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Terezín, as it was known in Czech, or Theresienstadt as it was known in German, was operated żeby the Nazis between November 1941 and May...

Digital Discourse offers a distinctly sociolinguistic perspective on the nature of language in digital technologies. It starts by simply...

Most philosophers writing about personal identity in recent years claim that what it takes for us to persist through time is a matter of...

Once upon a time in the city of Tunis, a flirtatious young girl was drawn into Lilith's dangerous web by glancing repeatedly at herself...

This extraordinary story is told from the archive documents in the case of Sister Benedetta Carlini, an Abbess who was imprisoned for thirty-five...

In The Long Hangover, Shaun Walker presents a deeply reported, bottom-up explanation of Russia's resurgence under Putin. Aby cleverly exploiting...

The unprecedented political power of the Ottoman imperial harem in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is widely viewed as illegitimate...

This book is a reassessment of the international monetary crises of the post-World War I period that led to the Great Depression of the...

Here is the first biography to appear in fifty years of Harvey Cushing, a giant of American medicine and without doubt the greatest figure...

The Aesthetic Brain takes readers on an exciting journey through the world of beauty, pleasure, and art. Using the latest advances in neuroscience...

On February 17, 2008, Kosovo declared its independence, becoming the seventh state to emerge from the break-up of the former Yugoslavia....

Robert Dallek's masterful John F. Kennedy: An Unfinished Life was a number one national bestseller, and it remains the most widely read...

There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway....

Music theorists have long believed that 19th-century triadic progressions idiomatically extend the diatonic syntax of 18th-century classical...

A Jew passing as a Christian in occupied Poland during WWII, Oswald Rufeisen worked as translator and personal secretary to a Nazi commander...

An updated new edition of Ted Gioia's universally acclaimed history of jazz, with a wealth of new insight on this music's past, present,...

Naked Seeing investigates visionary yogas in the Tibetan Bon and Buddhist traditions: practices in which a meditator spends long periods...

First published in 2004, The Jewish Study Bible is a landmark, one-volume resource tailored especially for the needs of students of the...

Technology and increasing levels of education have exposed people to more information than ever before. These societal gains, however, have...

Doing Oral History: A Practical Guide is considered the premier guidebook to oral history, used żeby professional oral historians, public...

Written aby award-winning jazz historian Ted Gioia, this comprehensive guide offers an illuminating look at more than 250 seminal jazz compositions....

Sleep Paralysis: Historical, Psychological, and Medical Perspectives offers the first comprehensive examination of sleep paralysis from...

In Words Onscreen, Naomi Baron offers a fascinating and timely look at how technology affects the way we read.

Jane is an attractive woman in her mid-thirties, tall, thin and stately. She believes she is breathtakingly ugly. Tormented żeby what she...

A unique military and cultural history that bronicles the reigns of Philip and Alexander the Great in one sweeping narrative.

Are our lives meaningless? Is death bad? Would immortality be better? Alternatively, should we hasten our deaths aby acts of suicide? Many...

Sodas are astonishing products. Little more than flavored sugar-water, these drinks cost practically nothing to produce or buy, yet have...

The renaissance flute, with its rich history, stunning repertoire, and mellow tone, has attracted a significant following among flutists,...

This book vividly demonstrates how a little knowledge about the foods and drugs we eat can teach us a lot about how our brain functions....

What makes the modern world work? The answer to this deceptively simple question lies in four "grand transitions" of civilization—in populations,...

Over the course of a generation, algorithms have gone from mathematical abstractions to powerful mediators of daily life. Algorithms have...

Polymer chemistry and technology form one of the major areas of molecular and materials science. This field impinges on nearly every aspect...

In "The Life of the Cosmos", Lee Smolin offers a theory of the universe that is radically different from anything proposed before. He argues...

Offers a detailed account of the chemistry of wine, from grape to bottle.

Visionary Film has remained the kanon text on the American avant-garde since the publication of its first edition in 1974. It has been hailed...

Beginning with music fundamentals,The Complete Musician covers all the topics necessary for a thorough understanding of undergraduate music...

In Elvis Presley, one of the most admired Southern historians of our time takes on one of the greatest cultural icons of all time. The result...

In this groundbreaking book, Tymoczko uses contemporary geometry to provide a new framework for thinking about music, one that emphasizes...

Social psychologist James Waller uncovers the internal and external factors that can lead ordinary people to commit extraordinary acts of...

Hailed in The New York Times Book Review as "the doyen of Middle Eastern studies," Bernard Lewis has been for half a century one of the...

In the past thirty years epidemiology has matured from a fledgling scientific field into a vibrant discipline that brings together the biological...

Tropical Diseases outlines the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases encountered in developing regions--areas where the unexpected...

In The Rule of Empires, Timothy Parsons gives a sweeping account of the evolution of empire from its origins in ancient Rome to its most...

According to the Bible, Eve was the first to heed Satan's advice to eat the forbidden fruit and thus responsible for all of humanity's subsequent...

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Andrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been. A native of the former Soviet Union, he lived as an exchange student in North...

Marshall McLuhan's posthumous The Global Village, co-authored żeby Bruce Powers, explores the new "laws" of media, "laws" fostering a dramatic...

Reveals the complex past and present of the mountainous Caucasus region at the intersection of Europe, Russia and the Middle East.

The Baader-Meinhof Group-later known as the Red Army Faction (RAF)-was a violent urban guerilla group which terrorized Germany in the 1970s...

R. Andrew Chesnut offers a fascinating portrayal of Santa Muerte, a skeleton saint whose cult has attracted millions of devotees over the...

Magnetoencephalography (MEG) and electroencephalography (EEG) provide complementary views to the neurodynamics of healthy and diseased human...

Fourteen centuries of Islamic thought have produced a legacy of interpretive readings of the Qu'ran written almost entirely by men. Now,...

We are all guilty of it. We call people terrible names in conversation or online. We vilify those with whom we disagree, and make bolder...

Metaphysicians should pay attention to quantum mechanics-not because it provides definitive answers to many metaphysical questions, but...

It its first two editions The Winning Brief explained the art of effective writing in 100 concise, practical, and easy-to-use tips, proving...

"Peking Man," a cave man once thought a great hunter who had first tamed fire, was actually a composite of the gnawed remains of some fifty...

A provocative argument against the idea that we view the world through the lens of the language we speak.

Stretching from Antiquity to the Second World War, a major new work of history that examines how battles have been fought-and reveals how...

An eye-opening account of day to day life in the 1930s, subtitled }Ordinary Life In Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia In The 1930s{. 10...

In A Slap in the Face, William Irvine undertakes a wide-ranging investigation of insults, their history, the role they play in social relationships,...

This book introduces non-specialists to Egypt, a pivotal country in the Middle East whose future is critical to the region's stability and...

Now updated to include Trump's election and the rise of global populism, Corey Robin's The Reactionary Mind traces conservatism back to...

Part philosophical meditation, part cultural critique, this profoundly original work explores the nature of physical suffering. Elaine Scarry...

Most people have heard of the Celts--the elusive, ancient tribal people who resided in present-day England, Ireland, Scotland and France....

Sportsman. Naturalist. Warrior. President. There are so many sides to Theodore Roosevelt that it is easy to overlook one of his most enduring...

Now in its second edition, Brain Architecture is the continued exploration of how the brain works. At the very core of our existence, the...

This book present a years-long discussion between composers Ennio Morricone and Alessandro De Rosa about life, music, and the unpredictable...

Stocks and bonds? Real estate? Hedge funds? Private equity? If you think those are the things to focus on in building an investment portfolio,...

While few soldiers may have read the works of Epictetus or Marcus Aurelius, it is undoubtedly true that the ancient philosophy known as...

The world is on the cusp of a global turn. Between 1500 and 1800, the West sprinted ahead of other centers of power in Asia and the Middle...

The Bottom Billion is an elegant and impassioned synthesis from one of the world's leading experts on Africa and poverty. It was hailed...

Feeling Unreal is the first book to reveal what depersonalization disorder is all about. This important volume explores not only depersonalization,...

The end of the Cold War ushered in an age of American triumphalism best characterized aby the 'Washington Consensus': the idea that free...

History, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly...

In The Musician's Way, veteran performer and educator Gerald Klickstein combines the latest research with his 30 years of professional experience...

Former industry insider Sean McFate lays bare the opaque world of private military contractors, explaining the economic structure of the...

Widely acclaimed fresh perspective that rejects the prevailing reductionist trend. "A startling first book" }Economist{. "One of the best...

In The Real North Korea, Lankov substitutes cold, clear analysis for the overheated rhetoric surrounding this opaque police state. Based...

Between the fall of the western Roman Empire in the fifth century and the collapse of the east in the face of the Arab invasions in the...

In the nineteenth and early twentieth century, a controversial school of Russian thinkers emerged, convinced that humanity was entering...

Russia is justly famous for its vodka. Today, the Russian average drinking man consumes 180 bottles of vodka a year, nearly half a bottle...

How did the Seregenti become an internationally renowned African conservation site and one of the most iconic destinations for a safari?...

Educational policy-makers around the world constantly make decisions about how to use scarce resources to improve the education of children....

In The Third Revolution, eminent China scholar Elizabeth C. Economy provides an incisive look at the transformative changes underway in...

Refining Sound is a practical roadmap to the complexities of creating sounds on modern synthesizers. As author, veteran synthesizer instructor...

When Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, launching World War Two, its army seemed an unstoppable force. The Luftwaffe bombed...

"The American Dream" is one of the most familiar and resonant phrases in our national lexicon, so familiar that we seldom pause to ask its...

A study in contrasts, the career of Sergey Prokofiev spanned the globe, leaving him witness to the most significant political and historical...

Spanning Ancient Egyptian culture (ca. 3200 BC to AD 400), this 'Handbook of Egyptian Mythology' is a complete survey of Egyptian mythology.

From the seventeenth century Cavaliers and Uncle Tom's Cabin to Civil Rights museums and today's conflicts over the Confederate flag, here...

This cultural biography of the nineteenth-century ballet master Marius Petipa - creator of The Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake - tells the...

Psychopharmacology: A Concise Overview, 3rd Edition is an evidence-based overview of the major classes of psychiatric medications and their...

A vivid, balanced, and complete biography of one of the 20th century's most influential figures, Deng Xiaoping, who presided over China's...

For many observers, the European Union is mired in a deep crisis. Between sluggish growth; political turmoil following a decade of austerity...

Eighty percent of Americans have no British ancestors. According to David Hackett Fischer, however, their day-to-day lives are profoundly...

China's economic growth has been revolutionary, and is the foundation of its increasingly prominent role in world affairs. It is the world's...

For over half a century, scholars have laboured to show that C. S. Lewis's famed but apparently disorganised bronicles of Narnia have an...

In his Farewell Address of 1796, President George Washington admonished the young nation "to steer clear of permanent alliances with any...

"Examines the motif of the flying woman as it appears in a wide variety of cultures and historical periods, in legends, myths, rituals,...

Pat Metheny: The ECM Years, 1977-1984 offers a vivid account of jazz guitarist Pat Metheny's first creative period, during which he recorded...

Written żeby a multi-disciplinary team of experts in neurobehaviour, this concise, well-illustrated book provides long-awaited normative...

Electronic music instruments werent called synthesizers until the 1950s, but their lineage began in 1919 with Russian inventor Lev Sergeyevich...

Featuring extensive revisions to the text as well as a new introduction and epilogue-bringing the book completely up to date on the tumultuous...

"We are surrounded aby a world that talks, but we don't listen. We are part of a community engaged in a vast conversation, but we deny our...

This expanded and updated fifth edition presents Caroli's keen political analysis and astute observation of recent developments in First...

The first truly global history of the Napoleonic Wars, arguably the first world war.

The Nazis' attempt to annihilate the Jewish people, the Holocaust, continues to raise a disturbing question. About six million defenseless...

Norse Mythology explores the magical myths and legends of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland and Viking-Age Greenland-outlining along the...

Alexander the Great, arguably the most exciting figure from antiquity, waged war as a Homeric hero and lived as one, conquering native peoples...

Richard Gilman referred to How to Read a Film as simply "the best single work of its kind." And Janet Maslin in The New York Times Book...

For four hundred years--from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the US Army's massacre of...

Neuroimmunology, the latest volume in the Contemporary Neurology Series, provides a practical, clinical, and scientific background on a...

In Mind and Cosmos Thomas Nagel argues that the widely accepted world view of materialist naturalism is untenable. The mind-body problem...

The Tang Dynasty (618-907), traditionally regarded as the goldenage of China, was a time of patricians and intellectuals, Buddhist monks...

How do we find calm in times of stress and uncertainty? How do we cope with sudden losses or find meaning in a world that can easily rob...

An array of remarkably varied writings from early Christian groups.

Punk Crisis examines how transnational punk movements challenged the global order of the Cold War to usher in a new era of global neoliberalism.

As a scientist, you are a professional writer: your career is built on successful proposals and papers. Success isn't defined żeby getting...

More than half of American adults and more than seventy-five percent of young Americans believe in intelligent extraterrestrial life. This...

In recent years, a cult of anti-expertise has engulfed America. While the United States has long been prone to bouts of anti-intellectualism,...