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Anonymous Old English Lives of Saints includes narratives from the eleventh and twelfth centuries about locally venerated…

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Ethnic groups continue to be conceived as entities and cast as actors. Journalists and others frame accounts of ethnic,…

Religious piety has rarely been animated as vigorously as in Old English Poems of Christ and His Saints. Ranging from…

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

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The twelfth-century Latin beast epic Ysengrimus is one of the great comic masterpieces of the Middle Ages. It recounts the…

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This volume presents two complementary medieval anthologies containing lyrics by two outstanding Latin poets of the second…

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In US foreign policy, conflict has replaced diplomacy. At home, wars on crime, drugs, immigration, and terrorism dissolve…

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Leon Battista Alberti was among the most famous figures of the Italian Renaissance. Biographical and Autobiographical…

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Scala (1430-1497) trained in the law and rose to prominence serving as secretary and treasurer to the Medicis and chancellor…

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The anonymous Tria sunt, with its wealth of illustrative materials, was a widely used and highly ambitious textbook compiled…

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Imprisoned for conspiring against Pope Paul II, Platina (1421-1481) returned to favor under Pope Sixtus IV, and composed…

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Integrating themes from American history, political science, and philosophy, We the People confronts popular sovereignty in…

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What do Germans mean when they say "never again"? Andrew Port examines German responses to the genocides in Cambodia,…

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

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Since it appeared in 1971, John Rawls's A Theory of Justice has become a classic. The author has now revised the original…

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With Commonwealth, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri conclude the trilogy begun with Empire and continued in Multitude,…

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During Guatemala's decades-long civil war, tens of thousands of children, many of them Indigenous Maya, were coerced or…

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Renowned scholar Susan J. Wolfson assembles seventy-eight selections-some beloved, others less well known-that illuminate…

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Dvora Hacohen offers the authoritative biography of Henrietta Szold, the founder of Hadassah. A global humanitarian, Szold…

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According to Yeats, rhetoric is the expression of one's quarrels with others, while poetry is the expression (and sometimes…

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Stanley Cavell looks closely at America's most popular art and our perceptions of it. His explorations of Hollywood's stars,…

Through case studies of scientists in the Amazon analyzing soil and in Pasteur's lab studying the fermentation of lactic…

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From the ashes of empire, the nation rose on a wave of idealism. That, at least, is the standard tale. Dominique Reill…

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Most of Barnard's career was spent in executive practice. A Mount Hermon and Harvard education, cut off short of the…

\nBuildings can make us sick or keep us well. Diseases and toxins course through indoor spaces, making us ill. Meanwhile,…

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Morrison brings her genius to this personal inquiry into the significance of African-Americans in the American literary…

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Spoken by eighty million people, Tamil is one of the great world languages, and one of the few ancient languages that…

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Huntington examines the persistent gap between the promise of American ideals and the performance of American politics. He…

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Andrzej Franaszek's award-winning biography of Czeslaw Milosz-winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature-recounts the poet's…

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The post-WWI crisis of statelessness induced creative legal thinking, as officials and jurists debated cosmopolitan…

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Constantly revised and refined over three decades, Rawls's lectures on various historical figures reflect his developing and…

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Give and Take offers a new history of government in Tokugawa Japan (1600-1868), one that focuses on ordinary subjects:…

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Anthropologist Jean L. Briggs spent seventeen months living on a remote Arctic shore as the "adopted daughter" of an Inuit…

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Fifty years before its golden age, Athens was just another city-state in Sparta's shadow. David Stuttard tells the story of…

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Durling's edition of Petrarch's poems has become the standard. Readers have praised the translation of the authoritative…

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The Democratic Marketplace argues that democracy has been hollowed out by capitalism. Seeking a path to self-governance,…

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More than 50 years later the murky circumstances and tragic symbolism of Patrice Lumumba's assassination trouble people…

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The interdisciplinary essays in Global Gold-by scholars of European, American, African, and Asian history and art…

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Cutting a path from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the Panama Canal set a new course for the development of Central…

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The Byzantine Sinbad collects The Book of Syntipas the Philosopher, originally a Persian story, and the sixty-two tales of…

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The sense of reading as an intimate act of self-discovery-and of communion between authors and book lovers-has a long…

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Tracing constitutional thought from the Enlightenment to the present, Martin Loughlin shows how a tool for the protection of…

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Juliane Noth shows how art and discussions about the future of ink painting were linked to the reshaping of the country,…

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Key contemporary discussions of distributive justice have formulated egalitarian approaches in terms of responsibility. But…

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Alexis de Tocqueville famously wrote about democracy in America, but he also lauded Catholic society in Quebec, feared the…

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The Greek war for independence (1821-1830) goes missing from the narrative of the Age of Revolutions, yet the overthrow of…

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Long before the European Union was the ideal of Europe: a continent politically united and thereby at peace. In a pointed…

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Betrayal seems to have lost its grip on the public consciousness in liberal societies, yet it is all around us, dissolving…