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Around the World in 80 Books by David Damrosch
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Category: REFERENCE | Series: Pelican Books
A transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, through classic and modern literary works that are in conversation with one another and with the world around them Inspired by Jules Verne's hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard's Department of Comparative Literature and founder of ...Show more
Greek and Roman Political Ideas: A Pelican Introduction by Melissa Lane
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Category: Classics | Series: Pelican Books
Where do our ideas about politics come from? What can we learn from the Greeks and Romans? How should we exercise power? Melissa Lane teaches politics at Princeton University, and previously taught political thought at the University of Cambridge, where she was a Fellow of King's College. She has receiv ...Show more
Human Evolution: A Pelican Introduction by Robin Dunbar
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Category: Classics | Series: Pelican Books
What makes us human? How did we develop language, thought and culture? Why did we survive, and other human species fail? Robin Dunbar is an evolutionary psychologist and former director of the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology at Oxford University. His acclaimed books include How Many ...Show more
The Blue Commons: Rescuing the Economy of the Sea by Guy Standing
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Category: SUSTAINABLE | Series: Pelican Books
The sea provides more than half the oxygen we breathe, food for billions of people and livelihoods for hundreds of millions. But giant corporations are plundering the world's oceans, aided by global finance and complicit states, following the neoliberal maxim of Blue Growth. The situation is dire: rampa ...Show more
The Domesticated Brain: A Pelican Introduction by Bruce Hood
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Category: Classics | Series: Pelican Books
Why do we care what others think? What keeps us bound together? How does the brain shape our behaviour? Bruce Hood is an award-winning psychologist who has taught at Cambridge and Harvard universities and is currently Director of the Cognitive Development Centre at the University of Bristol. He delivere ...Show more
Think Again: How to Reason & Argue by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Pelican Books
Our personal and political worlds are rife with arguments and disagreements, some of them petty and vitriolic. The inability to compromise and understand the other side is widespread today. What can we do to change this? In Think Again philosopherWalter Sinnott-Armstrong draws on a long tradition of log ...Show more
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