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John Ashbery
Other Traditions

"An entertaining and shrewd little book ... Ashbery is an accomplished raconteur." -Charles Simic, New York Review of BooksThe most influential American poet of his generation appraises the less…

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Augustine,
The Teacher. Teaching Christianity

Magisterial pedagogy. Aurelius Augustine (AD 354-430), one of the most important figures in the development of western Christianity and philosophy, was the son of a pagan, Patricius of Tagaste, and his Ch…

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Alex Averbuch,
Furious Harvests

Harvard Library of Ukrainian Literature

Furious Harvests transports readers to Alex Averbuch's homeland of eastern Ukraine. Amid the bloody destruction brought by Russia's war of aggression, the poet toils in fields of memory, reaping lyrics fr…

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Alex Averbuch,
Furious Harvests

Furious Harvests, a collection of striking poetry by Alex Averbuch, explores existential questions that war raises: from the Russian aggression against Ukraine currently taking place in Averbuch's home re…

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Hamilton Vaughan Bail
Views of Harvard

How Harvard College looked, from its beginnings to 1860, is shown in this collection of views, many heretofore unpublished, of its buildings and grounds. These lithographs, watercolors, charcoal drawings,…

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Ken Bain
The Learning Household

Children are eager learners, but many find school alienating. How can parents nurture kids' natural curiosity? Educators Ken Bain and Marsha Marshall Bain show that by creating a "learning household&…

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Erik Baker
Make Your Own Job

A sweeping new history of the changing meaning of work in the United States, from Horatio Alger to Instagram influencers.How Americans think about work changed profoundly over the course of the twentieth …

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Mou Banerjee
The Disinherited

An illuminating history of religious and political controversy in nineteenth-century Bengal, where Protestant missionary activity spurred a Christian conversion "panic" that indelibly shaped the…

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Brooke Barbier
King Hancock

Today John Hancock is known for his signature, but during the revolutionary era, he was famed for his pragmatic statesmanship. Brooke Barbier explores Hancock's position as a revolutionary who nonetheless…

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Rachel Elise Barkow
Justice Abandoned

Since the 1960s, the Supreme Court has enabled mass incarceration through rulings that violate constitutional curbs on pretrial detention, coercive plea bargaining, excessive sentences, and other forms of…

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Maria Grazia Bartolini
Bartolini, M: Eye of the Mind

In The Eye of the Mind, Maria Grazia Bartolini investigates how early modern Ukrainian preachers prompted their listeners to see and remember sermons by calling upon vision, memory, and mental imagery. Wi…

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Jay Belsky
The Nature of Nurture

From a leading expert on child development, a radical evolutionary perspective on how childhood experiences shape later life.Children who grow up in troubled circumstances-experiencing deprivation or inst…

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Theresa S Betancourt
Shadows Into Light

For over two decades, Theresa S. Betancourt researched former child soldiers from Sierra Leone's civil war to find out if they could reintegrate into communities where they had been forced to commit atroc…

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He Bian, Marten Soderblom Saarela
The Manchu Mirrors and the Knowledge of Plants and Animals in High Qing China

As the territory of Qing China expanded, so evolved the ways in which birds, beasts, fish, trees, and flowers came to be known in the multilingual empire. The Manchu Mirrors and the Knowledge of Plants an…

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Sarah Bilston
The Lost Orchid

The forgotten story of a decades-long international quest for a rare and coveted orchid, chronicling the botanists, plant hunters, and collectors who relentlessly pursued it at great human and environment…

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Brandon Bloch
Reinventing Protestant Germany

Brandon Bloch examines the remarkable transformation of German Protestantism after WWII. As avid nationalists and militarists, Protestant leaders had largely backed the Nazi regime. Yet after 1945, they r…

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Montserrat Bonvehi Bonvehi Rosich, Seth Denizen
Thinking Through Soil

In addition to its agricultural role, soil has become the primary agent of carbon storage in climate models, and it is also crucial for biodiversity and flood control. Through a sustained analysis of the …

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Jorge Luis Borges,
This Craft of Verse

"A wondrously limpid testament to the pleasures of reading." -Steven Poole, The GuardianSix incandescent lectures on literature from the patron saint of mirrors, metafiction, and infinite librar…

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Ulbe Bosma
The World of Sugar

"An extraordinary achievement." -David Edgerton, Literary Review "A remarkably researched, comprehensive, and indispensable book for everyone who wishes to understand how sugar and the suga…

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Aldo Bottino
Time, Tripods, Textiles, and Trees

Time, Tripods, Textiles, and Trees focuses on metaphorical and metonymical elements in the Odyssey to better understand the architecture of the epic and its causation. Aldo Bottino combines cognitive scie…

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