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Prometheus: Archetypal Image of Human Existence (Archetypal Images in Greek Religion, Volume 1)

Prometheus: Archetypal Image of Human Existence (Archetypal...

Author: Carl Kerényi ,  Ralph Manheim
ISBN: 9780691281759
Format: Paperback
$49.99

A landmark account of the Prometheus story as myth and archetype. The god Prometheus stole fire from heaven and...  Read More >>

Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life (Archetypal Images in Greek Religion, Volume 2)

Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life (Archetypal...

Author: Carl Kerényi ,  Ralph Manheim
ISBN: 9780691281797
Format: Paperback
$69.99

A landmark account of the Dionysos myth as an archetypal expression of indestructible life. No other god of the...  Read More >>

Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History

Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History

Author: William T. Taylor
ISBN: 9780520430808
Format: Paperback
$44.95

""Hoof Beats helps readers see the drama even in the grass eating. . . . Taylor has written that too-rare work that...  Read More >>

James Joyce: A Political Life

James Joyce: A Political Life

Author: Frank Callanan ,  Robert Spoo
ISBN: 9780691227979
Format: Hardback
$79.99

A major new biography that reveals how politics profoundly shaped Joyce's life, thought and writings The young...  Read More >>

Selling Pharmaka, Buying Health in Ancient Greece and Rome: Retail Therapy

Selling Pharmaka, Buying Health in Ancient Greece and...

Author: Laurence Totelin
ISBN: 9781138216082
Format: Hardback
$221.00

This book examines Greek and Roman pharmacology in its mercantile dimensions, studying the people who were involved...  Read More >>

Out of the depths: The first collection of Holocaust songs

Out of the depths: The first collection of Holocaust...

Author: Joseph Toltz ,  Anna Boucher
ISBN: 9781526165671
Format: Hardback
$59.99

First published in 1945, this historic collection of songs composed by Jewish victims of the Holocaust is being...  Read More >>

Traditional Chinese Music Research: An Insider's Exploration

Traditional Chinese Music Research: An Insider's Exploration...

Author: Yu Hui
ISBN: 9789819763931
Format: Hardback
$258.72

This book provides valuable insights into some of the key issues in Chinese music research, spanning both historical...  Read More >>

Image and Imagination in Mongolian Buddhism: Art, Texts, and Rituals

Image and Imagination in Mongolian Buddhism: Art, Texts,...

Author: Vesna Wallace ,  Uranchimeg Tsultemin
ISBN: 9780231194785
Format: Hardback
$232.95

This book is a groundbreaking interdisciplinary exploration of Mongolian Buddhism of the late nineteenth and early...  Read More >>

The Land Where Nothing Works: How Britain Lost the Plot

The Land Where Nothing Works: How Britain Lost the Plot...

Author: A. G. Hopkins
ISBN: 9780691283630
Format: Hardback
$49.99

Tracing the origins of Britain's current malaise to the abandonment of social democracy  Read More >>

Publishing Science and Technology Under Franco: A History of Gustavo Gili Publishing House (1939-1966)

Publishing Science and Technology Under Franco: A History...

Author: Fernando García Naharro
ISBN: 9781839997693
Format: Hardback
$160.00

This book presents an exhaustive analytical history of the great Spanish publishing house Editorial Gustavo Gili,...  Read More >>

Egypt's Mediterranean: Muslim Merchants and the Business of Empire in the Eighteenth Century

Egypt's Mediterranean: Muslim Merchants and the Business...

Author: Zoe Ann Griffith
ISBN: 9780520416635
Format: Hardback
$157.95

Egypt's Mediterranean explores the intersections of commerce and statecraft in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire...  Read More >>

Portmeirion: The Architecture of Pleasure

Portmeirion: The Architecture of Pleasure

Author: Sarah Baylis
ISBN: 9780300279856
Format: Hardback
$72.95

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Dreaming of the River: A Mother and Daughter's Fight for Survival during the Holocaust

Dreaming of the River: A Mother and Daughter's Fight...

Author: Pauline Steinhorn
ISBN: 9789493418844
Format: Paperback
$47.39

The true story of how a woman and her daughter survived and saved others in brutal bomb-making slave labor camps...  Read More >>

Trusted Guardians: Inside the Mounted Regiment

Trusted Guardians: Inside the Mounted Regiment

Author: Glenn Røkeberg
ISBN: 9781917458917
Format: Hardback
$168.00

A celebration of British heritage, Trusted Guardians are the monarch's personal bodyguards and have been so since...  Read More >>

The Little Book of Unicorns

The Little Book of Unicorns

Author: Juliette Wood
ISBN: 9780712355797
Format: Hardback
$29.99

The fourth title in the Little Books series to take a mythological creature and explore its cultural history and...  Read More >>

When Democrats Won the Heartland: Progressive Populism in the Age of Reagan, 1978-1992

When Democrats Won the Heartland: Progressive Populism...

Author: Cory Haala
ISBN: 9780252049521
Format: Hardback
$260.00

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Kenneth More: The Making of a Movie Legend

Kenneth More: The Making of a Movie Legend

Author: Nathan Morley
ISBN: 9781846894206
Format: Hardback
$69.99

A fascinating biography of Kenneth More one of Britain's leading film stars from the 1950s and 1960s. Includes contributions...  Read More >>

Inner Zone: The Untold Violence of Retribution in Besieged Sarajevo

Inner Zone: The Untold Violence of Retribution in Besieged...

Author: Jelena Golubović
ISBN: 9781512829020
Format: Hardback
$277.00

""This book unearths a buried history of violence within the 1992 to 1995 siege of Sarajevo. As Bosnian Serb forces...  Read More >>

Horizons of Catastrophe in the American West

Horizons of Catastrophe in the American West

Author: William R. Handley
ISBN: 9780803288492
Format: Hardback
$229.00

Examining culture and history from the early nineteenth century to the present, Horizons of Catastrophe in the American...  Read More >>

Through the Eyes of Jewish Child Survivors from Poland: Family, War, Identity, and Nationhood

Through the Eyes of Jewish Child Survivors from Poland:...

Author: Joanna Beata Michlic
ISBN: 9781496226075
Format: Hardback
$162.00

Joanna Beata Michlic uncovers the complex journeys of Polish Jewish child survivors, tracing their struggle to reclaim...  Read More >>

Señorita Telefonista: Sexual Harassment, Gender Discrimination, and Class Identities in Early Twentieth-Century Mexico City

Señorita Telefonista: Sexual Harassment, Gender Discrimination,...

Author: Susie S. Porter
ISBN: 9781496244307
Format: Hardback
$229.00

Señorita Telefonista explores the history of telephone operators in Mexico and their central role in women's fight...  Read More >>

Agents of Survivance: Indigenous Women Teachers in the Boarding School Era

Agents of Survivance: Indigenous Women Teachers in the...

Author: Anne Ruggles Gere
ISBN: 9781496244987
Format: Hardback
$173.00

Agents of Survivance examines how Native American children survived the removal from their communities during the...  Read More >>

The Atlantic Republic of Letters: Knowledge and Colonialism in the Age of Franklin

The Atlantic Republic of Letters: Knowledge and Colonialism...

Author: Diego Pirillo
ISBN: 9781512829310
Format: Hardback
$116.00

Places Benjamin Franklin's Philadelphia in the context of a broader Atlantic intellectual world and investigates...  Read More >>

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