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Amal Eqeiq
Indigenous Affinities

Reveals how Mayan and Palestinian narratives connect through shared Indigenous struggles, proposing 'affinity' as a framework for global solidarityInspired by and committed to global Indigenous solidarity…

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Jerome K. Jerome
Jerome, J: Three Men in a Boat

Three late-Victorian gentlemen, George, Harris and the writer himself as well as their fox terrier Montmorency take a trip in a boat along the River Thames to Oxford. What ensues is a hilarious journey th…

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A Companion to Ancient Education

A Companion to Ancient Education presents a series of essays from leading specialists in the field that represent the most up-to-date scholarship relating to the rise and spread of educational practices a…

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Amal Eqeiq
Indigenous Affinities

Reveals how Mayan and Palestinian narratives connect through shared Indigenous struggles, proposing 'affinity' as a framework for global solidarityInspired by and committed to global Indigenous solidarity…

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Michael J Shapiro
Thinking Outside the Canon

Thinking Outside the Canon traces author Michael J. Shapiro's intellectual journey as a political theorist who has adapted multidisciplinary practices and unconventional texts across his career to develop…

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Ken Krimstein
Einstein in Kafkaland

From award-winning New Yorker cartoonist Ken Krimstein, a brilliant graphic narrative revealing the pivotal year in Prague when Einstein became "Einstein," Kafka became "Kafka," and ev…

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Silvia Montiglio
Schadenfreude and Its Wicked Delights in Ancient Greece

This volume explores the significance of schadenfreude in Greek literature and culture from the archaic period to the second century CE. It examines how schadenfreude works, what purposes it serves within…

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Duncan F Kennedy
The Emergence of Ontological Styles of Thinking in Ancient Greece

This book presents an innovative theoretical framework for exploring the intellectual culture of ancient Greece in the period 450-350 BC. The bewildering questions and surprising opportunities posed by em…

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Lili Berger,
On the Waves of Destiny

On the Waves of Destiny is a powerful collection of essays and works of fiction that introduces English-speaking readers to Lili Berger, one of the most prolific and insightful Yiddish women writers of th…

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Ray Nayler
Palaces of the Crow

In Ray Nayler's speculative novel of the recent past, four young teens caught between Nazis and the Red Army survive winter in the woods with the help of a flock of highly intelligent crows with a magnifi…

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Troubled Lands

A landmark book---the first complete publication of Langston Hughes's translations of thirty-three stories by eighteen Mexican and Cuban writersIn late 1934, Langston Hughes, already established as a lead…

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Joe Freeman, Aung Naing Soe
Frontline Poets

Combining poems by contemporary Burmese poets along with their life stories. The book demonstrates the power of the written word and is both a parallel story of Burmese political turmoil and the life-affi…

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Karl Kerényi,
Zeus and Hera

A landmark study of the archetypal father, husband, and wife in Greek religion and mythWhat did Zeus mean to the Greeks of antiquity? Who was Hera, archetypally united with Zeus as if they were a human co…

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Steve Courtney
Bewitching Place

A Bewitching Place: The Story of the Mark Twain House in Hartford is the official guide to The Mark Twain House & Museum, an institution dedicated to preserving the author's home, literary legacy, and…

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Joshua S Mostow
Hyakunin'shu

"Hyakunin'shu: Reading the Hundred Poets in Late Edo Japan explores the "popular literary literacy" of the Japanese at the edge of modernity. By reproducing and translating a popular annota…

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From Camp Douglas to Vicksburg

"Wars change the course of history and touch in intensely personal ways the lives of everyone involved. Thankfully, surviving firsthand accounts offer modern readers a deeply personal window into ear…

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J G Ballard,
Selected Nonfiction, 1962-2007

J. G. Ballard's collected nonfiction from 1962 to 2007, mapping the cultural obsessions, experiences, and insights of one of the most original minds of his generation.J. G. Ballard was a colossal figure i…

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Wolfram Grajetzki
The Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt

"For the ancient Egyptians, the Middle Kingdom (c. 2000-1700 BC) was a classical period of art, history and literature. The Twelfth Dynasty was one of the strongest ever to rule on the banks of the N…

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Atrocity and Early Modern Drama

Extreme violence scarred the early modern period. Contemporary commentators grappled to find language to categorize the massacres, genocides, assassinations, enslavements, sacks, rapes, riots and regicide…

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Eleni Bozia
Politics of Language

Examining the identity and belonging of native and non-native speakers of Greek during the time of the High Roman Empire, Eleni Bozia closely studies grammarians, lexicographers and literary writers who u…

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