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Philosophy of Dreams
A sweeping reconstruction of human consciousness and its breakdown, from the Stone Age through modern technology Why has humankind developed so differently from other animals? How and why did language,...
Brilliant Discourse
Pictures and Readers in Early Modern Rome
Sixteenth-century Roman presses turned out hundreds of technical treatises and learned discourses written in the vernacular. Covering topics as diverse as the cultivation of silkworms, the lives of the saints, and the order of the...
New Worlds
A Religious History of Latin America
A brilliant capstone work that analyzes the entire history of Latin America's reception of Christianity This extraordinary book encompasses the time period from the first Christian evangelists' arrival...
Blindly
Hailed as a masterpiece when first published in Italy, Magris's innovative novel is now available to English-language readers Who is the mysterious narrator of Blindly? Clearly a recluse and a...
The Recording Machine
Art and Fact during the Cold War
A revealing look at the irrevocable change in art during the 1960s and its relationship to the modern culture of fact This refreshing and erudite book offers a new understanding of the transformation of...
The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary, D-G
Volume 2
The most extensive Bible dictionary ever created:- The first major Bible dictionary to be published in America in 30 years- 6 volumes of approximately 1,200 pages each- ...
Cunegonde's Kidnapping
A Story of Religious Conflict in the Age of Enlightenment
How a popular religious war erupted on the Dutch-German border, despite the ideals of religious tolerance proclaimed by the Enlightenment In a remote village on the Dutch-German border, a young Catholic...
Philip of Spain
"A historian’s biography of Philip II as Renaissance prince, refuting the Elizabethan propaganda picture of the spider of the Escorial."—New York Times Book Review (And Bear in Mind)"In humanizing...
The Scientific Buddha
His Short and Happy Life
How Western notions of the Buddha have come to misrepresent his teachings and the traditional goals of Buddhist practice This book tells the story of the Scientific Buddha, "born" in Europe in the 1800s...
Those Who Write for Immortality
Romantic Reputations and the Dream of Lasting Fame
A provocative inquiry into lasting literary fame, the gifted writers who have achieved it, and the gifted writers who have not Great writers of the past whose works we still read and love will be read...