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In his new book, Gordon M. Shepherd expands on the startling discovery that the brain creates the...

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The Social Ideas of the Northern Evangelists 1826-1860

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At its core, economics is about making decisions. In the history of economic thought, great intel...

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Within just a few years,The Rocky Horror Picture Show grew from an oddball musical to a celebrate...

Art and Scientific Thought

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For the past fifty years, international efforts to restrict nuclear weapons have relied on formal...

Since the end of the civil war in 1990 and the Syrian occupation in 2005, Lebanon has held relati...

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What does it mean to teach in an era of reconciliation? Seasons of Learning is an innovative expl...

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Bringing together a decade of criticism, The Edges of Cinema roams across an array of styles to t...

In June 1968, a twenty-four-year-old Palestinian immigrant named Sirhan B. Sirhan assassinated Se...

Across a range of literary texts, Black writers depict taking flight to escape systems of subordi...

A remarkable transformation is taking place in the Middle East. As old ideologies from nationalis...

China's early medieval period, from the fifth through the early seventh century, from the Norther...

Trilobites are among the most remarkable lifeforms ever to exist. First emerging 521 million year...

In an era of interlocking planetary crises, how can we kindle an imagined future that is better t...

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Song Jiaoren (1882-1913) was early-twentieth-century China's greatest champion of constitutional ...

In an era where federal-provincial tensions over Canada's international commitments dominate head...

The Ottoman Empire long used flexible administrative arrangements to govern its vast domains. Sta...

The First Opium War is remembered as the defining conflict between Britain and China in the ninet...

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