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
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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
This book examines the political nature of legal decisionmaking, and offers a sustained attempt to integrate the American approach to law with the Continental... Læs mere
First of the widely celebrated and sumptuously illustrated series, this book reveals in intimate detail what life was really like in the ancient world.
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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