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Avishai Margalit, Assaf Sharon
Captive Minds

From philosophers Avishai Margalit and Assaf Sharon, an erudite yet approachable inquiry into political manipulation and the grave threat it poses to human freedom today.Manipulation is as old as history …

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Paul P Mariani
China's Church Divided

An illuminating portrait of how Shanghai's Catholic community surged back to life after the Cultural Revolution-and of a Church divided between allegiance to the Vatican and loyalty to the Communist party…

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Jamie Martin
The Meddlers

"Martin's impressive new book, The Meddlers, considers the League of Nations and other interwar precursors of 'neutral' institutions of doux commerce to show how closely the 'birth of global economic…

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Laura J. Martin
Wild by Design

"A fascinating book-far-reaching, deeply researched, and probing." -Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White Sky "Outstandingly well-researched and deeply thoughtful . . . An essential re…

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Peter Mauch
Tojo

The definitive biography of Hideki Tojo, the controversial general who redefined military leadership in Showa-era Japan before his downfall during World War II.The military general who became Emperor Hiro…

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Jal Mehta, Maxwell Yurkofsky, Kim Frumin, Amelia Peterson
A Chance to Solve Their Own Problems

An inside look at the promise and pitfalls of continuous improvement and design in education--showing why reform sometimes succeeds, sometimes fails, and what leaders can do about it.While the headlines h…

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Gervase Of Melkley,
The Art of Making Verses

The thirteenth-century Art of Making Verses, which departs from established critical texts on poetry and seeks to teach the art of verse in an entirely new way, was composed by the English poet and teache…

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Juan De Mena,
The Labyrinth of Fortune

The Dantesque political allegory The Labyrinth of Fortune, composed in 1444 by Juan de Mena, reflects on Juan II of Castile's contentious kingship and frames the Reconquest of Moorish territories as a sac…

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Mhaimbhat,
God at Play

The oldest extant literature written in Marathi.God at Play, or Līḷācaritra, is a remarkable biography of the medieval religious figure Chakradhar Svami. His followers, called Mahanubhavs, understand him …

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Branko Milanovic
Visions of Inequality

Branko Milanovic charts 200 years of the fascinating history of the discourse on inequality through portraits of six key economists, from Quesnay to Kuznets. In their work and lives, we see how differentl…

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Vladimir Miskovic, Steven Jay Lynn
Dreaming Reality

A cutting-edge neuroscientist and a leading clinical psychologist look to religious, mystical, and mind-altering experience to challenge scientific orthodoxies concerning consciousness.We are nothing but …

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Gary Saul Morson
Wonder Confronts Certainty

Gary Saul Morson brings to life the intense intellectual debates shaping two centuries of Russian writing. Dialogues of great writers with philosophical wanderers and blood-soaked radicals reveal a contes…

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Matthew W Mosca
The Khan and the Unicorn

The Mongol Empire changed the world, but early chronicles of its conquests, written from regional perspectives and widely dispersed, could not convey its far-reaching significance. The Khan and the Unicor…

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Oswyn Murray
The Muse of History

A Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the YearFrom "one of the most thoughtful ancient historians in Britain over more than half a century" (Mary Beard) comes a powerful look at how the moder…

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David Narrett
The Cherokees

A sweeping new history reveals how the Cherokees became a nation as they navigated a century and a half of intertribal conflicts and colonial expansion that threatened their way of life.For more than 150 …

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Maria Nasioula
By Heart or from the Scroll

Grammatika vases, one of the most distinctive varieties of Hellenistic relief pottery, present modern scholars with compelling research opportunities, as they document the reception of ancient Greek liter…

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Andrea Navagero, Marcantonio Flaminio,
Latin Pastoral Poetry

Andrea Navagero (1483-1529), among the principal poets of Venice, pioneered the Renaissance pastoral epigram genre. Marcantonio Flaminio (1498-1550), though now better known for his controversial religiou…

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John W Nesbitt, Werner Seibt
Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art

Volume 8 of the Catalogue of Byzantine Seals represents the first in an ambitious series of studies focused on family names. Through these seals, we gain a better understanding of the civil and military a…

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Viet Thanh Nguyen
To Save and to Destroy

The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer (now an HBO series) comes a moving and unflinchingly personal meditation on the literary forms of otherness and a bold call for expansive politica…

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Oleksii Nikitin,
The Face of Fire

The young Jewish boxer Ilya Goldinov and his wife Feliksa are looking ahead to a bright future in Kyiv. Then the Nazi invasion in the summer of 1941 changes everything. The Face of Fire offers a tapestry …

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