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Guarino Of Verona, Pietro del Monte, Poggio Bracciolini
On Leaders and Tyrants

On Leaders and Tyrants contains works, the majority by Renaissance humanist Poggio Bracciolini, relating to a debate on Scipio Africanus and Julius Caesar that discusses tyranny, military glory, and leade…

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Frank Pasquale
New Laws of Robotics

Artificial intelligence threatens to disrupt the professions as it has manufacturing. Frank Pasquale argues that law and policy can avert this outcome and promote better ones: instead of replacing humans,…

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Alexis Peri
Dear Unknown Friend

Dear Unknown Friend relates the story of US and Soviet pen pals amid the early Cold War. The correspondents, all of them women, approached each other with curiosity and an eye toward coexistence. Their le…

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Serhii Plokhy
David and Goliath: Commentaries on the Russo-Ukrainian War

Harvard Library of Ukrainian Literature

Ukraine's stubborn resistance to Russian invasion proves that it is possible to mount a successful defense against an enormously larger, better equipped enemy. David and Goliath collects short essays, com…

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Pacuvius
Fragmentary Republican Latin, Volume VII

Loeb Classical Library

Dilapidated dramas. The Loeb Classical Library series Fragmentary Republican Latin continues with Marcus Pacuvius (ca. 220-130), deemed by Cicero to be Rome's greatest tragic poet, together with the fragm…

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Gustav F. Papanek
Pakistan's Development

In the 1950s Pakistan was generally considered to be a country that would remain among the poorest in the world, but economic development in the decade to follow exceeded all expectations. Gustav Papanek,…

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Deborah Parker
Becoming Belle Da Costa Greene

In Becoming Belle da Costa Greene, Deborah Parker chronicles the making and empowerment of a female connoisseur, curator, and library director in a world where such positions were held by men. Greene was …

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Gregory M. Patterson
Elegies for Empire

In Elegies for Empire, Gregory Patterson maps out a poetics of memory in the late works of Du Fu, widely considered China's greatest poet. He argues that, for Du Fu, memory held the promise of rebuilding …

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Minxin Pei
The Sentinel State

Rising prosperity was supposed to bring democracy to China, yet the Communist Party's political monopoly endures. How? Minxin Pei looks to the surveillance state. Though renowned for high-tech repression,…

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Josep Manuel Peramàs,
A Treatise on the Guaraní System of Government in Comparison with Plato's Republic (1793)

Josep Manuel Peramàs's A Treatise on the Guaraní System of Government in Comparison with Plato's Republic, 1793 analyzes Guaraní-Jesuit communities and aspects of civic experience such as weddings, public…

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John D. Phan
Lost Tongues of the Red River

In Lost Tongues of the Red River, John D. Phan uncovers the history of a Sinitic language rooted in the Red River Plain of northern Vietnam, which he calls "Annamese Middle Chinese." The life an…

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Natasha Piano
Democratic Elitism

Natasha Piano argues that the Italian School of Elitism-comprising Pareto, Mosca, and Michels-has been consistently misread. These thinkers did not, as alleged, oppose electoral politics. Rather, they saw…

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Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola,
900 Conclusions

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, the most famous philosopher of the Italian Renaissance, urged Christians to save their souls with Jewish mysticism-Kabbalah-offering to debate anyone in Italy. Nine Hundred …

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Valerian Pidmohylnyi,
The City

Harvard Library of Ukrainian Literature

Valerian Pidmohylnyi's The City was a landmark event in the history of Ukrainian literature. Written by a master craftsman, the novel tells the story of Stepan, a young man from the provinces who moves to…

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Plato
Euthydemus. Gorgias

Loeb Classical Library

"Plato of Athens, who laid the foundations of the Western philosophical tradition and in range and depth ranks among its greatest practitioners, was born to a prosperous and politically active family…

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Andrei I. Pliguzov
Documentary Sources on the History of Rus Metropolitanate

Edited and curated by the renowned medievalist Andrei Pliguzov, Documentary Sources on the History of Rus' Metropolitanate is a rich resource for any reader interested in the controversies and preoccupati…

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Serhii Plokhy
David and Goliath: Commentaries on the Russo-Ukrainian War

Ukraine's stubborn resistance to Russian invasion proves that it is possible to mount a successful defense against an enormously larger, better equipped enemy. David and Goliath collects short essays, com…

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Evagrius Of Pontus,
Letter to Melania

In Letter to Melania, Christian philosopher Evagrius of Pontus (345-399) meditates on the power of language, the composition of humanity in light of the three persons of God, and the final restoration whe…

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Andrii Portnov
Omeljan Pritsak and the Intellectual Origins of the Ukrainian Harvard Miracle

Omeljan Pritsak and the Intellectual Origins of the Ukrainian "Harvard Miracle" is the first English-language intellectual biography of Omeljan Pritsak-a prominent and controversial historians o…

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Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash
The Presidential Pardon

Today, pardons seem to be astonishingly broad and ubiquitous, with candidates promising pardons and presidents eagerly passing out get-out-of-jail free cards to allies and relatives. Saikrishna Prakash ex…

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