Humiliation : and other essays on honor, social discomfort, and violence 9780801428814, 0801428815, 9780801481178, 0801481171

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How do we feel when our friend turns up with a holiday present and we have nothing ready to give in exchange? What lies

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On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays 9780191649813

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On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays 9780191649813

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On certainty and other philosophical essays on cognition 9783110319774, 9783110319293

On Certainty continues Rescher’s longstanding practice of publishing occasional studies that form part of a wider progra

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A Warring Nation: Honor, Race, and Humiliation in America and Abroad 0813934753, 9780813934754

In this culminating work of a long and distinguished career, historian Bertram Wyatt-Brown looks at the theme of honor—a

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Radical Conflict : Essays on Violence, Intractability, and Communication 9781498521789, 9781498521772

Radical Conflictaddresses conflict at interpersonal and communal, legal and rhetorical, ethnopolitical, global, and geop

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On Textual Understanding and Other Essays 0816612889, 9780816612888

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Rachel Weeping and Other Essays on Abortion 0836236025

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On Not Knowing: How to Love and Other Essays 9780226751498

A beautifully written suite of personal essays on the value of not knowing. Moments of clarity are rare and fleeting; ho

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Goodbye Chomsky, and Other Essays on Language 1645759539, 9781645759539

The idea of this book is that language is too interesting to be enjoyed exclusively by linguists.This is undoubtedly unf

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