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Carl P E Springer,
The Latin Verse of Martin Luther

Martin Luther wrote a number of Latin poems, mostly using traditional classical metres, over the course of his career. He used them to praise friends, insult adversaries and express his faith in times of …

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Ryan Denson,
A Zoobiography of the Ancient Sea Monster

Examining a vast corpus of literary references and artistic representations, this volume offers the first comprehensive study of the ketos - the sea monster imagined by the ancient Greeks and Romans.The c…

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Melissa Alexander
Conversation Pieces

Conversation Pieces sketches an object-oriented lineage for modernism, showing that Virginia Woolf's passion for objects was fuelled by her participation in a widespread conversation about philosophical e…

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Jen Soriano
Nervous

"Nervous takes the focus from the abstract and does what doctors (and historians) failed to do: makes her story, her pain, and her life as real as any history that proceeded. Nervous gives face and w…

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Thaddeus Ó Buachalla
El

'A brilliant fusion of scholarly detective work and speculative fiction that will leave you questioning the nature of reality itself.'- John AhernWhen Cork academic Seán kills an annoying fly and examines…

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Rebecca Bratten Weiss
The Books That Made Us: Deconstructing the Modern Christian Classics

What do you do when you realize that the books you were taught to revere imbued you with false perspectives on humanity, society, and morals?This is the question editor and journalist Rebecca Bratten Weis…

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Duncan Bell, Douglas Mao
Utopia

Ideal societies, better worlds, more just and peaceful ways of living: these have long been the stuff of social dreaming. In this compact volume, two leading scholars from different disciplines join to co…

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Benjamin Libman
The Third Solitude

"A frank love letter to modern Jewish life." - MERVE EMRE, contributing writer, The New Yorker An intimate memoir in essays seeking familial history and personal memory against the backdrop of t…

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Carlos Lozada
The Washington Book

The Pulitzer Prize--winning opinion columnist at The New York Times and "an absolutely original genius" (Bob Woodward, The Washington Post) Carlos Lozada explores how people in power reveal them…

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Tracy Daugherty
Larry McMurtry

*Pulitzer Prize Finalist* *Bonney MacDonald Award Winner for Outstanding Western Book* A biography of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and screenwriter Larry McMurtry from New York Times …

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The History of Sub-Saharan African Literatures on Film

This comprehensive history of cinematic adaptations of sub-Saharan African literatures analyzes social, economic and political factors that influenced the film versions of texts across a wide range of gen…

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Anirudh Sridhar
Agon

Agon: Poetry's Challenge to the Mathematization of Reality narrates the battle for truth-telling authority between poetry and mathematics in the 1920s-1960s. Analysing subversive uses of mathematical meta…

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Brian Raftery
Hannibal Lecter

Drawing from exclusive interviews and previously unseen archival materials, this one-of-its-kind biography of Hannibal Lecter documents the cannibal's journey from terrifying villain to unexpectedly adore…

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Fakhr Al-Din Shadman,
Shadman Diaries

This volume contains nearly a decade of Shadman's diaries, spanning from his departure from Tehran in mid-December 1933 to March 1943 - almost two years before the end of his tenure as a delegate of the I…

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Stephen Yeager
Chaucer's Problem of Prose

In Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales , key structural moments arise when a speaker shifts from rhyming heroic couplets to address the reader in prose, as well as in instances where prose …

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Simon Jackson
George Herbert and Early Modern Musical Culture

"Described by one contemporary as the 'sweet singer of The Temple', George Herbert has long been recognised as a lover of music. Nevertheless, Herbert's own participation in seventeenth-century music…

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Duncan Bell, Douglas Mao
Utopia

Ideal societies, better worlds, more just and peaceful ways of living: these have long been the stuff of social dreaming. In this compact volume, two leading scholars from different disciplines join to co…

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Paulina Banas
Visualizing Egypt

"Bonaparte's short-lived 1798 campaign in Egypt, new possibilities of travel, and improvements in printing technology in nineteenth-century France and Britain, a new publishing business dedicated to …

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Carla Kaplan
Troublemaker

FINALIST FOR THE PEN/JACQUELINE BOGARD WELD AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY AND LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE BIOGRAPHY AWARD A NEW YORK TIMESEDITOR'S CHOICE · A TOWN & COUNTRY "BEST BOOK&q…

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Martín Plot
Chaos and Cosmos

Choice 2025 Outstanding Academic TitleThis book offers a new and unique interpretation of Argentine essayist and fiction writer Jorge Luis Borges as a thinker of what continental twentieth century politic…

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