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When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017-revealing the ancient poem in a c...

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As an aging, tenacious Elizabeth I clung to power, a talented playwright probed the social causes...

The Red Book, published to wide acclaim in 2009, contains the nucleus of C. G. Jung's later works...

Scandinavia has long been lauded for its equality, universal welfare, peacefulness, and untouched...

It has been stated often that only humans make tools, deceive and plan far into the future - thes...

Americans are descended from slaves and slave owners, from conquerors and the conquered, from imm...

This book compiles, for the first time, Stephen W. Porges's decades of research. A leading expert...

In brutally repressive sixteenth-century England, artists had been frightened into dull conventio...

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A new industrial revolution has begun. Like mechanization or electricity before it, artificial in...

We often think of the modern era as the age of American power. In reality, we're living in a long...

The author and the illustrator behind the best-selling Necronomnomnom have summoned another glori...

Stoicism, the most influential philosophy of the Roman Empire, offers refreshingly modern ways to...

From the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Ele...

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Facebook, PayPal, Alibaba, Uber - these seemingly disparate companies have upended entire industr...

For one thousand years, a poem about the material nature of the universe languished unread, almos...

In a time of rampant misinformation about ways of growing your money, Burton G. Malkiel's gimmick...

Game theory means rigorous strategic thinking. It's the art of anticipating your opponent's next ...

Set in the early postwar years, it probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from ...

This is a new edition of the economics book that won't put you to sleep. In fact, you won't be ab...

For millennia, fresh olive oil has been one of life's necessities-not just as food but also as me...

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In this forceful argument against America's vicious circle of growing inequality, the Nobel Prize...

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Socrates has been hiding in plain sight. We call him the father of Western philosophy, but what e...

Chuck Palahniuk showed himself to be his generation's most visionary satirist in this, his first ...

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Milton H. Erickson has been called the most influential hypnotherapist of our time. Part of his t...

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When we first meet him, Michael Oher is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack; h...

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