Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination
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In 2008, J.K. Rowling delivered a deeply affecting commencement speech at Harvard University. Now...
Making Gullah: A History of Sapelo Islanders, Race, and the American Imagination
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During the 1920s and 1930s, anthropologists and folklorists became obsessed with uncovering...
History politics social issues
An Early History of Compassion: Emotion and Imagination in Hellenistic Judaism
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In this book, Francoise Mirguet traces the appropriation and reinterpretation of pity by...
The Corporeal Imagination: Signifying the Holy in Late Ancient Christianity
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With few exceptions, the scholarship on religion in late antiquity has emphasized its tendencies...
Inventing the Myth: Political Passions and the Ulster Protestant Imagination
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This book approaches Ulster Protestantism through its theatrical and cultural intersection with...
Pixar and the Aesthetic Imagination: Animation, Storytelling, and Digital Culture
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In Pixar and the Aesthetic Imagination, Eric Herhuth draws upon film theory, animation theory, and...
The Great British Dream Factory: The Strange History of Our National Imagination
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'Delightfully good ...an exuberant and learned celebration of British culture ...full of love for...
Necropolitics and its Discontents: Art, Mortality and the Political Imagination
Mick Wilson, Silvia Loeffler and Noel Fitzpatrick
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Necropolitics and its Discontents addresses the relationship between the contemporary political...
Shaping Humanity: How Science, Art, and Imagination Help Us Understand Our Origins
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How an artist draws on fossil discoveries and forensic techniques to create transfixing...