Humanities - Page 264

Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire

Winner of the Runciman Award Winner of the Charles J. Goodwin Award “Tells the story of how the...

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The Origins of Science Fiction

'Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth was exactly alike all...

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It's All Greek: Borrowed Words and their Histories

Most of us are aware that the words for some of our most important concepts stem from ancient Greek...

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Democratic Law

In this book, based on her 2017 Berkeley Tanner Lectures, Seana Valentine Shiffrin offers an origina...

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The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity

“An extraordinary work of intellectual history as well as a scholarly tour de force, a bracing polem...

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The Invention of China

"[A] smart take on modern Chinese nationalism" (Foreign Policy). Bill Hayton tells the story of how...

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Repair (Boston Review / Forum)

How we can recover from terrible ruptures, the pandemic, toxic politics, racist horrors, class warfa...

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That Tyrant, Persuasion: How Rhetoric Shaped the Roman World

The assassins of Julius Caesar cried out that they had killed a tyrant, and days later their colleag...

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The Italian Renaissance and the Origins of the Modern Humanities: An Intellectual History, 1400–1800

Christopher Celenza is one of the foremost contemporary scholars of the Renaissance. His ambitious n...

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Looking for Theophrastus: Travels in Search of a Lost Philosopher

Who is Theophrastus, and why should we care? Once, he was the equal of Plato and Aristotle. Togethe...

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Kant and the Law of War

The past two decades have seen renewed scholarly and popular interest in the law and morality of war...

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Humour

A compelling guide to the fundamental place of humour and comedy within Western culture—by one of it...

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Modern Ethics in 77 Arguments: A Stone Reader

From the editors of the widely influential The Stone Reader comes the most thorough and engaging gui...

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In Search of the Soul: A Philosophical Essay

The concept of the soul has been a recurring area of exploration since ancient times. What do we mea...

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Empire of Salons: Conquest and Community in Early Modern Ottoman Lands

Historians have typically linked Ottoman imperial cohesion in the sixteenth century to the bureaucra...

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