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Pandora's Box

Jörn Leonhard

• Paperback | Engels
• Winner of the Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Prize "The best large-scale synthesis in any language of what we currently know and understand about this multi... Lees meer

A History of Modern Poetry

David Perkins

• Paperback | Engels
• There have been many books on early modernist poetry, not so many on its various sequels, and still fewer on the currents and cross-currents of poetry... Lees meer

Paradise Lost

David S Brown

• Hardcover | Engels
• Pigeonholed in popular memory as a Jazz Age epicurean, a playboy, and an emblem of the Lost Generation, F. Scott Fitzgerald was at heart a moralist st... Lees meer

Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms

Stephen Jay Gould

• Paperback | Engels
• With his customary brilliance, Gould examines the puzzles and paradoxes great and small that build nature's and humanity's diversity and order. Lees meer

Zhivago's Children

Vladislav Zubok

• Hardcover | Engels
• Among the least-chronicled aspects of post-World War II European intellectual and cultural history is the story of the Russian intelligentsia after St... Lees meer

The Romani Gypsies

Yaron Matras

• Hardcover | Engels
• "Gypsies" have lived among Europeans since the Middle Ages. Yet Roms still seem exotic to Westerners, who often rely on fictional depictions for what ... Lees meer

Commonwealth

Oscar Handlin, Mary Flug Handlin

• Paperback | Engels | Belknap Press
• Commonwealth , when first published in 1947, was a pioneer effort to investigate the historical role of government in the American economy. It reveale... Lees meer

Blacks in Antiquity

Frank M Snowden

• Paperback | Engels | Belknap Press
• The Africans who came to ancient Greece and Italy participated in an important chapter of classical history. Although evidence indicated that the alie... Lees meer

Adams Family Correspondence

Adams Family

• Hardcover | Engels | Adams Papers | nr. 4
• This volume continues the incredible family saga of the Adamses of Massachusetts as told through their myriad letters to one another, to their extende... Lees meer

The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison

William Lloyd Garrison

• Hardcover | Engels | Letters of William Lloyd Garrison | nr. 6
• This is the sixth and final volume collecting the letters of an outstanding figure in American history. During the years when these letters were writt... Lees meer

Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Hardcover | Engels | Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Some of Ralph Waldo Emerson's finest and most famous essays, such as "Self-Reliance," "Compensation," and "The Over-Soul," appeared in his Essays of 1... Lees meer

The Politics Presidents Make

Stephen Skowronek

• Paperback | Engels
• Stephen Skowronek's wholly innovative study demonstrates that presidents are persistent agents of change, continually disrupting and transforming the ... Lees meer

A Nation of Agents

James E Block

• Hardcover | Engels
• In this sweeping reinterpretation of American political culture, James Block offers a new perspective on the formation of the modern American self and... Lees meer

Collected Papers of Kenneth J. Arrow

Kenneth J Arrow

• Hardcover | Engels | Collected Papers of Kenneth J. Arrow | nr. 1
• Unlike the papers of some other great economists, those of Kenneth Arrow are being read and studied today with even greater care and attention than wh... Lees meer

The Image of the Black in Western Art

• Hardcover | Engels
• In the 1960s, art patron Dominique de Menil founded an image archive showing the ways that people of African descent have been represented in Western ... Lees meer

Dance of the Furies

Michael S Neiberg

• Paperback | Engels
• The common explanation for the outbreak of World War I depicts Europe as a minefield of nationalism, needing only the slightest pressure to set off an... Lees meer

Russian Origins of the First World War

Sean McMeekin

• Paperback | Engels
• The catastrophe of the First World War, and the destruction, revolution, and enduring hostilities it wrought, make the issue of its origins a perennia... Lees meer

The Scientific Estate

Don K Price

• Hardcover | Engels | Belknap Press
• The faith in science as an ally of political and economic progress, which Franklin and Jefferson made so firm a part of the American tradition, has be... Lees meer

Persuasion

Jane Austen

• Hardcover | Engels
• Published posthumously with Northanger Abbey in 1817, Persuasion crowns Jane Austen's remarkable career. It is her most passionate and introspective l... Lees meer

Forgotten Wars

Christopher Bayly, Tim Harper

• Paperback | Engels
• In September 1945, after the fall of the atomic bomb--and with it, the Japanese empire--Asia was dominated by the British. Governing a vast crescent o... Lees meer

Huck's Raft

Steven Mintz

• Paperback | Engels
• Like Huck's raft, the experience of American childhood has been both adventurous and terrifying. For more than three centuries, adults have agonized o... Lees meer

Franklin of Philadelphia

Esmond Wright

• Paperback | Engels | Belknap Press S
• The most original and most delightful of the Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin was publisher and printer, essayist and author, businessman and "gene... Lees meer

Fearless Women

Elizabeth Cobbs

• Hardcover | Engels
• "A gripping panoramic history that pairs ingenious excavation with enlightening explanation to relight the fire of feminist political identity at the ... Lees meer

A History of American Magazines

Frank Luther Mott

• Hardcover | Engels
• In the fourth volume of his widely acclaimed History of American Magazines (volumes two and three of which received the Pulitzer Prize), Frank Mott ca... Lees meer