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The clarity and simplicity of these themes is a strength of the book, as is the frequent use of diagrams to illustrate them.

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In the 1948 short novel “No Longer Human” by Osamu Dazai, translated by Donald Keene, Dazai explores themes of social isolation and the stigma of mental illness through the protagonist Yozo, who ...

IN THE beginning, God made man in his image, granting him dominion over every living thing that moves upon the earth. Most people don’t look to the Bible to understand the world and our place in it, ...

The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) recently held a meeting of its Advisory Council to discuss research priorities aimed at improving the understanding and ...

Two copies of a poetry book by formerly enslaved poet Phillis Wheatley are bound in human skin and housed in Cincinnati. The books were bound in the 1930s for a collector who reportedly smuggled the ...