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Reducere. DescriptionHere is the first reliable edition of Keats's complete poems designed expressly for general readers and students.Upon its publication in...

Reducere. "The Essential Tagore "showcases the genius of India s Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian Nobel Laureate and possibly the most prolific and diver...

Contributor(s): Author: Paul LockhartFor seven years, Paul Lockhart's A Mathematician's Lament enjoyed a samizdat-style popularity in the mathemati...

Contributor(s): Author: Walter BenjaminTranslator: Howard EilandTranslator: Kevin McLaughlin"To great writers, " Walter Benjamin once wrote, "finis...

Reducere. ``Gypsies`` have lived among Europeans since the Middle Ages. Yet Roms still seem exotic to Westerners, who often rely on fictional depictions for ...

For as long as there have been nations, there has been an "international"--a sphere of cross-border relations. But for most of human history, this ...

Pigeonholed in popular memory as a Jazz Age epicurean, a playboy, and an emblem of the Lost Generation, F. Scott Fitzgerald was at heart a moralist...

Reducere. A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearAccording to census projections, by 2050 nearly one in three U.S. residents will be Latino, and the ...

From the first Slavic migrations to the Romanovs' rise to the Putin era, Russia has endured for centuries as a nation whose sheer size and diversit...

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, awarded both the Pulitzer and the Bancroft prizes, has become a classic of American historical ...

Contributor(s): Author: Mark Edward LewisEditor: Timothy BrookThe Tang dynasty is often called China's "golden age, " a period of commercial, relig...

Contributor(s): Author: Cecilia Heyes"This is an important book and likely the most thoughtful of the year in the social sciences... Highly recomme...

DescriptionA panoramic survey of China's rise and resilience through war and rebellion, disease and famine, that rewrites China's history for a new...

Society and Economy--a work of exceptional ambition by the founder of modern economic sociology--is the first full account of Mark Granovetter's id...

Between 1793 and 1794, thousands of French citizens were imprisoned and hundreds sent to the guillotine by a powerful dictatorship that claimed to ...

Contributor(s): Editor: Don Michael RandelThis classic reference work, the best one-volume music dictionary available, has been brought completely ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Edward O. WilsonView a collection of videos on Professor Wilson entitled "On the Relation of Science and the Humanities""In...

Contributor(s): Author: Timothy D. Wilson"Know thyself, " a precept as old as Socrates, is still good advice. But is introspection the best path to...

DescriptionTo all who say our democracy is broken―riven by partisanship, undermined by extremism, corrupted by wealth―history offers hope. In nearl...

In a work that is as much about the present as the past, Brad Gregory identifies the unintended consequences of the Protestant Reformation and trac...

Contemporary American poetry has plenty to offer new readers, and plenty more for those who already follow it. Yet its difficulty--and sheer variet...

A landmark in contemporary social science, this pioneering work by Thomas Piketty explains the facts and dynamics of income inequality in France in...

Reducere. Following his acclaimed life of Dickens, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst illuminates the tangled history of two lives and two books. Drawing on numerous u...

Awards🏆Winner (2002) - Bancroft Prize - (History)Contributor(s): Author: David W. BlightNo historical event has left as deep an imprint on America'...

Reducere. The French Resistance has an iconic status in the struggle to liberate Nazi-occupied Europe, but its story is entangled in myths. Gaining a true un...

A Times Higher Education Book of the WeekApproximately 200, 000 years ago, as modern humans began to radiate out from their evolutionary birthplace...

Reducere. When the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, the black community owned less than one percent of the United States' total wealth. More tha...

Contributor(s): Author: Laurent DuBoisThe first and only successful slave revolution in the Americas began in 1791 when thousands of brutally explo...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Albert HouraniAfterword by: Malise RuthvenUpon its publication in 1991, Albert Hourani's masterwork was hailed as the defin...

DescriptionA Times Higher Education Book of the WeekUnder certain conditions, the right small simple actions can produce large and complex "butterf...

Reducere. For South Koreans, the twenty years from the early 1960s to late 1970s were the best and worst of times--a period of unprecedented economic growth ...

DescriptionSomewhere in Africa, more than a million years ago, a line of apes began to rear their young differently than their Great Ape ancestors....

Contributor(s): Author: Bernardo ZackaWhen the State Meets the Street probes the complex moral lives of street-level bureaucrats: the frontline soc...

Martin Luther King, Jr., may be America's most revered political figure, commemorated in statues, celebrations, and street names around the world. ...

Reducere. American courts routinely hand down harsh sentences to individual convicts, but a very different standard of justice applies to corporations. Too B...