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Princeton University Press
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English
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"In an overloaded, superficial, technological world, in which almost everything and everybody are judged by their usefulness, where can we turn for escape, lasting pleasure, contemplation, or connection to others? While many forms of leisure meet these needs, Zena Hitz writes, few experiences are so fulfilling as the inner life, whether that of a bookworm, an amateur astronomer, a birdwatcher, or someone who takes a deep interest in one of countless...
3) The nineties
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Essays about 1990s popular culture, politics, sports, literature, music. In The Nineties, Chuck Klosterman makes a home in all of it: the film, the music, the sports, the TV, the politics, the changes regarding race and class and sexuality, the yin/yang of Oprah and Alan Greenspan. In perhaps no other book ever written would a sentence like, “The video for ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ was not more consequential than the reunification...
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Long before the United States was a nation, it was a set of ideas, projected onto the New World by European explorers with centuries of belief and thought in tow. From this foundation of expectation and experience, America and American thought grew in turn, enriched by the bounties of the Enlightenment, the philosophies of liberty and individuality, the tenets of religion, and the doctrines of republicanism and democracy. Crucial to this development...
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Knopf
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
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A bold, insightful book that rejects the myth of America the Unphilosophical, arguing that America today towers as the most philosophical culture in the history of the world, an unprecedented marketplace of truth and argument that far surpasses ancient Greece or any other place one can name.
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Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
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"A virtuosic cultural history of German ideas and influence, from 1750 to the present day"--
The German Genius is a virtuoso cultural history of German ideas and influence, from 1750 to the present day, by acclaimed historian Peter Watson (Making of the Modern Mind, Ideas). From Bach, Goethe, and Schopenhauer to Nietzsche, Freud, and Einstein, from the arts and humanities to science and philosophy, The German Genius is a lively and accessible review...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"A history of European intellectual life from 500 AD to 1700 AD"--
"A monumental and exhilarating history of European thought from the end of Antiquity to the beginning of the Enlightenment-500 to 1700 AD-tracing the arc of intellectual history as it evolved, setting the stage for the modern era. With more than 140 illustrations; 90 in full-color. Charles Freeman, lauded historical scholar and author of The Closing of the Western Mind ("A triumph"-The...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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''A New York Times Editor's Pick A People Magazine Best Book to Read in February A Goodreads Most Anticipated Book of 2024 "My Side of the River is both fierce and poetic. It brilliantly reframes border writing while embracing nature and familial history. There are moments one sees greatness appear. This is one of those moments." and#x2015;Luis Alberto Urrea, New York Times bestselling author of Good Night, Irene Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez reveals...
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Belt Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In 2016, headlines declared Appalachia ground zero for Americas “forgotten tribe” of white working class voters. Journalists flocked to the region to extract sympathetic profiles of families devastated by poverty, abandoned by establishment politics, and eager to consume cheap campaign promises. What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia is a frank assessment of Americas recent fascination with the people and problems of the region. The book...
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Public Affairs
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
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A leading foreign policy expert offers a look at the inner workings of China to explore a hidden world of intellectual debate that is fueling a new Chinese revolution and to reflect on what this will mean in terms of both China as a nation and its role in global affairs.
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English
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Aspiring writer Charles Lamb and his sister, Mary, find a much-needed escape through William Shakespeare's writings, so when a bookseller claiming to possess a lost Shakespearean play arrives, they can barely contain their excitement, but the bookseller's claims soon lead the brother and sister on a journey with unexpected results.
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English
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"In 1905, Virginia and Vanessa Stephens and their brothers Thoby and Adrian moved to unfashionable, bohemian Bloomsbury. All in their twenties, orphaned and unmarried, they began holding Thursday night gatherings in their unchaperoned, unconventional drawing room. Most of the young guests in that room would become famous, breaking the old rules and blazing their own new paths. It is from Vanessa's point of view at the center of this eccentric, charmed...
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Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A fascinating portrait of the minds that have shaped the modern world. In an intriguing series of case studies, Rousseau, Shelley, Marx, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Brecht, Sartre, Edmund Wilson, Victor Gollancz, Lillian Hellman, Cyril Connolly, Norman Mailer, James Baldwin, Kenneth Tynan, and Noam Chomsky, among others, are revealed as intellectuals both brilliant and contradictory, magnetic and dangerous.
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Hinges of history volume 6
Publisher
Nan A. Talese, Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A popular history focusing on the Renaissance and Reformation and how this innovative period changed the Western world.
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"What is the value of a liberal education? Traditionally characterized by a rigorous engagement with the classics of Western thought and literature, this approach to education is all but extinct in American universities, replaced by flexible distribution requirements and ever-narrower academic specialization. Many academics attack the very idea of a Western canon as chauvinistic, while the general public increasingly doubts the value of the humanities....
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