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The Great Agnostic
Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought
A biography that restores /robert Ingersoll—America’s foremost nineteenth-century champion of reason and secularism—to our still-contested twenty-first-century public square"Jacoby makes the case that...
Metaphors for Environmental Sustainability
Redefining Our Relationship with Nature
Scientists turn to metaphors to formulate and explain scientific concepts, but an ill-considered metaphor can lead to social misunderstandings and counterproductive policies, Brendon Larson observes in this stimulating book. He...
Brazil
The Troubled Rise of a Global Power
A knowledgeable appreciation of a complex, vital South American giant, destined to be one of the world’s premier economic powers Experts believe that Brazil, the world’s fifth largest country and its...
Insider Trading
How Mortuaries, Medicine and Money Have Built a Global Market in Human Cadaver Parts
The cadaver industry in Britain and the United States, its processes and profits Except for organ transplantation little is known about the variety of stuff extracted from corpses and repurposed for...
Moscow Vanguard Art
1922-1992
A comprehensive survey of art in Moscow in the era of the Soviet Union that champions the unquenchable spirit of artistic experimentation in the face of political repression Ambitious and interdisciplinary,...
Yitzhak Rabin
Soldier, Leader, Statesman
An insider’s perspective on the life and influence of Israel’s first native-born prime minister, his bold peace initiatives, and his tragic assassination More than two decades have passed since prime...
The Republic of Letters
A provocative exploration of intellectual exchange across four centuries of European history by the author of When the World Spoke French In this fascinating study, preeminent historian Marc...
Scots and Catalans
Union and Disunion
A landmark account that reveals the long history behind the current Catalan and Scottish independence movements A distinguished historian of Spain and Europe provides an enlightening account of the...
The Warm South
How the Mediterranean Shaped the British Imagination
An evocative exploration of the impact of the Mediterranean on British culture, ranging from the mid-eighteenth century to today Ever since the age of the Grand Tour in the eighteenth century, the...
Rotten Bodies
Class and Contagion in Eighteenth-Century Britain
A revealing look at how the memory of the plague held the poor responsible for epidemic disease in eighteenth-century Britain “This work will be required reading in fields of research that do not often overlap...