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Cosmic connections

poetry in the age of disenchantment

A major new work by Charles Taylor: the long-awaited follow-up to The Language Animal, exploring the Romantic poetics central to his theory of language. The Language Animal, Charles Taylor’s 2016 account of human linguistic capacity, was a revelation, toppling scholarly conventions and illuminating our ...

The Cambridge grammar of classical greek

This is the first full-scale reference grammar of Classical Greek in English in a century. The first work of its kind to reflect significant advances in linguistics made in recent decades, it provides students, teachers and academics with a comprehensive yet user-friendly treatment. The chapters ...

Learning from the enemy

an intellectual history of Antifascism in interwar Europe

When democracy is under threat from authoritarianism, models of resistance must come to the fore. Giustizia e Libert�, founded by the Italian thinker and activist Carlo Rosselli in 1929, is one intriguing historical example. Operating both in exile and as part of a clandestine ...

The automatic fetish

the law of value in Marx's capital

he Automatic Fetish traces Marx's analysis of capital, step by step, through the material compiled posthumously as the third volume of Capital. Identifying the critique of value as the central through line of the entire work, Beverley Best elaborates a theory of movement through ...

Happy apocalypse

a history of technological risk

Being environmentally conscious is not nearly as modern as we imagine. As a mode of thinking it goes back hundreds of years. Yet we typically imagine ourselves among the first to grasp the impact humanity has on the environment. Hence there is a fashion for ...

The seer and the city

religion, politics, and colonial ideology in ancient Greece

Seers featured prominently in ancient Greek culture, but they rarely appear in archaic and classical colonial discourse. Margaret Foster exposes the ideological motivations behind this discrepancy and reveals how colonial discourse privileged the city's founder and his dependence on Delphi, the colonial oracle par ...

The wannabe fascists

a guide to understanding the greatest threat to democracyhreat to Democracy

Meet today's almost fascists and learn the warning signs to intercept them on the road from populism to dictatorship. With The Wannabe Fascists, historian Federico Finchelstein offers a precise explanation of why Trumpism and similar movements across the world belong to a new political ...

Capitalism

the story behind the word

How the history of a word sheds new light on capitalism and modern politics What exactly is capitalism? How has the meaning of capitalism changed over time? And what's at stake in our understanding or misunderstanding of it? In Capitalism, Michael Sonenscher examines the ...

Puerto Rico

a national history

A panoramic history of Puerto Rico from pre-Columbian times to today Puerto Rico is a Spanish-speaking territory of the United States with a history shaped by conquest and resistance. For centuries, Puerto Ricans have crafted and negotiated complex ideas about nationhood. Jorell Meléndez-Badillo provides a ...

Leon Battista Alberti

writer and humanist

The first book in English to examine Leon Battista Alberti's major literary works in Latin and Italian, which are often overshadowed by his achievements in architecture Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was one of the most prolific and original writers of the Italian Renaissance-a fact ...

Demos assembled

democracy and the international origins of the modern state, 1840-1880

An intelligent, engaging, and in-depth reading of the nature of the state and the establishment of the modern political order in the mid-nineteenth century. Previous studies have covered in great detail how the modern state slowly emerged from the early Renaissance through the seventeenth century ...

The librarian's atlas

the shape of knowledge in early modern Spain

A history of early modern libraries and the imperial desire for total knowledge. Medieval scholars imagined the library as a microcosm of the world, but as novel early modern ways of managing information facilitated empire in both the New and Old Worlds, the world became ...

The black tax

150 years of theft, exploitation, and dispossession in America

Revealing a history that is deep, broad, and infuriating, The Black Tax casts a bold light on the racist practices long hidden in the shadows of America's tax regimes. American taxation is unfair, and it is most unfair to the every people who critically ...

Spycraft

tricks and tools of the dangerous trade from Elizabeth I to the Restoration

A fascinating exploration of the devious tricks and ingenious tools used by early modern spies-from ciphers to counterfeiting, invisible inks to assassination Early modern Europe was a hotbed of espionage, where spies, spy-catchers, and conspirators pitted their wits against each other in deadly games of ...

My Egypt archive

A prominent historian provides an engaging on-the-ground account of the everyday authoritarianism that produced the Arab Spring in Egypt "A visceral and perceptive study of life under autocracy."--Publishers Weekly An unmatched contemporary history of authoritarian politics and an unflinching examination of the politics of ...

Enheduana

the complete poems of the world's first author

Enheduana was a high priestess and royal princess who lived in Ur, in what is now southern Iraq, about 2300 BCE. Not only does Enheduana have the distinction of being the first author whose name we know, but the poems attributed to her are hymns ...

El testigo mudo

Un crimen casi perfecto que solo Poirot puede resolver.«Novedosa y con personajes interesantes, está repleta de ingenio.» The New York Times La señorita Arundell, una anciana acaudalada, vive sola con la única compañía de su fiel amigo, su perro Bob. Un día sufre lo ...

Hacia cero

Una de las diez novelas favoritas de la propia Agatha Christie.«Una narración magistral.» The Times Literary Supplement ¿Qué relación hay entre un intento de suicidio fallido, una acusación de robo injusta contra una alumna y la vida sentimental de un famoso tenista? Para un ...

J.R.R. Tolkien

Autor del siglo

Un volumen complementario del mundo de J.R.R. Tolkien.El estudio crítico definitivo de las mejores obras de Tolkien realizado por el respetado y mundialmente reconocido experto en Tolkien, el profesor T.A. Shippey. El respetado académico y estudioso de Tolkien de renombre mundial ...

Memoria

un caso para Rekke y Vargas

Tras el éxito de la Serie Millennium, vuelve David Lagercrantz con un segundo caso de Rekke y Vargas.Claire Lidman falleció catorce años atrás, pero Samuel, su marido, siempre se ha negado a aceptarlo. Cuando un buen día cree reconocer su perfil en una fotografía ...