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Morrison brings her genius to this personal inquiry into the significance of African-Americans in the American literary…

\nWith Congress paralyzed, lawmaking falls to executive agencies and courts that interpret existing statutes. Due to the…

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Spoken by eighty million people, Tamil is one of the great world languages, and one of the few ancient languages that…

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Huntington examines the persistent gap between the promise of American ideals and the performance of American politics. He…

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Andrzej Franaszek's award-winning biography of Czeslaw Milosz-winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature-recounts the poet's…

The post-WWI crisis of statelessness induced creative legal thinking, as officials and jurists debated cosmopolitan…

\nScientific progress doesn\'t always precede engineering advances; it often follows. Answering questions isn\'t always the…

This is a history of China for the 900-year time span of the late imperial period. F.W. Mote highlights the personal…

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Durling's edition of Petrarch's poems has become the standard. Readers have praised the translation of the authoritative…

\nDeeply Responsible Business profiles corporate leaders of the past two centuries who made social missions vital to their…

This work consists of two parts: 'The Idea of Public Reason Revisited', published in 1997, and 'The Law of Peoples', a…

The electricity sector is facing its toughest test: eliminate carbon emissions while meeting much larger demands for power…

Wolfram Siemann tells a new story of Clemens von Metternich, the Austrian at the center of nineteenth-century European…

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More than 50 years later the murky circumstances and tragic symbolism of Patrice Lumumba's assassination trouble people…

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The interdisciplinary essays in Global Gold-by scholars of European, American, African, and Asian history and art…

Nobel Laureate Edmund Phelps argues that the high level of innovation in the West was not a result of scientific discoveries…

John Mack explores the relationship between Lawrence's inner life and his historically significant actions. Interviews,…

\nThe History of Akbar by Abu\'l-Fazl is one of the most important works of Indo-Persian history. Volume 7 includes accounts…

David Wootton guides us through four centuries of Western thought to show how new ideas about politics, ethics, and…

\nCompiled and translated in large part by St. Jerome, the Vulgate Bible influenced Western literature, art, music,…

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Cutting a path from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the Panama Canal set a new course for the development of Central…

No one in the twentieth century had a greater impact on world history than Deng Xiaoping. The author intends to disentangle…

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The Byzantine Sinbad collects The Book of Syntipas the Philosopher, originally a Persian story, and the sixty-two tales of…

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Homilies collects seven sermons delivered by Sophronios during his short tenure as patriarch of Jerusalem, which coincided…

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After years of running a cutting-edge chemistry lab, Jen Heemstra shares hard-won advice for scientific leadership. Showing…

The roots of modern Western legal institutions and concepts go back nine centuries to the papal revolution, when the Western…

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Grounded in the legacies of two pioneering scholars of oral literature, Milman Parry and Albert Lord, Singers and Tales in…

A single species of fly, Drosophila melanogaster, has been the subject of scientific research for more than one hundred…

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In a society where trust is in short supply and democracy weak, the Mafia sells protection, a guarantee of safe conduct for…

Against Nazi dictatorship,the disillusionment of Weimar, and Christian austerity, Hermann Hesse's stories inspired a…

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Conceived in Paris in 1927 and still in progress when Benjamin fled the Occupation in 1940, The Arcades Project is…

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\nIn Ukraine, War, Love, award-winning fiction writer Olena Stiazhkina chronicles day-to-day developments in her beloved…

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The sense of reading as an intimate act of self-discovery-and of communion between authors and book lovers-has a long…

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Many Allied POWs in the Pacific theater of World War II suffered terribly. But abuse wasn't a matter of Japanese policy, as…

\nGuru to the World tells the story of Swami Vivekananda, the nineteenth-century Hindu ascetic who introduced the West to…

\nDo democratic citizens have equal right to rule? Is it enough that they have equal standing before the law, or must there…

\nThe US government has long sought investment opportunities for US companies in developing countries. But the results have…

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Juliane Noth shows how art and discussions about the future of ink painting were linked to the reshaping of the country,…

\nThe Greek war for independence (1821-1830) goes missing from the narrative of the Age of Revolutions, yet the overthrow of…

Explores two successive transformations of the Western legal tradition under the impact of the 16th Century German…

\nFor nearly two decades, including after its independence, Algeria was named as a part of the European Economic Community.…

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\nTravis Zadeh revives the work of the thirteenth-century Persian scholar Qazwini, whose Wonders and Rarities was for…

\nJennifer Allen details a German utopian movement that arose against capitalist triumphalism at the end of the Cold War.…

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• Rok vydání 2023

Avant-Garde Post- follows seven Russophone poets as they reinvigorate leftist art in the wake of state socialism. Rejecting…

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Tracing the structure and evolution of Idealism as a doctrine, this title exposes an objective, or realist, strain running…

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Nicole Fleetwood enters American prisons to explore the creativity flourishing there. Though isolated and degraded,…

\nIn Dreaming and Self-Cultivation in China, 300 BCE-800 CE, Robert Ford Campany examines how dreaming was addressed in…

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Modern theories of meaning usually culminate in a critique of science. Philosophy in a New Key presents a study of human…