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Old English Lives of Saints, a series composed in the 990s by the Benedictine monk Aelfric, portrays an array of…
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Old English Lives of Saints, a series composed in the 990s by the Benedictine monk Aelfric, portrays an array of…
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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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The main literary dispute of the Renaissance pitted those Neo-Latin writers favoring Cicero alone as the apotheosis of Latin…
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Leon Battista Alberti was among the most famous figures of the Italian Renaissance. Biographical and Autobiographical…
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The Iberian Apollonius of Tyre includes the poem The Book of Apollonius, a creative and Christianized adaptation, and the…
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The defeat of the Ottomans by the Holy League fleet at Lepanto (1571) was among the most celebrated international events of…
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The Old English poems in this volume are among the first retellings of scriptural texts in a European vernacular. More than…
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The most important work by one of America's greatest twentieth-century philosophers, Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind…
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Valla (1407-1457) was the most important theorist of the humanist movement. His most famous work is the present volume, an…
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Biblical and Pastoral Poetry was written by Alcimus Avitus, bishop of Vienne, in the late fifth or early sixth century. This…
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Chinese Animation is the first edited book that explores the multiple histories, geographies, industries, technologies,…
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Scala (1430'-1497) trained in the law and rose to prominence serving as secretary and treasurer to the Medicis and…
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For the first time in the history of Beowulf scholarship, the poem appears alongside the other four texts from its sole…
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Poems from the Guru Granth Sahib offers spiritual lyrics from the Sikhs'' sacred book of ethics, philosophy, and theology.…
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This book, by one of the most respected scholars of the Romantic era, offers an explanation of Romanticism that not only…
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The Old English History of the World, produced around the year 900, is an anonymous translation and adaptation of Paulus…
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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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Bembo (1470'-1547), a Venetian nobleman, later a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, was the most celebrated Latin…
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Geoffrey of Monmouth''s History of the Kings of Britain'-the earliest book to detail the legendary foundation of Britain and…
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The Oration by philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463'-1494), to which later editors added the subtitle On the…
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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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One of the most influential texts in the Middle Ages, The Rule of Saint Benedict offers guidance about both the spiritual…
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The legends collected in Saints at the Limits, despite sometimes being viewed with suspicion by the Church, fascinated…
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Why do citizens of states with strict surveillance care so little about their digital privacy? Why do Brazilians eschew…
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Why do human beings find some tone combinations consonant and others dissonant? Why do we make music using only a small…
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Biondo Flavio was a pioneering figure in the Renaissance discovery of antiquity and popularized the term Middle Age to…
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The letters of Bartolomeo Fonzio'-a leading literary figure in Florence of the time of Lorenzo de'' Medici and…
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Nicholas of Cusa (1401'-1464), a student of canon law who became a Catholic cardinal, was widely considered the most…
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In the Miscellanies, the great Italian Renaissance scholar-poet Angelo Poliziano penned two sets of mini-essays focused on…
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Sociologist Mike Savage shows how economic inequality aggravates cultural, social, and political conflicts, challenging the…
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This is an introduction to Jacques Lacan's approach to therapy, from the point of view of a practitioner faced with the…
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In a classic work, Samuel P. Huntington challenges most of the old assumptions and ideas on the role of the military in…
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Jazyk: Angličtina, Vazba: Pevná, Počet stran: 496, Nakladatelství: Harvard University Press, Autor: Eswar S. Prasad,…
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This last book by the late John Rawls, derived from written lectures and notes for his long-running course on modern…
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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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Renowned scholar Susan J. Wolfson assembles seventy-eight selections'-some beloved, others less well known'-that illuminate…
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Using a vast array of specific cases and clear, helpful diagrams, Raiffa not only elucidates the step-by-step processes of…
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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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During the Aegean Bronze Age, the spread of woolen textiles triggered an increased demand for color. In The Purpled World,…
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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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What do Germans mean when they say '"never again'"? Andrew Port examines German responses to the genocides in Cambodia,…
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Electronic eavesdropping once provoked protest and outrage. Now it is a mundane fact of life. How did we get here? The…
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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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A Spanish-born Jesuit trained in psychology at the University of Chicago and killed by a Salvadoran death squad in 1989,…
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Fredrik Albritton Jonsson and Carl Wennerlind chart ideas about economic scarcity across centuries of European intellectual…
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In 1699, Cotton Mather authored the first Spanish-language text in the English New World: a religious tract aimed at…
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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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