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Jesse Prinz presents a bravura argument for highly controversial claims about        morality, which go to the heart of our understanding of ourselves. He argues that        moral values are based on emotional responses, and that these are inculcated by        culture, not hard-wired through natural selection. These two claims support a...

A keen critic of culture in modern Indonesia, Andrew N. Weintraub shows how a genre of Indonesian music called dangdut evolved from a debased form of urban popular music to a prominent role in Indonesian cultural politics and the commercial music industry.  Dangdut Stories is a social and musical history of dangdut within a range of broader...

In this sensitive new translation by James Michie and Colin Leach, Euripides' fragile structure of subtlety, in both timing and tone, is beautifully preserved....

The publication of the war-time letters of Roswell Lamson, one of the boldest and most skillful young officers in the Union navy, marks a major addition to Civil War literature. Indeed, co-editors James M. McPherson, America's preeminent Civil War historian, and Patricia R. McPherson term Lamson's correspondence "e;the best Civil War navy...