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Our Social Science list reflects a strong focus on American studies, anthropology, cultural and gender studies, and philosophy, covering topics as wide-ranging as global social movements, medical misinformation, and systemic and institutional racism.

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Truth
What It Is, How to Find It, and Why It Still Matters

Michael Shermer

Publication Date: January 27, 2026
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Religion and the American University

James W. Fraser

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Love
Brief Books about Big Ideas

Anne Marie Pahuus

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Questions
Brief Books about Big Ideas

Pia Lauritzen

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Creativity
Brief Books about Big Ideas

Jan Løhmann Stephensen

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Behaviorism, Consciousness, and the Literary Mind

Joshua Gang

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Latour and the Humanities

edited by Rita Felski and Stephen Muecke

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Stories and the Brain
The Neuroscience of Narrative

Paul B. Armstrong

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Before Queer Theory
Victorian Aestheticism and the Self

Dustin Friedman

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Stanley Cavell and the Claim of Literature

David Rudrum

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Bad Logic
Reasoning about Desire in the Victorian Novel

Daniel Wright

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Young William James Thinking

Paul J. Croce

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The Birth of the Past

Zachary Sayre Schiffman
foreword by Anthony Grafton

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The Specter of Skepticism in the Age of Enlightenment

Anton M. Matytsin

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Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry
Explanation, Phenomenology, and Nosology

edited by Kenneth S. Kendler, MD, and Josef Parnas, MD, Dr Med Sci

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The Science of Conjecture
Evidence and Probability before Pascal

James Franklin
with a new preface

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Metaphors of Mind
An Eighteenth-Century Dictionary

Brad Pasanek

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Wordsworth's Ethics

Adam Potkay

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Metahistory
The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Hayden White
with a new preface
foreword by Michael S. Roth

Fortieth Anniversary Edition
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Subverting Aristotle
Religion, History, and Philosophy in Early Modern Science

Craig Martin

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