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Why Plato Wrote
Allen, Danielle S.
¤ Wiley-Blackwell
¤ Publication Date: November 2010
¤ Hardcover ( 232 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle ; Bartlett, Robert C. ; Collins, Susan D.
¤ University of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: June 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 339 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Democratic Authority and the Separation of Church and State
Audi, Robert
¤ Oxford Univ Pr
¤ Publication Date: September 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 180 pages )
¤ Category:
Wittgenstein’s Antiphilosophy
Badiou, Alain ; Bosteels, Bruno
¤ Verso
¤ Publication Date: June 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 186 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Religion in Human Evolution
Bellah, Robert N.
¤ Belknap Press
¤ Publication Date: September 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 784 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
An Anthropology of Images
Belting, Hans ; Dunlap, Thomas
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: August 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 207 pages )
¤ Category: Art
Early Writings, 1910-1917
Benjamin, Walter ; Eiland, Howard
¤ Belknap Press
¤ Publication Date: May 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 303 pages )
¤ Category: Literary Criticism
I’ll Have What She’s Having
Bentley, Alex ; Earls, Mark ; O’Brien, Michael J. ; Maeda, John
¤ MIT Press (MA)
¤ Publication Date: August 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 146 pages )
¤ Category: Anthropology
Attention Deficit Democracy
Berger, Ben
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: September 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 201 pages )
¤ Category:
Pillars of Prosperity
Besley, Timothy ; Persson, Torsten
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: August 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 375 pages )
¤ Category: Economics
Murder Most Foul
Bevington, David
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: July 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 236 pages )
¤ Category: Literary Criticism
The American Crucible
Blackburn, Robin
¤ Verso
¤ Publication Date: May 2011
¤ Paperback ( 498 pages )
¤ Category: History: United States
Life and Loss in the Shadow of the Holocaust
Boehling, Rebecca ; Larkey, Uta
¤ Cambridge University Press
¤ Publication Date: July 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 331 pages )
¤ Category:
The Poverty of Clio
Boldizzoni, Francesco
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: July 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 216 pages )
¤ Category: Economics
Perspectives on Pragmatism
Brandom, Robert B.
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: October 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 248 pages )
¤ Category:
Enigmas of Identity
Brooks, Peter
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: October 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 248 pages )
¤ Category:
Christian Materiality
Bynum, Caroline Walker
¤ Zone Books (NY)
¤ Publication Date: April 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 408 pages )
¤ Category: History: Medieval
A Short History of Physics in the American Century
Cassidy, David C.
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: October 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 220 pages )
¤ Category:
Whatever Gets You Through the Night
Codrescu, Andrei
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: May 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 179 pages )
¤ Category: Folktales
Democracy Remixed
Cohen, Cathy J.
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: September 2010
¤ Hardcover ( 304 pages )
¤ Category: African American Studies
Abelard to Apple
Demillo, Richard A.
¤ MIT Press (MA)
¤ Publication Date: August 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 320 pages )
¤ Category: Education
The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume II
Derrida, Jacques ; Lisse, Michel ; Mallet, Marie-Louise ; Michaud, Ginette
¤ University of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: October 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 320 pages )
¤ Category:
Why Niebuhr Now?
Diggins, John P.
¤ University of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: June 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 136 pages )
¤ Category: Christian Theology
Muhammad and the Believers
Donner, Fred McGraw
¤ Belknap Press
¤ Publication Date: May 2010
¤ Hardcover ( 304 pages )
¤ Category: Islamic Studies
The Scandal of Kabbalah
Dweck, Yaacob
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: August 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 280 pages )
¤ Category: Judaic Studies
Why Marx Was Right
Eagleton, Terry
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: April 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 258 pages )
¤ Category: Critical Theory & Marxism
A Primer on Mapping Class Groups (PMS-49)
Farb, Benson
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: November 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 488 pages )
¤ Category:
Liberal Arts at the Brink
Ferrall, JR. Victor E.
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: March 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 288 pages )
¤ Category: Education
The Bodhisattva’s Brain
Flanagan, Owen
¤ MIT Press (MA)
¤ Publication Date: August 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 280 pages )
¤ Category: Buddhist Studies
Essays on Anscombe’s Intention
Ford, Anton ; Hornsby, Jennifer ; Stoutland, Frederick
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: June 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 313 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Nietzsche’s Enlightenment Nietzsche’s Enlightenment Nietzsche’s Enlightenment
Franco, Paul
¤ University of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: October 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 280 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Four Honest Outlaws
Fried, Michael
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: September 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 245 pages )
¤ Category:
Berlin Psychoanalytic
Fuechtner, Veronika
¤ University of California Press
¤ Publication Date: September 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 256 pages )
¤ Category: Psychology
Better Doctors, Better Patients, Better Decisions
Gigerenzer, Gerd ; Gray, J. A. Muir
¤ MIT Press (MA)
¤ Publication Date: March 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 391 pages )
¤ Category: Health & Medicine
The Fall of the Faculty
Ginsberg, Benjamin
¤ Oxford University Press
¤ Publication Date: August 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 248 pages )
¤ Category: Education
Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity
Goldhill, Simon
¤ Princeton Univ Pr
¤ Publication Date: August 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 352 pages )
¤ Category: History: European
Debt
Graeber, David
¤ Melville House Publishing
¤ Publication Date: July 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 534 pages )
¤ Category: Anthropology
The Swerve
Greenblatt, Stephen
¤ W. W. Norton & Company
¤ Publication Date: September 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 356 pages )
¤ Category:
The Myth of Choice
Greenfield, Kent
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: October 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 256 pages )
¤ Category:
Inside the Castle
Grossman, Joanna L. ; Friedman, Lawrence M.
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: August 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 443 pages )
¤ Category: Legal Theory
The Little Book of String Theory
Gubser, Steven S.
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: February 2010
¤ Hardcover ( 174 pages )
¤ Category: Science
Imagining Deliberative Democracy in the Early American Republic
Gustafson, Sandra M.
¤ University of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: May 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 271 pages )
¤ Category: History: United States
Thinking the Impossible
Gutting, Gary
¤ Oxford University Press
¤ Publication Date: March 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 216 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Conversions
Harline, Craig
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: September 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 301 pages )
¤ Category: Anthropology
Sister Citizen
Harris-perry, Melissa V.
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: September 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 378 pages )
¤ Category: African American Studies
Kids Don’t Want to Fail
Harris, Angel L.
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: June 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 320 pages )
¤ Category: Education
How to Change the World
Hobsbawm, E. J.
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: September 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 480 pages )
¤ Category: Critical Theory & Marxism
The Origin of the Logic of Symbolic Mathematics
Hopkins, Burt C.
¤ Indiana University Press
¤ Publication Date: September 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 559 pages )
¤ Category: Mathematics
Democratic Enlightenment
Israel, Jonathan I.
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: September 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 1066 pages )
¤ Category:
Representing Capital
Jameson, Fredric
¤ Verso
¤ Publication Date: June 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 158 pages )
¤ Category: Critical Theory & Marxism
What Ever Happened to Modernism?
Josipovici, Gabriel
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: September 2010
¤ Hardcover ( 208 pages )
¤ Category: Literary Criticism
Why the Law Is So Perverse
Katz, Leo
¤ University of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: September 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 239 pages )
¤ Category:
Becoming Yellow
Keevak, Michael
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: May 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 219 pages )
¤ Category: History: East Asia
Yuck!
Kelly, Daniel
¤ MIT Press (MA)
¤ Publication Date: June 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 208 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Still a House Divided
King, Desmond S. ; Smith, Rogers M.
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: September 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 381 pages )
¤ Category:
The Priority of Democracy
Knight, Jack ; Johnson, James
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: September 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 324 pages )
¤ Category:
Paper Machines
Krajewski, Markus ; Krapp, Peter
¤ MIT Press (MA)
¤ Publication Date: August 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 224 pages )
¤ Category: Science
Translating Truth
Kumler, Aden
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: July 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 290 pages )
¤ Category: Art
The Makings of Indonesian Islam
Laffan, Michael
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: August 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 301 pages )
¤ Category: Islamic Studies
The Things Things Say
Lamb, Jonathan
¤ Princeton Univ Pr
¤ Publication Date: August 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 275 pages )
¤ Category: Literary Criticism
The Wonder of Consciousness
Langsam, Harold L.
¤ MIT Press (MA)
¤ Publication Date: July 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 234 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
A Case for Irony
Lear, Jonathan
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: October 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 224 pages )
¤ Category:
Science and Conscience
Lemmerich, J. ; Hentschel, Ann
¤ Stanford University Press
¤ Publication Date: August 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 392 pages )
¤ Category: Science
Group Agency
List, Christian ; Pettit, Philip
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: May 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 238 pages )
¤ Category:
Discourse, Figure
Lyotard, Jean-Francois ; Hudek, Antony ; Lydon, Mary ; Mowitt, John
¤ University of Minnesota Press
¤ Publication Date: August 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 512 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Secularism and Freedom of Conscience
Maclure, Jocelyn ; Taylor, Charles ; Todd, Jane Marie
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: October 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 160 pages )
¤ Category:
Malcolm X
Marable, Manning
¤ Viking Books
¤ Publication Date: April 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 594 pages )
¤ Category: African American Studies
The Reason of the Gift
Marion, Jean-Luc ; Lewis, Stephen E.
¤ University of Virginia Press
¤ Publication Date: December 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 128 pages )
¤ Category:
An Anatomy of Addiction
Markel, Howard
¤ Pantheon Books
¤ Publication Date: July 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 314 pages )
¤ Category: Health & Medicine
The Explanation of Social Action
Martin, John Levi
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: August 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 396 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
Semblance and Event
Massumi, Brian
¤ MIT Press (MA)
¤ Publication Date: October 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 232 pages )
¤ Category:
Violette Noziere
Maza, Sarah
¤ University of California Press
¤ Publication Date: May 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 336 pages )
¤ Category: History: European
The Theory That Would Not Die
McGrayne, Sharon Bertsch
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: May 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 320 pages )
¤ Category: Statistics
Why Leaders Lie
Mearsheimer, John J.
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: January 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 142 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
Seeing Double
Meltzer, Francoise
¤ University of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: June 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 264 pages )
¤ Category: Literary Criticism
Contesting Democracy
Muller, Jan-werner
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: September 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 304 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
A Book Forged in Hell
Nadler, Steven M.
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: October 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 304 pages )
¤ Category:
The Emergence of the Classical Style in Greek Sculpture
Neer, Richard
¤ University of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: November 2010
¤ Hardcover ( 262 pages )
¤ Category:
The Shock of the Ancient
Norman, Larry F.
¤ University of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: April 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 296 pages )
¤ Category: Literary Criticism
Not for Profit Not for Profit
Nussbaum, Martha C.
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: April 2010
¤ Hardcover ( 178 pages )
¤ Category: Education
Creating Capabilities
Nussbaum, Martha Craven
¤ Belknap Press
¤ Publication Date: March 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 237 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Michael Polanyi and His Generation
Nye, Mary Jo
¤ University of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: October 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 432 pages )
¤ Category:
Cutting the Fuse
Pape, Robert Anthony ; Feldman, James K.
¤ University of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: October 2010
¤ Hardcover ( 349 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
On What Matters
Parfit, Derek ; Scheffer, Samuel
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: June 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 592 pages )
¤ Category:
Galileo’s Muse
Peterson, Mark A.
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: October 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 352 pages )
¤ Category:
The Executive Unbound
Posner, Eric A. ; Vermeule, Adrian
¤ Oxford University Press
¤ Publication Date: March 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 249 pages )
¤ Category: Legal Theory
Althusser’s Lesson
Ranciere, Jacques ; Battista, Emiliano
¤ Continuum
¤ Publication Date: September 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 224 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Tonality and Transformation
Rings, Steven
¤ Oxford University Press
¤ Publication Date: June 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 243 pages )
¤ Category: Music
Common Sense
Rosenfeld, Sophia A.
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: May 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 337 pages )
¤ Category: History: Historiography
Einstein Before Israel
Rosenkranz, Ze’Ev
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: June 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 344 pages )
¤ Category: Science
The Inner Life of Empires
Rothschild, Emma
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: May 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 483 pages )
¤ Category: History: British & Irish
The Plum in the Golden Vase Or, Chin P’Ing Mei
Roy, David Tod
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: July 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 1016 pages )
¤ Category: Literature
The Terror of History
Ruiz, Teofilo F.
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: September 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 200 pages )
¤ Category:
Bertrand Goldberg
Ryan, Zoe ; Fisher, Alison ; Smith, Elizabeth ; Whiting, Sarah
¤ Art Institute of Chicago
¤ Publication Date: October 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 192 pages )
¤ Category:
Economics of Good and Evil
Sedlacek, Tomas
¤ Oxford University Press
¤ Publication Date: July 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 352 pages )
¤ Category: Economics
Evolution
Shapiro, James A.
¤ FT Press
¤ Publication Date: June 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 272 pages )
¤ Category: Science
Spinoza and the Politics of Renaturalization Spinoza and the Politics of Renaturalization Spinoza and the Politics of Renaturalization
Sharp, Hasana
¤ University of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: September 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 256 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
Deep History
Shryock, Andrew ; Smail, Daniel Lord ; Earle, Timothy ; Feeley-Harnik, Gillian
¤ University of California Press
¤ Publication Date: November 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 360 pages )
¤ Category: History: Historiography
Warfare State
Sparrow, James T.
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: August 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 336 pages )
¤ Category: History: United States
Remedy and Reaction
Starr, Paul
¤ Yale University Press
¤ Publication Date: October 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 336 pages )
¤ Category:
Functional Analysis
Stein, Elias M. ; Shakarchi, Rami
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: September 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 423 pages )
¤ Category:
The Living Constitution
Strauss, David A.
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: May 2010
¤ Hardcover ( 150 pages )
¤ Category: Legal Theory
Locke on Personal Identity
Strawson, Galen
¤ Princeton University Press
¤ Publication Date: October 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 280 pages )
¤ Category:
The Collapse of American Criminal Justice
Stuntz, William J.
¤ Belknap Press
¤ Publication Date: September 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 413 pages )
¤ Category: Legal Theory
Invasion of the Body
Tilney, Nicholas L.
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: September 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 358 pages )
¤ Category: Health & Medicine
Collected Writings on Chinese Cultural
Tsien, Tsuen-Hsuin
¤ Columbia Univ Pr
¤ Publication Date: September 2010
¤ Hardcover ( 453 pages )
¤ Category: History: East Asia
Heidegger, Strauss, and the Premises of Philosophy
Velkley, Richard L.
¤ University of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: November 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 208 pages )
¤ Category:
The Beach Beneath the Street
Wark, McKenzie
¤ Verso
¤ Publication Date: June 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 197 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
A Dream Interpreted Within a Dream
Wolfson, Elliot R.
¤ Zone Books (NY)
¤ Publication Date: August 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 576 pages )
¤ Category: Philosophy
The Lost Children
Zahra, Tara
¤ Harvard University Press
¤ Publication Date: May 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 308 pages )
¤ Category: History: Eastern European
The Passionate Triangle
Zorach, Rebecca
¤ University of Chicago Press
¤ Publication Date: August 2011
¤ Hardcover ( 264 pages )
¤ Category:
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