Humanities - Page 231

The Sea in the Middle: The Mediterranean World, 650–1650

The Sea in the Middle presents an original and revisionist narrative of the development of the medie...

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The Vanishing: The Twilight of Christianity in the Middle East

**Longlisted Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing**'A tragic portrait of a disappearing world, creat...

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Whatever Happened to Tradition?: History, Belonging and the Future of the West

The West feels lost. Brexit, Trump, the coronavirus: we hurtle from one crisis to another, lacking d...

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Archaeology: Why It Matters

History lies beneath our feet and in the landscapes around us. In contrast to the history that comes...

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What It All Means: Semantics for (Almost) Everything

How meaning works—from monkey calls to human language, from spoken language to sign language, from g...

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The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power

A biography of venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel, the enigmatic, controversial and hug...

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Smellosophy: What the Nose Tells the Mind

“Offers rich discussions of olfactory perception, the conscious and subconscious impacts of smell on...

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The Global Rules of Art: The Emergence and Divisions of a Cultural World Economy

Prior to the 1980s, the postwar canon of “international” contemporary art was made up almost exclusi...

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A New History of Western Art: From Antiquity to the Present Day

A radical re-examination of 2,500 years of European art, deconstructing and demystifying its long hi...

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Global Objects: Toward a Connected Art History

Art history is often viewed through cultural or national lenses that define some works as fine art w...

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Listening Service: 101 Journeys Through the Musical Universe

Based on his critically-acclaimed BBC Radio 3 programme The Listening Service, in which Tom Service...

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Dostoevsky in Love: An Intimate Life

'A daring and mesmerizing twist on the art of biography' – Douglas Smith, author of Rasputin: The Bi...

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The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Young Columbus and the Quest for a Universal Library

WINNER OF THE 2019 PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE The fascinating history of Christopher Columbus’s ille...

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Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative

In this spiritual sequel to his influential Reading for the Plot, Peter Brooks examines the da...

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Democracy’s Discontent: A New Edition for Our Perilous Times

A renowned political philosopher updates his classic book on the American political tradition to add...

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