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He Bian, Marten Soderblom Saarela
The Manchu Mirrors and the Knowledge of Plants and Animals in High Qing China

The Manchu Mirrors and the Knowledge of Plants and Animals in High Qing China is the first systematic study of the codification of Manchu and Chinese words for animals and plants in the eighteenth century…

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Henry De Bracton
On the Laws and Customs of England

This publication, issued in cooperation with the Selden Society, reproduces completely the Yale edition of 1915-1942, which has long been unobtainable. To it has been added an English translation, the fir…

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Curtis A. Bradley
Historical Gloss and Foreign Affairs

Curtis A. Bradley argues that the practices of Congress and the executive branch have been essential in shaping understandings of the US Constitution and its system of checks and balances. Nowhere is the …

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Ken Bain
The Learning Household

Children are eager learners, but many find school alienating. How can parents nurture kids' natural curiosity? Educators Ken Bain and Marsha Marshall Bain show that by creating a "learning household&…

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Brooke Barbier
King Hancock

Today John Hancock is known for his signature, but during the revolutionary era, he was famed for his pragmatic statesmanship. Brooke Barbier explores Hancock's position as a revolutionary who nonetheless…

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Jay Belsky
The Nature of Nurture

Jay Belsky argues for a Darwinian interpretation of childhood trauma leading to "antisocial" adult behavior. There is no reason to believe that such conduct is dysfunctional and that "well-…

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Theresa S Betancourt
Shadows Into Light

For over two decades, Theresa S. Betancourt researched former child soldiers from Sierra Leone's civil war to find out if they could reintegrate into communities where they had been forced to commit atroc…

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Sarah Bilston
The Lost Orchid

Sarah Bilston unfolds the story of orchid mania, the nineteenth-century craze among European and North American collectors vying to own the world's most coveted flowers. Focusing the hunt for the so-calle…

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Brandon Bloch
Reinventing Protestant Germany

Brandon Bloch examines the remarkable transformation of German Protestantism after WWII. As avid nationalists and militarists, Protestant leaders had largely backed the Nazi regime. Yet after 1945, they r…

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Montserrat Bonvehi Bonvehi Rosich, Seth Denizen
Thinking Through Soil

In addition to its agricultural role, soil has become the primary agent of carbon storage in climate models, and it is also crucial for biodiversity and flood control. Through a sustained analysis of the …

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Jorge Luis Borges,
This Craft of Verse

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 aspects of communication…

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Ulbe Bosma
The World of Sugar

Traversing 2,500 years of global history, Ulbe Bosma shows how sugar, once a luxury reserved for Eastern emperors, stoked a mania in the West, transforming diets and ecosystems, destroying and creating cu…

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Costica Bradatan
In Praise of Failure

Success is all very well, but failure teaches us what is most important: humility. Costica Bradatan tells the stories of four thinkers who, for all their external success, courted failure throughout their…

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Richard Breitman
A Calculated Restraint

Why did the Allied leaders-Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin-largely keep quiet about the Holocaust? Richard Breitman examines the competing political and military considerations that drove their responses…

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Wendy Brown
Nihilistic Times

Wendy Brown diagnoses a late-modern nihilism that trivializes values-including truth itself-and reduces politics to narcissism and power-mongering. Rereading Max Weber, who saw a similar predicament in hi…

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Nikolas Broy
Flourishing Fasts

Flourishing Feasts is the first book to explore the socioreligious history of the Zhaijiao, "vegetarian sects," that originated in China during the Ming and Qing dynasties and are still active i…

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Liz Bucar
Stealing My Religion

Liz Bucar navigates the thorny terrain of religious appropriation, from yoga classes to non-Muslims who signal allyship by donning hijabs. Exploring the ethics of alleged appropriations, Bucar argues that…

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Lucy Caplan
Dreaming in Ensemble

Lucy Caplan explores the flourishing of Black composers, performers, and critics of opera in America during the early twentieth century. Working outside mainstream opera houses, these artists fostered cou…

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Kornel Chang
A Fractured Liberation

After liberation in 1945, Koreans erupted with hopes for reform that had been bottled up during forty years of Japanese imperial rule. Arguing that permanent North-South division was far from inevitable, …

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Nicolas Cornell
Wrongs and Rights Come Apart

It is common to regard rights and wrongs as mirror images: to be wronged is to have one's rights violated. Nicolas Cornell rejects this view. Drawing on diverse real-world examples, he argues that rights …

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