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Selected new and backlist titles. The full catalogue of about 2,300 titles in print is sent to booksellers and libraries each spring.
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The Bystander’s ClaimEthics for a Recorded World
Every day, more of us are recorded by devices we never see, worn by people we never meet. Demery argues that the people in front of a camera have claims on what it keeps, and that the law and the makers of devices have barely begun to notice.
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Letters that Answered BackDescartes and His Correspondents
A history of the letters written to Descartes by the people who disagreed with him, and of what his replies left out.
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Forgiveness without Forgetting
What it is to forgive someone while remembering exactly what they did, and why it may be the only kind of forgiveness worth having.
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The Ship and Its PlanksPersistence for Artefacts
A short, stubborn book about when a thing that has been repaired many times is still the same thing.
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Fifty Years of Ballads and Bargains
A history of the broadside ballad on the Pontar, from the printers of Printer’s Row to the singers who sold their songs on the quays and the ferry, drawn from the Library’s Pontar Ballad Collection. The author taught poetry in the School of English.
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Plato’s Late Method
A reading of the late dialogues as experiments in how to divide a subject, and what Plato thought he had learned from them.
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Chartered BodiesCorporations and the Law in England, 1660–1860
How colleges, companies and charities became persons in law, and what they did with the privilege.
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Logic at Oxenfurt, 1611–1960
Three and a half centuries of a compulsory first-year subject, and the teachers who would not let it go.
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