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Widely regarded as the Shakespeare of Persia, Bahram Beyzaie remains largely unknown to the English-speaking world. Naqqali…

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When we talk about education today, we tend to avoid the rhetoric of "mastery," with its erotic and inegalitarian overtones.…

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This volume searches behind the legend of Hypatia of Alexandria - mathematician, Neoplatonist and renowned beauty who was…

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If you want peace, prepare for war. A build-up of offensive weapons can be purely defensive. The worst road may be the best…

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In this updated and expanded second edition of Regarding Penelope, Nancy Felson explores the relationship between Homer''s…

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Modern Japan offers us a view of a highly developed society with its own internal logic. Eiko Ikegami makes this logic…

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Ottoman survey registers are recognized as sources on the demographic, economic, and linguistic characteristics of the…

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Turning to regression, Amemiya presents the classical bivariate model in the conventional summation notation. He follows…

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