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Voices of Revolution, 1917
Although much has been written about the political history of the Russian revolution, the human story of what the revolution meant to ordinary people has rarely been told. This book gives voice to the experiences, thoughts,...
Yale French Studies, Number 111
Myth and Modernity
Editors’ PrefaceDan Edelstein and Bettina Lerner Mythomania and Modernity Part I: From Nation to Republic Bettina Lerner Michelet, MythologueLeon...
The Bridge at the Edge of the World
Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability
“My point of departure in this book is the momentous environmental challenge we face. But today’s environmental reality is linked powerfully with other realities, including growing social inequality and...
Æthelred
The Unready
An imaginative reassessment of Æthelred "the Unready," one of medieval England’s most maligned kings and a major Anglo-Saxon figure The Anglo-Saxon king Æthelred "the Unready" (978–1016) has long been considered to...
The Gifted Passage
Young Men in Classic Maya Art and Text
In this thought-provoking book, preeminent scholar Stephen Houston turns his attention to the crucial role of young males in Classic Maya society, drawing on evidence from art, writing, and material culture. The Gifted...
Nature Strange and Beautiful
How Living Beings Evolved and Made the Earth a Home
A beautifully written exploration of how cooperation shaped life on earth, from its single-celled beginnings to complex human societies In this rich, wide-ranging, beautifully illustrated volume, Egbert...
After Net Neutrality
A New Deal for the Digital Age
A provocative analysis of net neutrality and a call to democratize online communication This short book is both a primer that explains the history and politics of net neutrality and an argument for a...
Cork: City and County
This authoritative guide to the architecture of County Cork covers all sites and buildings of merit, great and small Comprehensive and easy to use, this guide covers the architectural riches of Ireland’s...
Algeria
Anger of the Dispossessed
How Algeria became a breeding ground for instability, violence, and Islamic terrorism After liberating itself from French colonial rule in one of the twentieth century’s most brutal wars of...
Seven Ways of Looking at Religion
The Major Narratives
An ambitious young scholar’s lucid analysis of religion’s shifting place in the modern world Western intellectuals have long theorized that religion would undergo a process of marginalization and decline as...