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How the Other Half Lives
Studies among the Tenements of New York
2024 || Paperback || Jacob A. Riis || Harvard University Press
A work of photojournalism that deals with the New York City's slums in the 1880s. It includes the images of the squalid living conditions of 'the other half', who might well have inhabited another country.
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A Brief History of Equality
2024 || Paperback || Thomas Piketty || Harvard University Press
In this powerful new work, Thomas Piketty reminds us that rising inequality is not inevitable. Over the centuries, we have been moving toward greater equality. Piketty guides us with elegance and concision through the great movements that have made the modern world and shows how we can learn from them to make equality a lasting reality.
A Secular Age
2018 || Paperback || Charles Taylor || Harvard University Press
What does it mean to say that we live in a secular age? Almost everyone would agree that we - in the West, at least - largely do. And clearly the place of religion in our societies has changed profoundly in the last few centuries. In what will be a defining book for our time, Charles Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean - of what, precisely, happens when a society in which it is virtually impossible not to believe in God becomes one in which faith, even for the staunchest b...
Ethics - Twelve Lectures on the Philosophy of Morality
Twelve Lectures on the Philosophy of Morality
2009 || Paperback || David Wiggins || Harvard University Press
Almost everyone has wondered at some time or another why morality requires what it appears to require and how, if at all, it speaks to us. In "Ethics: Twelve Lectures on the Philosophy of Morality, " David Wiggins surveys the answers most commonly proposed for such questions-gathering insights from Hume, Kant, the utilitarians and the post-utilitaritarian thinkers of the twentieth century. The view of morality he then proposes draws not only on Hume but on other sources as diverse as Aristotl...
Never in Anger / 1st edition
Portrait of an Eskimo Family
1971 || Paperback || Jean L. Briggs || Harvard University Press
In the summer of 1963, anthropologist Jean Briggs journeyed to the Canadian Northwest Territories (now Nunavut) to begin a seventeen-month field study of the Utku, a small group of Inuit First Nations people who live at the mouth of the Back River, northwest of Hudson Bay. Living with a family as their "adopted" daughter-sharing their iglu during the winter and pitching her tent next to theirs in the summer-Briggs observed the emotional patterns of the Utku in the context of their daily life....
Observation and Experiment / 1st edition
An Introduction to Causal Inference
2019 || Paperback || Paul Rosenbaum || Harvard University Press
A daily glass of wine prolongs life-yet alcohol can cause life-threatening cancer. Some say raising the minimum wage will decrease inequality while others say it increases unemployment. Scientists once confidently claimed that hormone replacement therapy reduced the risk of heart disease but now they equally confidently claim it raises that risk.
What should we make of this endless barrage of conflicting claims? Observation and Experiment is an introduction to causal inference by one of the f...
Moses the Egyptian
The Memory of Egypt in Western Monotheism
2019 || Paperback || Jan Assmann || Harvard University Press
Standing at the very foundation of monotheism, and so of Western culture, Moses is a figure not of history, but of memory. As such, he is the quintessential subject for the innovative historiography Jan Assmann both defines and practices in this work, the study of historical memory--a study, in this case, of the ways in which factual and fictional events and characters are stored in religious beliefs and transformed in their philosophical justification, literary reinterpretation, philological...