bargained about every contingency at zero cost and flawlessly enforced their agreements. But bargaining and enforcement are costly, and corporate law provides the rules and a..
The Economic Structure of Corporate Law
$50.08
The authors argue that the rules and practices of corporate law mimic contractual provisions that parties would reach if they bargained about every contingency at zero cost and flawlessly enforced their agreements. But bargaining and enforcement are costly, and corporate law provides the rules and a..
The Economics of Justice
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ReviewThe book is a testimony to the range of Posner's competence and interest. It is nicely written and accessible to anyone familiar with the particular legal issues he discusses, with the general problem of justice, or with tools of economic analysis.--Jules Coleman (Stanford Law Review)This is a..
The Emergence of Cinematic Time: Modernity, Contin...
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Hailed as the permanent record of fleeting moments, the cinema emerged at the turn of the nineteenth century as an unprecedented means of capturing time--and this at a moment when disciplines from physics to philosophy, and historical trends from industrialization to the expansion of capitalism, wer..
The End of the Past: Ancient Rome and the Modern W...
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This searching interpretation of past and present addresses fundamental questions about the fall of the Roman Empire. Why did ancient culture, once so strong and rich, come to an end Was it destroyed by weaknesses inherent in its nature Or were mistakes made that could have been avoided--was there..
The English Atlantic in an Age of Revolution, 1640...
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Between 1640 and 1660, England, Scotland, and Ireland faced civil war, invasion, religious radicalism, parliamentary rule, and the restoration of the monarchy. Carla Gardina Pestana offers a sweeping history that systematically connects these cataclysmic events and the development of the infant plan..
The Ethics of Memory
$21.78
Much of the intense current interest in collective memory concerns the politics of memory. In a book that asks, "Is there an ethics of memory " Avishai Margalit addresses a separate, perhaps more pressing, set of concerns.The idea he pursues is that the past, connecting people to each other, makes p..