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A Darwinian Left
Politics, Evolution and Cooperation
In this ground-breaking book, a renowned bioethicist argues that the political left must radically revise its outdated view of human nature. He shows how the insights of modern evolutionary theory, particularly on the...
Converting California
Indians and Franciscans in the Missions
This book is a compelling and balanced history of the California missions and their impact on the Indians they tried to convert. Focusing primarily on the religious conflict between the two groups, it sheds new light on...
Encounters
Chinese Language and Culture, Character Writing Workbook 1
This Character Writing Workbook, which accompanies Student Book 1 of the Encounters program, is designed to help students learn the Chinese characters found in each unit of the Student Book. The...
Fires of Faith
Catholic England under Mary Tudor
The renowned author of The Stripping of the Altars takes a new and controversial look at the reign of England’s “Bloody Mary” The reign of Mary Tudor has been remembered as an era of sterile...
Russian Full Circle
A First-Year Russian Textbook
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The Yaquis and the Empire
Violence, Spanish Imperial Power, and Native Resilience in Colonial Mexico
This groundbreaking new study examines the history of the Yaqui people and their interactions with the Spanish Empire from first contact through Mexican independence. The Yaquis and the Empire focuses on three ironies:...
Birmingham and the Black Country
The latest revised volume in the Pevsner Architectural Guides, covering Birmingham and the towns and settlements of the Black Country This fully revised account of the buildings of the City of Birmingham, its...
Portrait of a Woman in Silk
Hidden Histories of the British Atlantic World
Through the story of a portrait of a woman in a silk dress, historian Zara Anishanslin embarks on a fascinating journey, exploring and refining debates about the cultural history of the eighteenth-century British Atlantic...
Russia's Crony Capitalism
The Path from Market Economy to Kleptocracy
A penetrating look into the extreme plutocracy Vladimir Putin has created and its implications for Russia’s future “Full of insight and informed judgment, former diplomat Anders Åslund takes aim at the ...
First Responders
Inside the U.S. Strategy for Fighting the 2007-2009 Global Financial Crisis
An insider’s view of the U.S. government’s response to the 2007–2009 global financial crisis, recounted by the people who made the key decisions In 2008, the world’s financial system stood on the brink of...