The Victorian Frame of Mind, 1830-1870

Walter E. Houghton

评分 9.3分

"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 Vic

Causal Inference

Scott Cunningham

评分 8.0分

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 determine what

Behind the Screen

[美] 莎拉·罗伯茨 (Sarah T. Roberts)

评分 8.9分

An eye-opening look at the invisible workers who protect us from seeing humanity’s worst on today’s commercial internet Social media on the internet can be a nightmarish place. A primary shield again

The Arcades

Jens Hoffmann, Caroline A. Jones, Vito Manolo Roma, Kenneth Goldsmith

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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. Jens

Graveyard Clay

Máirtín Ó Cadhain

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The Archaeology of Jerusalem

Katharina Galor

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The Compelling Ideal

Jan Francis Kiely

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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

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Paracelsus

Charles Webster

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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

评分 8.0分

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

评分 8.7分

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 ("Exis

The Conquest of Malaria

Professor Frank Snowden

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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

评分 8.6分

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 British

The Bronze Horseman

Alexander M. Schenker

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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

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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 its

Venona

John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr, 哈维·克莱尔, 约翰·厄尔·海因斯

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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 es

Flesh and the Ideal

Professor Alex Potts

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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 ideal i

Rethinking Art History

Donald Preziosi

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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 discipl

Pesikta Rabbati

Braude, William G.

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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

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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

评分 9.4分

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 provide the k

The Athenaeum

Michael Wheeler

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Trade Wars Are Class Wars

Matthew C. Klein, Michael Pettis

评分 8.0分

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 domesti

Why I Am Not a Buddhist

Evan Thompson

评分 9.6分

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

评分 8.6分

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 mat

The Art of the Bribe

James Heinzen

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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

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Earthrise

Robert Poole

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"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

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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, Deborah Epstein Nord

评分 8.8分

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 its