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A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia
The main architect of the concept of perestroika under Gorbachev, Alexander N. Yakovlev played a unique role in the transformation of the Soviet Union. Now, drawing on his own experiences and on his privileged access to state and...
Victorians and the Prehistoric
Tracks to a Lost World
As the Victorians excavated the earth to create canals and railways in the early part of the nineteenth century, geological discoveries brought to light new narratives of the prehistoric, ideas that resounded in British...
Theater and Film
A Comparative Anthology
This is the first book in more than twenty-five years to examine the complex historical, cultural, and aesthetic relationship between theater and film, and the effect that each has had on the other’s development.Robert...
North West Ulster
The Counties of Londonderry, Donegal, Fermanagh and Tyrone
The remote, rugged, rough country of North West Ulster possesses buildings as varied as its landscape. Monuments of the Celtic church - sculptured cross-slabs, high crosses and round towers - and medieval tower houses survive...
Argyll and Bute
This volume provides a survey of this region of Scotland stretching from the Atlantic islands and sea-lochs of Argyll to the softer landscape of Bute and the banks of the Clyde. The gazetteer introduces readers and visitors...
The Chattel Principle
Internal Slave Trades in the Americas
This wide-ranging book presents the first comprehensive and comparative account of the slave trade within the nations and colonial systems of the Americas. While most scholarly attention to slavery in the...
Bull’s-Eye
Unraveling the Medical Mystery of Lyme Disease, Second Edition
A riveting account of the medical sleuthing that led to the discovery of Lyme disease In this riveting account of medical sleuthing, Dr. Jonathan A. Edlow tells the history of the discovery of Lyme...
The List
The Uses and Pleasures of Cataloguing
A literary critic lovingly explores the ancient practice of list-making in literature “I am no more lonely than the Mill Brook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south wind, or an April shower,...
Touring Gotham’s Archaeological Past
8 Self-Guided Walking Tours through New York City
The first walking guide ever to explore New York City through its unique archaeological underpinnings This pocket-sized guidebook takes the reader on eight walking tours to archaeological sites...
Knowledge of Things Human and Divine
Vico’s New Science and "Finnegans Wake"
This is the first book to examine in full the interconnections between Giambattista Vico’s new science and James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. Maintaining that Joyce is the greatest modern “interpreter” of Vico, Donald...