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What is the true nature of thinking? Can it best be understood as a solitary activity of a lone individual? Or is thinking, contrary to our assumptions, a collaborative process? In this book, Vera John-Steiner, award-winning author of    Notebooks of the Mind, suggests that our grasp of creativity is impoverished because we fail to recognise the...

Peter Liddel offers a fresh approach to the old problem of the nature of individual liberty in ancient Athens. He draws extensively on oratorical and epigraphical evidence from the late fourth century BC to analyse the ways in which ideas about liberty were reconciled with ideas about obligation, and examines how this reconciliation was negotiated,...

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In   The Price of Assimilation, Jeffrey Sposato offers a bold, revisionist account of Mendelssohn's relationship to his Jewish roots. Challenging the notion that Mendelssohn's identity was strongly informed by a sense of Jewishness, a view that came into currency after World War II, Sposato argues instead that for much of his career, Mendelssohn...

This book challenges the assumption that China's meteoric rise represents a threat to U.S. influence and Western institutions. Instead, Steinfeld asserts that China's growth is fortifying American commercial supremacy, because China is playing our game. By seeking to realize its dream of modernization by integrating itself into the Western economic...