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Cover: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition, by Bernard Bailyn, from Harvard University Press

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition

Cover: China: A New History, Second Enlarged Edition, by John King Fairbank and Merle Goldman, from Harvard University Press

China: A New History, Second Enlarged Edition

John King Fairbank and Merle Goldman

Cover: In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s Development, by Carol Gilligan, from Harvard University Press

In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s Development

Cover: The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness, by Paul Gilroy, from Harvard University Press

The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness

Cover: Capital in the Twenty-First Century, by Thomas Piketty, translated by Arthur Goldhammer, from Harvard University Press

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Thomas Piketty, translated by Arthur Goldhammer

Cover: A Theory of Justice: Revised Edition, by John Rawls, from Harvard University Press

A Theory of Justice: Revised Edition

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The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets

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On Human Nature: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition, With a New Preface

Edward O. Wilson

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Cover: Odyssey, Volume I: Books 1–12, by Homer, translated by A. T. Murray, and revised by George E. Dimock, from Harvard University Press

Odyssey, Volume I: Books 1–12

Homer, translated by A. T. Murray, and revised by George E. Dimock

Cover: Eclogues. Georgics. Aeneid: Books 1–6, by Virgil, translated by H. Rushton Fairclough, revised by G. P. Goold, from Harvard University Press

Eclogues. Georgics. Aeneid: Books 1–6

Virgil, translated by H. Rushton Fairclough, revised by G. P. Goold

Cover: Famous Women, by Giovanni Boccaccio, edited and translated by Virginia Brown, from Harvard University Press

Giovanni Boccaccio, edited and translated by Virginia Brown

Cover: The Beowulf Manuscript: Complete Texts and <i>The Fight at Finnsburg</i>, edited and translated by R. D. Fulk, from Harvard University Press

The Beowulf Manuscript: Complete Texts and The Fight at Finnsburg

Edited and translated by R. D. Fulk

Cover: The Vulgate Bible, Volume I: The Pentateuch: Douay-Rheims Translation, edited by Swift Edgar, from Harvard University Press

The Vulgate Bible, Volume I: The Pentateuch: Douay-Rheims Translation

Edited by Swift Edgar

Cover: Therigatha: Poems of the First Buddhist Women, translated by Charles Hallisey, from Harvard University Press

Therigatha: Poems of the First Buddhist Women

Translated by Charles Hallisey

Cover: The Decline and Fall of the American Republic, by Bruce Ackerman, from Harvard University Press

The Decline and Fall of the American Republic

Cover: Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly, by Judith Butler, from Harvard University Press

Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly

Cover: No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding, With a New Preface, by Sean Wilentz, from Harvard University Press

No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding, With a New Preface

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Jacket: An Inquiry into Modes of Existence: An Anthropology of the Moderns, by Bruno Latour, translated by Catherine Porter, from Harvard University Press

Honoring Latour

In awarding Bruno Latour the 2021 Kyoto Prize for Arts and Philosophy, the Inamori Foundation said he has “revolutionized the conventional view of science” and “his philosophy re-examines ‘modernity’ based on the dualism of nature and society.” Below is an excerpt from An Inquiry into Modes of Existence: An Anthropology of the Moderns. For more than twenty years, scientific and technological controversies have proliferated in number and scope, eventually reaching the climate itself. Since geologists are beginning to use the term “Anthropocene” to designate the era of Earth’s history that follows the Holocene…

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