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Eastern Orthodox Christianity
The Essential Texts
Two leading academic scholars offer the first comprehensive source reader on the Eastern Orthodox church for the English-speaking world. Designed specifically for students and accessible to readers with little or no previous...
Lions and Lambs
Conflict in Weimar and the Creation of Post-Nazi Germany
A bold new interpretation of Germany’s democratic transformation in the twentieth century, focusing on the generation that shaped the post-Nazi reconstruction Not long after the horrors of World War II and...
Presidents’ Secrets
The Use and Abuse of Hidden Power
How presidents use secrecy to protect the nation, foster diplomacy, and gain power Ever since the nation’s most important secret meeting—the Constitutional Convention—presidents have struggled to balance...
Japanese: The Written Language
Volume 2, Workbook
The second volume of Japanese: The Written Language guides high-beginning learners toward proficiency in reading and composing Japanese in realistic contexts. Building on the katakana syllabary presented in Volume 1,...
The Speeches of Frederick Douglass
A Critical Edition
A collection of twenty of Frederick Douglass’s most important orations This volume brings together twenty of Frederick Douglass’s most historically significant speeches on a range of issues, including...
Mrs Delany
A Life
The first comprehensive biography of Mary Granville Delany—the artist and court insider whose flower collages, in particular, continue to inspire widespread admiration “Biographer Clarissa Campbell Orr...
James Boswell's Life of Johnson
An Edition of the Original Manuscript in Four Volumes. Volume 4: 1780-1784
The fourth and final installment in the Yale Boswell Editions' manuscript transcription of Boswell's Life of Johnson The fourth and final volume of the manuscript edition of James Boswell’s
Sparta's Second Attic War
The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 446-418 B.C.
The latest volume in Paul Rahe’s expansive history of Sparta’s response to the challenges posed to its grand strategy“Paul Rahe stands out as one of the world’s leading scholars on the Peloponnesian War....
The First Irish Cities
An Eighteenth-Century Transformation
The untold story of a group of Irish cities and their remarkable development before the age of industrialization A backward corner of Europe in 1600, Ireland was transformed during the following centuries....
The Art of Political Manipulation
In twelve entertaining stories from history and current events, a noted political scientist and game theorist shows us how some of our heroes we as well as ordinary folk have manipulated their opponents in order to win...