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Vanessa Rampton
Making Medical Progress

Answers to the question 'what is medical progress?' have always been contested, and any one response is always bound up with contextual ideas of personhood, society, and health. However, the widely held e…

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Kelly Clancy
Playing with Reality

'A dopamine hit on every page' Marcus du Sautoy A sweeping intellectual history of games and their importance to human progress. We play games to learn about the world, to understand our minds and the min…

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Thomas Wilson
Confucian Gods

Confucian Gods offers an intellectual history of Confucian conceptions of the gods found in the Classics and feasted by the imperial court until the early twentieth century. Thomas Wilson examines court d…

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Ibn Taymiyya's Thought

A fresh reading of medieval thinker Ibn Taymiyya, offering pathbreaking insight into his lasting relevance in debates on Islam, authority, and religious thought.Ibn Taymiyya's Thought: Corpus, Reception, …

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Gayle Feldman
Nothing Random

The story of the legendary Random House founder, whose seemingly charmed life at the apogee of the American Century afforded him a front-row seat to literary and cultural history in the making"A stun…

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Melissa Ann Kaul
Animals in Premodern Japan

The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series

In this Open Access book, the reader is presented with an outlook on current developments in Japanese Animal Ethics and how And¿ Sh¿eki's depictions of non-human animals, as well as the examination of Chi…

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José María Pérez Fernández
Translation and the Truth of History

This book tells the material and intellectual history of several translations of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, from Lorenzo Valla's first Latin rendering in 1452, to the publication of Tho…

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Giulia Torello-Hill, Andrew J Turner,
Jodocus Badius Ascensius' Praenotamenta to Terence

Offering the first scholarly edition and English translation of Praenotamenta , a treatise on ancient drama by Flemish scholar, editor and publisher Jodocus Badius Ascensius (1462-1535), along with his in…

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Justin Smith-Ruiu
On Drugs

In the wake of a personal loss and the upheaval of the pandemic, Justin Smith-Ruiu found himself at a California cannabis dispensary, pondering a profound question: Who am I and how did I get here?On Drug…

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Ping Wang
The Poetic Way of XIE Lingyun

The father of Chinese landscape poetry in time and placeDuring the dark centuries between the fall of the Han dynasty in 220 CE and the golden age of reunified China under the Tang and Song dynasties (618…

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Georgios Varouxakis
The West

A comprehensive intellectual history of the idea of the WestHow did "the West" come to be used as a collective self-designation signaling political and cultural commonality? When did "Weste…

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Hendrik Dey
The Making of Medieval Rome

Integrating the written sources with Rome's surviving remains and, most importantly, with the results of the past half-century's worth of medieval archaeology in the city, The Making of Medieval Rome is t…

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Nicola Miller
Republics of Knowledge

"Republics of Knowledge tells the story of how the circulation of knowledge shaped the formation of nation-states in Latin America, and particularly in Argentina, Peru and Chile, during the century a…

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Andrew Hammond
Late Ottoman Origins of Modern Islamic Thought

"In this major contribution to Muslim intellectual history, Andrew Hammond offers a vital reappraisal of the role of Late Ottoman Turkish scholars in shaping modern Islamic thought. Focusing on a poe…

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Ping Wang
The Poetic Way of Xie Lingyun

The father of Chinese landscape poetry in time and placeDuring the dark centuries between the fall of the Han dynasty in 220 CE and the golden age of reunified China under the Tang and Song dynasties (618…

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Todd Kontje
Global Germany Circa 1800

Global Germany Circa 1800 asks two interrelated questions: How did Germans participate in the European conquest of the world, and how were they different from other imperial powers? In other words, what i…

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J. Mackenzie Pierce
Sounds of Survival

"A major intellectual history with extraordinary significance as scholars ask how art music in Europe has been a site for the contestation of difference. This beautifully crafted book is a model twen…

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Michelangelo Guida
Islamist Political Thought in Turkey

Islamism is a powerful political force in contemporary Turkey. But what are the roots of this ideology? This book provides an intellectual history of Islamism in Turkey, tracing the thought of key figures…

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Sean Delehanty
Company Men

How an esoteric economic theory--and its most devout believers--changed the world forever.In the modern economy, stock price is king. The value of a corporation is measured in how it enriches its sharehol…

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Jacob T. Snyder
Leisure

Intellectual history of leisure and the use of that history to grapple with its potential future. Leisure is a genealogy of the concept of leisure, from its peak in the classical age to its inversion and …

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