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Archeology of Babel - The Colonial Foundation of the Humanities For more than three decades, preeminent scholars in comparative literature and postcolonial studies have called for a...

The Creation of an Icon Little is known about Nefertiti, the Egyptian queen whose name means a beautiful woman has come. She was the wife of...

Ever wondered... - what is earwax for? - when is the moon blue? - why are there only two sexes? - do doctors live longer? Informative, hilarious, sometimes unsettling and always...

Killing Times begins with the deceptively simple observation―made by Jacques Derrida in his seminars on the topic - that the death penalty mechanically interrupts mortal time...

The Personal Edition of The New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE), includes great features that will make your personal reading of the Bible memorable and fruitful....

Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government Democracy for Realists assails the romantic folk-theory at the heart of contemporary thinking about democratic politics and government, and offers...