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From Main Street to Mall
<p>The geography of American retail has changed dramatically since the first luxurious department stores sprang up in nineteenth-century cities. Introducing light, color, and music to dry-goods emporia, these "palaces of consumption" transformed mere trade into occasions for pleasure and spectacle. Through the early twentieth century, department stores remained centers of social activity...
2019
House on the Strand
In this haunting tale, Daphne du Maurier takes a fresh approach to time travel. A secret experimental concoction, once imbibed, allows you to return to the fourteenth century. There is only one catch: if you happen to touch anyone while traveling in the p
2000
The Last Landscape
The Last Landscape William H. Whyte. Foreword by Tony Hiss "When it was first published, <i>The Last Landscape</i> was radical stuff. As much as Silent Spring challenged American science to recognize its long-term responsibilities, Whyte's book asked communities, the government, and the design profession to do the same. Four decades later, this book is just as timely, the only difference is that ...
2002
The Secret Order of Assassins
The Secret Order of Assassins The Struggle of the Early Nizârî Ismâî'lîs Against the Islamic World Marshall G. S. Hodgson "The essential work on the Assassins."--<i>Times Literary Supplement</i> The sect known as "the Assassins," a corruption of an Arabic word that means hashish smoker, is familiar to the West as a mystical cult of killers led by the "Man in the Mountain" encountered by the Crus...
2005
The transmission of culture in early modern europe
The transmission of culture in early modern europe
1990
Beyond Objectivism and Relativism
"A fascinating and timely treatment of the objectivism versus relativism debates occurring in philosophy of science, literary theory, the social sciences, political science, and elsewhere."--Choice
1983
Age of Intoxication
<p>Eating the flesh of an Egyptian mummy prevents the plague. Distilled poppies reduce melancholy. A Turkish drink called coffee increases alertness. Tobacco cures cancer. Such beliefs circulated in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, an era when the term drug encompassed everything from herbs and spices--like nutmeg, cinnamon, and chamomile--to such deadly poisons as lead, mercury, and arse...
2021
Criminal Case 40/61, the Trial of Adolf Eichmann
<p>The trial of Adolf Eichmann began in 1961 under a deceptively simple label, "criminal case 40/61." Hannah Arendt covered the trial for the <em>New Yorker</em> magazine and recorded her observations in <em>Eichmann in Jerusalem: The Banality of Evil</em>. Harry Mulisch was also assigned to cover the trial for a Dutch news weekly. Arendt would later say in her book's preface that Mu...
2009
Livro beer in the middle ages and the renaissance
Livro beer in the middle ages and the renaissance
2007
The Cistercian Evolution
The Cistercian Evolution The Invention of a Religious Order in Twelfth-Century Europe Constance Hoffman Berman "An extremely important book, one that will redefine the ways we conceive of medieval religiosity and politics."--<i>Virginia Quarterly Review</i> "A significant contribution to the study of the history of monasticism in the twelfth century."--<i>EHR</i> "Stimulating, controversial, an...
2000
Crack the C-Suite Code
<div><strong>2018 BEST BUSINESS BOOK FINALIST, DIGITAL BOOK AWARDS</strong><br /> <br /> <strong><em>Covered in </em></strong><strong>Forbes, Fast Company<em>, and </em>Harvard Business Review<em>, </em>Crack the C-Suite Code<em> is “a true insider’s guide,” according to Harvard Business School professor Boris Groysberg</em></strong><br /> <br /> <em>How can I reach t...
2018
Dangerous Minds
<p>Following the fall of the Berlin Wall and demise of the Soviet Union, prominent Western thinkers began to suggest that liberal democracy had triumphed decisively on the world stage. Having banished fascism in World War II, liberalism had now buried communism, and the result would be an end of major ideological conflicts, as liberal norms and institutions spread to every corner of the globe. Wit...
2018
Faces of Moderation
<p>Aristotle listed moderation as one of the moral virtues. He also defined virtue as the mean between extremes, implying that moderation plays a vital role in all forms of moral excellence. But moderation's protean character--its vague and ill-defined omnipresence in judgment and action--makes it exceedingly difficult to grasp theoretically. At the same time, moderation seems to be the founda...
2018
Family Values and the Rise of the Christian Right
<p>During the last three decades of the twentieth century, evangelical leaders and conservative politicians developed a political agenda that thrust "family values" onto the nation's consciousness. Ministers, legislators, and laypeople came together to fight abortion, gay rights, and major feminist objectives. They supported private Christian schools, home schooling, and a strong mil...
2018
From Mohammed to the Marranos
""Poliakov has demonstrated brilliantly how widely and deeply versed he is in his subject.""--Economist ""Highly recommended without exception.""--Choice Covering the story of prejudice against Jews from the time of Christ through the rise of
2003
Improvised Continent
<p>How does a country in the process of becoming a world power prepare its citizens for the responsibilities of global leadership? In <i>Improvised Continent</i>, Richard Cándida Smith answers this question by illuminating the forgotten story of how, over the course of the twentieth century, cultural exchange programs, some run by the government and others by philanthropies and ...
2017
Memoirs of a Man's Maiden Years
Memoirs of a Man's Maiden Years N. O. Body. Translated by Deborah Simon. Preface by Sander L. Gilman. Afterword by Hermann Simon "This is a very interesting and beautifully written memoir by somebody who would have been called a hermaphrodite in the nineteenth century. The work gives a fascinating picture of the childhood experiences of the anonymous author and is full of sensitive and often movi...
2009
Opus Majus, Volumes 1 and 2
<p>The <i>Opus Majus</i> of Roger Bacon (c.1214-92) is one of the most influential scientific and philosophical texts of its age and arguably the high point of medieval knowledge of the physical sciences. In the work Bacon makes a plea for the reform of education, emphasizing the rightful role of the sciences in the university curriculum and the interdependence of the various disciplin...
1928