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PULITZERPRISET 2022 "Det är fullkomligt genialiskt." Natalie Lantz, Expressen Vem är den mytomspunne Ben-Zion Netanyahu, som med hustru och tre söner (varav en heter Benjamin) anländer till Corbin College i den universitetstäta delstaten...

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Den omtalade, kritikerhyllade och Pulitzerprisade romanen nu i pocket! Undertitel: En redogörelse för en mindre och när allt kommer omkring rentav försumbar episod i historien om en mycket känd familj. "Fullkomligt genialiskt!" Expressen...

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"Absorbing, delightful, hilarious, breathtaking and the best and most relevant novel I've read in what feels like forever." -Taffy Brodesser-Akner, The New York Times Book Review Corbin College, not quite upstate New York, winter 1959-19...

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Corbin College, not-quite-upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historianbut not an historian of the Jewsis co-opted onto a hiring committee to review the application of an exiled Israeli scholar specializing in the Spanish Inqu...

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FROM PULITZER PRIZEWINNER JOSHUA COHEN 'Dazzling and engrossing' Colm Tibn, Guardian 'Untainted and unique' Rachel Kushner 'Intensely perceptive' Independent Book of Numbers is a novel about two men of the same age an...

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High school sophomore Danny excels at gymnastics but is bullied, like the rest of the gymnasts, by members of the football team, until an emotionally and physically scarred new student joins the football team and forms an unlikely friendship with ...

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The US prescription drug business is a $500 billion industry whose rising prices carry profound consequences for patients, caregivers, employers and taxpayers across the nation. In the United States, average prices of leading brand-name drugs are ...

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The US prescription drug business is a $500 billion industry whose rising prices carry profound consequences for patients, caregivers, employers and taxpayers across the nation. In the United States, average prices of leading brand-name drugs are ...

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From the ground breaking legal decisions on gay marriage to the promotion of marriage for low-income families, the "e;sacred institution"e; of marriage has turned into a public battleground. Who should be allowed to marry and is marriage a...

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Rousseau forcefully describes the ideal of a democratic society, in which we live together as free and equal, and our politics focuses on the common good. Joshua Cohen explores this ideal, explaining why Rousseau thought that it was possible for h...

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Rousseau forcefully describes the ideal of a democratic society, in which we live together as free and equal, and our politics focuses on the common good. Joshua Cohen explores this ideal, explaining why Rousseau thought that it was possible for h...

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One of the great challenges now facing education reformers in the United States is how to devise a consistent and intelligent framework for instruction that will work across the nation's notoriously fragmented and politically conflicted schoo...

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One of the great challenges now facing education reformers in the United States is how to devise a consistent and intelligent framework for instruction that will work across the nation's notoriously fragmented and politically conflicted schoo...

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Essays on small art films and big-budget blockbusters, including Antonia's Line, American Beauty, Schindler's List, and The Passion of the Christ, that view films as life lessons, enlarging our sense of human possibilities.For Alan Stone, a one-ti...

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A collection of illuminating observations on life and art, from an acclaimed Swiss modernist Revered by Bertolt Brecht and Max Frisch as one of Switzerland's most commanding writers, Ludwig Hohl spent most of his waking hours with a pen in hand, c...

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A career-spanning collection of writings by the Nobel laureate Elias Canetti, edited and introduced by Pulitzer Prize winner Joshua Cohen. He embarked on no adventures, he was in no war. He was never in prison, he never killed anyone. He neither w...

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"e;A brilliant selection . . . Canetti's range astonishes."e; -Claire Messud, Harper'sA career-spanning collection of writings by the Nobel laureate Elias Canetti, edited and introduced by Pulitzer Prize winner Joshua Cohen.He embarked on ...

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The Second Edition of this ground-breaking collection gives students all the tools they need to understand and engage with major philosophical issues. Students are presented with clear yet thorough topic introductions, historical context, reading ...

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A propulsive, incendiary novel about faith, race, class, and what it means to have a home, from Joshua Cohen, “a major American writer” (The New York Times)NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY VULTURE AND BOOKFORUM One of the bol...

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“Attention reveals a fresh, vital literary voice as it covers seemingly every imaginable topic relating to modern life.”—Entertainment Weekly  “Joshua Cohen may be America’s greatest living writer.&rdqu...

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"Attention reveals a fresh, vital literary voice as it covers seemingly every imaginable topic relating to modern life."-Entertainment Weekly "Joshua Cohen may be America's greatest living writer."-The Washington Post NAMED ONE...

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Reading African arts impact on modernism as an international phenomenon, The Black Art Renaissance tracks a series of twentieth-century engagements with canonical African sculpture by European, African American, and sub-Saharan African artists and...

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Over the past twenty years, Joshua Cohen has explored the most controversial issues facing the American public: campaign finance and political equality, privacy rights and robust public debate, hate speech and pornography, and the capacity of demo...

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In this collection of essays, Joshua Cohen locates ideas about democracy in three far-ranging contexts. First, he explores the relationship between democratic values and history. He then discusses democracy in connection with the views of defining...

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Polygamy, forced marriage, female genital mutilation, punishing women for being raped, differential access for men and women to health care and education, unequal rights of ownership, assembly, and political participation, unequal vulnerability to...

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The problem of justifying legal punishment has been at the heart of legal and social philosophy from the very earliest recorded philosophical texts. However, despite several hundred years of debate, philosophers have not reached agreement about ho...

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After decades of hand-wringing and well-intentioned efforts to improve inner cities, ghettos remain places of degrading poverty with few jobs, much crime, failing schools, and dilapidated housing. Stepping around fruitless arguments over whether o...

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The events of September 11 and the subsequent war on terrorism have provoked widespread discussion about the possibility of democracy in the Islamic world. Such topics as the meaning of jihad, the role of clerics as authoritative interpreters, and...

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The problem of justifying legal punishment has been at the heart of legal and social philosophy from the very earliest recorded philosophical texts. However, despite several hundred years of debate, philosophers have not reached agreement about ho...

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As usual, Deborah Meier has a fresh take on standardized tests. While other critics fault standardized tests and what they measure, Meier contests the very idea of a centralized authority that dictates how and what teachers teach. This, she argues...

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