The Secret Financial Life of Food: From Commodities Markets to Supermarkets
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One morning while reading Barron's, Kara Newman took note of a casual bit of advice offered by famed...
The Philosophical Life: Biography and the Crafting of Intellectual Identity in Late Antiquity
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Ancient biographies were more than accounts of the deeds of past heroes and guides for moral living....
Galley Slave: The Autobiography of a Protestant Condemned to the French Galleys: v. 1: Seafarers' Voices
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This remarkable memoir tells of the miseries of Jean Marteilhe of Bergerac, 'a Protestant condemned...
Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible
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In the aftermath of recent financial crises, it's easy to see finance as a wrecking ball: something...
Politics economics finance
Bombing Hitler: The Story of the Man Who Almost Assassinated the Fuhrer
Hellmut G. Haasis and William Odom
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Georg Elser was just a working-class citizen living in Munich, Germany. He was employed as a...
Apocalypse of the Alien God: Platonism and the Exile of Sethian Gnosticism
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In the second century, Platonist and Judeo-Christian thought were sufficiently friendly that a Greek...
Nourishing the Inner Life of Clinicians and Humanitarians: The Ethical Turn in Psychoanalysis
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Nourishing the Inner Life of Clinicians and Humanitarians: The Ethical Turn in Psychoanalysis,...
Lesser Beasts: A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig
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Unlike other barnyard animals, which pull plows, give eggs or milk, or grow wool, a pig produces...
Pulcinellopaedia Seraphiniana
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From the intriguing mind behind Codex Seraphinianus comes this beautifully illustrated tribute to...
Theodora: Actress, Empress, Saint
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Two of the most famous mosaics from the Byzantine period, from the church of San Vitale in Ravenna,...