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What Really Happened in the Garden of Eden?
A renowned biblical scholar contends that we have misconstrued the meaning and lessons of the Garden of Eden story for more than two millennia The Garden of Eden story, one of the most famous narratives...
Dazzled and Deceived
Mimicry and Camouflage
The remarkable story of how mimicry is used by some of the most extraordinary creatures in the world Nature has perfected the art of deception. Thousands of creatures all over the world—including...
The Spanish Inquisition
A Historical Revision
Fourth Edition
In this completely updated edition of Henry Kamen’s classic survey of the Spanish Inquisition, the author incorporates the latest research in multiple languages to offer a new—and thought-provoking—view of this fascinating period....
Iphigenia in Forest Hills
Anatomy of a Murder Trial
Prizewinning journalist Janet Malcolm discovers the elements of Greek tragedy in a sensational New York City murder trial"Astringent and absorbing. . . . Iphigenia in Forest Hills casts, from its...
Aesthetics
A Memoir
A glimpse inside the mind and artistic process of a fascinating contemporary cartoonist Born to working-class parents in a small town in Italy, and reared in Chicago, Ivan Brunetti (b. 1967) was drawn...
The Familiarity of Strangers
The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Early Modern Period
Taking a new approach to the study of cross-cultural trade, this book blends archival research with historical narrative and economic analysis to understand how the Sephardic Jews of Livorno, Tuscany, traded in...
Love
A History
An illuminating exploration of how love has been shaped, idolized, and misconstrued by the West over three millennia, and how we might differently conceive it Love—unconditional, selfless, unchanging,...
The Taming of the Demons
Violence and Liberation in Tibetan Buddhism
The Taming of the Demons examines mythic and ritual themes of violence, demon taming, and blood sacrifice in Tibetan Buddhism. Taking as its starting point Tibet’s so-called age of fragmentation (842 to 986 C.E.), the book...
The Network Is Your Customer
Five Strategies to Thrive in a Digital Age
With clear analysis and practical frameworks, this book provides step-by-step guidance businesses can use to prosper in the new era of digital media "An incredibly useful and valuable guidebook to the...
Democracy, Expertise, and Academic Freedom
A First Amendment Jurisprudence for the Modern State
A leading American legal scholar offers a surprising account of the incompleteness of prevailing theories of freedom of speech. Robert C. Post shows that the familiar understanding of the First Amendment, which stresses the ...