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  • Burning the Books
    Ovenden, Richard
    Libraries have been attacked since ancient times but have been especially threatened in the modern era, through war as well as willful neglect. Burning the Books describes the deliberate destruction of the knowledge safeguarded in libraries from Alexandria to Sarajevo, from smashed Assyrian tablets to the torching of the Library of Congress. The director of the world-famous Bod...

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  • Cosmopolitan Tradition, The
    Nussbaum, Martha C.
    The cosmopolitan political tradition in Western thought begins with the Greek Cynic Diogenes, who, when asked where he came from, said he was a citizen of the world. Rather than declare his lineage, social class, or gender, he defined himself as a human being, implicitly asserting the equal worth of all human beings.Martha Nussbaum pursues this “noble but flawed” vision and con...

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  • Annotated Poe, The
    Poe, Edgar Allan
    Edgar Allan Poe is perhaps America’s most famous writer. Adapted many times to the stage and screen and an inspiration to countless illustrators, graphic novelists, and musicians, his tales and poems remain a singular presence in popular culture. (His most famous poem inspired the name of the NFL’s Baltimore Ravens.) And then there is the matter of Poe’s literary influence. “Ho...

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  • Essential Tagore, The
    Tagore, Rabindranath
    The Essential Tagore showcases the genius of India’s Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian Nobel Laureate and possibly the most prolific and diverse serious writer the world has ever known.Marking the 150th anniversary of Tagore’s birth, this ambitious collection?the largest single volume of his work available in English?attempts to represent his extraordinary achievements in te...

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  • A Brief History of Equality
    Piketty, Thomas
    A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceA Public Books Best Book of the Year“An opportunity for readers to see Piketty bring his larger argument about the origins of inequality and his program for fighting it into high relief.”?Nicholas Lemann, New York TimesThe world’s leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimistic history of huma...

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  • Trotsky
    Service, Robert
    Robert Service completes his masterful trilogy on the founding figures of the Soviet Union in an eagerly anticipated, authoritative biography of Leon Trotsky.Trotsky is perhaps the most intriguing and, given his prominence, the most understudied of the Soviet revolutionaries. Using new archival sources including family letters, party and military correspondence, confidential sp...

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  • Capital in the Twenty-First Century
    Piketty, Thomas

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  • Myth of Artificial Intelligence, The
    Larson, Erik J.
    “If you want to know about AI, read this book…It shows how a supposedly futuristic reverence for Artificial Intelligence retards progress when it denigrates our most irreplaceable resource for any future progress: our own human intelligence.”?Peter ThielEver since Alan Turing, AI enthusiasts have equated artificial intelligence with human intelligence. A computer scientist work...

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  • Emily Dickinson’s Poems
    Dickinson, Emily
    Widely considered the definitive edition of Emily Dickinson’s poems, this landmark collection presents her poems here for the first time “as she preserved them,” and in the order in which she wished them to appear. It is the only edition of Dickinson’s complete poems to distinguish clearly those she took pains to copy carefully onto folded sheets in fair hand—presumably to pres...

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