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Moses the Egyptian
The Memory of Egypt in Western Monotheism
2019 || Paperback || Jan Assmann || Harvard University Press
Standing at the very foundation of monotheism, and so of Western culture, Moses is a figure not of history, but of memory. As such, he is the quintessential subject for the innovative historiography Jan Assmann both defines and practices in this work, the study of historical memory--a study, in this case, of the ways in which factual and fictional events and characters are stored in religious beliefs and transformed in their philosophical justification, literary reinterpretation, philological...
Observation and Experiment / 1st edition
An Introduction to Causal Inference
2019 || Paperback || Paul Rosenbaum || Harvard University Press
A daily glass of wine prolongs life-yet alcohol can cause life-threatening cancer. Some say raising the minimum wage will decrease inequality while others say it increases unemployment. Scientists once confidently claimed that hormone replacement therapy reduced the risk of heart disease but now they equally confidently claim it raises that risk.
What should we make of this endless barrage of conflicting claims? Observation and Experiment is an introduction to causal inference by one of the f...