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George Boys-Stones
Apuleius on the Cosmos

Apuleius' De Mundo ('On the Cosmos') has never been published in English translation. One reason for this may be that it has itself been viewed as a mere translation of a work that survives in the Aristot…

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Global Asias

Global Asias: Tactics & Theories is the inaugural volume in an exciting new series that explores critical concerns animating Global Asias scholarship. It challenges the silos of academic knowledge for…

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Ronald Bishop, Ron Bishop
The Total Black Experience

The Total Black Experience is the first book to chronicle the history and social significance of Positively Black , one of the longest-running public affairs shows in the history of television. Spurred on…

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Ronald Bishop, Ron Bishop
The Total Black Experience

The Total Black Experience is the first book to chronicle the history and social significance of Positively Black , one of the longest-running public affairs shows in the history of television. Spurred on…

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Ulrich Marzolph
The Arabic Fable

This is the first attempt to provide a representative inventory of fables documented in premodern Arabic literature. The introduction presents a detailed effort to define the Arabic fable and a condensed …

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T E Franklinos, Rino Modonutti,
Sicco Polenton, Lives of the Famous Latin Authors

Offering an anthology of the first history of Latin literature, Sicco Polenton's Scriptorum illustrium Latinae linguae libri XVIII is a collection of biographies that spans the period from ancient Rome to…

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Joshua S Mostow
Hyakunin'shu

"Hyakunin'shu: Reading the Hundred Poets in Late Edo Japan explores the "popular literary literacy" of the Japanese at the edge of modernity. By reproducing and translating a popular annota…

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Anthony Kenny
A New History of Western Philosophy

This book is no less than a guide to the whole of Western philosophy the ideas that have undergirded our civilization for two-and-a-half thousand years. Anthony Kenny tells the story of philosophy from an…

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Xiaochang Li
Divination Engines

A revealing and surprising origin story, showing how attempts to render human speech and language computable led from the era of big data to today's AI.Since the advent of computers, society has fantasize…

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Katharine Lee Bates
America the Beautiful and Other Poems

The words to one of the United States' most beloved songs, "America, The Beautiful," were originally a poem written in 1893 by Wellesley College English professor Katherine Lee Bates, who found …

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Rob Christensen
Southern News, Southern Politics

Newspapers are a tough business, and no one knows that better than Rob Christensen, who was chief political reporter at North Carolina's capital newspaper, the News and Observer , for decades. Here he tel…

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Telmo Pievani
Multiplicity

The awe-inspiring, little-known story of Nobel laureate Frances Arnold's discovery of directed enzyme evolution---and how it was sparked by reading Jorge Luis Borges.In 1976, a young engineering student f…

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Gayle Feldman
Nothing Random

The "exhilarating" (The Boston Globe) 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 an…

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Anonymous Sounds

This cross-disciplinary collection provides the first comprehensive study of library music practices in the 1960s and 1970s.Library music was inexpensive, off-the-shelf music available to license for a sm…

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Lisa Pease
Lie Too Big to Fail

A thorough and groundbreaking addition to our understanding of the RFK assassination based on newly released police reports and government documents.In A Lie Too Big to Fail, longtime Kennedy researcher (…

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Francine Prose
1974

"In this remarkable memoir, the qualities that have long distinguished Francine Prose's fiction and criticism---uncompromising intelligence, a gratifying aversion to sentiment, the citrus bite of iro…

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Picturing Peace

"What is the relationship between peace and photography? How are artists and curators motivated to convey narratives of peace and not just stories of war? Does the digital afterlife of iconic images …

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Deborah Warren
Street Smarts

Travel through the endless lore of roads, turnpikes, highways, and whatever byways humans have put on Earth in these short, funny, and interconnected essays.Deborah Warren is a sure and entertaining guide…

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Dennis Yi Tenen
Literary Theory for Robots

Literary Theory for Robots reveals the hidden history of modern machine intelligence, taking readers on a spellbinding journey from medieval Arabic philosophy to visions of a universal language, past Holl…

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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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