How to Think about War: An Ancient Guide to Foreign Policy by Thucydides
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
An accessible modern translation of essential speeches from Thucydides's History that takes readers to the heart of his profound insights on diplomacy, foreign policy, and war Why do nations go to war? What are citizens willing to die for? What justifies foreign invasion? And does might always make rig ...Show more
Mouse or Rat?: Translation as Negotiation by Umberto Eco
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
From the world famous author of In The Name of the Rose, an illuminating and humorous study on the pleasures and pitfalls of translation 'Translation is always a shift, not between two languages but between two cultures. A translator must take into account rules that are not strictly linguistic but, bro ...Show more
Would You Kill the Fat Man?: The Trolley Problem and What Your Answer Tells Us About Right and Wrong by David Edmonds
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A runaway train is racing toward five men who are tied to the track. Unless the train is stopped, it will inevitably kill all five men. You are standing on a footbridge looking down on the unfolding disaster. However, a fat man, a stranger, is standing next to you: if you push him off the bridge, he wil ...Show more
Why Liberalism Failed by Patrick J. Deneen
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Politics and Culture Ser.
Has liberalism failed because it has succeeded? Of the three dominant ideologies of the 20th century - fascism, communism, and liberalism - only the last remains. This has created a peculiar situation in which liberalism's proponents tend to forget that it is an ideology and not the natural end-state o ...Show more
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays by Esmé Weijun Wang
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Powerful, affecting essays on mental illness, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and a Whiting Award An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the cor ...Show more
The Know-It-Alls - The Rise of Silicon Valley As a Political Powerhouse and Social Wrecking Ball by Noam Cohen
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Beginning nearly a century ago and showcasing the role of Stanford University as the incubator of this new class of super geeks, Cohen shows how smart guys like Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel, Sergey Brin, Larry Page, and Mark Zuckerberg fell in love with a radically individualistic ideal and then mainstreamed ...Show more
On Grand Strategy by John Lewis Gaddis
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A master class in strategic thinking, distilled from the legendary Yale course co-taught by the author for decades For almost two decades, Yale students have competed for admission each year to the "Studies in Grand Strategy" seminar taught by John Lewis Gaddis, Paul Kennedy, and Charles Hill. Its p ...Show more
Badass Mums by Sarah Firth (Illustrator)
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
For centuries women have had to tackle the myths surrounding motherhood. From the Madonna figure sacrificing everything for the child to the dutiful housewife juggling chores, mothers have always been expected to put themselves last. But it's time to bust open the myths and shine a light on the badass w ...Show more
Spectacle of Illusion: Magic .. Mind by Matthew Tompkins
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
In The Spectacle of Illusion, professional magician-turned-psychologist Matthew Tompkins traces the evolution of the arts of magic and illusion from the 18th century onwards. Organized thematically within a broadly chronological trajectory, the book presents the art of witches, magicians, illusionists, ...Show more
This Fight is Our Fight: The Battle to Save Working People by Elizabeth Warren
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
'Nevertheless, she persisted' has become a rallying cry for millions of those fed up with phony promises and governments that no longer serve their people. In this inspiring #1 New York Times bestseller and inspiring book, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren argues for a fair future for ordinary working peopl ...Show more
Sympathy for the Traitor - a Translation Manifesto by Mark Polizzotti
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
An engaging and unabashedly opinionated examination of what translation is and isn't.For some, translation is the poor cousin of literature, a necessary evil if not an outright travesty--summed up by the old Italian play on words, traduttore, traditore (translator, traitor). For others, translation is t ...Show more
Silliness - A Serious History by Peter Timms
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Silliness is to be savoured. It exposes the cracks in our reasoning, raising a gleeful two-finger salute to convention and common sense. In a world awash with stupidity and cruel politics, silliness is childish, anarchic, mischievous, rude and sometimes shocking. But it's not new. This delightful yet i ...Show more