Humanities - Page 265

Promised Lands: The British and the Ottoman Middle East

Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt in 1798 showed how vulnerable India was to attack by France and Russia....

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Mad About Shakespeare: From Classroom to Theatre to Emergency Room

From the acclaimed and bestselling biographer Jonathan Bate, a luminous new exploration of Shakespea...

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Rossetti: His Life and Works

Evelyn Waugh's first book: a portrait of one of the greatest artists of the nienteenth century, from...

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Lectures on Dostoevsky

Joseph Frank (1918–2013) was perhaps the most important Dostoevsky biographer, scholar, and cr...

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Adventurer: The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova

A fast-paced narrative about the world-famous libertine Giacomo Casanova, from celebrated biographer...

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Frontiers of Knowledge: What We Know About Science, History and The Mind

'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects' Steven PinkerIn very recent times humanity h...

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Germany: A Nation in Its Time: Before, During, and After Nationalism, 1500-2000

The first major history of Germany in a generation, a work that presents a five-hundred-year narrati...

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The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler

How six conservative media moguls hindered America and Britain from entering World War II “A first-r...

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Life of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. Oration

The Oration by philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463–1494), to which later editors added t...

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The Main Enterprise of the World: Rethinking Education

Philip Kitcher's The Main Enterprise of the World offers a sweeping vision of the goals of education...

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Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy

From the author of the international bestseller Debt: The First 5,000 Years comes a revelatory accou...

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The One and the Many: The Early History of the Qur'an

A revelatory account of early Islam’s great diversity by the world’s leading scholar of early Qur’an...

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Magic in the Middle Ages

How was magic practiced in medieval times? How did it relate to the diverse beliefs and practices th...

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The Making of a King: Antigonus Gonatas of Macedon and the Greeks

In the third century BCE, Macedon dominated mainland Greece, but was rapidly descending into chaos....

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Paradoxes of Inequality in Renaissance Italy

This Element explores the longest spell that can be computed from quantifiable fiscal records when t...

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