Humanities - Page 239

Supertall: How the World's Tallest Buildings Are Reshaping Our Cities and Our Lives

The global boom in skyscrapers—why it’s happening now, how they’re made, and what they do to cities...

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Blood, Fire and Gold: The Story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici

A story told with verve and passion' The Times, Book of the Week'An alternative and engaging biograp...

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How to Be You: Simone de Beauvoir and the Art of Authentic Living

'It isn't easy to be authentic. Skye Cleary's How to Be You is the guide you need if you are serious...

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Slow Rise: A Bread-Making Adventure

'Compelling, vivid . . . Slow Rise will be welcomed by the new bread geeks' SpectatorOver the course...

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The Enemy: An Intellectual Portrait of Carl Schmitt

“A book which everyone interested in modern political theory should read.”—Michael Mann The w...

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Ukraine: A Nation on the Borderland

In Ukraine: A Nation on the Borderland, Karl Schlögel presents a picture of a country which lies on...

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Barbarossa: And the Bloodiest War in History

Drawing on remarkable and never-before-seen material, the extraordinary story of one of the most hor...

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Haunted by Chaos: China’s Grand Strategy from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping

“Readers will not find a shrewder analysis as to why the Chinese act as they do.”—Robert D. Kaplan...

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The Self: A History

The Self: A History explores the ways in which the concept of an 'I' or a 'self' has been developed...

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Losing Ourselves: Learning to Live Without a Self

In Losing Ourselves, Jay Garfield, a leading expert on Buddhist philosophy, offers a brief and radic...

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A Greek State in Formation: The Origins of Civilization in Mycenaean Pylos

Although the Mycenaean civilization of the Greek Bronze Age was identified 150 years ago, its origin...

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The Riddle of the Rosetta: How an English Polymath and a French Polyglot Discovered the Meaning of Egypt

In 1799, a French Army officer was rebuilding the defenses of a fort on the banks of the Nile when h...

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The Invention of Medicine: From Homer to Hippocrates

Longlisted for the RUNCIMAN AWARD, 2021Medicine is one of the great fields of achievement of the Anc...

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Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe

'Magisterial ... Immensely readable' Douglas Alexander, Financial Times'Insightful, productively pro...

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Completely Free: The Moral and Political Vision of John Stuart Mill

Few thinkers have been as influential as John Stuart Mill, whose philosophy has arguably defined Uti...

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