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Painting in Renaissance Venice
The Renaissance was a golden age in the long history of Venetian painting, and the art that came from Venice during that era includes some of the most visually exciting works in the whole of Western art. This attractive book...
The Laws of War
Constraints on Warfare in the Western World
This book explores not only the formal constraints on the conduct of war throughout Western history but also the unwritten conventions about what is permissible in the course of military operations. Ranging from classical...
Hegel's Dialectic
Five Hermeneutical Studies
These five essays on Hegel give the English-speaking reader a long-awaited opportunity to read the work of one of Germany's most distinguished philosophers, Hans-Georg Gadamer. Gadamer's unique hermeneutic method will have a...
Yale French Studies, Number 118/119
Noeuds de mémoire: Multidirectional Memory in Postwar French and Francophone Culture
This volume focuses on postwar approaches to the past, the nature of collective memory, and issues of cultural memory in a transnational age. The essays probe points of contact between memories and legacies of genocide,...
Spy Wars
Moles, Mysteries, and Deadly Games
Chosen by William Safire in the New York Times to be the publishing sleeper-seller of the year for 2007 In this rapid-paced book, a former CIA chief of Soviet bloc counterintelligence breaks open the...
The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, Volume 2
Expansions of the "Old Testament" and Legends, Wisdom and Philosophical Literature, Prayers, Psalms and Odes, Fragments of Lost Judeo-Hellenistic Works
Expansions of the "Old Testament" and legends, wisdom and philosophical literature, prayers, psalms and odes, and fragments of lost Judeo-Hellenistic works.Western culture has been shaped largely by the...
The Gospel According to John (I-XII)
In the first volume of Raymond E. Brown’s magisterial three-volume commentary on the Gospel According to John, all of the major Johannine questions—of authorship, composition, dating, the relationship of John to the...
Archaeology of the Land of the Bible, Volume II
The Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian Periods (732-332 B.C.E.)
Every year thousands of enthusiasts, both amateur and professional, spend the summer months digging in the sands of Israel hoping to find items that relate in some way to the places or events depicted in the Bible....
Romans
As well as a translation of the text of Paul's Letter to the Romans, this volume also contains a thorough commentary.
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The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer
A rousing biography of the most brilliant, and misunderstood, adventurer in the great age of exploration—winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography and a New York Times Book Review Notable Book of...