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Denaturalized

Claire Zalc

• Hardcover | Engels
• "In Denaturalized , Claire Zalc combines the precision of the scholar with the passion of a storyteller...This is a deftly written book. Zalc combines... Lees meer

Making Civilizations

• Hardcover | Engels
• Distinguished historians of the ancient world analyze the earliest developments in human history and the rise of the first major civilizations, from t... Lees meer

Our Universe

Jo Dunkley

• Paperback | Engels
• A BBC Sky at Night Best Astronomy and Space Book of the Year "[A] luminous guide to the cosmos...Jo Dunkley swoops from Earth to the observable limits... Lees meer

Crime and Forgiveness

Adriano Prosperi

• Hardcover
• A provocative analysis of how Christianity helped legitimize the death penalty in early modern Europe, then throughout the Christian world, by turning... Lees meer

Inky Fingers

Anthony Grafton

• Hardcover | Engels
• The author of The Footnote reflects on scribes, scholars, and the work of publishing during the golden age of the book. From Francis Bacon to Barack O... Lees meer

Heart of Europe

Peter H Wilson

• Paperback | Engels
• An Economist and Sunday Times Best Book of the Year "Ambitious...seeks to rehabilitate the Holy Roman Empire's reputation by re-examining its place wi... Lees meer

Being Property Once Myself

Joshua Bennett

• Hardcover | Engels
• A prize-winning poet argues that blackness acts as the caesura between human and nonhuman, man and animal. Throughout US history, black people have be... Lees meer

Napoleon and de Gaulle

Patrice Gueniffey

• Hardcover | Engels
• An Australian Book Review Best Book of the Year One of France's most famous historians compares two exemplars of political and military leadership to ... Lees meer

Capital and Ideology

Thomas Piketty

• Hardcover | Engels
• A New York Times Best Seller An NPR Best Book of the Year The epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of... Lees meer

The Republic of Arabic Letters

Alexander Bevilacqua

• Paperback | Engels
• A Longman- History Today Book Prize Finalist Winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year "Deeply though... Lees meer

A Specter Haunting Europe

Paul Hanebrink

• Paperback | Engels
• "Masterful...An indispensable warning for our own time." --Samuel Moyn "Magisterial...Covers this dark history with insight and skill...A major interv... Lees meer

Magic and the Dignity of Man

Brian P Copenhaver

• Hardcover | Engels
• "This book is nothing less than the definitive study of a text long considered central to understanding the Renaissance and its place in Western cultu... Lees meer

Metternich

Wolfram Siemann

• Hardcover | Engels
• A compelling new biography that recasts the most important European statesman of the first half of the nineteenth century, famous for his alleged arch... Lees meer

The Enchantments of Mammon

Eugene McCarraher

• Hardcover | Engels
• Far from displacing religions, as has been supposed, capitalism became one, with money as its deity. Eugene McCarraher reveals how mammon ensnared us ... Lees meer

Stalin and the Fate of Europe

Norman M Naimark

• Hardcover | Engels
• The Cold War division of Europe was not inevitable--the acclaimed author of Stalin's Genocides shows how postwar Europeans fought to determine their o... Lees meer

Not Enough

Samuel Moyn

• Paperback | Engels
• "No one has written with more penetrating skepticism about the history of human rights." --Adam Kirsch, Wall Street Journal "Moyn breaks new ground in... Lees meer

When Bishops Meet

John W O'Malley

• Hardcover | Engels
• From one of our foremost church historians comes an overarching analysis of the three modern Catholic councils--an assessment of what Catholicism was ... Lees meer

The Cosmopolitan Tradition

Martha C Nussbaum

• Hardcover | Engels
• From one of our preeminent philosophers--winner of the Berggruen Prize--a work that engages critically with important examples of the cosmopolitan ide... Lees meer

China and Japan

Ezra F Vogel

• Hardcover | Engels
• One of the world's most eminent scholars of East Asia reveals the important touchstones in the long history between China and Japan and argues that fo... Lees meer

The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses S Grant

• Paperback | Engels
• "Leaps straight onto the roster of essential reading for anyone even vaguely interested in Grant and the Civil War." --Ron Chernow, author of Grant "P... Lees meer

The Great Convergence

Richard Baldwin

• Paperback | Engels
• An Economist Best Book of the Year A Financial Times Best Economics Book of the Year A Fast Company "7 Books Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Says You Need... Lees meer

A Spirit of Trust

Robert B Brandom

• Hardcover | Engels
• Forty years in the making, this long-awaited reinterpretation of Hegel's The Phenomenology of Spirit is a landmark contribution to philosophy by one o... Lees meer

Romanland

Anthony Kaldellis

• Hardcover | Engels
• A leading historian argues that in the empire we know as Byzantium, the Greek-speaking population was actually Roman, and scholars have deliberately m... Lees meer

Ripples in Spacetime

Govert Schilling

• Paperback | Engels
• A Physics Today Best Book of the Year A Forbes "For the Physics and Astronomy Lover in Your Life" Selection "Succinct, accessible, and remarkably time... Lees meer