Wordcraft

Jack Hart

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Legendary writing coach Jack Hart spent twenty-six years at the Oregonian and has taught students and professionals of all stripes, including bloggers, podcasters, and more than one Pulitzer Prize

Ambiguities of Domination

Lisa Wedeen

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In the late-1990s in Syria, the image of President Hafiz al-Asad is everywhere. In newspapers, on television and during orchestrated spectacles Asad is praised as the "father," the "gallant knight,

The Fruits of Opportunism

Le Lin

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An in-depth examination of the regulatory, entrepreneurial, and organizational factors contributing to the expansion and transformation of China’s supplemental education industry. Like ma

Where Research Begins

Thomas S. Mullaney

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Plenty of books tell you how to do research. This book helps you figure out WHAT to research in the first place, and why it matters. The hardest part of research isn’t answering a questio

Writing for Social Scientists

Howard S. Becker

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For more than thirty years, Writing for Social Scientists has been a lifeboat for writers in all fields, from beginning students to published authors. It starts with a powerful reassurance: Ac

Materials of the Mind

James Poskett

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Phrenology was the most popular mental science of the Victorian age. From American senators to Indian social reformers, this new mental science found supporters around the globe. Materials of the M

The Invention of Madness

Emily Baum

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Throughout most of history, in China the insane were kept within the home and treated by healers who claimed no specialized knowledge of their condition. In the first decade of the twentieth c

On Descartes' Passive Thought

Jean-luc Marion

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Palmyra

Paul Veyne

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Image Science

W. J. T. Mitchell

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Almost thirty years ago, W. J. T. Mitchell’s "Iconology" helped launch the interdisciplinary study of visual media, now a central feature of the humanities. Along with his subsequent "Picture Theor

Agewise

Gullette, Margaret Morganroth

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In Agewise, renowned cultural critic Margaret Morganroth Gullette reveals that much of what we dread about aging is actually the result of ageism - which we can, and should, battle as strongly as w

Power in Concert

Jennifer Mitzen

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How states cooperate in the absence of a sovereign power is a perennial question in international relations. With Power in Concert, Jennifer Mitzen argues that global governance is more than just t

Piracy

Johns, Adrian

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Since the rise of Napster and other file-sharing services in its wake, most of us have assumed that intellectual piracy is a product of the digital age and that it threatens creative expression as

The Chicago Manual of Style

University of Chicago Press Staff

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Offering updated material to reflect current style, this 15th edition includes guidance on electronic publications, journals and mathematical copy. A comprehensive gathering of material, the Chicag

Plato's Symposium

Plato

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Plato's "Symposium" - translated here, and with a commentary - is arguably one of the greatest works on the nature of love ever written. It recounts a drinking party following an evening meal, wher

Life and Death in a Venetian Convent

Sister Bartolomea Riccoboni

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These works by Sister Bartolomea Riccoboni offer an intimate portrait of the women who inhabited the venetian convent of Corpus Domini, where they shared a religious life bounded physically by the

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Starobinski

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让•斯塔罗宾斯基（Jean Starobinski，1920-2019），生于日内瓦，著名的瑞士文艺批评家和理论家、观念史学家、医学史学家、卢梭研究以及18世纪思想研究权威。早年求学于日内瓦大学，先后获得文学博士学位和医学博士学位。曾任教于美国约翰•霍普金斯大学、瑞士巴塞尔大学和日内瓦大学。他对启蒙时代以来的哲学、文学、艺术的思考，对忧郁症和解释学问题的探讨以及对蒙田、卢梭、狄德罗

The Rhetoric of Fiction

Wayne C. Booth

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The first edition of "The Rhetoric of Fiction" transformed the criticism of fiction and soon became a classic in the field. One of the most widely used texts in fiction courses, it is a standard re

The Renaissance Philosophy of Man

Ernst Cassirer (EDT)

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Despite our admiration for Renaissance achievement in the arts and sciences, in literature and classical learning, the rich and diversified philosophical thought of the period remains largely unkno

Authoritarian Apprehensions

Lisa Wedeen

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If the Arab uprisings initially heralded the end of tyrannies and a move toward liberal democratic governments, their defeat not only marked a reversal but was of a piece with emerging forms of aut

To be a Man is Not a One-Day Job

Daniel Jordan Smith

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The Secret Lives of Teachers

Anonymous

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Welcome to “East Hudson,” an elite private school in New York where the students are attentive, the colleagues are supportive, and the tuition would make the average person choke on its string

Genentech

Sally Smith Hughes

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In the fall of 1980, Genentech, Inc., a little-known California genetic engineering company, became the overnight darling of Wall Street, raising over $38 million in its initial public stock offeri

Dissemination

Jacques Derrida

评分 9.0分

"The English version of "Dissemination" [is] an able translation by Barbara Johnson...Derrida's central contention is that languge is haunted by dispersal, absence, loss, the risk of unmeaning, a r