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The great themes woven through John Lukacs's spirited, concise history of the twentieth century are inseparable from the…

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The American working class didn't disappear with the manufacturing economy. It transformed. Instead of unionized blue-collar…

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The Frontline collects essays in a companion volume to Plokhy's The Gates of Europe and Chernobyl. The essays present…

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As they immerse themselves in foreign cultures, trained anthropologists find that accepting difference is one thing,…

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Writings on Body and Soul includes a selection of the theological, historical, and devotional works of Aelred, the…

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Ancient Greek Heroes, Athletes, Poetry centers on masterpieces of ancient Greek literature, from the Iliad and Odyssey to…

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The Uses of Oppression follows the development of the Ottoman Greek press in the nineteenth century. It employs the vivid…

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The athletes, pahlavans, and the zurkhaneh, where they practice martial arts and spirituality, are often presented as the…

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

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Constant digital surveillance has inspired a heated but also limited privacy debate. Lowry Pressly looks beyond the narrow…

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In the spring of 1929, Martin Heidegger and Ernst Cassirer met for a public conversation in Davos, Switzerland. They were…

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Proteins link all life on Earth and enable its most astonishing capacities-from a firefly's glow to the navigational…

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"The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours" je hloubkové zkoumání pojmu hrdiny v antické řecké literatuře od Homéra až po Platóna,…

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No historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. In the war's aftermath,…

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Must the sins of America's past poison its hope for the future? Lately the American Left, withdrawing into the halls of…

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An award-winning genetic researcher and a tenacious journalist examine each phase of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, the…

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Exploring themes that preoccupied Albert Camus--absurdity, silence, revolt, fidelity, and moderation--Robert Zaretsky…

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Traversing 2,500 years of global history, Ulbe Bosma shows how sugar, once a luxury reserved for Eastern emperors, stoked a…

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Lockhart’s Mathematician’s Lament outlined how we introduce math to students in the wrong way. Measurement explains how math…

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

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Philosopher Daniel Milo offers a vigorous critique of the quasi-monopoly that Darwin's natural selection has on our idea of…

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

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A growing number of young men today say they are "mostly straight" and yet feel a slight but enduring desire for men. Ritch…

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Sociologist Robert J. Sampson's influential research redefines how we view crime and youth outcomes in the Unites States. By…

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Love weighs the costs of the contemporary move to the mainstream in lesbian and gay culture. While widening tolerance for…

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The story of the Russian intelligentsia after Stalin is poorly chronicled. Zubok turns a compelling subject into a portrait…

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Though we have other distinguishing characteristics (bipedalism, relative hairlessness, etc.), the brain and the behavior it…

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PHCC, 39 offers a wide range of articles on topics across the field of Celtic Studies and includes the Colloquium keynote…

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Long before GPS and Google Earth, humans traveled vast distances using environmental clues and simple instruments. What is…

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Branko Milanovic presents a bold account of the dynamics that drive inequality on a global scale. Using vast data sets, he…

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Today, pardons seem to be astonishingly broad and everywhere, with candidates promising pardons and presidents eagerly…

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For decades neuroscientists understood sensory perception as a matter of external stimuli "sparking" regions of the brain.…

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Many Americans assume that the country was founded by skeptics of "big government," who saw minimal state power as freedom's…

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Bobby Kennedy wasn't the most visible figure in the civil rights movement, but his impact was transformative. As attorney…

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The State of Housing Design 2023 is the first report in a new series that reviews national trends, ideas, and critical…

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The Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer (eighth century BC) are the two oldest European epic poems. The former tells of Achilles'…

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The comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences ca. 205-184 BC, are the earliest Latin…

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The Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer (eighth century BC) are the two oldest European epic poems. The latter tells of Odysseus'…

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Dealing with climate change means accepting tough tradeoffs: giving up certain energy sources, products, and conveniences,…

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Plutarch (ca. AD 45-120) wrote on many subjects. His extant works other than the Parallel Lives are varied, about sixty in…

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Pausanias, one of the Roman world's great travelers, sketches in Description of Greece the history, geography, landmarks,…