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Kenneth C Davis
The World in Books

"From ancient times to the present day, The World in Books offers a wide-ranging historical education through pleasure reading-and a fantastic introduction to some of the most thought-provoking, prof…

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William Elliott Hazelgrove
Hemingway's Attic

Reveals hidden depths of the Hemingway mystique through the eyes of a modern writer who spent a decade immersed in the legendary author's atticHemingway's Attic offers a fresh perspective on Ernest Heming…

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J Mark Powell
Witness to War

From the first shots at Fort Sumter to the mourning of Lincoln's death---experience the Civil War as it happened, through the voices of those who were there.History comes to life in the words of those who…

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Ira Halpern
Imagining Health

A surprising look at how American writers envision a more equitable healthcare systemIn the United States, a deep suspicion of professional medical expertise is becoming increasingly prominent. Meanwhile,…

lieferbar ab 12.1.2026.

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Oleksandr Mykhed,
I Will Mix Your Blood with Coal

A sweeping narrative introduction to the Donbas, I Will Mix Your Blood with Coal: Snapshots from the East of Ukraineexplores the fraught histories and complicated present reality of the country's easternm…

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Ravi Sharma
Plato's Hippias Minor

Ravi Sharma provides a close study of an important but neglected Socratic dialogue by Plato. A new interpretation of the dialogue thoroughly re-examines the ancient evidence bearing on its interpretation …

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Vered Lev Kenaan, Patricia A Rosenmeyer
Classics Transformed in Jewish, Israeli, and Palestinian Receptions

This volume explores how classical antiquity influenced the writings of poets, translators, and scholars emerging from modern Jewish diasporas, Mandatory Palestine, and the State of Israel. The chapters e…

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Péter Hajdu,
Modern Hungarian Culture and the Classics

"Pâeter Hajdu examines the cultivation of the Classics as an intellectual framework and crucial ingredient of the western aspect of Hungarian national identity. This book approaches the relationship …

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Serk-Bae Suh
Against the Chains of Utility

"The 1970s and 1980s were pivotal decades in South Korea, marked by rapid industrialization and urbanization. The language of sacrifice was constantly employed by the developmental state to justify i…

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Georgia Henley
Reimagining the Past in the Borderlands of Medieval England and Wales

This study demonstrates the emergence of a particular brand of Welsh marcher literature interested in succession, land rights, and the narrative scope of Geoffrey of Monmouth, which had an enduring impact…

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Frances Wood
Great Books of China: From Ancient Times to the Present

A unique introduction to Chinese culture and civilization through concise and illuminating introductions to key literary works from antiquity to the present.

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Rachel Skokowski
The Goncourt Brothers and the Language of Etching

The first comprehensive study of the Goncourt brothers' etchings, including never-before published images of their work.

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Luisa Ostacchini
Translating Europe in ÆLfric's Lives of Saints

Translating Europe in Ælfric's 'Lives of Saints' is the first study of the representation of European peoples, places and geographies in the Lives of Saints, one of early medieval England's most famed wor…

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Macbeth in Modern European Culture

This is the first book to offer a pan-European analysis of Macbethadaptations across a range of media in the long 20th century.

lieferbar ab 5.2.2026.

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Jesse Molesworth
Forms of Time, Newton to Austen

Between 1700 and 1800, the English-speaking world came to terms with one of modernity's most fundamental ideas: the separation of time from its measure, or what Newton described as the distinction between…

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Jesse Molesworth
Forms of Time, Newton to Austen

Between 1700 and 1800, the English-speaking world came to terms with one of modernity's most fundamental ideas: the separation of time from its measure, or what Newton described as the distinction between…

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We Rode the Rhythms as One

Believing in the transformative power of the spoken word

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Alison Keith
Sulpicia

This is the first full-length biography of Sulpicia, the earliest extant female author of classical Latin poetry. Unmentioned by her contemporaries, Sulpicia belonged to the pinnacle of the Roman aristocr…

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Vaishnavi Patel
Ten Incarnations of Rebellion

"Kalki Divekar grows up a daughter of Kingston--a city the British built on the ashes of Bombay. The older generation, including her father, have been lost to the brutal hunt for rebels. Young men ar…

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Performing Girls and Women

This book charts the broad cultural impact of the medieval and early modern female performer: how she engages with her historical origins in classical drama, works within contemporary cultural and profess…

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