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This historically based collection of philosophers' reflections--the letters, journals and prefaces that reveals their hopes and hesitations, their triumphs and struggles, their deepest doubts and convictions--allows us to witness philosophical thought in process. Ranging from Plato to Hannah Arendt, with contributions from 44 philosophers...

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The Fortune of the Rougons is the first in Zola's famous Rougon-Macquart series of        novels. Not only the inaugural novel, it is the series' founding text, establishing        its genealogical basis. The family's greed and rapacity mirrors the diseased society        in which it flourishes. This lively new translation is accompanied by...

The Rise of the War Welfare StateAfter such conflicts as World War II, Vietnam, and now the Persian Gulf, the First World War seems a distant, almost ancient event. It conjures up images of trenches, horse-drawn wagons, and old-fashioned wide-brimmed helmets--a conflict closer to the Civil War than to our own time. It hardly seems an American war...