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This is a fascinating new overview of European-American relations during the long twentieth century. Ranging from economics, culture and consumption t

The thesis of this original and provocative book is that representative government should be understood as a combination of democratic and undemocrati

Egypt played a crucial role in the Roman Empire for seven centuries. It was wealthy and occupied a strategic position between the Mediterranean and In

Carol Gilligan's landmark book In a Different Voice – the "little book that started a revolution" – brought women's voices to the fore in work on the

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A Business Week Best Book of the Year.... "A devastating and wholly necessary book."-Studs Terkel, author of Working

"There is no better guide to virtually all one needs to know to begin to appreciate what myth was and meant to the ancient Greeks. Exploring Greek Myt

Since the 1960s, many people around the world have challenged the idea that western perspectives are the only ones that count. This book examines the

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Grave takes a ground-level view of how b

A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New American Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the

An indispensable tool for teaching and reading Herodotus' first book in Greek. The Commentary provides considerable help with matters of language. It

The first edition of this highly readable narrative of modern Iran was named the Choice Outstanding Academic Title in 2009. This second edition brings

An accessible, compelling introduction to today’s major policy issues from columnist, best-selling author and Nobel Prize–winning economist Paul Krugm

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