Humanities - Page 209

Every Brain Needs Music: The Neuroscience of Making and Listening to Music

Whenever a person engages with music—when a piano student practices a scale, a jazz saxophonist riff...

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Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Enquiry and Hope

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER***AS READ ON RADIO 4***The bestselling, prizewinning author of How to...

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Plato of Athens: A Life in Philosophy

The first ever biography of the founder of Western philosophyConsidered by many to be the most impor...

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Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber

One of America’s leading political theorists analyzes the nihilism degrading—and confounding—politic...

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Mandeville’s Fable: Pride, Hypocrisy, and Sociability

Bernard Mandeville’s The Fable of the Bees outraged its eighteenth-century audience by proclaiming t...

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Unconditional Equals

For centuries, ringing declarations about all men being created equal appealed to a shared human nat...

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Sasanian Persia: The Rise and Fall of an Empire

I.B.Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage FoundationOf profound importance in late antiquity,...

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Architects of Terror: Paranoia, Conspiracy and Anti-Semitism in Franco’s Spain

From the preeminent historian of 20th century Spain Paul Preston, Architects of Terror is a new hist...

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A People Betrayed: A History of Corruption, Political Incompetence and Social Division in Modern Spain, 1874-2018

From the foremost historian of 20th century Spain, A People Betrayed is the story of the devastating...

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The EOKA Cause: Nationalism and the Failure of Cypriot Enosis

This book explores the origins, conduct, and failure of Greek Cypriot nationalists to achieve the un...

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Churchill's Shadow: An Astonishing Life and a Dangerous Legacy

'Stimulating, erudite and above all entertaining...For any reader tired of the seemlingly endless ro...

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Confronting Saddam Hussein: George W. Bush and the Invasion of Iraq

A vivid portrayal of what drove George W. Bush to invade Iraq in 2003—an outcome that was in no way...

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How To Think About Cities

Cities are raucous, cacophonous, and complex. Many dimensions of life play out and conflict across c...

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The Greatest Shows on Earth: A History of the Circus

A history of the circus that is as enchanting as a night at the big-top itself. Now available i...

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On the Edge of Eternity: The Antiquity of the Earth in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

It is commonly assumed that the creation story of Genesis and its chronology were the only narrative...