Letters & Science Bookshelf

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Title Author Year Publication typesort descending
The Entanglement: How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are Alva Noë 2023 Book
The Cloud of Unknowing Translated by Carmen Acevedo Butcher 2018 Book
The Defiant Middle Kaya Oakes 2021 Book

Fundamentals of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

2024

An exciting introduction to the scientific interface between biological studies of the brain and behavioural studies of human development. The authors trace the field from its roots in developmental psychology and neuroscience, and highlight some of the most persuasive research findings...Read more about Fundamentals of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

Reactionary Mathematics: A Genealogy of Purity

2023

A forgotten episode of mathematical resistance reveals the rise of modern mathematics and its cornerstone, mathematical purity, as political phenomena.

The nineteenth century opened with a major shift in European mathematics, and in the Kingdom of Naples, this occurred...Read more about Reactionary Mathematics: A Genealogy of Purity

The Black Geographic

2023

The contributors to The Black Geographic explore the theoretical innovations of Black Geographies scholarship and how it approaches Blackness as historically and spatially situated. In studies that span from Oakland to the Alabama Black Belt to Senegal to Brazil, the...Read more about The Black Geographic

Untraceable

2023

With gripping results, this companion novel to Undercover Latina returns to the high-stakes world of the Factory—an international organization of spies protecting people of color.

Fifteen-year-old Amani Kendall’s biggest problem is being the...Read more about Untraceable

Eggtooth

2023

In this debut collection, Jesse Nathan matches an exquisite feeling for the music of lines and sentences with his profound explorations of the idea of home. The book’s title comes from the word for a bit of cartilage on a baby bird’s beak, a growth that helps it break out of

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The Entanglement: How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are

2023

In The Entanglement, philosopher Alva Noë explores the inseparability of life, art, and philosophy, arguing that we have greatly underestimated what this entangled reality means for understanding human nature.

Life supplies art with its raw materials, but...Read more about The Entanglement: How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are

In the Shadows of the Big House Twenty-First-Century Antebellum Slave Cabins and Heritage Tourism in Louisiana

2023

In the midst of calls for the removal of Confederate monuments across the South, tens of thousands of museums, buildings, and other historical sites currently comprise a tourist infrastructure of the southern heritage industry. Louisiana, one of the most prominent and frequently visited

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Written On Water

2023

Eileen Chang is one of the most celebrated and influential modern Chinese novelists and cultural critics of the twentieth century. First published in 1945, and just as beloved as her fiction in the Chinese-speaking world, Written on Water collects Chang's reflections on art, literature, war,...Read more about Written On Water

The Word of the Muse

2023

With Coseema off planet, Olive has bought herself some time—but the clock is ticking. After a risky rescue mission, she and her friends make their way to the center of the rebellion against Emperor Burnash, who is desperate to capture Olive and claim her power for his own. Without her

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Untimely Sacrifices Work and Death in Finland

2023

Untimely Sacrifices questions why individuals may give their time and energy to the collective against their own self-interest. Turning to Finland where public health officials named occupational burnout as a "new hazard" of the new economy, Daena Funahashi asks: What moves people to work to the...Read more about Untimely Sacrifices Work and Death in Finland