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  • The Arts of Leading

    Perspectives from the Humanities and the Liberal Arts

    by Joy Connolly, Edith Hall, Noah Lopez, Alan Mittleman, Tahera Qutbuddin, Marla Frederick, John Miles, Kristin Bezio, Paul Escott, Thavolia Glymph, David Lubin, Gwendolyn Dubois Shaw, Pegram Harrison, Melissa Jones Briggs, Corey Walker ...
    A deeply insightful approach to cultivating leaders of character centered on the arts and humanitiesWhat does it mean to lead? Whom do we consider to be leaders? And how might viewing leadership through the many lenses of the humanities expand our understanding of how it is imagined, represented, and enacted?Drawing on insights from eminent scholars in the classics, philosophy, religion, ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The State of Speech

    Rhetoric and Political Thought in Ancient Rome

    by Joy Connolly ...
    Rhetorical theory, the core of Roman education, taught rules of public speaking that are still influential today. But Roman rhetoric has long been regarded as having little important to say about political ideas. The State of Speech presents a forceful challenge to this view. The first book to read Roman rhetorical writing as a mode of political thought, it focuses on Rome's greatest practitioner ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Life of Roman Republicanism

    by Joy Connolly ...
    In recent years, Roman political thought has attracted increased attention as intellectual historians and political theorists have explored the influence of the Roman republic on major thinkers from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. Held up as a "third way" between liberalism and communitarianism, neo-Roman republicanism promises useful, persuasive accounts of civic virtue, justice, civility, ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • Common as Air

    Revolution, Art, and Ownership

    by Lewis Hyde ...
    A stirring defense of our cultural commons, that vast store of art and ideas we have inherited from the past that continues to enrich our present.Suspicious of the current idea that all creative work is "intellectual property," Lewis Hyde turns to America's founding fathers—men like John Adams, James Madison, and Thomas Jefferson—in search of other ways to value the fruits of human wit and ... Read more

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  • Our History Has Always Been Contraband

    In Defense of Black Studies

    Edited by Colin Kaepernick, Robin D. G. Kelley, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor ...
    "The centuries-long attack on Black history represents a strike against our very worth, brilliance, and value. We’re ready to fight back. And when we fight, we win." —Colin KaepernickSince its founding as a discipline, Black Studies has been under relentless attack by social and political forces seeking to discredit and neutralize it. Our History Has Always Been Contraband was born out of an ... Read more

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  • The Making of Black Lives Matter

    A Brief History of an Idea

    by Christopher J. Lebron ...
    Started in the wake of George Zimmerman's 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin, the #BlackLivesMatter movement has become a powerful and uncompromising campaign demanding redress for the brutal and unjustified treatment of black bodies by law enforcement in the United States. The movement is only a few years old, but as Christopher J. Lebron argues in this book, the sentiment behind it is ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For

    by Eddie Glaude Jr. ...
    Series series The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures
    From the author of the New York Times bestseller Begin Again, a politically astute, lyrical meditation on how ordinary people can shake off their reliance on a small group of professional politicians and assume responsibility for what it takes to achieve a more just and perfect democracy.“Like attending a jazz concert with all of one’s favorite musicians…James Baldwin, Martin Luther King, Jr., ... Read more

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  • The Good Life

    Truths That Last in Times of Need

    by Peter J. Gomes ...
    The author of the New York Times bestseller The Good Book champions the recovery of the Western moral tradition. ... Read more

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  • Hollowed Out

    A Warning about America's Next Generation

    by Jeremy S. Adams ...
    Do teachers have a front row seat to America’s decline?Jeremy S. Adams, a teacher at both the high school and college levels, thinks so.Adams has spent decades trying to instill wisdom, ambition, and a love of learning in his students. And yet, as he notes, when teachers get together, they often share an arresting conclusion: Something has gone terribly wrong. Something essential is missing in our ... Read more

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  • Thinking about Leadership

    by Nannerl O. Keohane ...
    A practical and insightful look at what leaders do, how and why they do it, and the challenges they faceLeadership is essential to collective human endeavor, from setting and accomplishing goals for a neighborhood block association, to running a Fortune 500 company, to mobilizing the energies of a nation. Political philosophers have focused largely on how to prevent leaders from abusing their ... Read more

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  • Africana Philosophy from Ancient Egypt to the Nineteenth Century

    A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 7

    by Peter Adamson, Chike Jeffers ...
    Series series A History of Philosophy
    In this latest instalment of the series A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Peter Adamson and Chike Jeffers delve into the fascinating world of Africana Philosophy. Africana Philosophy from Ancient Egypt to the Nineteenth Century is the first of two volumes in the History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps series to bring readers the story of Africana philosophy. This diverse topic is defined ... Read more

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