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  • Short Circuits

    Aphorisms, Fragments, and Literary Anomalies

    Edited by James Lough, Alex Stein ...
    A collection of concise wisdom for the modern reader. Short Circuits, edited by James Lough and Alex Stein, presents a diverse array of aphorisms, fragments, and literary anomalies from leading writers. This anthology offers quick bursts of insight and reflection on life, death, love, and society.Featuring contributions from Charles Simic, Lydia Davis, Sarah Manguso, and many others, this ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Variations in the Key of K

    by Alex Stein ...
    A book of provocative ideas, about art and artists, Variations In The Key of K is an artfully constructed collection of stories. Franz Kafka, Pablo Picasso, and William Blake are among the many artist lives reconceived here. A book of cautionary histories, on one hand. An irreverent celebration of the graces of the creative life, on the other. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Philosophical Foundations of Evidence Law

    by Christian Dahlman, Alex Stein, Giovanni Tuzet ...
    Series series Philosophical Foundations of Law
    Philosophy has a strong presence in evidence law and the nature of evidence is a highly debated topic in both general and social epistemology; legal theorists working in the evidence law area draw on different underlying philosophical theories of knowledge, inference and probability. Core evidentiary concepts and principles, such as the presumption of innocence, standards of proof, and others, ... Read more

    $100.99 USD

  • Education Disrupted

    Strategies for Saving Our Failing Schools

    by Les Stein, Jessica Stein, Alex Stein ...
    Failing schools have become the latest academic cottage industry, and they serve as lightning rods for the controversy that continues to surround the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Surprisingly, there are only a handful of books that address the topic of turning around failing schools and even fewer that provide a meaningful discussion on how individual schools should avoid failure from the ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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    by Tom Wolfe ...
    "America's nerviest journalist" (Newsweek) trains his satirical eye on Modern Art in this "masterpiece" (The Washington Post)Wolfe's style has never been more dazzling, his wit never more keen. He addresses the scope of Modern Art, from its founding days as Abstract Expressionism through its transformations to Pop, Op, Minimal, and Conceptual. The Painted Word is Tom Wolf... ... Read more

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  • Gustav Klimt

    Annotated drawings

    by Daniel Coenn ...
    Series series My Pocket Gallery
    Concise. Essential. Annotated. These three words describe what the books in My Pocket Gallery gives readers. This Art Book contains annotated reproductions of Gustav Klimt drawings, date and interesting facts page below. Book includes Table of Contents and is formatted for all e-readers and Tablets (use rotate and/or zoom feature on landscape/horizontal images for optimal viewing). Drawings played ... Read more

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  • Social Epistemology

    Essential Readings

    Edited by Alvin Goldman, Dennis Whitcomb ...
    What if anything justifies us in believing the testimony of others? How should we react to disagreement between ourselves and our peers, and to disagreement among the experts when we ourselves are novices? Can beliefs be held by groups of people in addition to the people composing those groups? And if so, how should groups go about forming their beliefs? How should we design social systems, such ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Nothing If Not Critical

    Essays on Art and Artists

    by Robert Hughes ...
    From Holbein to Hockney, from Norman Rockwell to Pablo Picasso, from sixteenth-century Rome to 1980s SoHo, Robert Hughes looks with love, loathing, warmth, wit and authority at a wide range of art and artists, good, bad, past and present.As art critic for Time magazine, internationally acclaimed for his study of modern art, The Shock of the New, he is perhaps America’s most widely read and admired ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Morality for Humans

    Ethical Understanding from the Perspective of Cognitive Science

    by Mark Johnson ...
    "A welcome renewal and defense of John Dewey's ethical naturalism, which Johnson claims is the only morality 'fit for actual human beings.'" — Notre Dame Philosophical ReviewsWhat is the difference between right and wrong? This is no easy question to answer, yet we constantly try to make it so, frequently appealing to absolutes, whether drawn from God, universal reason, or societal authority. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Language of Law School

    Learning to "Think Like a Lawyer"

    by Elizabeth Mertz ...
    In this linguistic study of law school education, Mertz shows how law professors employ the Socratic method between teacher and student, forcing the student to shift away from moral and emotional terms in thinking about conflict, toward frameworks of legal authority instead. ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Homicide

    Foundations of Human Behavior

    by Martin Daly, Margo Wilson ...
    Series series Foundations of Human Behavior
    The human race spends a disproportionate amount of attention, money, and expertise in solving, trying, and reporting homicides, as compared to other social problems. The public avidly consumes accounts of real-life homicide cases, and murder fiction is more popular still. Nevertheless, we have only the most rudimentary scientific understanding of who is likely to kill whom and why. Martin Daly and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Prague

    A Novel

    by Arthur Phillips ...
    BONUS: This edition contains excerpts from Arthur Phillips's The Tragedy of Arthur, The Song Is You, The Egyptologist, and Angelica.A first novel of startling scope and ambition, Prague depicts an intentionally lost Lost Generation as it follows five American expats who come to Budapest in the early 1990s to seek their fortune—financial, romantic, and spiritual—in an exotic city newly opened to ... Read more

    $14.99 USD