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Art in a State of Siege

Joseph Leo Koerner

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Provenance and Possession: Acquisitions from the Portuguese Empire in Renaissanc

K. J. P. Lowe

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Leon Battista Alberti: Writer and Humanist

Martin McLaughlin

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The Deformation: Attention and Discernment in Catholic Reformation Art and Archi

Susanna Berger

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The rise and fall of the Oxbridge intellectual, from Isaiah Berlin to Keith Joseph.

Twilight of the Dons: British Intellectuals from World War II to Thatcherism

Colin Kidd

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Wound Man: The Many Lives of a Surgical Image

Jack Hartnell

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The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power, and People

Paul Seabright

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The Collected Works of Spinoza, Volume I

Benedictus de Spinoza

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The Collected Works of Spinoza, Volume II

Benedictus de Spinoza

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The Market for Skill: Apprenticeship and Economic Growth in Early Modern England

Patrick Wallis

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A thorough and scholarly global history of the Society of Jesus, which traces the influence of the Jesuits from the Vatican to the Americas. Friedrich, a professor at the University of Hambu... read more

The Jesuits: A History

Markus Friedrich

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A fascinating examination of how the C19 British obsession with the Middle East grew out of its dominant role in classical and biblical narratives. Parry, Professor of Modern British History... read more

Promised Lands: The British and the Ottoman Middle East

Jonathan Parry

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Essays on the Great Depression

Ben S. Bernanke

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This astonishingly well-researched book transforms our understanding of working life in the Roman empire, from Wales to Syria. Bowes benefits from the vast amount of new data that has emerge... read more

Surviving Rome: The Economic Lives of the Ninety Percent

Kim Bowes

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Considers Late Antiquity as a period of shared spiritual perceptions rather than one divided by religious boundaries. Ambitious and cogent.

An Enchanted World: The Shared Religious Landscape of Late Antiquity

Michael L. Satlow

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An excellent anthology of late C19th and early C20th stories, rich with irony, satire, humour and hope. Edited by Zipes, the brilliant emeritus professor of German and comparative literature... read more

Never-Ending Tales: Stories from the Golden Age of Jewish Literature

Jack Zipes

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Hot on the heels of A.N. Wilson's elegant, short biography last year comes this whopper from one of the world's great Goethe scholars.

Goethe: A Life in Ideas

Matthew Bell

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Three comic stories concerning Violet, a marvellous giantess who defies the norms of fairy-tales and society alike. This spoof biography of a family friend, with blizzards of sugared almonds... read more

The Life of Violet: Three Early Stories

Virginia Woolf

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This is far more than a teddy-bears' nit-pick: from Socrates to today's culture wars. Visser delves into why ivory towers have often prompted hostility. Presumably we can look forward to mul... read more

On Pedantry: A Cultural History of the Know-it-All

Arnoud S. Q. Visser

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A new translation of the Roman nobleman's writings and his turn toward Stoicism whilst he waited, unjustly accused, to die in prison. Could be useful at Christmas too.

How to Cope: An Ancient Guide to Enduring Hardship

Boethius

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Balderdash, bunkum, hooey, humbug - a 40th anniversary edition of this slim, clever unpicking of the pretentious, self-serving, bombastic and deceitful.

On Bullshit: Anniversary Edition

Harry G. Frankfurt

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The Double

James Sampson Meyer

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Wonderful, authoritative guide to plants north of a line ranging from the Pyrenees to Southern Romania.

Europe’s Alpine Flowers: A Field Guide

Bob Gibbons

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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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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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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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