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Over 120 years after Oscar Wilde submitted The Picture of Dorian Gray for publication, the uncensored version of his novel…

In Cecil the Lion Had to Die, Olena Stiazhkina follows four families through radical transformations when the Soviet Union…

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The Risalo is widely regarded as the pinnacle of Sindhi literature, cherished across South Asia and the diaspora. This…

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Pairs is a journal of conversations edited by students at the Harvard Graduate School of Design covering architecture,…

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Pairs is a student-led journal at Harvard University Graduate School of Design dedicated to design conversations. Pairs 03…

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After fifty years of posing and answering daring historical questions, Richard Bulliet tackles an array of topics as diverse…

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The nation-state and the colonial state have always been the same thing: the ethnic and religious majorities of the former…

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The US Constitution says nothing about a presidential cabinet, yet this institution has grown powerful. Lindsay M.…

Presented in a new edition with expanded notes, this genre-defying meditation on the semiotics of late-1920s Weimar culture,…

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Everywhere we hear of decline, of a world that was better before the influence of modernity. While some lament Western…

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The unique relationship between dogs and humans has had huge evolutionary consequences, changing the physical, behavioral,…

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Pigeonholed as a Jazz Age epicurean and an emblem of the Lost Generation, Fitzgerald was at heart a moralist struck by the…

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Focusing on idealists and visionaries who believed that Justice could reign in our world, this book explores the desire to…

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In The Length of Days, featuring a wild cast of characters, Rafeyenko combines poetry and wicked humor with elements of…

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The 700 poems of Hindi poet Biharilal's Satsai weave amorous narratives of the god Krishna and the goddess Radha with hero…

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The 1980s saw spirited debate in China, as officials and the public pressed for economic and political liberalization. But…

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The first biography of Zelia Nuttall (1857-1933), a pioneering Mexican-American anthropologist whose work on Aztec cosmology…

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John Ashbery appraises the lesser-known poets who shaped his own confounding, infinitely inventive work. In lectures on John…

Hideyoshi-peasant turned general, military genius, and imperial regent of Japan-is the subject of an immense legendary…

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In 1831 enslaved Jamaicans revolted. What began as a peaceful movement soon became a bloodbath as British troops retaliated.…

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Eli Black was the immigrant rabbi-turned-CEO who transformed the notoriously corrupt United Fruit into a model of ethical…

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The solution to inequality, environmental degradation, and other deficits of capitalism is better capitalism. The Power of…

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Throughout US history, black people have been configured as sociolegal nonpersons. Joshua Bennett explores the place of…

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\nIn Lesia Ukrainka’s rendering, Cassandra’s prophecies are uttered in highly poetic language and are not believed for that…

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In Serhiy Zhadan's tragicomedy A Harvest Truce, brothers Anton and Tolik reunite at their family home to bury their mother.…

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The miniscule motion of a butterfly's wings can trigger a tornado half a world away, according to chaos theory. Catharine A.…

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Both memoir and critique, Methodists and Muslims follows Richard Bulliet's expansive career, starting with his beginnings in…

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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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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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Classical reception implies a parenthetical relationship where Antiquity appears to be inserted into while remaining…

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Sheila Miyoshi Jager returns to the three-cornered contest among imperial Russia, China, and Japan over the Korean…

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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 fox knows many things, the Greeks said, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. In this title, the author argues that…

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Love Life follows Yora, an immigrant to the United States from Ukraine, as she becomes enmeshed with the seductive…

\nThe Sea of Separation, a new free verse translation of Tulsidas’s beloved Ramcaritmanas, presents renowned episodes from…

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Jonathan Lear's insightful meditation joins the end of the world to the end-that is, the purpose-of living. How to persist…

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In the memoir The Torture Camp on Paradise Street, Ukrainian journalist and writer Stanislav Aseyev details his experience…

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How did the United States appoint itself as the world's supreme military power? Stephen Wertheim delves into the archives of…

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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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What was it like to travel while Black under Jim Crow? Mia Bay brings this dramatic history to life. With gripping stories…

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Produkt Algerian Chronicles - Camus, Albert zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard University Press.…

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Samuel Beckett claimed he couldn't talk about his work, but he proves remarkably forthcoming in these pages, which document…

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

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Plutarch (ca. AD 45-120) wrote on many subjects. His forty-six Parallel Lives are biographies planned to be ethical examples…

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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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Pliny the Elder produced in his Natural History a vast compendium of Roman knowledge. Topics included are the mathematics…