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  • The Tyranny of Virtue

    Identity, the Academy, and the Hunt for Political Heresies

    by Robert Boyers ...
    **From public intellectual and professor Robert Boyers, “**a powerfully persuasive, insightful, and provocative prose that mixes erudition and first-hand reportage” (Joyce Carol Oates) addressing recent developments in American culture and arguing for the tolerance of difference that is at the heart of the liberal tradition.Written from the perspective of a liberal intellectual who has spent a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    The Tyranny of Virtue

    Identity, the Academy, and the Hunt for Political Heresies

    by Robert Boyers ...
    Narrated by Arthur Morey ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 58 min

    **From public intellectual and professor Robert Boyers, “**a powerfully persuasive, insightful, and provocative prose that mixes erudition and first-hand reportage” (Joyce Carol Oates) addressing recent developments in American culture and arguing for the tolerance of difference that is at the heart of the liberal tradition.Written from the perspective of a liberal intellectual who has spent a ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Fate of Ideas

    Seductions, Betrayals, Appraisals

    by Robert Boyers ...
    As editor of the quarterly Salmagundi for the past fifty years, Robert Boyers has been on the cutting edge of developments in politics, culture, and the arts. Reflecting on his collaborations and quarrels with some of the twentieth century's most transformative writers, artists, and thinkers, Boyers writes a wholly original intellectual memoir that rigorously confronts selected aspects of ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Maestros & Monsters

    Days & Nights with Susan Sontag & George Steiner

    by Robert Boyers ...
    This is a memoiristic book and a dual portrait, built around intense friendships with two leading public intellectuals who achieved celebrity status—Susan Sontag on a global scale, George Steiner principally in Europe, though also for a time in the US. For audiences at Woody Allen movies Sontag was the prime embodiment of the term “intellectual,” whose famous 1965 essay “Notes on Camp” won her an ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Political Economy of Capitalisms

    by Robert Boyer ...
    Translated by Roger Froane Miller ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book is the English language translation of the French publication Économie Politique des Capitalismes. Research in this book presents institutional and historical macroeconomics, through an analysis of wage-labour nexus, innovation systems, monetary and financial systems, integration into the world economy, formation of economic policy configurations, and the history of economic theories.In ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Prescribing Health

    Transcendental Meditation in Contemporary Medical Care

    by Robert W. Boyer, Fred Travis, Vernon A. Barnes, Norman E. Rosenthal, Jim Brooks, Sarina Grosswald, William R. Stixrud, David Lovell-Smith, Maxwell Rainforth, Robert Herron, David W. Orme-Johnson, Alarik Arenander, James Krag ...
    Prescribing Health: Transcendental Meditation in Contemporary Medical Care includes important contributions from leading experts on Transcendental Meditation and health, and provides the reader with the most important, cutting edge health research on the effects of Transcendental Meditation (TM) on serious mental health problems and medical disorders. It features practical, proven programs to ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Regulation Theory

    The State of the Art

    by Robert Boyer, Yves Saillard ...
    Robert Boyer and Yves Sailard's Theorie de la Regulation introduces the Francophone public to one of the most important new currents in social science of the past half-century. This long-awaited translation will help broaden its impact still further.Regulation Theory focuses on the structural features of a given model and has helped enliven the examination of core economic concepts. ... Read more

    $132.99 USD

  • Mind and Religion

    Psychological and Cognitive Foundations of Religion

    by Pascal Boyer, Robert Hinde, E Thomas Lawson, Todd Tremlin, Matt Day, Justin Barrett, Rebekah A. Richert, Ilkka Pyysiäinen, Jesper Sørensen, D Jason Slone ...
    Series series Cognitive Science of Religion
    Recent cognitive approaches to the study of religion have yielded much understanding by focusing on common psychological processes that all humans share. One leading theory, Harvey WhitehouseOs modes of religiosity theory, demonstrates how two distinct modes of organizing and transmitting religious traditions emerge from different ways of activating universal memory systems. In Mind and Religion, ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Visions and Imaginings

    Classic Fantasy Fiction

    by Robert H. Boyer, Kenneth J. Zahorski ...
    Seventeen of the "best of the best" fantasy stories—taken from highly acclaimed collections of the '70s—are presented here with biographical notes. A new introduction by the editors places these stories in the context of the literary traditions which fostered them: classical epic, medieval romance, and the folk and literary fair tale. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Reluctant Superstar

    by Robert L. Boyer ...
    A young man who went by the name of Jay Cee lived in a small town in Pennsylvania. He worked as a carpenters helper at a job that paid less than a dollar an hour above minimum wage. Teaching Sunday school was a passion of his. He arrived in Detroit one day to attend a four-day religious retreat along with twenty thousand other Christian believers from several midwestern states. Due to an ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Repeat Photography

    Methods and Applications in the Natural Sciences

    Edited by Robert H. Webb, Diane E. Boyer, Raymond M. Turner ...
    First developed in the 1880s as a way to monitor glaciers in Europe, repeat photography —the practice of taking photographs at different points in times from the same physical vantage point—remains an essential and cost-effective technique for scientists and researchers working to track and study landscape change.This volume explores the technical and geographic scope of this important technique, ... Read more

    $66.29 USD

  • Evolving Diversity and Interdependence of Capitalisms

    Transformations of Regional Integration in EU and Asia

    Edited by Robert Boyer, Hiroyasu Uemura, Toshio Yamada, Lei Song ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book integrates three levels of political–economic analysis: first a comparative institutional analysis of the varieties of capitalism in both Europe and Asia, second a macroeconomic analysis of industrial structural change and economic dynamics of the national economies in Europe and Asia, and then an encompassing analysis of international production linkages and international financial ... Read more

    $80.09 USD