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We often think of the Balkans as a region beset by turmoil and backwardness, but from late antiquity to the present it has…

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As the authors show in the first systematic treatment of the subject since the mid-1960s, assimilation continues to shape…

Often lost in the debate over the validity of social construction is the question of what is being constructed. Ian Hacking…

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Tomasello presents a comprehensive usage-based theory of language acquisition. Drawing together a vast body of empirical…

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The authors consider the intersection of Daoism and ecology, looking at the theoretical and historical implications…

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In a new approach to philosophical anthropology, Bruno Latour offers answers to questions raised in We Have Never Been…

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A series of closely interrelated essays on game theory, this book deals with an area in which progress has been least…

For centuries, philosophers have been divided on the nature of language. Those in the rational empiricist Tradition -…

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Old English Shorter Poems offers tantalizing insights into the Anglo-Saxon mental landscape. These poems and charms find…

Maura Dykstra shows how information overload resulting from the administrative revolution of China's eighteenth-century Qing…

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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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Modern philosophy finds it difficult to give a satisfactory picture of the place of minds in the world. In Mind and World,…

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What do Germans mean when they say "never again"? Andrew Port examines German responses to the genocides in Cambodia,…

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The Menologion of Basil II, one of the most famous manuscripts surviving from Byzantium, contains short narratives to be…

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Richard Ellmann's James Joyce, published in 1959, has been called "the greatest literary biography of the twentieth…

\nLivy (Titus Livius, 64 or 59 BC-AD 12 or 17), the great Roman historian, presents a vivid narrative of Rome\'s rise from…

The goal of Boccaccio's Genealogy of the Pagan Gods is to plunder ancient and medieval literary sources to create a massive…

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

\nThe Old English Pastoral Care, a ninth-century translation from Latin of Pope Gregory the Great\'s guide for aspiring…

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

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The Patria is a fascinating four-book collection of short historical notes, stories, and legends about the buildings and…

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Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374), one of the greatest Italian poets, was also a leader in the Renaissance movement to revive…

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This volume presents translations from the Greek of two crucial primary sources published together for the first…

Alan of Lille was renowned for his learning, his contributions to systematic theology, and his Latin poetry. The works…

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\nMedical Writings from Early Medieval England presents vernacular texts on health and healing-unique local remedies and…

The poetry of Bullhe Shah, who drew upon Sufi mysticism, is considered one of the glories of premodern Panjabi literature.…

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Kalidasa's The Lineage of the Raghus, or Raghuva?sa, belongs to the literary tradition of mahakavya, or court poem. It…

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Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species is one of the most important and yet least read scientific works in the history of…

\nThe History of Akbar by Abu\'l-Fazl is one of the most important works of Indo-Persian history. The eighth and final…

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Maximos the Confessor is one of the most challenging and original Christian thinkers of all time. The Ambigua is his…

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During the '30s and '40s, Hollywood produced a genre of madcap comedies that emphasized reuniting the central couple after…

In his new preface Bernd Heinrich ranges from Maine to Alaska and north to the Arctic as he summarizes findings from…

John King Fairbank was the West's doyen on China, and this book is the full and final expression of his lifelong engagement…

Anonymous Old English Lives of Saints includes narratives from the eleventh and twelfth centuries about locally venerated…

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A groundbreaking history of philosophy and punishment, The Prison before the Panopticon traces the influence of ancient…

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Ethnic groups continue to be conceived as entities and cast as actors. Journalists and others frame accounts of ethnic,…

Religious piety has rarely been animated as vigorously as in Old English Poems of Christ and His Saints. Ranging from…

Maximos the Confessor is one of the most challenging and original Christian thinkers of all time. The Ambigua is his…

A collection of the lectures on moral philosophy given by John Rawls over three decades of teaching at Harvard. This book…

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Marsilio Ficino, the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus, was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. His…

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Wordplay has been at the heart of Western literature for many centuries, and medieval riddles provide insights into the…

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In 1490/92 the Florentine Platonist Marsilio Ficino made new translations of two treatises he believed were the work of…

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The Apocalypse informed medieval expectations of the end of the world, responses to strange and exotic invaders, and the…

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Angelo Poliziano (1454-1494) was one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance and a leading figure in the Florence…