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Twelve EssaysAn assessment of the economic success of Imperial Rome, consisting of eleven        previously published papers by the historian W. V. Harris, with additional comments        to bring them up to date. Harris also includes a new study of poverty and        destitution, and a substantial introduction which ties the...

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In this book, a team of well-regarded scholars digs deeper to examine the role religion played in the 2008 campaign. They take a long view, placing the election in historical context and looking at the campaign as a whole, from the primaries through all the way through election day. At the heart of their analysis is data gleaned from a national...

At the Interface of Cognitive Science and Conceptual AnalysisHenderson and Horgan set out a broad new approach to epistemology. They defend the        roles of the a priori and conceptual analysis, but with an essential empirical        dimension. 'Transglobal reliability' is the key to epistemic justification. The        question of which...

When the Democrats retook control of the U.S. House of Representatives in January 2007 after twelve years in the wilderness, Nancy Pelosi became the first woman speaker in American history. In  Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the New American Politics, Ron Peters, one of America's leading scholars of Congress, and Cindy Rosenthal, one of America's leading...