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Paul P. Mariani
China's Church Divided

Paul P. Mariani charts China's fraught Catholic revival after the Cultural Revolution, as Catholics loyal to Rome clashed with a state-sanctioned church. Focusing on Shanghai, where the state-appointed Bi…

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Christina Maslach, Michael P. Leiter
The Burnout Challenge

Solutions to workplace burnout often involve victim-blaming: Stressed? Try therapy-or a new job. But burnout is a sign of defective workplaces, not workers. Drawing on decades of research, Christina Masla…

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Juan De Mena,
The Labyrinth of Fortune

The Dantesque political allegory The Labyrinth of Fortune, composed in 1444 by Juan de Mena, reflects on Juan II of Castile's contentious kingship and frames the Reconquest of Moorish territories as a sac…

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Branko Milanovic
Visions of Inequality

Branko Milanovic charts 200 years of the fascinating history of the discourse on inequality through portraits of six key economists, from Quesnay to Kuznets. In their work and lives, we see how differentl…

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Gary Saul Morson
Wonder Confronts Certainty

Gary Saul Morson brings to life the intense intellectual debates shaping two centuries of Russian writing. Dialogues of great writers with philosophical wanderers and blood-soaked radicals reveal a contes…

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Gregory Nagy
Ancient Greek Heroes, Athletes, Poetry

Ancient Greek Heroes, Athletes, Poetry centers on masterpieces of ancient Greek literature, from the Iliad and Odyssey to tragedies from the Classical Age of Athens and beyond. With a focus on the Olympic…

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Andrea Navagero, Marcantonio Flaminio,
Latin Pastoral Poetry

Andrea Navagero (1483-1529), among the principal poets of Venice, pioneered the Renaissance pastoral epigram genre. Marcantonio Flaminio (1498-1550), though now better known for his controversial religiou…

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Oleksii Nikitin,
The Face of Fire

The young Jewish boxer Ilya Goldinov and his wife Feliksa are looking ahead to a bright future in Kyiv. Then the Nazi invasion in the summer of 1941 changes everything. The Face of Fire offers a tapestry …

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Guarino Of Verona, Pietro del Monte, Poggio Bracciolini
On Leaders and Tyrants

On Leaders and Tyrants contains works, the majority by Renaissance humanist Poggio Bracciolini, relating to a debate on Scipio Africanus and Julius Caesar that discusses tyranny, military glory, and leade…

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Frank Pasquale
New Laws of Robotics

Artificial intelligence threatens to disrupt the professions as it has manufacturing. Frank Pasquale argues that law and policy can avert this outcome and promote better ones: instead of replacing humans,…

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Gregory M. Patterson
Elegies for Empire

In Elegies for Empire, Gregory Patterson maps out a poetics of memory in the late works of Du Fu, widely considered China's greatest poet. He argues that, for Du Fu, memory held the promise of rebuilding …

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Alexis Peri
Dear Unknown Friend

Dear Unknown Friend relates the story of US and Soviet pen pals amid the early Cold War. The correspondents, all of them women, approached each other with curiosity and an eye toward coexistence. Their le…

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Natasha Piano
Democratic Elitism

Natasha Piano argues that the Italian School of Elitism-comprising Pareto, Mosca, and Michels-has been consistently misread. These thinkers did not, as alleged, oppose electoral politics. Rather, they saw…

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Serhii Plokhy
David and Goliath: Commentaries on the Russo-Ukrainian War

Ukraine's stubborn resistance to Russian invasion proves that it is possible to mount a successful defense against an enormously larger, better equipped enemy. David and Goliath collects short essays, com…

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Serhii Plokhy
David and Goliath: Commentaries on the Russo-Ukrainian War

Harvard Library of Ukrainian Literature

Ukraine's stubborn resistance to Russian invasion proves that it is possible to mount a successful defense against an enormously larger, better equipped enemy. David and Goliath collects short essays, com…

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Lowry Pressly
The Right to Oblivion

Constant digital surveillance has inspired a heated but also limited privacy debate. Lowry Pressly looks beyond the narrow discourse of rights and information to extol privacy as a tool for living. Privac…

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Deborah Parker
Becoming Belle Da Costa Greene

In Becoming Belle da Costa Greene, Deborah Parker chronicles the making and empowerment of a female connoisseur, curator, and library director in a world where such positions were held by men. Greene was …

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John D. Phan
Lost Tongues of the Red River

In Lost Tongues of the Red River, John D. Phan uncovers the history of a Sinitic language rooted in the Red River Plain of northern Vietnam, which he calls "Annamese Middle Chinese." The life an…

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Valerian Pidmohylnyi,
The City

Harvard Library of Ukrainian Literature

Valerian Pidmohylnyi's The City was a landmark event in the history of Ukrainian literature. Written by a master craftsman, the novel tells the story of Stepan, a young man from the provinces who moves to…

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Plato
Euthydemus. Gorgias

Loeb Classical Library

"Plato of Athens, who laid the foundations of the Western philosophical tradition and in range and depth ranks among its greatest practitioners, was born to a prosperous and politically active family…

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