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Like a saint's relics, Dante's bones have been stolen, exhumed, and worshiped. Guy Raffa narrates the Florentine poet's…

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Tuck traces the black freedom struggle in all its diversity, from the first years of freedom during the Civil War to…

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Daniel Immerwahr tells how the United States sought to rescue the world from poverty through small-scale, community-based…

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The authors explain why Mao launched the Cultural Revolution, and show his Machiavellian role in masterminding it (which…

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Here is a rare opportunity to view painting through the discerning eyes of one of the world's foremost abstract painters.…

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What exactly is neoliberalism, and where did it come from? This volume attempts to answer these questions by exploring…

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Ronald Numbers has recruited the leading scholars in this new history of science to ­puncture the myths, from Galileo's…

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Biophilia is Edward O. Wilson's most personal book, an evocation of his own response to nature and an eloquent statement of…

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Nearly twenty-five hundred years ago the Greek thinker Heraclitus supposedly uttered the cryptic words "Phusis kruptesthai…

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A single species of fly, Drosophila melanogaster, has been the subject of scientific research for more than one hundred…

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Valerian Pidmohylnyi's The City was a landmark event in the history of Ukrainian literature. Written by a master craftsman,…

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Islamic China traces the interlinked stories of twenty Chinese Muslims across the centuries, spanning ethnic groups, sects,…

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Natasha Piano argues that the Italian School of Elitism-comprising Pareto, Mosca, and Michels-has been consistently misread.…

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Blake takes a detailed look, based almost exclusively on original source material, at the public health history of the town…

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The definitive biography of Hu Yaobang, who, as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party in the 1980s, promoted…

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Under free-market shock therapy, many economies of former socialist countries of Eastern Europe have declined. Why has there…

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Produkt New England Textiles in the Nineteenth Century - McGouldrick, Paul F. zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele…

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Produkt Rage for Order - Benton, Lauren a Ford, Lisa zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard University Press.…

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Hadot shows how the schools, trends, and ideas of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy strove to transform the individual's…

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On a June night in 1791, King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette fled Paris in disguise, hoping to escape the turmoil of the…

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The laws governing the very small and the very swift defy common sense and stretch our minds to the limit. Drawing on a deep…

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What happens when there is mourning with no closure, when a family member or a friend who may be still alive is lost to us…

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The Russia-China border is a study in contrasts, with booming cities on the Chinese side and sleepy villages on the Russian.…

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This book offers an insider's look at the political and cultural dimensions of design, development, and production, and…

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Fusing digital humanities with media studies and graphic design history, Graphesis offers a critical language for analysis…

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Scholars have long claimed that the Eastern Roman Empire, a Christian theocracy, bore little resemblance to ancient Rome.…

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The thirteenth-century Persian poet and scholar Rumi is revered to this day. Jamal J. Elias sheds light on the Sufi…

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Paul Kosmin argues that the coast-not individual shores, but the coast as such-was fundamental to ancient history. The…

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Linguist Rishi Rajpopat solves an ancient puzzle, showing that Pa?ini's Sanskrit grammar is self-sufficient. Centuries of…

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Luna Sabastian traces the evolution of Hindutva since the 1920s, arguing that it is a form of fascism. Influenced by…

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Festivals and the French Revolution-the subject conjures up visions of goddesses of Liberty, strange celebrations of Reason,…

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Using four notorious moments in the life of Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga of Mantua, Valeria Finucci explores changing early modern…

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As railways, steamships, and telegraph communications brought distant places into unprecedented proximity, previously minor…

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From the 17th to the early 20th century, the population of Martha's Vineyard manifested an extremely high rate of hereditary…

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Imagine beetles ejecting defensive sprays as hot as boiling water; female moths holding their mates for ransom; caterpillars…

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The romantic vision of the civil rights movement is exhausted, and its inverse, Afropessimism, offers a self-defeating…

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The people of Smolensk survived both of the twentieth century's most brutal dictatorships. Michael David-Fox probes their…

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In the 1970s, whites mobilized around a new version of the epic tale of plucky immigrants in the New World. Although this…

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Morton argues that the chief stumbling block to environmental thinking is the image of nature most writers promote: they…

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Attributed to Apollodorus of Athens (born ca. 180 BC) but probably composed in the first or second century AD, the Library…

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This is the epic story of how African-Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed themselves into a…

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The American Constitution has a dual nature. The first aspect is the degree to which it acts as a binding set of rules that…

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Building on Dawkins's classic, The Extended Phenotype, physiological ecologist Turner shows why drawing the boundary of an…

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Sociologist Robert Wuthnow notes remarkable similarities in the social conditions surrounding three of the greatest…

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It is common to regard rights and wrongs as mirror images: to be wronged is to have one's rights violated. Nicolas Cornell…

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Health and the Art of Living offers reflections on health and illness in early medieval Chinese literature (ca. 200-ca. 600)…

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Paul P. Mariani charts China's fraught Catholic revival after the Cultural Revolution, as Catholics loyal to Rome clashed…

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Brandon Bloch examines the remarkable transformation of German Protestantism after WWII. As avid nationalists and…