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The Social Contract

"Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains."

These are the famous opening words of a treatise that has not ceased to stir vigorous debate since its first publication in 1762. Rejecting the view …

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The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

Charles Darwin, whose 1859 masterpiece "On the Origin of Species" shook society to its core, would surely have raised an incredulous eyebrow at the controversy over evolution still raging 150 years la…

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The State and Revolution

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Orientalism

More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East has become a modern classic.

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God's Monsters: Vengeful Spirits, Deadly Angels, Hybrid Creatures, and Divine Hitmen of the Bible

What do the angels of death and other monstrous beings sent by God truly tell us about the Divine?

The Bible is full of giants tromp through the land of milk and honey; Leviathan swims through the wine…

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An Introduction to Greek Philosophy

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Between Heaven and Earth: The Religious Worlds People Make and the Scholars Who Study Them

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Who Wrote the Bible?

The contemporary classic The New York Times Book Review called "a thought-provoking [and] perceptive guide," Who Wrote the Bible? by Richard E. Friedman is a fascinating, intellectual, yet highly read…

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Esotericism and the Academy: Rejected Knowledge in Western Culture

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Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam

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Ivanhoe

For this novel, Scott moved far away from the setting of his own turbulent time. He went back to the late 12th century, and to England rather than the Scottish settings of all his previous novels. He …

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