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Modern Persian
Spoken and Written, Volume 1
Although Persian is one of the world’s oldest languages, in its modern form it is still spoken by more than forty million people in Iran and by more than twenty million people elsewhere. These volumes provide students from...
The Politics of Everyday Life
Making Choices, Changing Lives
A passionate defense of local politics in an age dominated by global media empires. Concern over the present state of the world—its tensions and disparities--fosters in many people the uneasy combination...
Ghost Ships
A Surrealist Love Triangle
A moving and spectacular tale of love, jealousy, and exotic travel, centering on three significant figures in the Surrealist movement Travel and exploration fascinated the Surrealists, who crossed...
The American Country House
From the Vanderbilts' stupendous Biltmore and the Rockefellers' Kykuit to the Duponts' museum Winterthur and William Randolph Hearst's legendary San Simeon, American country houses evoke the grandeur of a bygone world of...
Jane Austen
Real and Imagined Worlds
In this book a distinguished historian explores the novels of Jane Austen, showing how they illuminate English history in the quarter century before 1792 and 1817 and how, in turn, an appreciation of this period in...
Whispering City
Rome and Its Histories
An accomplished Italianist looks beyond Rome's storied facades to offer insight into the many histories of one of the world's best-loved cities In Civilization and Its Discontents, Sigmund Freud...
Yale French Studies, Number 127
Animots: Postanimality in French Thought
The latest volume of Yale French Studies addresses French-inspired theoretical and philosophical concerns centered on animals and animality. Contributors from France, the United Kingdom, and North America discuss...
The Code of Maimonides (Mishneh Torah)
Book 14, The Book of Judges
Choosing the Leader
Leadership Elections in the U.S. House of Representatives
The first comprehensive study in more than forty years to explain congressional leadership selection How are congressional party leaders chosen? In the first comprehensive study since Robert Peabody’s...
Words Alone
The Poet T. S. Eliot
When Denis Donoghue left Warrenpoint and went to Dublin in September 1946, he entered University College as a student of Latin and English. A few months later he also started as a student of lieder at the Royal Irish...