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Raised on Christian Milk
Food and the Formation of the Soul in Early Christianity
A fascinating new study of the symbolic power of food and its role in forming kinship bonds and religious identity in early Christianity Scholar of religion John Penniman considers the symbolic importance...
Family Politics
Domestic Life, Devastation and Survival, 1900-1950
An exploration of the convulsive history of the 20th century’s first five decades, seen through the lens of families and family life In this masterly twentieth-century history, Paul Ginsborg places the...
Making Good Citizens
Education and Civil Society
Americans have reason to be concerned about the condition of American democracy at the start of the twenty-first century. Surveys show that civic participation has declined, cynicism about government has increased, and young...
Inside CIA's Private World
Declassified Articles from the Agency`s Internal Journal, 1955-1992
For forty years the Central Intelligence Agency has published an in-house journal, Studies in Intelligence, for CIA eyes only. Now the agency has declassified much of this material. This engrossing book, which presents...
Why Arendt Matters
From Arendt’s preeminent biographer, an exploration of the particular relevance of the great philosopher’s thought to the world of today Upon publication of her “field manual,” The Origins of Totalitarianism,...
100 Million Unnecessary Returns
A Simple, Fair, and Competitive Tax Plan for the United States; With a New Introduction
To most Americans, the United States tax code has become a vast and confounding puzzle. In 1940, the instructions to the form 1040 were about four pages long. Today they have ballooned to more than a hundred pages, and the...
Spanish Rome, 1500-1700
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Rome was an aged but still vigorous power while Spain was a rising giant on track toward becoming the world’s most powerful and first truly global empire. This book tells the...
Translating Truth
Ambitious Images and Religious Knowledge in Late Medieval France and England
Translating Truth is a novel and compelling account of how illuminated vernacular manuscripts transformed conceptions of Christian excellence in the later Middle Ages. Following the Fourth Lateran Council (1215), which...
Cottages and Villas
The Birth of the Garden Suburb
The garden suburb has its origins in London, and, contrary to widespread belief, its earliest phase took place not at the beginning of the 20th century, with the much discussed garden-city movement, but one century earlier,...
Unlocking Mallarmé
Almost a century after the death of the French poet Stéphane Mallarmé, readers still puzzle over his writings, still seek to understand his seemingly impenetrable philosophy. In this highly original book, Graham Robb reveals...