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  • TIME TRAVEL
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    TIME TRAVEL
    DAVID WITTENBERG
    This book argues that time travel fiction is a narrative “laboratory,” a setting for thought experiments in which essential theoretical questions about storytelling—and, by extension, about the philosophy of temporality, history, and subjectivity—are represented in the form of literal devices and plots. Drawing on physics, philosophy, narrative theory, psychoanalysis, and film ...

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  • THE PLEASURES OF MEMORY
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    THE PLEASURES OF MEMORY
    SARAH WINTER
    What are the sources of the commonly held presumption that reading literature should make people more just, humane, and sophisticated? Rendering literary history responsive to the cultural histories of reading, publishing, and education, The Pleasures of Memory illuminates the ways in which Dickens’s serial fiction shaped not only the popular practice of reading for pleasure an...

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  • THE SONS OF MOLLY MAGUIRE
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    THE SONS OF MOLLY MAGUIRE
    MARK BULIK
    Sensational tales of true-life crime, the devastation of the Irish potato famine, the upheaval of the Civil War, and the turbulent emergence of the American labor movement are connected in a captivating exploration of the roots of the Molly Maguires. A secret society of peasant assassins in Ireland that re-emerged in Pennsylvania’s hard-coal region, the Mollies organized strike...

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  • THE END OF THE WORLD AND OTHER TEACHABLE MOMENTS
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    THE END OF THE WORLD AND OTHER TEACHABLE MOMENTS
    MICHAEL NAAS
    The End of the World and Other Teachable Moments follows the remarkable itinerary of Jacques Derrida’s final seminar, “The Beast and the Sovereign” (2001–3), as the explicit themes of the seminar—namely, sovereignty and the question of the animal—come to be supplemented and interrupted by questions of death, mourning, survival, the archive, and, especially, the end of the world...

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  • FROM SLAVE SHIP TO HARVARD
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    FROM SLAVE SHIP TO HARVARD
    JAMES H. JOHNSTON
    From Slave Ship to Harvard is the true story of an African American family in Maryland over six generations. The author has reconstructed a unique narrative of black struggle and achievement from paintings, photographs, books, diaries, court records, legal documents, and oral histories. From Slave Ship to Harvard traces the family from the colonial period and the American Revol...

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  • DESERTER COUNTRY
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    DESERTER COUNTRY
    ROBERT M. SANDOW
    During the Civil War, there were throughout the Union explosions of resistance to the war -from the deadly Draft Riots in New York City to other, less well-known outbreaks. In Deserter Country, Robert Sandow explores one of these least known "inner civil wars", the widespread, sometimes violent opposition in the Appalachian lumber country of Pennsylvania. Sparsely settled, thes...

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  • THE ROSE MAN OF SING SING
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    THE ROSE MAN OF SING SING
    JAMES M. MORRIS
    Today, seventy-three years after his death, journalists still tell tales of Charles E. Chapin. As city editor of Pulitzer’s New York Evening World , Chapin was the model of the take-no-prisoners newsroom tyrant: he drove reporters relentlessly—and kept his paper in the center ring of the circus of big-city journalism. From the Harry K. Thaw trial to the sinking of the Titanic ,...

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  • MONKEY TROUBLE
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    MONKEY TROUBLE
    CHRISTOPHER PETERSON
    According to scholars of the nonhuman turn, the scandal of theory lies in its failure to decenter the human. The real scandal, however, is that we keep trying. The human has become a conspicuous blind spot for many theorists seeking to extend hospitality to animals, plants, and even insentient things. The displacement of the human is essential and urgent, yet given the humanist...

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  • KANT ON THE FRONTIER
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    KANT ON THE FRONTIER
    GEOFFREY BENNINGTON
    Frontier: the border between two countries; the limits of civilization; the bounds of established knowledge; a new field of activity. At a time when all borders, boundaries, margins, and limits are being—often violently—challenged, erased, or reinforced, we must rethink the concept of frontier itself. But is there even such a concept? Through an original and imaginative reading...

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  • INVENTING AMERICA'S FIRST IMMIGRATION CRISIS
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    INVENTING AMERICA'S FIRST IMMIGRATION CRISIS
    LUKE RITTER
    Why have Americans expressed concern about immigration at some times but not at others? In pursuit of an answer, this book examines America’s first nativist movement, which responded to the rapid influx of 4.2 million immigrants between 1840 and 1860 and culminated in the dramatic rise of the National American Party. As previous studies have focused on the coasts, historians ha...

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  • CONVERSION IN AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY
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    CONVERSION IN AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY
    ROGER A. WARD
    In this fresh, provocative account of the American philosophical tradition, Roger Ward explores the work of key thinkers through an innovative and counterintuitive lens: religious conversion. From Jonathan Edwards to Cornel West, Ward threads the history of American thought into an extended, multivalent encounter with the religious experience. Looking at Dewey, James, Peirce, R...

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  • FAITH IN LIFE
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    FAITH IN LIFE
    DONALD J. MORSE
    This is the first book to consider John Dewey’s early philosophy on its own terms and to explicate its key ideas. It does so through the fullest treatment to date of his youthful masterwork, the Psychology. This fuller treatment reveals that the received view, which sees Dewey’s early philosophy as unimportant in its own right, is deeply mistaken. In fact, Dewey’s early philoso...

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  • QUANTUM MECHANICS AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
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    QUANTUM MECHANICS AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
    MICHAEL EPPERSON
    In Process and Reality and other works, Alfred North Whitehead struggled to come to terms with the impact the new science of quantum mechanics would have on metaphysics. This ambitious book is the first extended analysis of the intricate relationships between relativity theory, quantum mechanics, and Whitehead's cosmology. Michael Epperson illuminates the intersection of scienc...

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  • ISLAM AND THE CHALLENGE OF CIVILIZATION
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    ISLAM AND THE CHALLENGE OF CIVILIZATION
    ABDELWAHAB MEDDEB
    Abdelwahab Meddeb makes an urgent case for an Islamic reformation, located squarely in Western Europe, now home to millions of Muslims, where Christianity and Judaism have come to coexist with secular humanism and positivist law. He is not advocating “moderate” Islam, which he characterizes as thinly disguised Wahabism, but rather an Islam inspired by the great Sufi thinkers, w...

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  • HUNGARY IN WORLD WAR II
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    HUNGARY IN WORLD WAR II
    DEBORAH S. CORNELIUS
    The story of Hungary's participation in World War II is part of a much larger narrative—one that has never before been fully recounted for a non-Hungarian readership. As told by Deborah Cornelius, it is a fascinating tale of rise and fall, of hopes dashed and dreams in tatters. Using previously untapped sources and interviews she conducted for this book, Cornelius provides a cl...

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