• Rok vydání 2024

\nSuccess is all very well, but failure teaches us what is most important: humility. Costica Bradatan tells the stories of…

Eli Black was the immigrant rabbi-turned-CEO who transformed the notoriously corrupt United Fruit into a model of ethical…

\nAs immigrants and others are engulfed by dominant societies, the connection to their ancestral tongues is routinely…

\nThe Bible is full of ancient texts long predating the assembly of Judaism’s and Christianity’s sacred books. Why these…

Alcibiades was one of the most dazzling figures of Athens' Golden Age. A friend of Socrates, he was spectacularly rich,…

Acclaimed historian and museum curator Richard Rabinowitz tells the story of his immigrant Jewish family through the…

\nRaymond Geuss is a critic of liberalism, a politics so pervasive in the West that it goes unnoticed. His attention…

\nToday John Hancock is known for his signature, but during the revolutionary era, he was famed for his pragmatic…

\nSuccess is all very well, but failure teaches us what is most important: humility. Costica Bradatan tells the stories of…

\nGeorge Washington spent most of his time farming, often employing experimental methods. Washington saw slave-powered…

\nZhou Enlai, China’s first premier, is overshadowed by Mao, but Zhou’s influence in his own time and since has been vast.…

The letters of Pliny the Younger (c. 61 c. 112 CE), a polished social document of his times, include descriptions of the…

Fronto (c. 100 176 CE), a much admired orator and rhetorician, was befriended by the emperor Antoninus Pius and teacher of…

\nPaolo Giovio\'s Portraits of Learned Men provides brief biographies of 146 men from Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio to…

After the composition of the Decameron, and under the influence of Petrarch's humanism, Giovanni Boccaccio devoted the last…

\nLeon Battista Alberti was among the most famous figures of the Italian Renaissance. Biographical and Autobiographical…

\nLu Xun was China\'s greatest literary modernist and a key thinker of the early twentieth century. This new translation…

\nFrancis Cogliano revisits the relationship between Washington and Jefferson, arguing that their vaunted differences mask…

\nAlexis de Tocqueville famously wrote about democracy in America, but he also lauded Catholic society in Quebec, feared the…