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  • Birth of the Symbol

    Ancient Readers at the Limits of Their Texts

    "A rich and fascinating account of how . . . symbolism and allegorical reading developed over the course of classical antiquity." — Literary ImaginationNearly all of us have studied poetry and been taught to look for the symbolic as well as literal meaning of the text. Is this the way the ancients saw poetry? In Birth of the Symbol, Peter Struck explores the ancient Greek literary critics and ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Allegory

    Edición de Rita Copeland, Peter T. Struck ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Allegory is a vast subject, and its knotty history is daunting to students and even advanced scholars venturing outside their own historical specializations. This Companion will present, lucidly, systematically, and expertly, the various threads that comprise the allegorical tradition over its entire chronological range. Beginning with Greek antiquity, the volume shows how the earliest systems of ... Leer más

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  • Making Conflict Work

    Harnessing the Power of Disagreement

    "An excellent workbook-like guide" to the nuts and bolts of professional conflict and the strategies you need to make conflict work for you ( Booklist, starred review).Every workplace is a minefield of conflict, and all office tension is shaped by power. Making Conflict Work teaches you to identify the nature of a conflict, determine your power position relative to anyone opposing you, and use the ... Leer más

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  • Killer Clown

    The John Wayne Gacy Murders

    The “chilling” story of America's most notorious serial killer by the man who helped catch him—now updated with the latest DNA findings (Nashville Banner).He was a model citizen. A hospital volunteer. And one of the most sadistic serial killers of all time. But few people could see the cruel monster beneath the colorful clown makeup that John Gacy wore to entertain children in his Chicago suburb. ... Leer más

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  • Anarchy Unbound

    Why Self-Governance Works Better Than You Think

    Series series Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society
    In Anarchy Unbound, Peter T. Leeson uses rational choice theory to explore the benefits of self-governance. Relying on experience from the past and present, Professor Leeson provides evidence of anarchy 'working' where it is least expected to do so and explains how this is possible. Provocatively, Leeson argues that in some cases anarchy may even outperform government as a system of social ... Leer más

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  • WTF?!

    An Economic Tour of the Weird

    Step right up! Get your tickets for WTF?! An Economic Tour of the Weird! This rollicking tour through a museum of the world's weirdest practices is guaranteed to make you say, "WTF?!" Did you know that "preowned" wives were sold at auction in nineteenth-century England? That today, in Liberia, accused criminals sometimes drink poison to determine their fate? How about the fact that, for 250 years, ... Leer más

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  • WTF?!

    An Economic Tour of the Weird

    "The most interesting book I have read in years. . . . WTF?! is like Freakonomics on steroids." —Steven D. Levitt, New York Times–bestselling coauthor of FreakonomicsDid you know that "pre-owned" wives were sold at auction in nineteenth-century England? That today, in Liberia, accused criminals sometimes drink poison to determine their fate? How about the fact that, for 250 years, Italy criminally ... Leer más

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  • Peirce's Cosmology

    A critical sketch of Charles Sanders Peirce's beliefs on the origin of the universe and its evolutionary development.Charles Sanders Peirce was a nineteenth-century American philosopher and logician known as the father of pragmatism. He devoted much attention to the subject of cosmology, or the origin and development of the universe, but he did not produce substantial work on the subject. In this ... Leer más

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  • Men Of Destiny: The American And Filipino Guerillas During The Japanese Occupation Of The Philippines

    The American and Filipino guerrillas that fought against the Japanese occupation of the Philippines were key in providing direction to resistance efforts and in the eventual liberation of the islands. The guerrillas escaped the aggressive counter-guerrilla efforts of the Imperial Japanese Army. The Japanese failure to deal with isolated soldiers and civilians provided the time they needed to ... Leer más

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    The Way Out

    How to Overcome Toxic Polarization

    Narrado por Matthew Josdal ...

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    11 hora 7 minutos

    The partisan divide in the United States has widened to a chasm. Legislators vote along party lines and rarely cross the aisle. Political polarization is personal, too—and it is making us miserable. Surveys show that Americans have become more fearful and hateful of supporters of the opposing political party and imagine that they hold much more extreme views than they actually do. How can we ... Leer más

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  • The Way Out

    How to Overcome Toxic Polarization

    The partisan divide in the United States has widened to a chasm. Legislators vote along party lines and rarely cross the aisle. Political polarization is personal, too—and it is making us miserable. Surveys show that Americans have become more fearful and hateful of supporters of the opposing political party and imagine that they hold much more extreme views than they actually do. We have cordoned ... Leer más

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  • New Jersey Hessians

    Truth and Lore in the American Revolution

    Series series American Legends
    During the American Revolution, Great Britain hired thirty thousand German troops to fight rebellious colonists. Five thousand of those troops marched across New Jersey from Princeton and Trenton all the way to the northern tip of Sussex County. Though popular legend would cast them as cold and vicious mercenaries, many were prisoners of war with little choice. Stories of their exploits still ... Leer más

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