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Keith Tribe''s new translation presents Economy and Society as it stood when Max Weber died. One of the world''s leading…

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The first complete English-language collection of Simone Weil''s letters to her loved ones, A Life in Letters deepens…

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The oldest discovered statue, fashioned some fifteen to twenty thousand years ago, is of a bear. The lion was not always…

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Ronald Numbers has recruited the leading scholars in this new history of science to '­puncture the myths, from Galileo''s…

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We know more of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106'-43 BC), lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, than of any other Roman.…

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