For the first time, this collection makes available a selection of documents on the history of Jews in old Rus' that provide unique insight into Slavic-Jewish relations, offering both the original texts in Latin, Hebrew, Church Slavonic, and Arabic,... Zobraziť viac
From the celebrated author of Quantum Mechanics and Experience comes a "provocative" (Nature) and "deeply important" (Mind) attempt at making sense of the strange laws of quantum mechanics. A century ago, Niels Bohr and a circle of brilliant physicists... Zobraziť viac
"A masterly new book." -New Yorker "A major achievement in the study of religious attitudes." -Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews To understand the nature of religious belief, we must look at how our minds process the world of imagination and make-... Zobraziť viac
An expansive narrative of World War I's Eastern Front challenges longstanding analytical frameworks, offering a novel and far-reaching explanation for the emergence of new nation-states from the wreckage of Europe's land empires. In August 1914,... Zobraziť viac
"An act of devotion without monument-making...Arno's achievement is to return Celan to mortal scale: ardent in friendship, hungry for recognition, capable of wounded tenderness." -Benjamin Balint, The Wall Street Journal A luminous, groundbreaking... Zobraziť viac
Make your next movie night over-the-top delicious with the film-inspired food and drink recipes in The Cult Classic Movies Cookbook... Zobraziť viac
A New Yorker Best Book of the Year"A probing critique of a modern public sphere that overwhelms the private realm . . . Pressly offers a unique vision of what can be gained by stepping back from the outside world, and the screens that try to possess us... Zobraziť viac
A revealing look at the decline in formal employment in favor of hiring contractors, freelancers, temps, and marginal workers, who are excluded from traditional benefits and career ladders. Companies cannot exist without workers, but they are... Zobraziť viac
To most of us, learning something "the hard way" implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we believe, should be creatively tailored to the different learning styles of students and should use strategies that make learning easier... Zobraziť viac
The so-called Golden Age of Athens, during and after the primacy of Pericles, was in fact a time of ruinous culture wars. Hubris shows how Pericles’s circle used the Parthenon as a propaganda vehicle to flatter the Athenians, and how internal clashes... Zobraziť viac
A groundbreaking history of political struggle in the Spanish New World, where commoners and elites alike challenged the social order through the remarkable power of paperwork.As Spanish conquistadors swept through the New World, the Crown envisioned... Zobraziť viac
An acclaimed historian's bold response to two simple, yet vexed, questions: What counts as China, and who counts as Chinese? China became a capitalist superpower by investing in globalization. Now that it has established its credentials-and emerged as... Zobraziť viac
We Have Never Been Modern Zobraziť viac
The Making of Iranian Modernity brings together a diverse array of scholars from a wide variety of disciplinary backgrounds and areas of research specialization to celebrate Houchang E. Chehabi, one of the leading scholars in the field of Iranian... Zobraziť viac
The Tang dynasty is often called Chinäs "golden age," a period of commercial, religious, and cultural connections from Korea and Japan to the Persian Gulf, and a time of unsurpassed literary creativity. Mark Lewis captures a dynamic era in which the... Zobraziť viac
A fascinating window into daily Byzantine religious observancesThe Menologion of Basil II, one of the most famous manuscripts surviving from Byzantium, contains short narratives to be read during the morning office to commemorate the saint or feast of... Zobraziť viac
A New York Times Notable BookA landmark reinterpretation of the civil rights movement that challenges reductive heroic narratives of the 1950s and 1960s and invigorates new debates and possibilities for the future of the struggle for liberation.We are... Zobraziť viac
A richly detailed transoceanic history of the early French Empire, illuminating how it became bound by a common legal culture of race-as well as how enslaved and free people critically shaped the development of the colonies.From the beginning of the... Zobraziť viac
Already famous throughout Europe, this international bestseller plumbs recently opened archives in the former Soviet bloc to reveal the actual, practical accomplishments of Communism around the world: terror, torture, famine, mass deportations, and... Zobraziť viac
A magisterial mappa mundi of the terrain that Pierre Hadot has so productively worked for decades, this ambitious work revises our view of ancient philosophy-and in doing so, proposes that we change the way we see philosophy itself. Hadot takes ancient... Zobraziť viac
