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The Passenger: Thailand

"These books are so rich and engrossing that it is rewarding to read them even when one is stuck at home."-The TLSThe Passenger makes its first stop in Southeast Asia. A journey to one of the wo…

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A captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of natureEmily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was known a…

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Sophie Heywood,
Children's Publishing in Cold War France

Exploring the history of Cold War censorship legislation and its impact on the French publishing industry for children, this open access book focuses on the publisher Hachette to detail how it dominated t…

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Carl P E Springer,
The Latin Verse of Martin Luther

Martin Luther wrote a number of Latin poems, mostly using traditional classical metres, over the course of his career. He used them to praise friends, insult adversaries and express his faith in times of …

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Ryan Denson,
A Zoobiography of the Ancient Sea Monster

A comprehensive study of the ketos - the most prominent sea monster of Greco-Roman culture.

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Jen Soriano
Nervous

"Nervous takes the focus from the abstract and does what doctors (and historians) failed to do: makes her story, her pain, and her life as real as any history that proceeded. Nervous gives face and w…

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Jesse Alemán
Latinx Civil Wars

Uncovers how Mexican-American and Cuban-American writings during the US Civil War shaped Latinidad amid conflicts over race, slavery, and national identityThe mid-nineteenth century was a crucible for the…

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Stephen Yeager
Chaucer's Problem of Prose

In Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales , key structural moments arise when a speaker shifts from rhyming heroic couplets to address the reader in prose, as well as in instances where prose …

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Fakhr Al-Din Shadman,
Shadman Diaries

This volume contains nearly a decade of Shadman's diaries, spanning from his departure from Tehran in mid-December 1933 to March 1943 - almost two years before the end of his tenure as a delegate of the I…

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The Oxford Handbook of Monsters in Classical Myth

The Oxford Handbook of Monsters in Classical Myth presents forty chapters about the unique and terrifying creatures from myths of the long-ago Near East and Mediterranean world, featuring authoritative co…

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Carla Kaplan
Troublemaker

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE BIOGRAPHY AWARD AND THE PEN/JACQUELINE BOGARD WELD AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY A NEW YORK TIMESEDITOR'S CHOICE · A TOWN & COUNTRY "BEST BOOK" · A BLOO…

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Thaddeus Ó Buachalla
El

'A brilliant fusion of scholarly detective work and speculative fiction that will leave you questioning the nature of reality itself.'- John AhernWhen Cork academic Seán kills an annoying fly and examines…

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Duncan Bell, Douglas Mao
Utopia

Ideal societies, better worlds, more just and peaceful ways of living: these have long been the stuff of social dreaming. In this compact volume, two leading scholars from different disciplines join to co…

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Rebecca Bratten Weiss
The Books That Made Us: Deconstructing the Modern Christian Classics

What do you do when you realize that the books you were taught to revere imbued you with false perspectives on humanity, society, and morals?This is the question editor and journalist Rebecca Bratten Weis…

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Benjamin Libman
The Third Solitude

"A frank love letter to modern Jewish life." - MERVE EMRE, contributing writer, The New Yorker An intimate memoir in essays seeking familial history and personal memory against the backdrop of t…

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Carlos Lozada
The Washington Book

The Pulitzer Prize--winning opinion columnist at The New York Times and "an absolutely original genius" (Bob Woodward, The Washington Post) Carlos Lozada explores how people in power reveal them…

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Simon Jackson
George Herbert and Early Modern Musical Culture

"Described by one contemporary as the 'sweet singer of The Temple', George Herbert has long been recognised as a lover of music. Nevertheless, Herbert's own participation in seventeenth-century music…

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Duncan Bell, Douglas Mao
Utopia

Ideal societies, better worlds, more just and peaceful ways of living: these have long been the stuff of social dreaming. In this compact volume, two leading scholars from different disciplines join to co…

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Martín Plot
Chaos and Cosmos

Chaos and Cosmos offers a new and unique interpretation of Argentine essayist and fiction writer Jorge Luis Borges as a thinker of what continental twentieth century political theory called the political.…

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Jack Guinness
The Queer Bible

An O, The Oprah MagazineLGBTQ Book "Changing the Literary Landscape"A gorgeously illustrated collection of essays written by today's queer heroes---featuring contributions from Elton John, Tan F…

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