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To Do No Harm
DES and the Dilemmas of Modern Medicine
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Aeschylus
Aeschylus can be called the creator of the art of tragedy in the Western tradition. Author of the first dramas that have survived in their entirety, he was also one of the world’s greatest lyric and imaginative poets. ...
World Enough and Time
Successful Strategies for Resource Management
“We must mobilize now to achieve the global possible. If we do, the future can be bright. We have sufficient knowledge, skill, and resources—if we use them. If we remain inactive, whether through pessimism or...
Textual Power
Literary Theory and the Teaching of English
“Robert Scholes has written an enviable book on the uses and abuses of literary theory in the teaching of literature. One of [his] most forceful points…is that ‘literary theory’ is not something a teacher may either ...
Milton
Poet of Exile, Second Edition
This full and definitive treatment of the whole body of Milton's poetry, written by one of the country's most eminent Milton scholars, was originally published under the title Poet of Exile: A Study of Milton's Poetry...
Psychoanalysis and Religious Experience
There has been for a long time a powerful opposition between psychoanalysis and religious thinking, both because of the anti-religious attitudes and writings of Sigmund Freud and because of the hostility of...
The Tragedy of Political Science
Politics, Scholarship, and Democracy
A comprehensive review and thoughtful critique of the development of political science as an academic discipline in this century, Ricci’s strong indictment of political science will be a source of lively controversy...
Black Holes
The Membrane Paradigm
This pedagogical introduction to the physics of black holes emphasizes the “membrane paradigm”, which translates the mathematics and physics of black holes into a form accessible to readers with little knowledge of...
Jewish High Society in Old Regime Berlin
During the quarter century between 1780 and 1806, Berlin's courtly and intellectual elites gathered in the homes of a few wealthy, cultivated Jewish women to discuss the events of the day. Princes, nobles, upwardly mobile...
Sumerian Administrative Documents from the Reigns of Isbi-Erra and Su-ilisu
Babylonian Inscriptions in the Collection of James B. Nies, Volume X