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Lively new translations of two classical works that offer wise advice about how to resist temptation.
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'The book of you is dominated by night-black seas, sprinkled with shining island sentences: tiny islets of remembrance, glimmering in the night.'
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"You're not a painter if you haven't painted gray", declared Paul Cezanne. The same could be said of philosophers: you're not a ...
A new edition of this acclaimed book for our Era of Argument. At a time when every disagreement turns toxic, world champion debater Bo Seo ...
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"Lively . . . excoriating, eloquent . . . We are all Faustians now." - James Wood, The New Yorker
A devilishly fascinating tour of the Faustian bargain through the ages, from ...
A leading psychologist and philosopher challenge the shortcomings of rational choice theory-and propose a new framework for understanding decision-making
For many decision scientists, their starting ...
From the bestselling author of Jews Don't Count
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