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Creative Industries: Contracts between Art and Com...
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This book explores the organization of creative industries, including the visual and performing arts, movies, theater, sound recordings, and book publishing. In each, artistic inputs are combined with other, "humdrum" inputs. But the deals that bring these inputs together are inherently problematic:..
Critical Entertainments: Music Old and New
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An extraordinarily gifted musician and writer, Charles Rosen is a peerless commentator on the history and performance of music. Critical Entertainments brings together many of the essays that have established him as one of the most influential and eloquent voices in the field of music in our time.Th..
Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Refor...
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How can higher education today create a community of critical thinkers and searchers for truth that transcends the boundaries of class, gender, and nation Martha C. Nussbaum, philosopher and classicist, argues that contemporary curricular reform is already producing such "citizens of the world" in ..
Culture and Inference: A Trobriand Case Study (Cog...
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This book takes a major step in psychological anthropology by applying new analytic tools from cognitive science to one of the oldest and most vexing anthropological problems: the nature of "primitive" thought.For a decade or more there has been broad agreement within anthropology that culture might..
Dancing in the Street: Motown and the Cultural Pol...
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Detroit in the 1960s was a city with a pulse: people were marching in step with Martin Luther King, Jr., dancing in the street with Martha and the Vandellas, and facing off with city police. Through it all, Motown provided the beat. This book tells the story of Motown--as both musical style and entr..
Dangerous Garden: The Quest for Plants to Change O...
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As our earliest ancestors migrated out of Africa, they encountered entirely new floras. By sampling these, they found plants that appeared to (and sometimes did) heal wounds, cure maladies, and ease troubled minds. This process of discovery continues today, as multinational pharmaceutical companies ..
Dante: The Poetics of Conversion
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John Freccero enables us to see the Divine Comedy for the bold, poetic experiment that it is. Too many critics have domesticated Dante by separating his theology from his poetics. Freccero argues that to fail to see the convergence of the letter and the spirit, the pilgrim and the poet, is to fail t..
Darkness at Night: A Riddle of the Universe
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Why is the sky dark at night The answer to this ancient and celebrated riddle, says Edward Harrison, seems relatively simple: the sun has set and is now shining on the other side of the earth. But suppose we were space travelers and far from any star. Out in the depths of space the heavens would be ..
Deadly Cultures: Biological Weapons since 1945
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The threat of biological weapons has never attracted as much public attention as in the past five years. Current concerns largely relate to the threat of weapons acquisition and use by rogue states or by terrorists. But the threat has deeper roots it has been evident for fifty years that biological ..
Deaf in America: Voices from a Culture
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Written by authors who are themselves Deaf, this unique book illuminates the life and culture of Deaf people from the inside, through their everyday talk, their shared myths, their art and performances, and the lessons they teach one another. Carol Padden and Tom Humphries employ the capitalized "De..
Decadence and Catholicism
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Romantic writers had found in Christianity a poetic cult of the imagination, an assertion of the spiritual quality of beauty in an age of vulgar materialism. The decadents, a diverse movement of writers, were the climax and exhaustion of this romantic tradition. In their art, they enacted the romanc..
Deciding to Decide: Agenda Setting in the United S...
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Of the nearly five thousand cases presented to the Supreme Court each year, less than 5 percent are granted review. How the Court sets its agenda, therefore, is perhaps as important as how it decides cases. H. W. Perry, Jr., takes the first hard look at the internal workings of the Supreme Court, il..
Decision Making Under Uncertainty: The Case of Sta...
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Book by Karni, Edi Author: Karni, Edi Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0674195256 ISBN-13: 9780674195257..
Deep Secrets: Boys’ Friendships and the Crisis o...
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“Boys are emotionally illiterate and don’t want intimate friendships.” In this empirically grounded challenge to our stereotypes about boys and men, Niobe Way reveals the intense intimacy among teenage boys especially during early and middle adolescence. Boys not only share their deepest secrets and..
Democracy and Distrust: A Theory of Judicial Revie...
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ReviewThe single most important contribution to the American theory of judicial review written in this century. (Henry P. Monaghan Columbia Law School)Democracy and Distrust will have a wide influence for a long time...Ely writes simply and engaginly with a sense of humor. Yet the reader had better ..
Democracy and Distrust: A Theory of Judicial Revie...
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This powerfully argued appraisal of judicial review may change the face of American law. Written for layman and scholar alike, the book addresses one of the most important issues facing Americans today: within what guidelines shall the Supreme Court apply the strictures of the Constitution to the co..
Democracy Denied, 1905-1915: Intellectuals and the...
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In the decade before World War I, a wave of democratic revolutions swept the globe, consuming more than a quarter of the world’s population. Revolution transformed Russia, Iran, the Ottoman Empire, Portugal, Mexico, and China. In each case, a pro-democracy movement unseated a long-standing autocracy..
Designs on the Heart: The Homemade Art of Grandma ...
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It is a story that has gone down in the annals of American art history: a New Yorker visiting upstate Hoosick Falls is entranced by four pictures hanging in the window of a drugstore. Investigating further, he learns they are the handiwork of a 78-year-old widow. Thus begins the rise to fame of Gran..
Dialogues with Children
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Every week for a year, a professional philosopher and eight children at a school in Edinburgh met to craft stories reflecting philosophical problems. The philosopher, Gareth B. Matthews, believes that children are far more able and eager to think abstractly than adults generally recognize. This enga..
Dialogues, Volume 1: Charon and Antonius (The I Ta...
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Giovanni Pontano (1426-1503), whose academic name was Gioviano, was the most important Latin poet of the fifteenth century as well as a leading statesman who served as prime minister to the Aragonese kings of Naples. His Dialogues are our best source for the humanist academy of Naples which Pontano ..
Dickens and the Trials of Imagination
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Examines the thematic preoccupations, wit, diction, syntax, and metaphor of Dickens's major stylistic modes, particularly in terms of his characters' fanciful impulses and escapist of retaliatory uses of the imagination Author: Stewart, Garrett Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Hardcover ..
Digital Cultures
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In a world largely divided between giddy celebrants and dire detractors of digital culture, Milad Doueihi is one of the very few who speak with broadly informed and measured authority about what the rise of the digital means. Writing as a philologist and intellectual historian, Doueihi argues that d..
Ding Ling's Fiction: Ideology and Narrative in Mod...
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196 pages. Author: Feuerwerker, Yi-Tsi Mei Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0674207653 ISBN-13: 9780674207653..
Diodorus Siculus: Library of History, Volume II, B...
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Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily, ca. 8020 BCE, wrote forty books of world history, called Library of History, in three parts: mythical history of peoples, non-Greek and Greek, to the Trojan War; history to Alexander's death (323 BCE); history to 54 BCE. Of this we have complet..
Diodorus Siculus: Library of History, Volume IX, B...
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Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily, ca. 8020 BCE, wrote forty books of world history, called Library of History, in three parts: mythical history of peoples, non-Greek and Greek, to the Trojan War; history to Alexander's death (323 BCE); history to 54 BCE. Of this we have complet..