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Fantasy. Welcome to the Empty Quarter, the domain of Djinn, ghouls, demons and the effrit who take the shapes of beasts. You used to walk among us, and we among you. Now things are different. Now we...

New York, [1953?]. First American edition, printed in Great Britain. With a foreword by Arthur Waley. Cloth, dj. 210 p. ; illus., fold. map ; 22 cm. Ex-library copy from the Grove Press archive, with...

A groundbreaking history of fengshui’s roles in public life and law during China’s last imperial dynastyToday the term fengshui, which literally means “wind and water,” is recognized around the world...

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The Labor of Architecture examines the social and historical narratives that led to the illusory division between the “working class” and the “creative class.” In popular imagination, as author C.G...

The marvelous microbes that made life on Earth possible and support our very existenceFor almost four billion years, microbes had the primordial oceans all to themselves. The stewards of Earth, these...

Among the many differences between classical and p-adic objects, those related to differential equations occupy a special place. For example, a closed p-adic analytic one-form defined on a...

“To dive into a Wodehouse novel is to swim in some of the most elegantly turned phrases in the English language.”—Ben Schott Follow the adventures of Bertie Wooster and his gentleman’s gentleman,...

In Bringing the Sacred Down to Earth, Corinne Dempsey offers a comparative study of Hindu and Christian, Indian and Euro/American earthbound religious expressions. She argues that official religious,...

An introduction to high-energy physics that prepares students to understand the experimental frontierThe new experiments underway at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland may significantly...

"In the summer of 1933 C. G. Jung was fifty-seven years old and had already established himself as one of the leading psychologists of his time. He was already known as the founder of his own brand...

In this companion to The Ancient Greeks and The Ancient Romans, Professor Starr discusses a million years of human history. He begins with the earliest stages of mankind's existence, the...

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