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Oswyn Murray
The Muse of History

How the modern world has understood the ancient Greeks and why they matter todayThe study of ancient Greek history has been central to the western conception of history since the Renaissance. The Muse of …

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David Lay Williams
The Greatest of All Plagues

How the great political thinkers have persistently warned against the dangers of economic inequalityEconomic inequality is one of the most daunting challenges of our time, with public debate often turning…

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Setareh Ghorbani, Nasrin Akbari, Sahar Haghnazari Tazehshahri
The Relationship between Mutual Impact of Depression, Job Satisfaction

Human anxiety disorders as described in the medical literature include a heterogeneous group of clinical syndromes and definitions. Historically, terms such as severe fatigue of the cardiac organ and in a…

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Queer Shakespeare

The go-to resource for understanding desire, same-sex and trans eroticism in Shakespeare's texts, as well as in stage performance and in textual criticism, this second edition features revisions to the or…

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Christopher B Barnett
Kierkegaard, Statecraft and Political Theology

Influenced by the backdrop of the contemporary issues facing Christianity and a trend toward 'political theology', Christopher Barnett explores Kierkegaard's relation to politics and the modern state.By t…

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Tolstoy's War and Peace

This book consists of eight essays written by world-renowned Tolstoy specialists; the essays provide an in-depth consideration of the central topics of Tolstoy's masterpiece. Tolstoy's War and Peace explo…

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William Shakespeare,
The Winter's Tale

'It is required You do awake your faith'Variously seen as a romance, a comedy, and a tragic fairytale, The Winter's Tale is a radical experiment with genre, character, and storytelling towards the end of …

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Simon van Schalkwyk
Robert Lowell's Imitations and the Cold War

The first book-length study focusing on Robert Lowell's career-long preoccupation with the liberal mode of translational adaptation known as imitation.Robert Lowell's Imitations and the Cold Warargues tha…

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Massimiliano Gioni
New Humans

A timely exploration of artists' enduring preoccupation with what it means to be human in the face of sweeping technological changeNew Humans traces a diagonal history of the twentieth and twenty-first ce…

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Jamison Kantor
Honor, Romanticism, and the Hidden Value of Modernity

Despite our preconceptions, Romantic writers, artists, and philosophers did not think of honor as an archaic or regressive concept, but as a contemporary, even progressive value that operated as a counter…

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Climate Migration

This book investigates the epistemological and ethical challenges faced by studies exploring the relations between climate change and human migration.At the heart of the contemporary preoccupation with cl…

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Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law, Volume 25 (2022)

Volume 25 of the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) sheds light on the interplay between IHL and other adjacent branches of international law. This Volume moves beyond the traditional preocc…

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Steven Connor
Exorbitance

Although modern life provides many examples of exorbitance -- of wealth, growth, information, ambition, consumption, violence -- preoccupation with what is 'over the top' is not new. What is it about the …

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Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)

Alexander's Feast

Vox Chor, Vox Orchester, Lorenzo Ghirlanda

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Steven Connor
Exorbitance

Although modern life provides many examples of exorbitance -- of wealth, growth, information, ambition, consumption, violence -- preoccupation with what is 'over the top' is not new. What is it about the …

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Philip Carr-Gomm
A Brief History of Nakedness

"In A Brief History of Nakedness psychologist Philip Carr-Gomm traces our inescapable preoccupation with nudity. Rather than studying the history of the nude in art or detailing the ways in which the…

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Leslie Meier
Tippy Toe Murder

"With summer temperatures soaring to new heights in Tinker's Cove, Maine, the last thing a fully pregnant Lucy Stone wants to do is solve the mystery of a local murder ... With three kids underfoot, …

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Marina Sitrin
We Make Our Own Justice

What if we did abolish police, courts or prisons? Where would we turn for justice? Do we need to have laws? Punishment? These questions are not just the preoccupation of an abolitionist pipedream. Their a…

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E X Giroux
A Death for a Dilettante/A Death for a Dietitian

Robert Forsythe, London's favorite gentleman sleuth, is called to determine which of 87 suspects is taking potshots at a rich old coot, and Fosythe's intrepid assistant finds herself in the middle of a lo…

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E. J. Clery
Mary Wollstonecraft

Very Short Introductions

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Mary Wollstonecraft is widely hailed as the mother of modern feminism. The book that made her famous, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman , is a work…

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