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Knowledge and the Norm of Assertion : An Essay in Philosophical Science
Language is a human universal reflecting our deeply social nature. Among its essential functions, language enables us to quickly and efficiently share information. We tell each other that many things are true—that is, we ...
The Jewish Unions in America: Pages of History and Memories
(2018)
Newly arrived in New York in 1882 from Tsarist Russia, the sixteen-year-old Bernard Weinstein discovered an America in which unionism, socialism, and anarchism were very much in the air. He found a home in the tenements ...
Love and its Critics : From the Song of Songs to Shakespeare and Milton's Eden
This book is a history of love and the challenge love offers to the laws and customs of its times and places, as told through poetry from the Song of Songs to John Milton's Paradise Lost. It is also an account of the ...
Measuring the Master Race : Physical Anthropology in Norway, 1890-1945
The notion of a superior ‘Germanic' or ‘Nordic' race was a central theme in Nazi ideology. But it was also a commonly accepted idea in the early twentieth century, an actual scientific concept originating from anthropological ...