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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Australia is packed with color photographs, illustrations, and detailed maps that will help you discover Australia region-by-region, from the aboriginal sights of the...
We tend to think of citizenship as something that is either offered or denied aby a state. Modern history teaches otherwise. Reimagining citizenship as a legal spectrum along which individuals can...
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A great many theorists have argued that the defining feature of modernity is that people no longer believe in spirits, myths, or magic. Jason Ā. Josephson-Storm argues that as broad cultural...
This volume collects all the remaining essays żeby Seneca not already published in the series [Consolato ad Marciam (Hine), Consolato ad Polybium (Hine), Consolato ad Helviam (Williams), De otio...
Parker, the ruthless antihero of Richard Stark's eponymous mystery novels, is one of the most unforgettable characters in hardboiled noir. Lauded by critics for his taut realism, unapologetic...
The most prominent naturalist in Britain before Charles Darwin, Richard Owen made empirical discoveries and offered theoretical innovations that were crucial to the proof of evolution. Among his...
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In this classic of science history, Shapin takes into account the culture - the variety of beliefs, practices, and influences - that in the 1600s shaped the origins of the modern scientific worldview.
We live in an age in which we are repeatedly reminded--by scientists, aby the media, żeby popular culture--of the looming threat of mass extinction. We're told that human activity is currently...
The Mahabharata, an ancient and vast Sanskrit poem, is a remarkable collection of epics, legends, romances, theology, and ethical and metaphysical doctrine. The core of this great work is the epic...
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Uniting thirty years of authoritative scholarship żeby a master of textual detail, "Machiavelli's Virtue" is a comprehensive statement on the founder of modern politics. Harvey...
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