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Augustus' Memoirs, written probably in the mid 20s BC, might have been one of the most revealing texts of Roman history - had they survived. Far longer than his surviving Res Gestae, the Memoirs seem...

This Very Short Introduction offers a clear, accessible, and concise account of the apocryphal gospels - exploring their origins, their discovery, and discussing how the various texts have been...

Now in a new translation, a classic nineteenth-century defense for the cause of idleness by a revolutionary writer and activist (and Karl Marx's son-in law) that reshaped European ideas of labor and...

An engaging, beautifully illustrated history of London told through twenty-five lost buildings London has been rebuilt and reshaped perhaps more than any other city over its two-millennia history...

Ideas and rules on the systematics of parasite groups, and to a lesser extent their hosts, have been influenced by the assumption that coevolution between parasites and hosts has resulted in parallel...

With more than 100 different families and 40,000 individual species, spiders are among the most successful creatures on Earth. Highly adaptable, they live almost everywhere, from equatorial...

How to sustain an international system of cooperation in the midst of geopolitical struggleCan the international economic and legal system survive today’s fractured geopolitics? Democracies are...

Frank Lloyd Wright has long been known as a rank egotist who held in contempt almost everything aside from his own genius. Harder to detect, but no less real, is a Wright who fully understood, and...

The development of the first universities from the 12th century onwards, growing wealth and patronage in certain cities, and above all the invention of printing and cheap paper, provided essential...

Paul Hazard’s magisterial, widely influential, and beloved  intellectual history offers an unforgettable account of the birth of the modern European mind in all its dynamic, inquiring, and uncertain...

For readers of Mozart in the Jungle and Year of Wonder, a new history of and guide to classical music.Paul Morley made his name as a journalist covering the rock and pop of the 1970s and 1980s. But...

En esta obra un filósofo se debate con la esperanza de sobrevivir, al mismo tiempo que se ve en la imposibilidad intelectual y espiritual de aceptar alguna versión ingenua de otro mundo que sea el...

An award-winning economic journalist on why the US dollar is positioned to maintain global primacy--and what that means for America and the world "Magisterial."--Edward Chancellor, Reuters ...

An award-winning economic journalist on why the US dollar is positioned to maintain global primacy--and what that means for America and the world "Magisterial."--Edward Chancellor, Reuters ...

Mostly vegetarian and infrequently vegan, the recipes in Lucky Peach Presents Power Vegetables! are all indubitably delicious. The editors of Lucky Peach have colluded to bring you a portfolio of...

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Collected stories from renowned and emerging voices writing fiction, poetry, and dramatic prose in the aftermath of 9/11New York is a city of writers. And when the city was attacked on 9/11, its...

Discusses the famous Dutch periodical, describes its influence on artists, architects, and designers, and analyzes the work of individual Dutch artists