The Victorian Frame of Mind, 1830-1870
Walter E. Houghton
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"It is now forty years," Walter Houghton writes, "since Lytton Strachey decided that we knew too much about the Victorian era to view its culture as a whole." Recently the tide has turned and the
Behind The Screen
Sarah T. Roberts
Social media on the internet can be a nightmarish place. A primary shield against hateful language, violent videos, and online cruelty uploaded by users is not an algorithm. It is people. Mostly in
Causal Inference
Scott Cunningham
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An accessible and contemporary introduction to the methods for determining cause and effect in the social sciences Causal inference encompasses the tools that allow social scientists to d
The Arcades
Jens Hoffmann
The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin combines artworks with archival materials and poetic interventions to form an original, multifaceted response to this collagelike cultural text. Je
Graveyard Clay
Máirtín Ó Cadhain
The Archaeology of Jerusalem
Katharina Galor
The Compelling Ideal
Jan Francis Kiely
In this groundbreaking volume, based on extensive research in Chinese archives and libraries, Jan Kiely explores the pre-Communist origins of the process of systematic thought reform or reformation
Handbags
Judith Clark
Paracelsus
Charles Webster
Theophrastus von Hohenheim (1493-1541), better known as Paracelsus, was a physician, natural magician, radical activist of the early Reformation, and commentator on the social and religious issues
Nudge
Richard H. Thaler
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Every day, we make decisions on topics ranging from personal investments to schools for our children to the meals we eat to the causes we champion. Unfortunately, we often choose poorly. The reason
Existentialism Is a Humanism
Jean Paul Sartre
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It was to correct common misconceptions about his thought that Sartre accepted an invitation to speak on October 29, 1945, at the Club Maintenant in Paris. The unstated objective of his lecture ("E
The Conquest of Malaria
Professor Frank Snowden
At the outset of the twentieth century, malaria was Italy's major public health problem. It was the cause of low productivity, poverty, and economic backwardness, while it also stunted literacy, li
Britons
Linda Colley
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How was Great Britain made? And what does it mean to be British? In this prize-winning book, Linda Colley combines imperial, political, social, and cultural history to analyze the evolution of Brit
The Bronze Horseman
Alexander M. Schenker
This is a comprehensive treatment of the most consequential work of art ever to be executed in Russia - the equestrian monument to Peter the Great, or "The Bronze Horseman", as it has come to be kn
Paper Before Print
Jonathan M. Bloom
Like the printing press, typewriter, and computer, paper has been a crucial agent for the dissemination of information. This engaging book presents an important new chapter in paper's history: how
Venona
John Earl Haynes
This extraordinary book is the first to examine the thousands of documents of the super-secret Venona Project -- an American intelligence project that uncovered not only an enormous range of Soviet
Flesh and the Ideal
Professor Alex Potts
Winckelmann was not just an historian of considerable stature. He was also a very powerful writer who offered an unusually eloquent account of the aesthetic and imaginative charge of the Greek idea
Rethinking Art History
Donald Preziosi
An overview of the theoretical and institutional history of the discipline of art history which refutes the image of art history as in crisis, asserting rather that many of the dilemmas of the disc
Pesikta Rabbati
Braude, William G.
The Pesikta Rabbati, a collection of the discourses spoken in Palestinian synagogues and schools during the first half of the first millennium of the Common Era, is rich in tales of ancient Rabbini
We Need to Talk About Inflation
Stephen D. King
A FINANCIAL TIMES 'BOOK TO READ IN 2023' “Everything you wanted to know about inflation but were afraid to ask.”—Mervyn King "King's lessons command our attention.”—Lawrence H.
Latecomer State Formation
Sebastián Mazzuca
A major contribution to the field of comparative state formation and the scholarship on long-term political development of Latin America Latin American governments systematically fail to
The Athenaeum
Michael Wheeler
Trade Wars Are Class Wars
Matthew C. Klein
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Trade disputes are usually understood as conflicts between countries with competing national interests, but as Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis show, they are often the unexpected result of dome
Why I Am Not a Buddhist
Evan Thompson
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Buddhism has become a uniquely favored religion in our modern age. A burgeoning number of books extol the scientifically proven benefits of meditation and mindfulness for everything ranging from bu
A Little History of Economics
Niall Kishtainy
What causes poverty? Are economic crises inevitable under capitalism? Is government intervention in an economy a helpful approach or a disastrous idea? The answers to such basic economic questions
The Art of the Bribe
James Heinzen
The first archive-based study of official corruption under Stalin and a compelling new look at the textures of everyday Soviet life after World War II In the Soviet Union, bribery was a s
Henry the Young King, 1155-1183
Matthew Strickland
An expert on political culture, chivalry, and medieval warfare, Matthew Strickland is professor of medieval history at the University of Glasgow, Scotland.
Earthrise
Robert Poole
"Earthrise" tells the remarkable story of the first photographs of Earth from space and the totally unexpected impact of those images. The Apollo "Earthrise" and "Blue Marble" photographs were beam
The Social Life of Coffee
Brian Cowan
What induced the British to adopt foreign coffee-drinking customs in the seventeenth century? Why did an entirely new social institution, the coffeehouse, emerge as the primary place for consumptio
Sesame and Lilies
John Ruskin
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John Ruskin's "Sesame and Lilies", first published in 1865, stands as a classic 19th-century statement on the natures and duties of men and women. Although widely popular in its time, the work in i
