High Concept

I've Been Thinking By Daniel C. Dennett Cover Image
The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos By Jaime Green Cover Image
The Tangle of Science: Reliability Beyond Method, Rigour, and Objectivity By Nancy Cartwright, Jeremy Hardie, Eleonora Montuschi Cover Image
Human-Centered AI By Ben Shneiderman Cover Image
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future By Kevin Kelly Cover Image

Imaging

Giotto's Arena Chapel and the Triumph of Humility By Henrike Christiane Lange Cover Image
The Creative Act: A Way of Being By Rick Rubin Cover Image
Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America By Matika Wilbur Cover Image
Brain, Beauty, and Art: Essays Bringing Neuroaesthetics Into Focus By Anjan Chatterjee (Editor), Eileen Cardilo (Editor) Cover Image
Bernd & Hilla Becher By Jeff L. Rosenheim, Gabriele Conrath-Scholl (Contributions by), Virginia Heckert (Contributions by), Lucy Sante (Contributions by), Max Becher (Contributions by) Cover Image

Close Reading

The Sentimental Life of International Law: Literature, Language, and Longing in World Politics By Gerry Simpson Cover Image
The Hyacinth Girl: T.S. Eliot's Hidden Muse By Lyndall Gordon Cover Image
A Greeting of the Spirit: Selected Poetry of John Keats with Commentaries By Susan J. Wolfson Cover Image
The Elizabethan Mind: Searching for the Self in an Age of Uncertainty By Helen Hackett Cover Image
That Damned Fence: The Literature of the Japanese American Prison Camps By Heather Hathaway Cover Image

Remembering

Religion in Roman Phrygia: From Polytheism to Christianity By Robert Parker Cover Image
The Scandal of Cal: Land Grabs, White Supremacy, and Miseducation at Uc Berkeley By Tony Platt Cover Image
Inventing the Working Parent: Work, Gender, and Feminism in Neoliberal Britain By Sarah E. Stoller Cover Image
The Wreck: A Daughter's Memoir of Becoming a Mother By Cassandra Jackson Cover Image
Great Kingdoms of Africa By John Parker Cover Image

Relating to Each Other— or Not

Twelve Feminist Lessons of War By Cynthia Enloe Cover Image
Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility By Rebecca Solnit (Editor), Thelma Young Lutunatabua (Editor) Cover Image
Change: How to Make Big Things Happen By Damon Centola Cover Image
The Bible in History: How the Texts Have Shaped the Times By David W. Kling Cover Image
The Third Reconstruction: America's Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century By Peniel E. Joseph Cover Image

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