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Elena Denisova-Schmidt
Breaking the Bonds of Corruption

In Breaking the Bonds of Corruption, Elena Denisova-Schmidt takes a broad view of corruption and its prevalence in global societies, using the case of Ukraine to examine practices that are considered corr…

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Barbara Di Gennaro Splendore
The State Drug

I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History

A revelatory account of the "wonder drug" theriac, which became a powerful tool in the hands of medical and political authorities at the height of the Italian Renaissance.From the 1490s, one of …

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Emily Dickinson,
Emily Dickinson's Letters to Dr. and Mrs. Josiah Gilbert Holland

The ninety-three letters-and the poems, over thirty in all, which she included in the letters or sent in place of them-written by Emily Dickinson to her dear friends the Hollands, are intimate, spontaneou…

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Emily Dickinson,
The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition

The most reliable reading edition of Emily Dickinson's poetry available anywhere, edited and introduced by a renowned Dickinson scholar.Emily Dickinson wrote nearly 1,800 poems in her lifetime-an astonish…

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Christa Dierksheide, Nicholas Guyatt
Jefferson's Wolf

A decisive reassessment of Thomas Jefferson's long-debated views on slavery, showing that his chief antislavery strategy was racial exclusion: the removal of emancipated Black people from the United State…

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Amir Khusraw Dihlavi
The Preface to the Full Moon of Perfection

A defense of poetry from a towering figure of the medieval Persianate world.Written in 1294 as the introduction to a book of poetry, the Dbcha-yi dvn-i ghurrat al-kaml became a lauded work in its own righ…

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Assa Doron, Alex Broom
A World of Resistance

A sweeping analysis uncovers the causes of-and solutions to-one of the most daunting public health challenges facing the world today: antibiotic resistance exploding in India.The discovery of antibiotics …

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Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
The Story of Alice

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst illuminates two entangled lives: the Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and Alice Liddell, the child for whom he invented the Alice stories. This relationship in…

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Katie Ebner-Landy
The Character Sketch as Philosophy

Katie Ebner-Landy shows that early modern Europeans, inspired by the ancient philosopher Theophrastus, embraced the character sketch as a source of moral and political education. Yet Enlightenment thinker…

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Umberto Eco
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods

The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures

"Erudite, wide-ranging, and slyly humorous." -The AtlanticOne of the great novelists and public intellectuals of our time gives a master class on the philosophy of fiction.Umberto Eco was fond o…

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Jamal J. Elias
After Rumi

A preeminent scholar of Islamic history chronicles the rise of the Mevlevis, the influential Sufi community founded by Rumi.The thirteenth-century Persian poet and scholar Rumi is revered to this day. How…

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Jon Else
Frenchman Flat

The story of a single nuclear bomb's deep origins, brief life during the Cold War, and lasting environmental and political legacies-as a fresh path to consider the entire sweep of the American nuclear ent…

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Johannes Scotus Eriugena,
Periphyseon

Called the "final achievement" of ancient philosophy, Periphyseon draws on knowledge of both the Greek and Latin Christian theological traditions, remarkable in the Carolingian world. It present…

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Caleb Everett
A Myriad of Tongues

Exploring breakthroughs in language and cognition research, Caleb Everett finds that fundamentals of human perception are culturally encoded by the words and sentences we use. The experience of time, spac…

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Adams Family,
Adams Family Correspondence

Adams Papers

From Quincy, MA, John and Abigail Adams watched and felt the impact of a US embargo on British trade, while Senator John Quincy Adams drew Federalist ire for his role in its passage. In 236 letters, Volum…

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Nancy Felson
Regarding Penelope

Hellenic Studies Series

In this updated and expanded second edition of Regarding Penelope, Nancy Felson explores the relationship between Homer's construction of Penelope and his more general approach to poetic production and re…

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Tamara Surani Fernando
Shallow Blue Empire

Harvard Historical Studies

A nuanced history of seafaring communities in the Indian Ocean, where the force of British imperial power depended on the expertise of local divers and sailors to feed a global demand for pearls.In the la…

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Marsilio Ficino,
Commentary on Plotinus

A preeminent Renaissance philosopher on the founder of NeoplatonismMarsilio Ficino (1433-1499) was the leading Platonic philosopher of the Renaissance and is generally recognized as the greatest authority…

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Maggie M. Fink, Shahir S. Rizk
The Color of North

An awe-inspiring journey into the world of proteins-how they shape life, and their remarkable potential to heal our bodies and our planet.Each fall, a robin begins the long trek north from Gibraltar to he…

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Dov Fox
The Conscience of Care

American law categorically protects clinicians who invoke conscience to refuse standard care, from Plan B to IVF. Yet clinicians enjoy no conscience protections when they offer prohibited care, as in stat…

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