Aristotle (384-322 BC), the great Greek thinker, researcher, and educator, ranks among the most important and influential…

Tracing credit from colonial times to the present and highlighting its productive role in building national prosperity,…

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

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

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

Since 1945, as the U.S. has engaged in near-constant "wars of choice" with limited congressional oversight, the executive…

A unique document in the history of the Kennedy years, these letters offer a firsthand look at the working relationship…

Gordon explores the main venues of constitutional practice in ancient Athens, Republican Rome, Renaissance Venice, the Dutch…

Produkt Toward a New Iron Age? - Gordon, Robert B. a Koopmans, Tjalling C. a Nordhaus, William D. a Skinner, Brian J.…

For six terror-filled weeks in 1870 German armies bombarded Strasbourg, killing hundreds of citizens, wounding thousands,…

In the first comprehensive biography of Halleck, Marszalek recreates the life of a man of enormous achievement who bungled…

Since the beginning of modern warfare, one of the favorite crusades of the international peacemakers has been toward…

• Rok vydání 2018

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

• Čeština

Leonardo Bruni was famous in his day as a translator, orator, and historian, and was one of the best-selling authors of the…

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

Petrarca's four Invectives were intended to revive the eloquence of the great Roman orator Cicero, and were directed against…

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

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

Old English Lives of Saints, a series composed in the 990s by the Benedictine monk Aelfric, portrays an array of…

In the Miscellanies, the great Italian Renaissance scholar-poet Angelo Poliziano penned two sets of mini-essays focused on…

John Fine offers a major reassessment of the history of Greece from prehistoric times to the rise of Alexander. Throughout…

Tracing the slow and difficult rise of Republicans in the South over five decades, Earl and Merle Black tell the remarkable…

Kaiser looks at 400 years of modern European history to find the political causes of war in four distinct periods, and shows…

Collins traces the movement of philosophical thought in ancient Greece, China, Japan, India, the medieval Islamic and Jewish…

A History of the Jewish People presents a total vision of Jewish experiences and achievements-religious, political, social,…

The 1977 blockbuster Amar Akbar Anthony about the heroics of three Bombay brothers separated in childhood became a classic…

• Němčina

From the earliest magical charms and mythical sagas to the brilliance and desolation of 20th-century fiction, poetry, and…

Uncovers the complex roots of Shi'i sectarianism in twentieth-century Lebanon. Uncoupling the beginnings of modern Shi'i…

The History of Akbar, Volume 6 by Abu\'l-Fazl details the twenty-third to twenty-eighth years of Akbar\'s reign, including…

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

Dialogues, Volume 2 by Giovanni Gioviano Pontano contains both a perceptive treatment of poetic rhythm, the first full…

Chronicles the internal politics and events and focuses on the external affairs of Venice, and the conflicts with other…

Geoffrey of Monmouth\'s History of the Kings of Britain-the earliest book to detail the legendary foundation of Britain and…

\nThe legends collected in Saints at the Limits, despite sometimes being viewed with suspicion by the Church, fascinated…

Leonardo Bruni (1370-1444), the leading civic humanist of the Italian Renaissance, served as apostolic secretary to four…

During World War I, Britain and France imported workers from their colonies to labor behind the front lines. The single…

From the late fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, the imagination came to be recognized in South Indian culture as the…

Rejecting the view of modern Middle Eastern history as an offshoot of global power politics, the authors argue that the main…

The United States has a long history of citizens rendering service to their communities. Examples of government-sponsored…

The first comprehensive English-language biography of Emperor Huizong corrects the prevailing view of this ruler as a…

• Rok vydání 1990

Representing ten years of research into the history of the managerial business system, this book concentrates on patterns of…

The authors synthesize the results of their long-running study of Gunnison's prairie dogs (Cynomys gunnisoni), one of the…

White contends that Western democracies face novel challenges demanding our reexamination of the role of citizens. He argues…

Headlines from France suggest that the country's Jews and Muslims are inevitably at odds. But the past tells a different…