The Capitalist Schema: Time, Money, and the Culture of Abstraction
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Christian Lotz argues that Immanuel Kant's idea of a mental schematism, which gives the human mind...
The Market
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The market is one of the most readily identifiable manifestations of the modern economy: the locus...
Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies
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In Why Information Grows, rising star Cesar Hidalgo offers a radical interpretation of global...
Energy Humanities: An Anthology
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Energy humanities is a field of scholarship that, like medical and digital humanities before it,...
Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings
Jorge Luis Borges, Donald A. Yates, James East Irby and Andre Maurois
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Jorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths is a collection of short stories and essays showcasing one of Latin...
Moby-Dick: or, the Whale: Or, the Whale
Herman Melville, Tom Quirk and Andrew Delbanco
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The original 'Great American Novel', Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is a masterful study of obsession....
The Doctor Dissected: A Cultural Autopsy of the Burke and Hare Murders
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A series of bizarre disappearances filled the citizens of early nineteenth-century Scotland with...
The Poetry Lesson
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"Intro to Poetry Writing is always like this: a long labor, a breech birth, or, obversely, mining in...
The Third Tower: Journeys in Italy
David Pearson, Antal Szerb and Len Rix
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A typically brilliant, ironic and moving travelogue by one of the twentieth century's greatest...
Trauma and Transformation in African Literature: Writing Wrongs
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This book fills a gap in the field of contemporary trauma studies by interrogating the relevance of...