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Corporations Are People Too
(And They Should Act Like It)
Why we’re better off treating corporations as people under the law—and making them behave like citizens Are corporations people? The U.S. Supreme Court launched a heated debate when it ruled in Citizens...
Intelligence in the Flesh
Why Your Mind Needs Your Body Much More Than It Thinks
An enthralling exploration that upends the prevailing view of consciousness and demonstrates how intelligence is literally embedded in the palms of our hands If you think that intelligence emanates from the...
Belonging on an Island
Birds, Extinction, and Evolution in Hawai‘i
A lively, rich natural history of Hawaiian birds that challenges existing ideas about what constitutes biocultural nativeness and belonging This natural history takes readers on a thousand-year journey as...
A Life Together
Lucas Alaman and Mexico, 1792-1853
An eminent historian’s biography of one of Mexico’s most prominent statesmen, thinkers, and writers Lucas Alamán (1792–1853) was the most prominent statesman, political economist, and historian in nineteenth-century...
The Making of Modern Art
Selected Writings
Selected writings from a leading critic of modern art, “the best art writer of his generation” (Art Newspaper) Michael Peppiatt, guest curator of the Royal Academy of Arts’ 2021 exhibition ‘Francis Bacon: Man...
Think Tank
Forty Neuroscientists Explore the Biological Roots of Human Experience
A spirited collection of essays by cutting-edge neuroscientists that irreverently explores the quirky and counterintuitive aspects of brain function“Make[s] us realize that what goes on in our minds is nothing...
Faith, Science and Understanding
In this captivating book, one of the most highly regarded scientist-theologians of our time explores aspects of the interaction of science and theology. John Polkinghorne defends the place of theology in the university (it is...
The Market System
What It Is, How It Works, and What To Make of It
In this clear and accessible book, an eminent political scientist offers a jargon-free introduction to the market system for all readers, with or without a background in economics. "A balanced and novel treatment...
The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson
Volume Five, July 1884 - August 1887
Robert Louis Stevenson, long recognized as a master storyteller and essayist, was also one of the finest and most delightful of letter writers. Yale University Press is now publishing the definitive edition of Stevenson's...
The Bible and the People
Since its first translation from the Latin, the Bible has become more and more accessible—and more and more influential In the eleventh century, the Bible was available only in expensive and rare hand...