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The Way and the Word
Science and Medicine in Early China and Greece
The rich civilizations of ancient China and Greece built sciences of comparable sophistication—each based on different foundations of concept, method, and organization. In this engrossing book, two world-renowned...
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volumes 21-23
The Lives of the Poets
The Lives of the Poets was the crowning achievement of Samuel Johnson’s rich and varied literary life. Initially planned as a series of rapid-fire prefaces introducing separate volumes on English poets,...
The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms
Volume 1: Language
“An outstanding contribution to epistemology and to the human power of abstraction.”—F.I.G. Rawlins, Nature The Symbolic Forms has long been considered by many who knew it in the original...
Hellfire Nation
The Politics of Sin in American History
This insightful new conceptualization of American political history demonstrates that—despite the clear separation of church and state—religion lies at the heart of American politics. From the Puritan founding to the...
Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture
By now a classic, it presents in a single volume a coherent overall view of the history and the changing character of Early Christian and Byzantine architecture, from Rome and Milan to North Africa, from Constantinople to...
Isabella and Leonardo
The Artistic Relationship between Isabella d’Este and Leonardo da Vinci, 1500-1506
Isabella d'Este, the marchioness of Mantua, was a collector of antiquities, a patron of art, and one of the most vivid personalities of the Italian Renaissance. Her artistic relationship with Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) is...
Theater of the Avant-Garde, 1950-2000
A Critical Anthology
This critical anthology assembles an international selection of influential avant-garde plays from the second half of the twentieth century. Supplemented by essays by major theater practitioners, the book approaches the recent...
On Historical Distance
Conceptions of distance are foundational to historical thought, but Mark Salber Phillips gives the idea new subtlety and meaning. He argues that distance is a matter not just of time and space but also of form, affect,...
Humans Need Not Apply
A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
An insightful, engaging tour by a noted Silicon Valley insider of how accelerating developments in Artificial Intelligence will transform the way we live and workSelected as one of the 10 best science...
Artful History
A Practical Anthology
A collection of memorable, stirring, and eloquent historical essays, designed to help any historian write more artfully Is there any reason serious historical scholarship cannot receive literary expression?...