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Horses were domesticated about 6000 years ago on the vast Eurasian steppe. Michel-Antoine Leblanc presents an encyclopedic…

Winner of the American Medical Writers' Association Book Award, this volume describes, with observations on the process of…

The generation of 1914 holds a special place in memory, affection, and myth. In this irresistible and moving book, Robert…

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This bold book asks the ultimate question of the life sciences: How did the human mind acquire its incomparable power? In…

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A major work by one of the more innovative thinkers of our time, Politics of Nature does nothing less than establish the…

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Justin''s artfully condensed version of the lost Philippic History of Trogus, a contemporary of Livy, is a universal history…

Of more than seventy works by Varro (116'-27 BC) we have only his treatise On Agriculture and part of his On the Latin…

Greek mathematics from the sixth century BC to the fourth century AD is represented by works of Pythagoras, Proclus, Thales,…

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Winner of the National Book Award, this massively detailed biography throws a light into the study of the brilliant poet.…

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A classic work, first published in 1941, translated into half a dozen languages, and now in a fifth edition, "Space, Time…

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Andrew Kornbluth offers the first account of the August Trials, Poland''s halting judicial reckoning with wartime…

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Livy (Titus Livius, 64 or 59 BC'-AD 12 or 17), the Roman historian, presents a vivid narrative of Rome''s rise from the…