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Viet Thanh Nguyen
To Save and to Destroy

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer (now an HBO series) comes a moving and unflinchingly personal meditation on the literary forms of otherness and a bold call for expansive politica…

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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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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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Marcy Norton
The Tame and the Wild

Marcy Norton tells a new history of the European colonization of the Americas, one that places wildlife and livestock at the center of the story. She reveals that it was, above all, the encounters between…

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James M O'Toole
For I Have Sinned

The history of US Catholicism is the history of confession. For I Have Sinned charts the rise of confession as the defining ritual of American Catholic piety and identity-and its fall, as clergy sex-abuse…

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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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Pacuvius
Fragmentary Republican Latin, Volume VII

Loeb Classical Library

Dilapidated dramas. The Loeb Classical Library series Fragmentary Republican Latin continues with Marcus Pacuvius (ca. 220-130), deemed by Cicero to be Rome's greatest tragic poet, together with the fragm…

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Gustav F. Papanek
Pakistan's Development

In the 1950s Pakistan was generally considered to be a country that would remain among the poorest in the world, but economic development in the decade to follow exceeded all expectations. Gustav Papanek,…

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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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Velleius Paterculus,
Velleius Paterculus

A Roman commander's comprehensive history of Rome. The histories of Velleius Paterculus chronicle the story of Rome and Roman culture from the fall of Troy to AD 30. Although his work's title, proem, and …

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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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Minxin Pei
The Sentinel State

Rising prosperity was supposed to bring democracy to China, yet the Communist Party's political monopoly endures. How? Minxin Pei looks to the surveillance state. Though renowned for high-tech repression,…

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Josep Manuel Peramàs,
A Treatise on the Guaraní System of Government in Comparison with Plato's Republic (1793)

Josep Manuel Peramàs's A Treatise on the Guaraní System of Government in Comparison with Plato's Republic, 1793 analyzes Guaraní-Jesuit communities and aspects of civic experience such as weddings, public…

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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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John D. Phan
Lost Tongues of the Red River

Among the world's languages, Vietnamese provides unique insight into the cosmopolitan dynamism of premodern Asia. Modern notions of language history are often constrained by nationalist narratives, focuse…

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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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Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola,
900 Conclusions

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, the most famous philosopher of the Italian Renaissance, urged Christians to save their souls with Jewish mysticism-Kabbalah-offering to debate anyone in Italy. Nine Hundred …

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Valerian Pidmohylnyi,
The City

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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Andrei I. Pliguzov
Documentary Sources on the History of Rus Metropolitanate

Edited and curated by the renowned medievalist Andrei Pliguzov, Documentary Sources on the History of Rus' Metropolitanate is a rich resource for any reader interested in the controversies and preoccupati…

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