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As people throughout the world react to globalization and revert to nationalism, they are proclaiming distinct cultural identities for themselves. Cultural identity seems to offer a defensive wall against the homogenizing effects of globalization and…

The virtue of obedience is seen as outdated today, if not downright toxic – and yet, are we any freer than our forebears? In this provocative work, Jacob Phillips argues not. Many feel unable to speak freely, their opinions policed by the implicit or…

The interviews in this book were collected in the U.S. as part of a Fulbright research project on bilingualism. The participants share their experiences of living with more than one language and different sorts of challenges and struggles coming with…

What is knowledge? Why is it valuable? How much of it do we have (if any at all), and what ways of thinking are good ways to use to get more of it? These are just a few questions that are asked in epistemology, roughly, the philosophical theory of kn…

In recent years, the international situation has significantly worsened, which raises concerns about the possibility of a nuclear conflict. Nuclear powers such as Russia, the United States and European countries continue to build up their arsenals an…

We are all fascinated by the mystery of metamorphosis – of the caterpillar that transforms itself into a butterfly. Their bodies have almost nothing in common. They don’t share the same world: one crawls on the ground and the other flutters its wings…