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The Mongols are universally known as conquerors, but they were more than that: influential thinkers, politicians, engineers,…

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Winner of the 2025 New England Book Award for PoetryA major poet and literary critic leads an aesthetic adventure through…

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A poignant reflection on alienation and belonging, told through the lives of five remarkable people who struggled against…

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Taxi drivers love to talk, and when astrobiologist Charles Cockell is their passenger, they love to talk about aliens. This…

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Pairs is a student-led journal at Harvard University Graduate School of Design dedicated to design conversations. Pairs 03…

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The poems in The Voices of Babyn Yar convey the experiences of ordinary civilians going through unbearable events leading to…

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The Katrina disaster was not a weather event of summer 2005. It was a disaster a century in the making, a product of lessons…

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

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In Serhiy Zhadan's tragicomedy A Harvest Truce, brothers Anton and Tolik reunite at their family home to bury their mother.…

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In 1831 enslaved Jamaicans revolted. What began as a peaceful movement soon became a bloodbath as British troops retaliated.…

• Rok vydání 1958

Originally published in French: Paris: Gallimard, 1958.…

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In The Length of Days, featuring a wild cast of characters, Rafeyenko combines poetry and wicked humor with elements of…

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In Cecil the Lion Had to Die, Olena Stiazhkina follows four families through radical transformations when the Soviet Union…

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Diego Javier Luis tells the story of transpacific Asian movement to and through the Spanish Americas. On arrival in Mexico,…

Proteins link all life on Earth and enable its most astonishing capacities-from a firefly's glow to the navigational…

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Plutarch (ca. AD 45-120) wrote on many subjects. His forty-six Parallel Lives are biographies planned to be ethical examples…

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The story of the Russian intelligentsia after Stalin is poorly chronicled. Zubok turns a compelling subject into a portrait…

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In early modern Italy, a wave of Inquisition trials prosecuted radical dissenters for their claims that Adam and Eve had…

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In six lectures covering everything from James Bond to antisemitic conspiracy theories, Umberto Eco offers a master class in…

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Marco Santagata illuminates one of the world's supreme poets from many angles philosopher, father, courtier, political…

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As they immerse themselves in foreign cultures, trained anthropologists find that accepting difference is one thing,…

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Many Americans assume that the country was founded by skeptics of "big government," who saw minimal state power as freedom's…

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A superb new translation of Kafka's classic stories, authoritatively annotated and beautifully illustrated.Selected Stories…

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Sheila Miyoshi Jager returns to the three-cornered contest among imperial Russia, China, and Japan over the Korean…

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Serving prison time with hard labor for the crime of gross indecency, Oscar Wilde wrote some of his most powerful works. A…

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Emma, perhaps the most technically accomplished of all of Austen's novels, is also, after Pride and Prejudice, her most…

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After WWII, Ilse Koch became known worldwide as the "Bitch of Buchenwald." She was assuredly guilty of atrocities, but the…

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Produkt Diary of Charles Francis Adams - Adams, Charles Francis, Jr. zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard…

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In 1896 a massive Ethiopian army routed an invading Italian force and brought Italy's conquest of Africa to an end. In…

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Published posthumously with Northanger Abbey in 1817, Persuasion crowns Jane Austen's remarkable career. It is her most…

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Provides notes on literary and historical contexts, allusions, and language of Jane Austen's most popular novel Pride and…

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Law and policy treat corruption as something far less than it truly is. Using India's long history as a case study, Sudhir…

Cast in the form of a dialogue, this title treats subjects as diverse as the divinity of the Sun and the quirks of human…

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Cast in the form of a dialogue, this title treats subjects as diverse as the divinity of the Sun and the quirks of human…

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Presents a selection of Hellenistic prose and poetry, ranging chronologically from Philitas of Cos through Alexander of…

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Aeschylus (ca. 525-456 BC) is the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the world's great art forms. Seven of his…

Quintus Ennius (239 169), widely regarded as the father of Roman literature, was instrumental in creating a new Roman…

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Seneca (ca. AD 4 65) authored verse tragedies that strongly influenced Shakespeare and other Renaissance dramatists. Plots…

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Seneca (ca. AD 4 65) authored verse tragedies that strongly influenced Shakespeare and other Renaissance dramatists. Plots…

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Quintus Ennius (239-169 BC), widely regarded as the father of Roman literature, was instrumental in creating a new Roman…

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Davis retrieves three women's lives from historical obscurity to give us a window onto the early modern world. Glikl bas…

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The two extant poems of Hesiod (eighth or seventh century BC) are Theogony, in which he charts the history of the divine…

This revised edition gives an improved reading of the great Roman poet that reflects current idiom.…

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Aeschylus (ca. 525-456 BC) is the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the world's great art forms. Seven of his…

Eighteen of the ninety or so plays composed by Euripides between 455 and 406 BCE survive in a complete form and are included…

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Songs about Women by Romanos the Melodist contains eighteen works related to the liturgical calendar that feature important…

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Nostalgia, supposedly, is the sphere of the sentimentalist. But also, and most definitely, it is a force in the creation of…

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The variety of contemporary American poetry leaves many readers overwhelmed. Critic, scholar, and poet Stephanie Burt sets…