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A quarter-century after the publication of his classic account of man's attitudes to his past, David Lowenthal revisits how…
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Drawing on interviews, photographs, and previously unexamined archival materials, this book reveals the compelling story of…
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Philip Almond's engaging new book is the first to combine a history of early traditions about the Buddha's life with an…
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Benedict (Baruch) de Spinoza (1632-1677) was one of the most systematic, inspiring, and influential philosophers of the…
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Set in the postcolonial city of Kinshasa (DR Congo), this ethnography considers how disabled persons navigate debates about…
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Anxiety about the threat of atheism was rampant in the early modern period yet, paradoxically, examples of openly-expressed…
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Rethinking translation for the contemporary international stage, Jean Graham-Jones argues for a radical new approach…
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This book goes behind-the-scenes to explain how fossil fuel companies mobilize citizen support. Looking at pro-oil advocacy…
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The intersecting lives of the great Carthaginian general Hannibal and his Roman adversary Scipio led to one of the most…
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This Element offers a tour of literary forms - those that have received more attention and those that have been relatively…
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Exploring the pivotal correspondence and intimate testimonies of prominent luminaries from the era, this compelling new book…
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Uneven Urbanscape takes a new theoretically grounded view of how society produces and reproduces ethnoracial economic…
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An essential text for those interested in the history of Native Americans and Mexico. It offers a novel approach to…
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An important and accessible new collection of original articles, written by international scholars for students and…
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In a fresh examination of Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience, poems which often seem strangely contradictory, Dr…
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Provides a systematic approach to lexical indicators of cultural identity, drawing on data from Slavic languages. Šipka…
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Dr Cheshire interviews a group of non-standard English speakers living in Reading, Berkshire. She concentrates on…
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Argues that the largest extant theatrical tradition of the third and second centuries BCE continued to be vital for writers…
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With a sharp focus, this culmination of cutting-edge research offers a new neuroscientific model for analysing…
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This book is the first collection in twenty years in English to address the whole of Bergson's philosophy, including his…
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A new take on the origins of the Southern Literary Renaissance, Reviewing the South shows how book reviewing played a vital…
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Anne Curzan demonstrates the important role prescriptivism plays in the history of the English language. Starting with a…
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Institutions protecting constitutional democracy, such as election commissions and anticorruption investigators, are an…
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Pluralism is among the most vital intellectual movements of the modern era. This book provides the first history of…
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This volume is for both lovers of Shakespeare and those who are concerned about the danger that humanity's propensity for…
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Although there is a large body of popular and scholarly literature on multiculturalism, there are few communication-oriented…
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The book examines Spanish conquest and early colonialism from the vantage point of the indigenous nobility of Tetzcoco, one…
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Demonstrates that Romans, Greeks, Jews and Christians imagined the future of Rome in strikingly different ways, revealing…
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Concerned with rhetoric's role in shaping knowledge, culture, and society, this book shows how writers of both sexes engaged…
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Auerbach's reading of Renaissance writing presents a challenge to the pessimism of today, and in Mimesis he reveals…
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Presenting the outcome of a major research initiative involving two dozen scholars around the world, this book offers…
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A funeral speech was delivered almost every year in classical Athens. Forty years ago, Loraux showed how important it was…
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While revealing Noah as a pivotal figure in the history of Western religious thinking, Philip Almond demonstrates how the…
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Everyone has an older friend or relative who has needed long-term care and found a system woefully unprepared. In this book,…
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The essays in this volume address the basic purposes of constitutions and their status as fundamental law, deal with…
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The first full-length treatment of the Panathenaia, the most important festival in ancient Athens. Investigates how…
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This classic work in the literature of poverty, published in 1890 by William Booth (1829-1912), the founder of the Salvation…
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A Collector Collected presents the journals of bookseller, librarian and collector William Upcott (1779-1845). Chronicling…
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A lucid introduction to the life and career of one of the most significant figures in world history. A geographically…
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Most discussions of global governance treat it as a structure or process, without considering who does the governing. Who…
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Gives a rich and broad overview of Virgil, Virgilian reception over the centuries, and Virgilian studies. An introduction…
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The poor law had a profound impact, playing a central role in social and political development from the Reformation to the…
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This edition of Shakespeare's King Lear is based on the first (1608) quarto and represents a significantly different version…
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This book will engage readers in Irish, American and Caribbean literatures, especially those interested in world literature,…
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Rather than a natural frontier between natural enemies, this book approaches the English Channel as a shared space, which…
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In this quarto edition the text is accompanied by a collation of variant readings and substantial textual notes. Peter…
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This monograph traces the first century of Gothic ivory sculpture (1230-1330) through a panoply of new sources,…
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Bruce Scates charts the history of pilgrimages to the battlefields and cemeteries of World War Two. Based on surveys,…
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