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Richard Calis
The Discovery of Ottoman Greece

The surprising story of the sixteenth-century Lutheran scholar who became Europe's foremost authority on Ottoman Greece, shedding new light on the place of Greek culture and religion in the Western imagin…

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Zenon Kohut
The Making of Cossack Ukraine

Both modern Ukrainian nationhood and the historical preconditions of the country's contemporary conflict with Russia are rooted in a complex period of development in Cossack Ukraine. The Making of Cossack…

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Virginia Woolf,
Orlando

Penguin Vitae

A collectible hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf's pioneering novel about a time-traveling sixteenth-century nobleman who wakes up in the body of a woman, with a new foreword by Andrea Lawlor, author of …

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Mariely Lares
Dawn of Fate and Fire

The stunning conclusion to the duology that began with the internationally bestselling Sun of Blood and Ruin, this Zorro reimagining weaves Mesoamerican mythology and sixteenth-century Mexican history int…

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François Quiviger
Bernard Palissy and the Arts of the Earth

A life of the sixteenth-century potter and scientist, with special attention to his natural philosophy.Bernard Palissy, a French Renaissance artisan philosopher, saw intelligence and consciousness in all …

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Petr Vorel
The Italian Crusade to Germany in 1546

This book explores a significant historical event in sixteenth-century European history. The Italian crusade against the German Lutherans in 1546 was, for many reasons, the catalyst for the military phase…

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Paulina Rowinska
Mapmatics

How does a delivery driver distribute hundreds of packages in a single working day? Why does remote Alaska have such a large airport? Where should we look for elusive serial killers? The answers lie in th…

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Privacy at Sea

This book explores the idea of privacy at sea from early sixteenth-century maritime expansions to nineteenth-century naval developments. In this period, the sea became a focal point of political and econo…

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Laurie Stras
Music at a Florentine Convent

The Biffoli-Sostegni manuscript, MS 27766 of the Bibliothèque du Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles, is the only volume of sixteenth-century polyphony with a secure provenance in a female convent. Its extra…

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Mary Hollingsworth
Catherine de' Medici

A Financial Times Book of the Year'Thoroughly researched.' Sunday Times 'To be devoured.' Philip Mansel 'This book is a treat for fans of well-told history.' Washington PostHistory is rarely kind to women…

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Laurie Stras
Music at a Florentine Convent

The Biffoli-Sostegni manuscript, MS 27766 of the Bibliothèque du Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles, is the only volume of sixteenth-century polyphony with a secure provenance in a female convent. Its extra…

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St John Of The Cross
Dark Night

'Oh living flame of love, how tenderly you scorch me'The poetry of the sixteenth-century Spanish mystic, St John of the Cross, has inspired and consoled for hundreds of years, influencing writers from Jam…

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Glenn Richardson
Francis I

A compelling, concise biography of the sixteenth-century French king, whose patronage was central to Renaissance art.Francis I of France led one of the most colorful and influential reigns of the sixteent…

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Sion Parkinson
Stinkhorn

A meditation on sound, inviting us to listen through the nose and open the mind to the musical potential in unpleasant odors.The stinkhorn mushroom is one of the weirdest wonders of the fungal world, cert…

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Luis De Gongora Y. Argote, Pablo Picasso,
Gongora: Bilingual Edition

Picasso was first attracted to the work of sixteenth-century Spanish poet Luis de Gongora y Argote during the 1920s, when the poet, called the father of modern poetry by Federico Garcia Lorca, was resurre…

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Pamela Lothspeich
The Radheshyam Ramayan in Text and Performance

A new Ramayan for a new age. In the early twentieth century, the poet and singer-storyteller Pandit Radheshyam Kathavachak reimagined and published the classic story of the Ramayan with stunning success. …

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Ali Benmakhlouf,
The Humanity of Others

How should we speak of humanism today? To answer this question, Moroccan philosopher Ali Benmakhlouf turns to Montaigne. Through a rich and attentive reading of Montaigne's Essays, Benmakhlouf reminds us …

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Ali Benmakhlouf,
The Humanity of Others

How should we speak of humanism today? To answer this question, Moroccan philosopher Ali Benmakhlouf turns to Montaigne. Through a rich and attentive reading of Montaigne's Essays, Benmakhlouf reminds us …

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Kate Mosse
The Burning Chambers

The Sunday Times No. 1 Bestseller 'A tour de force' - The ObserverBringing sixteenth-century France vividly to life, Kate Mosse's historical epic The Burning Chambers is a gripping story of love, betrayal…

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Sara Kehaulani Goo
Kuleana

"From an early age, Sara Kehaulani Goo was enchanted by her family's land in Hawai'i. The vast area on the rugged shores of Maui's east side--given by King Kamehameha III in 1848--extends from mounta…

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