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The Cost of Free Money
How Unfettered Capital Threatens Our Economic Future
A penetrating account of how unchecked capital mobility is damaging international cooperation, polarizing the economic landscape, and ultimately reshaping the global order"An expert on global financial...
Allegories of Reading
Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust
This important theoretical work by Paul de Man sets forth a mode of reading and interpretation based on exemplary texts by Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust. The readings start from unresolved difficulties...
The Code of Maimonides (Mishneh Torah)
Book 6, The Book of Asservations
The imposing task of making available in English a reliable and fully annotated edition of Maimonides’ codification of ancient Jewish laws and rituals continues with the publication of the Book in which he deals with...
Impressionism: Paint and Politics
A new perspective on Impressionist art that offers revealing, fresh interpretations of familiar paintings In this handsome book, a leading authority on Impressionist painting offers a new view of this...
The Dialogues of Plato, Volume 2
The Symposium
R. E. Allen’s superb new translation of Plato’s Symposium brings this classic text to life for modern readers. Allen supplements his translation with a commentary that not only enriches our understanding of...
Murder in Tombstone
The Forgotten Trial of Wyatt Earp
The gunfight at the OK Corral is legendary—but what happened once the shooting ended? The gunfight at the OK Corral occupies a unique place in American history. Although the event itself lasted less than...
Bárbaros
Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment
Two centuries after Cortés and Pizarro seized the Aztec and Inca empires, Spain’s conquest of America remained unfinished. Indians retained control over most of the lands in Spain’s American empire. Mounted on horseback,...
The Last Lover
Winner of the 2015 Best Translated Book Award for fiction, presented by Three Percent, a resource for international literature In Can Xue’s extraordinary book, we encounter a full assemblage of...
Blood and Mistletoe
The History of the Druids in Britain
Crushed by the Romans in the first century A.D., the ancient Druids of Britain left almost no reliable evidence behind. Because of this, historian Ronald Hutton shows, succeeding British generations have been free to reimagine,...
Masters and Servants
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