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Ramesses the Great

Toby Wilkinson

• Paperback | Engels | Ancient Lives
• The life, dramatic reign, and enduring legacy of the pharaoh Ramesses the Great, with lessons for the present, from internationally acclaimed Egyptolo... Lees meer

A Little History of Art

Charlotte Mullins

• Paperback | Engels | Little Histories
• A thrilling journey through 100,000 years of art, from the first artworks ever made to art's central role in culture today Art can help us see the wor... Lees meer

A Little History of the World

E. H. Gombrich

• Paperback | Engels | Little Histories
• The internationally bestselling guide to the extraordinary human story, for the curious of all ages The world has existed for over 4 billion years, bu... Lees meer

The Book of Numbers: A Critique of Genesis

Calum Carmichael

• Hardcover | Engels
• In this work Calum Carmichael--a legal scholar who applies a literary approach to the study of the Bible--shows how each law and each narrative in Num... Lees meer

Yale French Studies, Number 79

• Paperback | Engels | Yale French Studies | nr. 79
• The contributors to this issue--among them writers, philosophers, literary critics, and psychoanalysts--evaluate the relationship between ethics and l... Lees meer

Understanding Health Care Reform

Theodore R Marmor

• Paperback | Engels | Yale FastBack
• The reform of American medical care is the most important topic on the nation's domestic agenda and the centerpiece of the Clinton administration's pl... Lees meer

Managing the Mountains

Sara M Gregg

• Paperback | Engels | Yale Agrarian Studies
• Historians have long viewed the massive reshaping of the American landscape during the New Deal era as unprecedented. This book uncovers the early twe... Lees meer

Secular Buddhism

Stephen Batchelor

• Paperback | Engels
• An essential collection of Stephen Batchelor's most probing and important work on secular Buddhism As the practice of mindfulness permeates mainstream... Lees meer

The Structure of Religious Experience

John Macmurray

• Hardcover | Engels | Terry Lectures
• John Macmurray, one of the most brilliant of the younger English philosophers, sets forth his conception of a religion which he believes can save the ... Lees meer

Long Commentary on the de Anima of Aristotle

Averroes

• Paperback | Engels | Yale Library of Medieval Philosophy
• Born in 1126 to a family of Maliki legal scholars, Ibn Rushd, known as Averroes, enjoyed a long career in religious jurisprudence at Seville and Cordo... Lees meer

The Daily You

Joseph Turow

• Hardcover
• In the new media world, advertisers are deciding who you are, how much you matter, and what you see and do Lees meer

The Economic Weapon

Nicholas Mulder

• Paperback | Engels
• The first international history of the emergence of economic sanctions during the interwar period and the legacy of this development A Foreign Affairs... Lees meer

How Fire Descends

Serhiy Zhadan

• Paperback | Engels | Margellos World Republic of Letters
• A searing testament to poetry's power to define and defy injustice, from iconic writer-activist Serhiy Zhadan Finalist for the PEN America Literary Aw... Lees meer

The Guggenheim

Francesco Dal Co

• Hardcover | Engels | Great Architects/Great Buildings
• The captivating tale of the plans and personalities behind one of New York City's most radical and recognizable buildings Considered the crowning achi... Lees meer

Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South

Ruth Harman, Nikolaus Pevsner

• Hardcover | Engels | Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England
• This authoritative guide, the companion to Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North , covers a vast area marked by tremendous diversity of... Lees meer

Tragedy of William Jennings Bryan

Gerard N Magliocca

• Paperback | Engels
• Although Populist candidate William Jennings Bryan lost the presidential elections of 1896, 1900, and 1908, he was the most influential political figu... Lees meer

The Elizabethan Hamlet

Arthur McGee

• Hardcover | Engels
• This original and provocative reinterpretation of Hamlet presents the play as the original audiences would have viewed it--a much bleaker, stronger, a... Lees meer

On Empire, Liberty and Reform

Edmund Burke

• Hardcover | Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture & History
• The British statesman Edmund Burke had a genius for political argument and his impassioned works shaped late 18th-century public life in England. This... Lees meer

Beginning Japanese

Eleanor Harz Jorden, Hamako Ito Chaplin

• Paperback | Engels | Yale Language
• Beginning Japanese (Parts I and II) contains thirty-five lessons, all of which have the same basic pattern and involve the same procedures. Each lesso... Lees meer

Bruegel to Rembrandt

William W. Robinson

• Hardcover
• A presentation of highlights from the collection of Maida and George Abrams, a private collection of Dutch 17th-century drawings. The works range from... Lees meer

Stephen F. Austin

Gregg Cantrell

• Paperback | Engels | Lamar Series in Western History
• Stephen F. Austin, the "Father of Texas," has long been enshrined in the public imagination as an authentic American hero, but one who was colorless a... Lees meer

Ogata Korin

Frank Feltens

• Hardcover | Engels
• A lush portrait introducing one of the most important Japanese artists of the Edo period Best known for his paintings Irises and Red and White Plum Bl... Lees meer

A Little History of Poetry

John Carey

• Paperback | Engels | Little Histories
• A vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literature--selected a... Lees meer

Women's Rights and Transatlantic Antislavery in the Era of Emancipation

James Brewer Stewart

• Paperback | Engels | David Brion Davis
• Two epochal developments profoundly influenced the history of the Atlantic world between 1770 and 1870-the rise of women's rights activism and the dri... Lees meer