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Judith: Sexual Warrior
Women and Power in Western Culture
The Old Testament story of the widow Judith—the irresistible siren who lured her people’s deadly enemy, Holofernes, to his death, beheading him in his own bed to save Jerusalem—is an enduring cultural myth in Western society....
Tales from the German Underworld
Crime and Punishment in the Nineteenth Century
Through the means of four powerful and extraordinary narratives from the nineteenth-century German underworld, this book deftly explores an intriguing array of questions about criminality, punishment, and social exclusion in...
Kenneth Tynan
A Life
The first in-depth biography of theater genius Kenneth Tynan, looking behind the celebrity myth to show how Tynan’s eloquence and fervor helped change the course of theater in Britain and America...
Directions in Sexual Harassment Law
When it was published twenty-five years ago, Catharine MacKinnon’s pathbreaking work Sexual Harassment of Working Women had a major impact on the development of sexual harassment law. The U.S. Supreme Court...
The End of Byzantium
By 1400, the once-mighty Byzantine Empire stood on the verge of destruction. Most of its territories had been lost to the Ottoman Turks, and Constantinople was under close blockade. Against all odds, Byzantium lingered on for...
Beaufort
The Duke and His Duchess, 1657-1715
The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort survived the tumultuous and uncertain decades that followed the English civil war by creating a remarkable political partnership. Together, they worked to restore their family’s estates and...
Jonathan Swift
The Irish Identity
Jonathan Swift was internationally acclaimed in his own time for Gulliver's Travels and other brilliant satires in verse and prose. In his native Ireland, however, he was most fervently admired as a patriot. Advocating...
Information and Exclusion
Nearly all communities are exclusive in some way. When race or wealth is the basis of exclusion, the homogeneity of a neighborhood, workplace, or congregation is controversial. In other instances, as with an artist's colony or...
Yidish af yidish
Grammatical, Lexical, and Conversational Materials for the Second and Third Years of Study
Written entirely in Yiddish, this innovative and accessible language text provides opportunities for intermediate level students of Yiddish to improve their conversational skills, grammar, and vocabulary. It includes numerous...
Fatal Flaws
How a Misfolded Protein Baffled Scientists and Changed the Way We Look at the Brain
The story of the revolutionary science that is unraveling the mysteries of mad cow and other fatal brain diseases Discovered and identified as the cause of mad cow disease only three decades ago, the prion...