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In praise of good bookstores

From a devoted reader and lifelong bookseller, an eloquent and charming reflection on the singular importance of bookstores Do we need bookstores in the twenty-first century? If so, what makes a good one? In this beautifully written book, Jeff Deutsch-the director of Chicago's Seminary ...

Los gatos del Prado

Gatos saltando, peleando, jugando. Gatos agazapados, escondidos, en alerta. Gatos pensando estrategias, gatos contemplando el mundo a sus pies. Gatos con su trofeo indiferentes al mundo que les rodea. Gatos en todas las actitudes posibles son las que, a través de esta selección de cuadros ...

Nebrija

el sabio que amaba las palabras

Libro publicado en coedición con la Fundación Nebrija - Universidad Nebrija e incluido en el Programa Editorial 2022 del Año Nebrija. Esta es la historia de Antonio de Nebrija, el primer humanista hispánico, que vivió en los siglos XV y XVI. Célebre por su Gramática castellana ...

How God becomes real

kindling the presence of invisible others

The hard work required to make God real, how it changes the people who do it, and why it helps explain the enduring power of faith How do gods and spirits come to feel vividly real to people-as if they were standing right next to ...

The murder of Professor Schlick

the rise and fall of the Vienna Circle

From the author of Wittgenstein's Poker and Would You Kill the Fat Man?, the story of an extraordinary group of philosophers during a dark chapter in Europe's history On June 22, 1936, the philosopher Moritz Schlick was on his way to deliver a ...

Rome is burning

Nero and the fire that ended a dynasty

Drawing on new archaeological evidence, an authoritative history of Rome's Great Fire-and how it inflicted lasting harm on the Roman Empire According to legend, the Roman emperor Nero set fire to his majestic imperial capital on the night of July 19, AD 64 and ...

Hitler's Northern utopia

building the New Order in occupied Norway

The fascinating untold story of how Nazi architects and planners envisioned and began to build a model "Aryan" society in Norway during World War II Between 1940 and 1945, German occupiers transformed Norway into a vast construction zone. This remarkable building campaign, largely unknown today ...

The riddle of the Rosetta

how an English polymath and a French polyglot discovered the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphs

A major new history of the race between two geniuses to decipher ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Europe In 1799, a French Army officer was rebuilding the defenses of a fort on the banks of the Nile when he discovered an ...

In Hitler's Munich

Jews, the revolution, and the rise of Nazism

From acclaimed historian Michael Brenner, a mesmerizing portrait of Munich in the early years of Hitler's quest for power In the aftermath of Germany's defeat in World War I and the failed November Revolution of 1918-19, the conservative government of Bavaria identified Jews ...

That tyrant, persuasion

how rhetoric shaped the Roman world

How rhetorical training influenced deeds as well as words in the Roman Empire The assassins of Julius Caesar cried out that they had killed a tyrant, and days later their colleagues in the Senate proposed rewards for this act of tyrannicide. The killers and their ...

Robespierre

the man who divides us the most

How Robespierre's career and legacy embody the dangerous contradictions of democracy Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794) is arguably the most controversial and contradictory figure of the French Revolution, inspiring passionate debate like no other protagonist of those dramatic and violent events. The fervor of those who ...

The new science of the enchanted universe

an anthropology of most of humanity

One of the world's preeminent cultural anthropologists leaves a last work that fundamentally reconfigures how we study most other cultures From the perspective of Western modernity, humanity inhabits a disenchanted cosmos. Gods, spirits, and ancestors have left us for a transcendent beyond, no longer ...

Red Valkyries

feminist lessons from five revolutionary women

Through a series of lively and accessible biographical essays, Red Valkyries explores the history of socialist feminism century Eastern Europe. By examining the revolutionary careers of five prominent socialist women active in the 19th and 20th centuries-the aristocratic Bolshevik, Alexandra Kollontai; the radical pedagogue, Nadezhda ...

The poverty of ethics

The Poverty of Ethics stands the usual moral-political dichotomy on its head. It argues that moral principles do not in fact underlie or inform political decisions. It is, rather, the conceptual primacy of political discourse that rescues ethics from its poverty. Our ethical convictions receive ...

Making Ukraine

negotiating, contesting, and drawing the borders in the twentieth century

Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the ongoing war in eastern Ukraine have brought scholarly and public attention to Ukraine's borders. Making Ukraine aims to investigate the various processes of negotiation, delineation, and contestation that have shaped the country's borders ...

Haunted by chaos

China's Grand Strategy from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping

Before the Chinese Communist Party came to power, China lay broken and fragmented. Today it dominates the global stage, and yet its leaders have continued to be haunted by the past. Analyzing the calculus behind decision making at the highest levels, Sulmaan Wasif Khan explores ...

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devotional objects in late medieval Europe

From an acclaimed historian, a mesmerizing account of how medieval European Christians envisioned the paradoxical nature of holy objects Between the twelfth and the sixteenth centuries, European Christians used a plethora of objects in worship, not only prayer books, statues, and paintings but also pieces ...

Ancient Medicine. Airs, Waters, Places. Epidemics 1 and 3. The Oath. Precepts. Nutriment. (Volume I)

(Loeb Classical Library; 147)

This is the first volume in the Loeb Classical Library's complete edition of Hippocrates' invaluable texts, which provide essential information about the practice of medicine in antiquity and about Greek theories concerning the human body. Here, Paul Potter presents the Greek text with facing ...

Lysis Symposium ; Phaedrus

(The Loeb Classical Library; 166)

Plato of Athens, who laid the foundations of the Western philosophical tradition and in range and depth ranks among its greatest practitioners, was born to a prosperous and politically active family circa 427 BC. In early life an admirer of Socrates, Plato later founded the ...

Historia Augusta. Volume II

(Loeb Classical Library; 140)

The Historia Augusta is a biographical work roughly following the model of the imperial biographer Suetonius (LCL 31, 38) and covering the lives of the Roman emperors from Hadrian (r. 117-138) to Carinus (r. 283-285), with a lacuna between the lives of the Gordians and ...