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One of the nation’s leading civil rights lawyers joins forces with one of the world’s foremost cultural psychologists to show how storytelling tactics and deeply rooted mythic structures shape the Supreme Court’s decisions about race, family law, and the death penalty.
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In uneasy partnership at the helm of the modern state stand elected party politicians and professional bureaucrats. This book is the first comprehensive comparison of these two powerful elites.
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In this major new interpretation of the music of J. S. Bach, we gain a striking picture of the composer as a unique critic of his age. By reading Bach’s music “against... Læs mere
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The dominance of legislatures and statutory law has put an impossible burden on the courts. Guido Calabresi thinks it is time for this country to seriously consider... Læs mere
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From the antiquity of Homer to yesterday’s Naked Lunch, writers have found inspiration, and readers have lost themselves, in a world of the imagination... Læs mere
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Pfaff presents a daring perspective on the long-standing puzzle of what arousal is. He argues that, beneath our mental functions and... Læs mere
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Drawing on recently opened archives, ethnography, and oral interviews that were unavailable a decade ago, A Biography of No Place reveals Stalinist and Nazi history from the perspective of the remote borderlands, thus bringing the periphery to the center of history.
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Despite black gains in modern America, racism’s end is not yet in sight. Singh asks what happened to the worldly and radical visions of... Læs mere
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In this fascinating introduction to primate minds, Gómez identifies evolutionary resemblances—and differences—between human children and other primates. He... Læs mere
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Witt argues that experiments in accident law at the turn of the 20th century arose out of competing views of... Læs mere
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When ochre-stained bones were unearthed by William Buckland in a Welsh cave in 1823, they raised many unsettling questions regarding... Læs mere
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In this provocative new book, Cuban takes aim at the alluring cliché that schools should be more businesslike, and shows that in its long history in business-minded America, no one has shown that a business model can be successfully applied to education.