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On the unexpected pleasures and provocations of bad poetry The only Russian Count of Sardinia, Dmitry Ivanovich Khvostov (1757-1835) didn't achieve fame in his lifetime--he achieved infamy...

"A transporting novel told in the voice of a girl Virgil left in the margins. It is an absorbing, reverent, magnificent story." --Cleveland Plain Dealer National Book Award-winning literary legend...

Many attempts have been made to explain Russia’s fateful decision to invade Ukraine, but the argument of the distinguished political scientist Sabine Fischer is that we can fully understand Russia’s...

In this book, Joseph Masheck re-examines the spiritual in Mondrian's art and proposes a parallel between the equilibrium found in his paintings and his writings on theological justification. The...

A leading tech insider reveals how AI may threaten our democratic institutions and enable autocracy—and how to guard against thisAmerican democracy is under pressure, as institutions that we once...

FINALIST FOR THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER.New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Winner of the 2021 Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction. One of The...

Aristotle towers over Western philosophy and science as no other single person does. As they have come down to us, Aristotle's works comprise a veritable encyclopedia of philosophy and logic, the...

Includes New York Times bestselling authors Roxane Gay, Ann Hood, Marcia DeSanctis, and Susan Orlean The newest collection in this award-winning series from Travelers' Tales invites you to join...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A hugely ambitious, “delightfully readable, genuinely informative” portrait (The New York Times) of the two-centuries-long entwined histories of Iran and...

In this collection of essays, ten leading writers from different countries consider the conflicts  that have informed their own literary lives. 1914-Goodbye to All That borrows its title from Robert...

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Et domus exilis...