Timbuktu is famous as a center of learning from Islam’s Golden Age. Yet it was one among many scholarly centers to exist in precolonial West... Læs mere
The great themes woven through John Lukacs’s spirited, concise history of the twentieth century are inseparable from the author’s own intellectual preoccupations:... Læs mere
By early 1787, John and Abigail Adams, anticipating a quiet retirement from government in Massachusetts, were quickly pulled back into the... Læs mere
Aristotle on Practical Wisdom is the first full-scale commentary on Nicomachean Ethics VI to be issued in a century, and the most illuminating ever. A... Læs mere
With the summer of 1784, most of the family reunited to spend nearly a year together in Europe. These volumes document John Adams’s... Læs mere
Beller-McKenna counters music historians's reluctance to address Brahms's Germanness, wary perhaps of fascist implications. He gives an account of the intertwining of... Læs mere
This volume presents two complementary medieval anthologies containing lyrics by two outstanding Latin poets of the second half of the twelfth century. The... Læs mere