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As a propagandist Claudian offers unique illumination of the intrigues inside and between the rival courts of Milan and Constantinople in the decisive years following the death of Theodosius the...

Clutag Press has produced another collector's edition, following on A Treatise of Civil Power in the first Clutag edition (2005) which is significantly different from the 2007 Penguin edition...

A modern classic of historical fiction written in the form of Claudius's autobiography.Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus lived from 10 B.C. to 54 A.D. Despised as a weakling and dismissed as...

"In the heart of this world, the Lord of life, who loves us so much, is always present. He does not abandon us, he does not leave us alone, for he has united himself definitively to our earth, and...

The venerable, time-tested guide to style, usage, and grammar--an indispensable reference informing the editorial canon with sound, definitive advice. Now in its 18th edition! More than 1.75 million...

Our greatest African American poet’s award-winning first novel, about a black boy’s coming-of-age in a largely white Kansas townWhen first published in 1930, Not Without Laughter established Langston...

The acclaimed debut graphic memoir by the author of Fetch: "a beautiful and innovative portrait" of young adulthood and confronting family secrets (NPR). When Nicole Georges was two years old, her...

The incredible fourth novel in the Martin Beck mystery series by the internationally renowned crime writing duo Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, finds Martin Beck heading a major manhunt in pursuit of a...

“Glaucon's Fate is one of the most interesting and insightful treatments of Plato's Republic in years . . . We may never know the real Socrates, but Howland's mastery and interpretation of an...

“Masterly deftness, funny sentence by funny sentence...a moving and intricately braided story of two mothers.” —Jonathan Franzen, The GuardianThis “beguiling, addictive read” (People, Book of the...

Why the paradigm of the world-class university is an implausible dream for most institutions of higher educationUniversities have become major actors on the global stage. Yet, as they strive to be...

BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE • From the internationally bestselling author of The Sense of an Ending comes a literary detective story of a retired doctor obsessed with the 19th century French author...

Poems deal with transience, memory, manners, music, art, love, reverence, time, dreams, mortality, and the past

A post-9/11 literary spy thriller from the National Book Award-winning author of Tree of SmokeAdriko is an African who styles himself a soldier of fortune and who claims to have served, at various...

*A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice*From the award-winning author Lynn Freed, who’s been called a “literary star” by The New York Times Book Review, comes a hilarious and brilliant new...

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The book traces the history of the diminished responsibility defence. Devised originally as a means of escape from the mandatory death penalty for murder, it is now retained as a means of escape from...

This is the most detailed biography of Prussian general and intellectual Carl Phillip Gottleib von Clausewitz. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER AND NEWBERY HONOR BOOK ● Before Rosa Parks, there was 15-year-old Claudette Colvin. Read the first in-depth account of an important yet largely unknown civil rights figure...