What is authority? How is it constituted? How ought one understand the subtle (and sometimes not-so..
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What distinguishes humans from nonhumans? Two common answers-free will and religion-are in some way..
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A fresh account of early American religious history that argues for a new understanding of ritual. ..
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When it was originally released in 1980, Jeanne Altmann's book transformed the study of maternal pr..
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We have long regarded Beethoven as a great composer, but we rarely appreciate that he was also an e..
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This witty and fascinating study reminds us that there was animation before Disney: about thirty ye..
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In 2004, one of the world's last bands of voluntarily isolated nomads left behind their ancestral l..
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Bette Davis's career becomes a vehicle for a deep examination of American race relations. Bette Dav..
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During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, popular music was considered nothing but vu..
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Vividly documenting the real world of the contemporary hospital, its nurses, and their moral and et..
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A rich and eye-opening history of the mutual constitution of race and species in modern America. I..
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The War Ledger provides fresh, sophisticated answers to fundamental questions about major modern wa..
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"A masterly assessment of the way the idea of quanta of radiation became part of 20th-century physi..
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Blood is messy, dangerous, and charged with meaning. By following it as it circulates through peopl..
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Both from the Ears and Mind offers a bold new understanding of the intellectual and cultural positi..
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In Bottleneck, anthropologist Caroline Melly uses the problem of traffic bottlenecks to launch a wi..
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What is creativity? While our traditional view of creative work might lead us to think of artists a..
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Publicada inicialmente en 2007, esta Breve historia de la lengua española se ha convertido en la in..
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ISBN: 9780226709819Publisher: University of Chicago PressImprint: The University of Chicago PressPu..
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Until now it has been impossible to read the full story of the relationship between Albert Camus an..
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By investigating a simple question, a philosopher of science and a molecular biologist offer an acc..
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A forceful reckoning with the relationship between energy and power through the history of what was..
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Chandra is an intimate portrait of a highly private and brilliant man, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, ..
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Over the last few decades, character-based criticism has been seen as either naive or obsolete. But..
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