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The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare&'s Poetry provides the widest coverage yet of Shakespeare&'s poetry and its afterlife in English and other languages....

How the Illusion of a Common Language Arises and PersistsHumans involuntarily experience physical items as having meaning-properties. Semantic Perception explores this experience--the phenomenology of the understanding of language--in depth. Jody Azzouni shows the many ways that we experience the meaning-properties of language artifacts as...

Uniformity in French and British Colonies, 1541-1954An unravelling of the histories of two closely linked political goals - assimilation and empire - which were in many ways interdependent over the past 500 years. Examines the resilience of assimilative ideology across centuries, continents, and empires....

What the Constitution&'s Framers Were Really ThinkingWhat were the Founding Fathers really thinking when they gathered in the Pennsylvania State House to draft the United States Constitution? When answering this question, most have relied on The Federalist Papers, which was first published in book form after the close of the Convention, in 1788. To...

A Transforming Vision of Human IntelligenceGenetics is only one of the factors that shape our intelligence. Future Bright highlights the many ways that the environment and education can increase our brain power, promoting the growth of a more intelligent society--one that will lead us into a brighter future indeed....

Explaining the Strength of Class and Religious Cleavages in Cross-National PerspectiveStudies of the influence of class and religion on politics often point to their gradual decline as a result of social change. Backed up by extensive evidence from 11 case studies and a 15-country pooled analysis, the editors argue instead that the supply of...