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Western meddling of course but some grounds for optimism too.

The Great Betrayal: The Struggle for Freedom and Democracy in the Middle East

Fawaz A. Gerges

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An exploration of the unique conjuncture of preconditions that gave us - happily - the Renaissance.

The World at First Light: A New History of the Renaissance

Bernd Roeck

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A substantial and comprehensive new book from a professor at Rutgers University.

India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent

Professor Audre Truschke

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Apparently they ruled the ancient world, yet vanished during the Middle Ages - only to be reinvented across Europe as national forefathers.

The Celts: A Modern History

Ian Stewart

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A selection from Plato's Symposium in a new translation by the author of Socrates in Love.

How to Talk about Love: An Ancient Guide for Modern Lovers

Plato

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Figure studies, architectural drawings, landscapes... all charting, in various styles, his development towards geometric abstraction. There's also a new Penguin Classics edition of his wonde... read more

Wassily Kandinsky: The Sketchbooks

Wassily Kandinsky

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A large-format, illustrated guide that includes 'scientific' depictions by Caspar David Friedrich, Constable et alia as well as photographs. Handsome.

Clouds: How to Identify Nature’s Most Fleeting Forms

Edward Graham

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This is a bewitching and sympathetic account of a deliciously odd, brilliantly clever man. He was prone to headstands, toothbrushing and - like Lord Lundy - to tears.

Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality

David Edmonds

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The Kepler space telescope was put into orbit in 2009: its data stream has helped us identify a bewildering variety and number of celestial bodies. By a long-time member of the NASA Kepler t... read more

Hidden in the Heavens: How the Kepler Mission’s Quest for New Planets Changed How We View Our Own

Jason Steffen

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The first time this collection has been in print for decades.

The Shield of Achilles

W. H. Auden

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CdR has explored the edges of gravity as a theoretical physicist, diver, pilot and would-be astronaut.

The Beauty of Falling: A Life in Pursuit of Gravity

Claudia de Rham

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From Late Antiquity to the C19th, with an epilogue taking us (almost) to the present. From the Atlantic to the Pacific.

A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity

Michael A. Cook

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A history of how the threat of climate change has been used to explain the world since antiquity

The Empire of Climate: A History of an Idea

David N. Livingstone

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An unusual presentation of Monet's paintings alongside works painted at the same time, on adjacent easels, by friends such as Manet, Bazille and Renoir.

Painting with Monet

Harmon Siegel

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The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

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The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America

Nicholas Buccola

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The Riddle of the Rosetta: How an English Polymath and a French Polyglot Discovered the Meaning of Egyptian Hieroglyphs

Jed Z. Buchwald

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On Seamus Heaney

Roy Foster

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The Aphorisms of Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka

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In Hitler’s Munich: Jews, the Revolution, and the Rise of Nazism

Michael Brenner

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The distinguished historian of China, author of Vermeer's Hat, argues that it was not so much the Manchu invasion as climate change that brought collapse to the Ming Dynasty.

The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China

Timothy Brook

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The rise and fall of the Bacris and Busnachs, two Jewish families whose prominence in trade and banking led them to play a small but crucial diplomatic and logistical role in the Napoleonic ... read more

The Kings of Algiers: How Two Jewish Families Shaped the Mediterranean World during the Napoleonic Wars and Beyond

Julie Kalman

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The first English translation of this often overlooked French intellectual's last lecture, in which Aron emphasises the importance of liberal democracy during the tumultuous years of the Col... read more

Liberty and Equality

Raymond Aron

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'Drawing from such diverse sources as Newton's Principia, military manuals, eighteenth-century games, and cookbooks among others, Lorraine Daston seeks to define the role rules have played i... read more

Rules: A Short History of What We Live By

Lorraine Daston

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Picasso And Truth: From Cubism To Guernica

T. J. Clark

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The name of this legendary, intriguing entertainer was William Somer.

Fool: In Search of Henry VIII’s Closest Man

Peter K. Andersson

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The evolution of the legal and financial institutions that underpinned Britain's transformation into a world power.

The Wealth of a Nation: Institutional Foundations of English Capitalism

Geoffrey M. Hodgson

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In a particularly elegant diplomatic gesture, the Caliph Harun al-Rashid sent an elephant to Aachen in 802 AD. This fresh perspective draws on many Arabic sources.

The Emperor and the Elephant: Christians and Muslims in the Age of Charlemagne

Sam Ottewill-Soulsby

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A compelling personal introduction to the life and work of the Nobel Prize-winning Polish writer Czeslaw Milosz by his compatriot and fellow exile Eva Hoffman. The predominant themes here ar... read more

On Czeslaw Milosz: Visions from the Other Europe

Eva Hoffman

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The great historian of late antiquity mixes the personal with the scholarly in telling the story of his life and work. Engagement with the non-European world has been intrinsic to his work.

Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History

Peter Brown

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Erudition and curiosity impel this vivid, detailed portrait by the world's foremost expert on Linnaeus: this biography won several prizes when it was first published in Sweden in 2019.

The Man Who Organized Nature: The Life of Linnaeus

Gunnar Broberg

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The long shadow of Ottoman rule: Mestyan argues that new local polities were based on recalibrated Ottoman structures rather than on European colonialism (with the exception of Palestine).

Modern Arab Kingship: Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East

Adam Mestyan

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This is a bewitching and sympathetic account of a deliciously odd, brilliantly clever man. He was prone to headstands, toothbrushing and - like Lord Lundy - to tears.

Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality

David Edmonds

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Women Artists in Expressionism: From Empire to Emancipation

Shulamith Behr

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Giuliano da Sangallo and the Ruins of Rome

Cammy Brothers

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Garments to tents in South Asia in the C16th-C17th. Richly illustrated, this book shows cloth participated in both political and social spheres, and reflected seasonal rhythms.

The Art of Cloth in Mughal India

Sylvia Houghteling

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