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The Spirit of Early Christian Thought
Seeking the Face of God
"[A] magnificently learned, deeply felt and surprisingly pellucid set of essays."—Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World"A delight to read. It is written as history ought to be,...
Brahms: The Four Symphonies
This book is the definitive guide to Johannes Brahms’s four symphonies. It presents an engaging and thorough treatment of the genesis, structure, reception, and performance history of these internationally admired and...
The Last Human
A Guide to Twenty-Two Species of Extinct Humans
The first opportunity to meet our extinct human ancestors face-to-face, through life-size reconstructions and detailed descriptions"This unusual book draws on three-dimensional recreations to bring to...
Beyond Methods: Macrostrategies for Language Teaching
In this original book, B. Kumaravadivelu presents a macrostrategic framework designed to help both beginning and experienced teachers develop a systematic, coherent, and personal theory of practice. His book provides the...
Seeing Like a State
How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
“Illuminating and beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit.”—New Yorker “A magisterial critique of top-down social planning.”—Jennifer...
Henry V
Thanks in part to Shakespeare, Henry V is one of England's best-known monarchs. The image of the king leading his army against the French, and the great victory at Agincourt, are part of English historical tradition. Yet,...
Democracy and Its Critics
In this prize-winning book, one of the most prominent political theorists of our time makes a major statement about what democracy is and why it is important. Robert Dahl examines the most basic assumptions of...
Freud's Moses
Judaism Terminable and Interminable
Moses and Monotheism, Freud’s last major book and the only one specifically devoted to a Jewish theme, has proved to be one of the most controversial and enigmatic works in the Freudian canon. Among other...
Dead Souls
Gogol's 1842 novel Dead Souls, a comic masterpiece about a mysterious con man and his grotesque victims, is one of the major works of Russian literature. It was translated into English in 1942 by Bernard Guilbert...
Ganges
The Many Pasts of an Indian River
A remarkable portrait of the Ganges, India’s most sacred and important river and a potent symbol across South Asia."Indisputably the single best text on the Ganges and its history.”—Wall Street...