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  | | The Artist as Economist(Illustrated) Art and Capitalism in the 1960s by Sophie Cras, Malcolm Debevoise, Cécile Whiting Hardcover, 244 Pages, Published 2019 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-23270-7, ISBN: 0-300-23270-5 "This timely and original study transforms our understanding of the relationship between art and economics Bearing witness to the changing economic landscape amid the Cold War, artists in the 1960s created works that critiqued, reshaped, and sometimes reinforced the spirit of capitalism. At a time when currency and finance were becoming ever more abstracted—and the art market increasingly an arena for speculation—artists on both sides of ..." |
 | | The Physiology of Truth Neuroscience and Human Knowledge (Mind/Brain/Behavior Initiative) by Jean-Pierre Changeux, M. B. Debevoise, Malcolm Debevoise Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2009 by Belknap Press: An Imprint Of Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-03260-6, ISBN: 0-674-03260-8 " In this wide-ranging book, one of the boldest thinkers in modern neuroscience confronts an ancient philosophical problem: can we know the world as it really is? Drawing on provocative new findings about the psychophysiology of perception and judgment in both human and nonhuman primates, and also on the cultural history of science, Jean-Pierre Changeux makes a powerful case for the reality of scientific progress and argues that it for ..." |
 | | Bordeaux/Burgundy(1st Edition) A Vintage Rivalry by Jean-Robert Pitte, M. B. Debevoise, Malcolm Debevoise Hardcover, 268 Pages, Published 2008 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-24940-0, ISBN: 0-520-24940-2 "Seeking to penetrate the mysteries of two great wine regions - 'two opposite civilizations, two distinct ways of feeling' - Jean-Robert Pitte embarks upon an evocative and fascinating exploration of the land, people, and wines of Bordeaux and Burgundy. His account is a rich tapestry of terroir, history, culture, and economics from Roman to modern times. The unique qualities of the wines of each region, Pitte believes, cannot be entirely ..." |
 | | The World Republic of Letters(1st Edition) (Convergences: Inventories of the Present) by Pascale Casanova, M. B. Debevoise, Malcolm Debevoise Hardcover, 440 Pages, Published 2004 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-01345-2, ISBN: 0-674-01345-X " The "world of letters" has always seemed a matter more of metaphor than of global reality. In this book, Pascale Casanova shows us the state of world literature behind the stylistic refinements--a world of letters relatively independent from economic and political realms, and in which language systems, aesthetic orders, and genres struggle for dominance. Rejecting facile talk of globalization, with its suggestion of a happy literary "m ..." |
 | | Twilight of the Elites Prosperity, the Periphery, and the Future of France by Christophe Guilluy, Malcolm Debevoise Hardcover, 184 Pages, Published 2019 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-23376-6, ISBN: 0-300-23376-0 "Very Good, FIRST EDITION in English, Yale University Press, 2019 A fine copy in dark brown boards with a very good/fine dust jacket. 184pp. Christophe Guilluy, A French Geographer, Makes The Case That France Has Become An American Society - One That Is Both Increasingly Multicultural And Increasingly Unequal. The Divide Between The Global Economy's Winners And Losers In Today's France Has Replaced The Old Left-right Split, Leaving Many ..." |
 | | How Language Comes to Children(Updated) From Birth to Two Years by M. B. Debevoise, Malcolm Debevoise Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2001 by A Bradford Book Illustrated ISBN-13: 978-0-262-54125-1, ISBN: 0-262-54125-4 "A comprehensive and entertaining account of how children acquire language.That children learn to speak so skillfully at a young age has long fascinated adults. Most children virtually master their native tongue even before learning to tie their shoelaces. The ability to acquire language has historically been regarded as a "gift"―a view given scientific foundation only in the present century by Noam Chomsky's theory of "universal grammar ..." |
 | | Good Government Democracy beyond Elections by Pierre Rosanvallon, Malcolm Debevoise, Harvard University Press Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2018 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-97943-7, ISBN: 0-674-97943-5 "Few would disagree that Western democracies are experiencing a crisis of representation. In the United States, gerrymandering and concentrated political geographies have placed the Congress and state legislatures in a stranglehold that is often at odds with public opinion. Campaign financing ensures that only the affluent have voice in legislation. Europeans, meanwhile, increasingly see the European Union as an anti-democratic body whos ..." |
 | | Must We Divide History Into Periods?(Reprint) (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism) by Jacques Le Goff, Malcolm Debevoise Paperback, 184 Pages, Published 2017 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-17301-8, ISBN: 0-231-17301-6 "We have long thought of the Renaissance as a luminous era that marked a decisive break with the past, but the idea of the Renaissance as a distinct period arose only during the nineteenth century. Though the view of the Middle Ages as a dark age of unreason has softened somewhat, we still locate the advent of modern rationality in the Italian thought and culture of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Jacques Le Goff pleads for a stri ..." |
 | | Living with Robots by Paul Dumouchel, Luisa Damiano, Malcolm Debevoise Hardcover, 280 Pages, Published 2017 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-97173-8, ISBN: 0-674-97173-6 "Living with Robots recounts a foundational shift in the field of robotics, from artificial intelligence to artificial empathy, and foreshadows an inflection point in human evolution. Today's robots engage with human beings in socially meaningful ways, as therapists, trainers, mediators, caregivers, and companions. Social robotics is grounded in artificial intelligence, but the field's most probing questions explore the nature of the ver ..." |
 | | Note-by-Note Cooking(Reprint) The Future of Food (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History) by Hervé This, Malcolm Debevoise, M. B. Debevoise Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2016 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-16487-0, ISBN: 0-231-16487-4 ""Note-by-Note Cooking" is a landmark in the annals of gastronomy, liberating cooks from the constraints of traditional ingredients and methods through the use of pure molecular compounds. 1-Octen-3-ol, which has a scent of wild mushrooms; limonene, a colorless liquid hydrocarbon that has the smell of citrus; sotolon, whose fragrance at high concentrations resembles curry and at low concentrations, maple syrup or sugar; tyrosine, an odor ..." |
 | | The Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought by Lawrence D. Kritzman, Brian J. Reilly, M. B. Debevoise, Malcolm Debevoise, Brian Reilly, Assistant-Brian Reilly, Brian T. Reilly Paperback, 816 Pages, Published 2007 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-10790-7, ISBN: 0-231-10790-0 "With more than two hundred entries by leading intellectuals in the French- and English-speaking world, this new volume presents the authoritative guide to twentieth-century French thought. Unrivaled in its scope and depth, The Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought covers and critiques the intellectual figures, movements, and publications that helped shape and define fields as diverse as history and historiography, psycho ..." |
 | | The Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought(1st Edition) by Lawrence D. Kritzman, Brian J. Reilly, Malcolm B.. Debevoise, M. B. Debevoise, Malcolm Debevoise, Brian Reilly Hardcover, 816 Pages, Published 2006 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-10791-4, ISBN: 0-231-10791-9 "With more than two hundred entries by leading intellectuals in the French- and English-speaking world, this new volume presents the authoritative guide to twentieth-century French thought. Unrivaled in its scope and depth, The Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought covers and critiques the intellectual figures, movements, and publications that helped shape and define fields as diverse as history and historiography, psychoa ..." |
 | | Molecular Gastronomy(Reprint) Exploring the Science of Flavor (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History) by Herve This, M. B. Debevoise, Malcolm Debevoise, Hervac This Hardcover, 392 Pages, Published 2006 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-13312-8, ISBN: 0-231-13312-X "Hervé This (pronounced "Teess") is an internationally renowned chemist, a popular French television personality, a bestselling cookbook author, a longtime collaborator with the famed French chef Pierre Gagnaire, and the only person to hold a doctorate in molecular gastronomy, a cutting-edge field he pioneered. Bringing the instruments and experimental techniques of the laboratory into the kitchen, This uses recent research in the chemis ..." |
 | | Must We Divide History Into Periods? (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism) by Professor Jacques Le Goff, Malcolm Debevoise, M. B. Debevoise, Professor Malcolm Debevoise Hardcover, 184 Pages, Published 2015 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-17300-1, ISBN: 0-231-17300-8 "We have long thought of the Renaissance as a luminous era that marked a decisive break with the past, but the idea of the Renaissance as a distinct period arose only during the nineteenth century. Though the view of the Middle Ages as a dark age of unreason has softened somewhat, we still locate the advent of modern rationality in the Italian thought and culture of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Jacques Le Goff pleads for a stri ..." |
 | | Note-by-Note Cooking The Future of Food (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History) by Hervé This, Malcolm Debevoise, M. B. Debevoise Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2014 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-16486-3, ISBN: 0-231-16486-6 " Note-by-Note Cooking is a landmark in the annals of gastronomy, liberating cooks from the constraints of traditional ingredients and methods through the use of pure molecular compounds. 1-Octen-3-ol, which has a scent of wild mushrooms; limonene, a colorless liquid hydrocarbon that has the smell of citrus; sotolon, whose fragrance at high concentrations resembles curry and at low concentrations, maple syrup or sugar; tyrosine, an odorl ..." |
 | | Building a Meal(Reprint) From Molecular Gastronomy to Culinary Constructivism (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History) by Herve This, Malcolm Debevoise, Hervac This, Building A. Meal Paperback, 152 Pages, Published 2011 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-14467-4, ISBN: 0-231-14467-9 "An internationally renowned chemist, popular television personality, and bestselling author, Herve This heads the first laboratory devoted to molecular gastronomy--the scientific exploration of cooking and eating. By testing recipes that have guided cooks for centuries, and the various dictums and maxims on which they depend, Herve This unites the head with the hand in order to defend and transform culinary practice. With this new book ..." |
 | | Normandy The Landings to the Liberation of Paris by Olivier Wieviorka, M. B. Debevoise, Malcolm Debevoise Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 2010 by Belknap Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-04747-1, ISBN: 0-674-04747-8 " The Allied landings on the coast of Normandy on June 6, 1944, have assumed legendary status in the annals of World War II. But in overly romanticizing D-day, Olivier Wieviorka argues, we have lost sight of the full picture. Normandy offers a balanced, complete account that reveals the successes and weaknesses of the titanic enterprise. In addition to describing the landings with precision and drama, Wieviorka covers the planning and ..." |
 | | Beirut by Samir Kassir, Robert Fisk, M. B. Debevoise, Translator-Malcolm Debevoise, Professor Malcolm Debevoise, Malcolm Debevoise Hardcover, 656 Pages, Published 2010 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-25668-2, ISBN: 0-520-25668-9 "Widely praised as the definitive history of Beirut, this is the story of a city that has stood at the crossroads of Mediterranean civilization for more than four thousand years. The last major work completed by Samir Kassir before his tragic death in 2005, "Beirut" is a tour de force that takes the reader from the ancient to the modern world, offering a dazzling panorama of the city's Seleucid, Roman, Arab, Ottoman, and French incarnati ..." |
 | | Manichaeism(9th Edition) by Michel Tardieu, Malcolm Debevoise, Paul Allan Mirecki Hardcover, 136 Pages, Published 2009 by University Of Illinois Press ISBN-13: 978-0-252-03278-3, ISBN: 0-252-03278-0 "Manichaeism, once the state religion of Persia and long a vigorous contender for converts throughout the ancient Near East, is best remembered for the simplicity of its teachings about divine power. For Manicheans, the universe was ruled by a Lord of Light and a Lord of Darkness, who fought continuously for supremacy. All that was good was a gift from the Lord of Light, and all that was evil was an affliction visited by the Lord of Dark ..." |
 | | Life Explained (An Editions Odile Jacob Book) by Michel Morange, Matthew Cobb, Malcolm Debevoise Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2009 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-15850-2, ISBN: 0-300-15850-5 "Fifty years ago Francis Crick and James D. Watson proposed the double helix model for the DNA molecule. They believed they had, as Crick put it, discovered the secret of life,” and many agreed. But in the intervening years, science has marchedsometimes leapedforward, and now the question What is life?” must be posed once again. In this accessible and fascinating book, Michel Morange draws on recent advances in molecular genetics, ev ..." |
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