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WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 * INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER Winner of the 2024 Dayton Literary Peace Prize Finalist for the 2024 Kirkus Prize Shortlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award One of...

A "hidden" instrument in the classical music world, the mandolin's repertoire of original music remains largely unknown. This book examines the lives and works of the mandolin's great composers and,...

Why are we sometimes unable to remember events, places and objects? This concise overview explores the concept of 'forgetting', and how modern society affects our ability to remember things. It takes...

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Finalist for the 2018 National Council on Crime & Delinquency’s Media for a Just Society AwardsNominated for the 49th NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Nonfiction)A 2017 Washington...

Dresch here combines ethnography with history to describe the system of sedentary tribes in South Arabia--a strategically sensitive part of the world--over the past thousand years. He examines the...

Hardcover with dust jacket. G/G. Dust jacket is edge worn and scuffed; covered with mylar. Boards are edge bumped.

The Home of Dancing Sivan is an inquiry into the traditions of the Citamparam temple in South India, the only Hindu temple where the image of Sivan as Natarajan, the dancer, is the central focus of...

G. E. Moore and the Cambridge Apostles.

Der Autor analysiert die Portraits antiker Philosophen, Schriftsteller und Redner vom Griechenland des 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. bis zum christlichen Rom um 400. Sein Buch ist nicht nur eine Geschichte...

" Un texte primitif très bref, d'une trompeuse clarté, construit, en vingt lignes, avec la rigueur sans bavure d'une nouvelle de Kafka, et fixé depuis plus de deux millénaires, semble s'être dissous...

This book presents a thorough and systematic integration of Aristotle's analysis of friendship with the main lines of the rest of his work in Politics and Nicomachean Ethics. The author conveys a...

Reading, like any human activity, has a history. Modern reading is a silent and solitary activity. Ancient reading was usually oral, either aloud, in groups, or individually, in a muffled voice. The...