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Adventurer

the life and times of Giacomo Casanova

The life of the iconic libertine Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798) has never been told in the depth it deserves. An alluring representative of the Enlightenment's shadowy underside, Casanova was an aspiring priest, an army officer, a fortune teller, a con man, a magus, a violinist ...

A little history of art

Charlotte Mullins brings art to life through the stories of those who created it and, importantly, reframes who is included in the narrative to create a more diverse and exciting landscape of art. She shows how art can help us see the world differently and ...

The Bhutto Dynasty

the struggle for power in Pakistan

The Bhutto family has long been one of the most ambitious and powerful in Pakistan. But politics has cost the Bhuttos dear. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, widely regarded as the most talented politician in the country's history, was removed from power in 1977 and executed ...

Queens of the wild

pagan goddesses in Christian Europe : an investigation

A concise history of the goddess-like figures who evade both Christian and pagan traditions, from the medieval period to the present day In this riveting account, renowned scholar Ronald Hutton explores the history of deity-like figures in Christian Europe. Drawing on anthropology, archaeology, literature, and ...

Thomas Jefferson

a biography of spirit and flesh

Thomas Jefferson was arguably the most brilliant and inspiring political writer in American history. But the ethical realities of his personal life and political career did not live up to his soaring rhetoric. Indeed, three tensions defined Jefferson's moral life: democracy versus slavery, republican ...

Ángel Rodríguez de Quijano y Arroquia

ingeniero excepcional, ilustre geógrafo y desconocido caballero de la Orden de Calatrava

The New Model Army

agent of revolution

The definitive account of the superior fighting force that powered the English Revolution The New Model Army was one of the most formidable fighting forces ever assembled. Formed in 1645, it was crucial in overthrowing the monarchy and propelling one of its most brilliant generals ...

Degenerations of democracy

Three leading thinkers analyze the erosion of democracy's social foundations and call for a movement to reduce inequality, strengthen inclusive solidarity, empower citizens, and reclaim pursuit of the public good. Democracy is in trouble. Populism is a common scapegoat but not the root cause ...

Island on fire

the revolt that ended slavery in the British empire

The final uprising of enslaved people in Jamaica started as a peaceful labor strike a few days shy of Christmas in 1831. A harsh crackdown by white militias quickly sparked a full-blown revolt, leaving hundreds of plantation houses in smoking ruins. The rebels lost their ...

Tomorrow, the world

the birth of U.S. global supremacy

For most of its history, the United States avoided making political and military commitments that would entangle it in power politics. Then, suddenly, it conceived a new role for itself as an armed superpower-and never looked back. In Tomorrow, the World, Stephen Wertheim traces America ...

The perfect facist

a story of love, power, and morality in Mussolini's Italy

When Attilio Teruzzi, a decorated military officer and early convert to the Fascist cause, married a rising American opera star, his good fortune seemed settled. The wedding was blessed by Mussolini himself. Yet only three years later, Teruzzi, now commander of the Black Shirts, renounced ...

Time and its adversaries in the Seleucid empire

In the aftermath of Alexander the Great's conquests, his successors, the Seleucid kings, ruled a vast territory stretching from Central Asia and Anatolia to the Persian Gulf. In 305 BCE, in a radical move to impose unity and regulate behavior, Seleucus I introduced a ...

Inky fingers

the making of books in Early Modern Europe

In this celebration of bookmaking in all its messy and intricate detail, Anthony Grafton captures both the physical and mental labors that went into the golden age of the book-compiling notebooks, copying and correcting proofs, preparing copy-and shows us how scribes and scholars shaped influential ...

Escenarios de la participación ciudadana

una visión multinivel

En el marco de nuestra democracia representativa buena parte de los debates sobre la representación suelen iniciarse o acabarse evocando su crisis, la crisis de la representación. Sucede tanto en debates políticos como académicos; más, no lo olvidemos, también en las conversaciones que los ciudadanos ...

The cabinet

George Washington and the creation of an American institution

On November 26, 1791, George Washington convened his department secretaries-Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, Henry Knox, and Edmund Randolph-for the first cabinet meeting. Why did he wait two and a half years into his presidency to call his cabinet? Because the US Constitution did not create ...

The frontline

essays on Ukraine's past and present

The Frontline presents a selection of essays drawn together for the first time to form a companion volume to Serhii Plokhy's The Gates of Europe and Chernobyl. Here he expands upon his analysis in earlier works of key events in Ukrainian history, including Ukraine ...

Imperial paradoxes

training the senses and tasting the eighteenth century

At war for sixty years, eighteenth-century Britain and France experienced demographic, social, and economic exchanges despite their imperial rivalry. Paradoxically, this rivalry spurred their participation in scientific and industrial developments. Their shared interest in standards of living and cultural practices was fuelled by migration and ...

Saint-Simon in Spain 1721-1722

an odyssey

The duc de Saint-Simon's memoirs of the last decades of Louis XIV's reign and the regency of Philippe d'Orléans are considered a masterpiece of the genre and one of the glories of French literature. His accounts of the dramatic events he witnessed ...

Dos tratados averroístas sobre la eternidad del mundo

Siger de Brabante y Boecio de Dacia

'Dicen que estas son verdaderas de acuerdo a la filosofía, pero no según la fe católica, como si hubiera dos verdades contrarias y como si, contra la verdad de la sagrada Escritura, estuviera la verdad en los dichos de las gentes dañinas', reza el inicio ...

Sociedad y Ciencia

Este libro plantea una visión antropológica razonada bajo un aspecto unitario, con base en hallazgos científicos de actualidad, además de exponer cómo el cerebro integra determinadas situaciones. Escrito de forma rigurosa, "Sociedad y ciencia" va dirigido a un público general, procurando hacer comprensibles los complejos ...