Horses were domesticated about 6000 years ago on the vast Eurasian steppe. The author presents an encyclopedic synthesis of…

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From 1980 to 1988 Iran and Iraq fought the longest conventional war of the century. It included tragic slaughter of child…

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Michael Breidenbach traces American secularism to an unexpected source: not Enlightenment liberalism but Catholic tradition.…

\nRotary International spreads America\'s good news. The organization spent the interwar years convincing Main Street and…

\nSamantha Kelly tells the story of Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims in sixteenth-century Rome. The only African community in…

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First of the widely celebrated and sumptuously illustrated series, this book reveals in intimate detail what life was really…

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Julia Rombough explores the regulation of sound in women's residential institutions in early modern Florence. Silence was…

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How do we justify our political convictions? Libertarians appeal to a love of freedom, liberals to a dedication to fairness.…

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A longstanding tradition holds that universities in early modern Italy suffered from cultural sclerosis and long-term…

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Phenomenology has the strongest claim to the mantle of continental philosophy. Edward Baring shows that credit for its…

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Meredith Ray shows that women were at the vanguard of empirical culture during the Scientific Revolution. They experimented…

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A classic first published in 1941 and translated into half a dozen languages, Space, Time and Architecture is an the…

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Text and Interpretation examines the main characteristics of the legal thought of Imam Ja?far al-?adiq, preeminent religious…

By shedding light on a long-forgotten epigraphic genre called “genealogical steles” that flourished in North China…

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Inscriptions: Architecture Before Speech presents a theory of contemporary architecture that spans the work of 112 practices…

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Writers and intellectuals in modern Japan have long forged dialogues across the boundaries separating the spheres of…

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This classic reference work, the best one-volume music dictionary available, has been brought completely up to date in this…

Though blacks were not often seen on the streets of seventeenth-century London, they were already capturing the British…

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Meanings of Antiquity is the first dedicated study of how the oldest Japanese myths, recorded in the eighth-century texts…

Cataglyphis ants can set out across vast expanses of desert terrain in search of prey, and then find the shortest way home.…

\nPulitzer Prize-winner Bert Hoelldobler and behavioral ecologist Christina Kwapich reveal a universe of behavioral…

This work plumbs opened archives in the former Soviet bloc to reveal the actual, practical accomplishments of Communism…

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Wang Hui asks what it means for China to be modern and for modernity to be Chinese. Is there a rupture between tradition and…

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Daniel J. C. Kronauer brings to life the research surrounding army ants, nature's preeminent social hunters. Without central…

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Minuchin traces for the first time the minute operations of day-to-day practice. Having achieved renown for his theoretical…

Materials from ten different cultures and traditions that arose and developed in Mediterranean religions are presented side…

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Evolution is the one theory that transcends all of biology. Nowak draws on the languages of biology and mathematics to…

This volume describes the content and discusses the history and origins of the three core commitments of Darwinism, examines…

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Vice President John Adams faces a turbulent world of rebellion in this volume of the Papers of John Adams, which chronicles…

\nThe Image of the Black in Latin American and Caribbean Art is the first comprehensive survey of the visual representation…

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Offers commentary and an illustrated history of the representations of people of African descent ranging from the ancient…

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Offers commentary and an illustrated history of the representations of people of African descent ranging from the ancient…

\nThe Image of the Black in Latin American and Caribbean Art is the first comprehensive survey of the visual representation…

Nearly everything we treasure in the world\'s most beautiful cities was built over a century ago. Yet the ideas and…

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Tato kniha představuje edici sady obrázků, které byly po mnoho let úspěšně používány více než čtyřmi sty psychology a…

Through a study of how a colony of bees is organized to gather its resources, this work examines the way in which a…