Christopher Leigh Connery
Globalization discourse now presumes that the "world space" is entirely at the mercy of market norms and forms promulgated by reactionary U.S. policies. An academic but accessible set of studies, this wide range of essays by noted scholars ... [... more]
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George Gissing
Hailed as Gissing's finest novel, portrays the intrigues and hardships of the publishing world in late Victorian England. In a materialistic, class-conscious society that rewards commercial savvy over artistic achievement, authors and scholars ... [... more]
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Jeanine Basinger
Jeanine Basinger is the chair of film studies at Wesleyan University and the curator of the cinema archives there. She has written nine other books on film, including From one of our most distinguished film scholars, comes a rich, penetrating, ... [... more]
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Sam Reifler
For centuries the Chinese have consulted the I Ching both as an oracle and as a means of self-understanding. The moral and psychological depth of its wisdom has been celebrated by its scholars, psychologists, poets, and scientists. In this clear, ... [... more]
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Marvin Meyer
Marvin Meyer, Ph.D., is Griset Professor of Bible and Christian Studies at Chapman University, Orange, California, and is one of the foremost scholars of Coptic and gnostic studies at work today. He is Director of the Albert Schweitzer Institute, ... [... more]
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Richard McKeon
Preserved by Arabic mathematicians and canonized by Christian scholars, Aristotle's works have shaped Western thought, science, and religion for nearly two thousand years. Richard McKeon's The complete text of 2 of Aristotle's most important and ... [... more]
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Richard A. Posner
A concise, lively, and bracing exploration of an issue bedeviling our cultural landscape-plagiarism in literature, academia, music, art, and film-by one of our most influential and controversial legal scholars. Best-selling novelists J. K. ... [... more]
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Richard E. Friedman
Richard Elliott Friedman is professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature and holds the Katzin Chair at the University of California, San Diego. One of the premier biblical scholars in the country, he received his doctorate at Harvard and was a ... [... more]
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James M. Robinson
James M. Robinson, consultant for this collection, was instrumental in obtaining the cooperation of an international team of scholars. Robinson is the founding director emeritus of the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity and professor ... [... more]
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