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Kelly Clancy
Playing with Reality

'A dopamine hit on every page' Marcus du Sautoy A sweeping intellectual history of games and their importance to human progress. We play games to learn about the world, to understand our minds and the min…

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Ping Wang
The Poetic Way of XIE Lingyun

The father of Chinese landscape poetry in time and placeDuring the dark centuries between the fall of the Han dynasty in 220 CE and the golden age of reunified China under the Tang and Song dynasties (618…

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Justin Smith-Ruiu
On Drugs

In the wake of a personal loss and the upheaval of the pandemic, Justin Smith-Ruiu found himself at a California cannabis dispensary, pondering a profound question: Who am I and how did I get here?On Drug…

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Melissa Ann Kaul
Animals in Premodern Japan

In this Open Access book, the reader is presented with an outlook on current developments in Japanese Animal Ethics and how And Sheki's depictions of non-human animals, as well as the examination of Chine…

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Hendrik Dey
The Making of Medieval Rome

Integrating the written sources with Rome's surviving remains and, most importantly, with the results of the past half-century's worth of medieval archaeology in the city, The Making of Medieval Rome is t…

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Georgios Varouxakis
The West

A comprehensive intellectual history of the idea of the WestHow did "the West" come to be used as a collective self-designation signaling political and cultural commonality? When did "Weste…

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J. Mackenzie Pierce
Sounds of Survival

"A major intellectual history with extraordinary significance as scholars ask how art music in Europe has been a site for the contestation of difference. This beautifully crafted book is a model twen…

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Andrew Hammond
Late Ottoman Origins of Modern Islamic Thought

"In this major contribution to Muslim intellectual history, Andrew Hammond offers a vital reappraisal of the role of Late Ottoman Turkish scholars in shaping modern Islamic thought. Focusing on a poe…

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Sophia Rosenfeld
The Age of Choice

Winner of the István Hont Book Prize, Institute of Intellectual History Finalist for the Cundill History Prize A New York Times Notable Book of the YearA sweeping history of the rise of personal choice in…

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Sean Delehanty
Company Men

How an esoteric economic theory--and its most devout believers--changed the world forever.In the modern economy, stock price is king. The value of a corporation is measured in how it enriches its sharehol…

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Hendrik Niether
Der Lebensweg des Theologen Otto Piper (1891-1982)

The theologian Otto Piper (1891-1982) is an unjustly forgotten figure of contemporary history. Hendrik Niether presents a comprehensive academic and political biography of the theologian, focusing particu…

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Understanding the Greek Revolution (1821-1832)

The Greek Revolution remains a neglected episode in the revolutionary history of the insurrectionary wave of the 1820s. This volume collects the most recent research concerning the social, political and c…

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Jeremy Adelman
The Capitalist Era

A sweeping history of global interdependence from the late-eighteenth to the twenty-first century---with essential lessons for todayIn The Capitalist Era , leading global historian Jeremy Adelman puts the…

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Geoff Eley
The Modernist Wish

As the 20th century recedes, how should its history be written? The 1920s and 1930s were a time of paradox, of great conflict and contradiction. If those years were the crucible of a new metropolitan mode…

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Robert D Koch
Juan Perón's Anti-Imperialist Geopolitics

Using a blend of global, intellectual and cultural history, this book explores the geopolitics of Juan Perón and their relationship to, and impact on, the international history of the mid-20th century. Be…

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Ksenia Shmydkaya
Revolution, She Wrote

This intellectual and literary history explores the entanglement of historical imagination and left-wing politics in interwar Europe.Contrary to the popular perception of historical continuity and revolut…

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Eli Rubin
Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity

"Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity provides a comprehensive intellectual and institutional history of Chabad Hasidism through the Kabbalistic concept of òsimòsum. The onset of modernity, Eli Rubi…

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Alon Helled
Israel's National Historiography

The book analyses the development of Israel's national identity through the world of local Jewish Zionist historiography. Inspired by Norbert Elias' historical and figurational sociology, the book examine…

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Eli Rubin
Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity

Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity provides a comprehensive intellectual and institutional history of Chabad Hasidism through the Kabbalistic concept of ṣimṣum . The onset of modernity, Eli Rubin argue…

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Matthew Costa
Mother of Capital

Rent, or unearned income, is a pervasive concept in contemporary economics. Economists of all stripes see today's global economy as riddled with harmful rents, but most deny these are intrinsic to capital…

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