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The foremost historian of Greek religion providers the first comprehensive, comparative study of a little-known aspect of ancient religious beliefs and practices.
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Using Roosevelt’s own writings, his advisors’ letters and diaries, and internal government documents, Robinson reveals the president’s central role in making and implementing the internment of Japanese Americans and examines not only what the president did but why.
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W. V. Harris provides the first thorough exploration of the levels, types, and functions of literacy in the classical world, from the invention of the Greek alphabet about 800 B.C. down to the fifth century A.D.
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In looking back on four decades of anthropology in the field, Clifford Geertz creates a personal history that is also a retrospective reflection on developments in the human sciences amid political, social, and cultural changes in the world.
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A sequence of 20th century ideas, events, and artifacts from the history of the information machine.
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In this book, 20 religionists and environmentalists examine Buddhism’s understanding of life’s web. In noting the cultural diversity of... Læs mere
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Fads and fashions, sexual mores, and political ideologies—all were subject to satire and parody on the cabaret stage. This book follows the changing treatment of these themes, and the fate of cabaret itself, through the most turbulent decades of German history.
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Focusing on exemplary moments in the American silent era, Hansen explains how the concept of the spectator evolved as a crucial part of the... Læs mere
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Bacevich reconsiders the assumptions and purposes governing the exercise of American global power. Examining the presidencies of George H.... Læs mere
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Our notion of the self depends on it; cultural identities have frequent recourse to its boundary-policing powers; and love depends on overcoming it. Miller traverses literature, philosophy, history, political theory, and psychology to show how disgust animates our world.
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In the spirit of Voltaire—and occasionally in the spirit of P. G. Wodehouse—P. B. and J. S. Medawar have crafted for the life sciences a source of reference that is meant for browsing—a book both authoritative and filled with delights.