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The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Sheila Miyoshi Jager returns to the three-cornered contest among imperial Russia, China, and Japan over the Korean Peninsula.... Læs mere
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A Myriad of Tongues: How Languages Reveal Differences in How We Think (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Exploring breakthroughs in language and cognition research, Caleb Everett finds that fundamentals of human perception are culturally... Læs mere
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Commentary on Plotinus (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Commentary on Plotinus, Volume 1: Ennead I contains the first modern edition of the Latin text and first translation of Marsilio Ficino’s immense commentary on the works of Plotinus, the founder of Neoplatonism.
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What God Kept for Himself: Atheism, Sodomy, and Radical Dissent in Renaissance Italy (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In early modern Italy, a wave of Inquisition trials prosecuted radical dissenters for their claims that Adam and Eve had... Læs mere
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Flourishing Fasts: Vegetarian Sects in Late Imperial and Modern Chinese Societies (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Flourishing Feasts is the first book to explore the socioreligious history of the Zhaijiao, “vegetarian sects,” that... Læs mere
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Six Walks in the Fictional Woods (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In six lectures covering everything from James Bond to antisemitic conspiracy theories, Umberto Eco offers a master class in the philosophy of fiction. Dissecting the... Læs mere
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This Craft of Verse (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In a series of incandescent lectures given at Harvard in 1967–1968, Jorge Luis Borges explores poetic meaning, prose forms, literary history, translation theory, and philosophical... Læs mere
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Other Traditions (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
John Ashbery appraises the lesser-known poets who shaped his own confounding, infinitely inventive work. In lectures on John Clare, Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Raymond Roussel, John... Læs mere
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The Shape of Content (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In six wide-ranging lectures on art history, the problems of form, and his own career, celebrated twentieth-century activist-painter Ben Shahn explores the labor of artistic creation, the confines of formal instruction, and the realization of a genuine artistic voice.
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Jesuit World Philology & the Birth of Comparative Grammar: The "Ianua Indica" of Ignazio Arcamone SJ (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The Ianua Indica (Indian Gateway) of Ignazio Arcamone S.J. (ca. 1615–1683) is the first comparative grammar of two South Asian vernaculars, Konkani and Marathi. This volume offers a... Læs mere
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The Madman in the White House: Sigmund Freud, Ambassador Bullitt, and the Lost Psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In 1932 Sigmund Freud and diplomat William Bullitt completed a well-informed psychobiography... Læs mere
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The Seventy-Five Folios and Other Unpublished Manuscripts (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The Seventy-Five Folios and Other Unpublished Manuscripts contain early versions of six episodes later included in Marcel Proust’s In Search of... Læs mere
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