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In The Four Ages of American Foreign Policy, the eminent scholar of American foreign policy Michael Mandelbaum offers a new framework for understandin

The gentrification of Brooklyn has been one of the most striking developments in recent urban history. Considered one of the city's most notorious ind

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A frank assessment of Israel’s uncertain place in a region scarred by conflict and insecurity. Where can the country and its people go from here?

This Very Short Introduction provides an analytical narrative of the main events and developments in Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1936. It examines

Mohammed, profeet en stichter van de islam, is een van de invloedrijkste, maar tegelijkertijd ook een van de meest omstreden figuren uit de menselijke

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M. Lindsay Kaplan expands the study of the history of racism through an analysis of the medieval Christian concept of Jewish servitude. Developed thro

This well-respected text provides a lively, comprehensive, and authoritative account of the emergence and evolution of the European Union from the aft

The philosophy of Epictetus, a freed slave in the Roman Empire, has been influential on Western thought: it offers not only stimulating ideas but also

This study analyzes the changing roles of German-Jewish women as members of an economically mobile but socially spurned minority.

Human language allows us to plan, communicate, and create new ideas, without limit. Yet we have only finite experiences, and our languages have finite

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The fullest biography of Mark Antony in English, A Noble Ruin provides a fresh account of Antony's personal life and especially his public career, inc

Ranging across both standard philosophical territory and the landscape of cutting-edge cognitive science, Mindware: An Introduction to the Philosophy

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In his Bellum Catilinae, C. Sallustius Crispus or Sallust (86-35/34 B.C.E.) recounts the dramatic events of the year 63 B.C.E. when a disgruntled and

From one of the world's leading experts on the subject, a fully updated introduction to the sustainability movement from the 1600s to today The wor

Een geestig en licht melancholisch verhaal over liefde, verlangen en het verstrijken van de tijd, van een van de succesvolste Deense literaire schrijv