4878 results for '"Jonathan Roughgarden (Editor)'

This book focuses on the intense intimacy between author and first-person narrator in the fictions of Poe, Hawthorne, and James in order to defend the beleaguered "I" in these works against the...

Unravels and assesses Hume's arguments against ethical ratinalism, and the different strands in his positive views, in the light of subsequent advances made in moral epistemology.

First published in 1986, this title examines a set of English Renaissance texts by Shakespeare, Spenser, Herbert, Marvell and Milton, within the theoretic framework of postmodern thought. Following...

"When the first complete draft of the human genome was completed in 2000, the geneticist Craig Venter asserted that it illustrated "that the concept of race has no genetic or scientific basis." On...

The bestselling wild, fast-paced ride through sex, drugs, revolution, and the morally gray hustle of a man who dares to game the system that destroyed his country--it's The Wolf of Wall Street meets...

A powerful new anthology that redefines ourunderstanding of existentialism and argues for itscontemporary relevanceA Penguin ClassicIn the aftermath of the Second World War, a group of intellectuals...

A New York Times Notable Book, Want Not offers funny and occasionally devastating “portraits of humanity…as beautifully mundane and unique as a fingerprint.” (Entertainment Weekly)“Wonderful…the work...

What is so special about the human voice? The relationship between the ear and the voice is unique among the senses. While we cannot emit light or smell or flavour at will, we control, unconsciously...