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A poignant return to Korea's forgotten "Asian Spring"-a moment ripe with possibility denied by the postwar US military occupation. When Japanese imperial rule ended in August 1945, the Korean peninsula erupted with hopes that had been...

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Kant

A foremost Kant expert takes us on a lively tour through the revolutionary ideas of the founder of modern philosophy. Immanuel Kant is undoubtedly the most important philosopher of the modern era. His Critique of Pure Reason,...

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This Craft of Verse

"A wondrously limpid testament to the pleasures of reading." -Steven Poole, The Guardian Six incandescent lectures on literature from the patron saint of mirrors, metafiction, and infinite libraries. For more than thirty years, Jorge...

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Poor Relief

An economist challenges an emerging orthodoxy: the idea that the best way to alleviate poverty is simply to give people money. A simple notion has become increasingly widespread in recent years: to lift people out of poverty, just give...

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Six Walks in the Fictional Woods

"Erudite, wide-ranging, and slyly humorous." -The Atlantic One of the great novelists and public intellectuals of our time gives a master class on the philosophy of fiction. Umberto Eco was fond of pointing out that all writing is...

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The Memoirs of General William Tecumseh Sherman

A titan among Civil War military geniuses gives an unvarnished account of his career, presented for the first time in a definitive annotated edition. William Tecumseh Sherman's memoirs were a sensation when first published in 1875, as...

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Progress and Regression

A landmark work of social and political philosophy that finds this leading heir to the Frankfurt School at the height of her powers. Despite widespread technological innovation, scientific and medical breakthroughs, and strides toward...

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Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope

A landmark reinterpretation of the civil rights movement that challenges reductive heroic narratives of the 1950s and 1960s and invigorates new debates and possibilities for the future of the struggle for liberation. We are all familiar...

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The Shape of Content

"The clearest, most forceful statement on art by an artist of our time that I have read." -Frank Getlein, New Republic An illustrated guide to artistic creation from one of the twentieth century's most provocative and expressive...

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Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons

Timeless lessons on the pleasures of listening, the dilemmas of composition, and the meaning of artistic freedom from a founder of musical modernism. In October 1939, Igor Stravinsky took the stage at Harvard not as a conductor but as a...

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The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery

A landmark account of the origins of American slavery, revealing how ancient Roman ideas were used to defend the establishment of a slave empire in the English Atlantic world. The period from 1550 to 1700 was critical in the development...

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The Highest Exam

Combining personal narratives with decades of research, a vivid account of how the gaokao-China's high-stakes college admissions test-shapes that society and influences education debates in the United States. Each year, more than ten...

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