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Zechariah 9-14
This commentary and new translation of Zechariah 9-14 continues the appraoch adopted in the authors' 1987 Anchor Bible volume (25B) on Haggai and Zechariah 1-8. Authors Carol and Eric Meyers are perhaps uniquely qualified for...
The Roof at the Bottom of the World
Discovering the Transantarctic Mountains
A fascinating portrait and history of the most obscure mountains on Earth, by a modern scientist-explorer with unsurpassed knowledge of the region The Transantarctic Mountains are the most remote...
Failed Statebuilding
Intervention, the State, and the Dynamics of Peace Formation
Western struggles—and failures—to create functioning states in countries such as Iraq or Afghanistan have inspired questions about whether statebuilding projects are at all viable, or whether they make the lives of their intended...
James Boswell's Life of Johnson
An Edition of the Original Manuscript in Four Volumes. Volume 3: 1776-1780
The original manuscript of James Boswell's Life of Johnson—a composite of his basic draft and innumerable revisions—served as printer's copy, despite its maze-like appearance. This volume, third of a projected four,...
Caregiving in Alzheimer's and Other Dementias
An essential guide for everyone who provides care for a person with Alzheimer’s disease or other dementias Practical. Easy to read. Comprehensive. Encouraging. Accurate. All of these words describe this...
Database of Dreams
The Lost Quest to Catalog Humanity
An acclaimed science historian uncovers the fascinating story of a “lost” project to unlock humanity’s common denominator that prefigured the emergence of Big Data Just a few years before the dawn of the...
Friendship in the Hebrew Bible
The first comprehensive study of friendship in the Hebrew Bible Friendship, though a topic of considerable humanistic and cross disciplinary interest in contemporary scholarship, has been largely ignored...
Cold War Monks
Buddhism and America's Secret Strategy in Southeast Asia
The groundbreaking account of U.S. clandestine efforts to use Southeast Asian Buddhism to advance Washington’s anticommunist goals during the Cold War How did the U.S. government make use of a “Buddhist...
Marxism and Democracy in Chile
From 1932 to the Fall of Allende
In this book Julio Faúndez traces the development of Chilean politics from 1932 to the overthrow of Allende in 1973, focusing in particular on the participation of Marxist parties in Chile’s democratic government. Relating...
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol 6
Poems
In 1941, when Mr. McAdam and the late D. Nichol Smith published their edition of Johnson's poems, no one could have foreseen the great surge in Johnsonian studies in the next generation, much less the discovery of addition...