A majority of evolutionary biologists believe that we now can envision our biological predecessors - not the first, but…

Produkt History of Spanish Painting, Volume XII: The Catalan School in the Early Renaissance, Part 1 - Post, Chandler…

The unseeing of the gods was a requirement of Western modernity. Beginning with sixteenth-century debates over Christ's real…

This first detailed study of the bishops of Florence tells the story of a dynamic Italian lordship during the most…

Produkt A History of American Magazines - Mott, Frank Luther zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard University…

In a major reinterpretation, Sean McMeekin rejects the standard notion of the war's beginning as either a Germano-Austrian…

Shows how the collective purposes and meanings that had framed social debate became unhinged and uncertain. This title…

Offers a vision of how Islam first evolved. This title argues that the origins of Islam lie in what we may call the…

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

\nRenowned historian Anthony Grafton invites us to see the scholars of early modern Europe as laborers. Bookish but hardly…

The pace of energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, and population growth has thrust the planet into a new age-the…

Long before Greeks dominated the ancient Mediterranean, Phoenicians were the lords of the sea. Setting out from their…

Die erste umfassende Darstellung der Islampolitik des NS-Regimes. Zeigt die Instrumentalisierung des Islam durch die…

\nModern Japan is not only responding to threats from North Korea and China but is also reevaluating its dependence on the…

This book consists of eight comparative studies drawn from history, archeology, economics, economic history, geography, and…

In 221 bc the First Emperor of Qin unified the lands that would become the heart of a Chinese empire. Though forged by…

\nImagined Geographies in the Mediterranean, Middle East, and Beyond is a collaborative volume focusing on imagined…

After the collapse of the Han dynasty, China divided along a north-south line. Lewis traces the changes that underlay and…

A foremost Kant expert takes us on a lively tour through the revolutionary ideas of the founder of modern philosophy.…

One of the most momentous stories of the last century is China's rise from a self-satisfied, anti-modern, decaying society…

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In a work as much about the present as the past, Gregory identifies the unintended consequences of the Reformation for the…

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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The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution is a classic of American historical literature-required reading for…

This book offers an illuminating discussion of recent scholarly debates over the concept of 'Gnosticism' and the nature of…

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\nJames Hankins challenges the view that the Renaissance was the seedbed of modern republicanism, with Machiavelli as…

The attempt to repress a majority of its own population backfired on the Confederate States of America as the…

A reexamination of the most extraordinary of ancient ceremonies, this book explores the magnificence of the Roman…

Convened at Rouen and directed by Bishop Pierre Cauchon, the trial of Joan of Arc, in 1431, culminated in Joan's public…

\nWhen a young woman killed herself in the office she shared with her employer in 1920s Shanghai, the city reeled in shock.…

„Habsburská říše: Nová historie“ nabízí zásadní přehodnocení habsburského impéria, zdůrazňující jeho pokrok a modernitu a…

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By the late 19th century Odessa was the most polyglot and cosmopolitan city in the empire. In the first decades of the 20th…

A visionary reexamination of the value of privacy in today\'s hypermediated world-not just as a political right but as the…

From antiquity to the Middle Ages, the bear's centrality in cults and mythologies left traces in European languages,…

\nBefore the Communists came to power, China lay broken. Today it is a global force, but its leaders are haunted by the…

\nJoseph LeDoux argues that ideas like the self are increasingly barriers to discovery and understanding. He offers a new…

This text argues that in decision-making a focus should be placed on the bottom-line objectives that give it its meaning. It…

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\nIn Lesia Ukrainka’s rendering, Cassandra’s prophecies are uttered in highly poetic language and are not believed for that…

Stigler shows how statistics arose from the interplay of mathematical concepts and the needs of several applied sciences.…

\nSolutions to workplace burnout often involve victim-blaming: Stressed? Try therapy-or a new job. But burnout is a sign of…

How do we judge whether an action is morally right or wrong? If an action is wrong, what reason does that give us not to do…

The clever peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost won his case, when a man with a wooden leg swaggered into the French courtroom,…

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From later antiquity to the close of the 18th century, most educated men accepted without question a traditional view of the…

Hasegawa rewrites the history of the end of World War II in the Pacific by integrating the key actors in the story-the US,…