JB -- An Unlikely Spanish Don: The Life & Times of Professor John Brande Trend
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John Brande Trend, the first Professor of Spanish in Cambridge in 1933, arrived at his Chair by a...
Fanaticus: Mischief and Madness in the Modern Sports Fan
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In 2011, the San Francisco 49ers hosted the Oakland Raiders in a preseason matchup that would become...
Literati Style Penjing: Chinese Bonsai Masterworks
Zhao Qingquan and Thomas S. Elias
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The art of bonsai is widely known in the West: from the Karate Kid to the American Bonsai...
Taming the Flood: Rivers, Wetlands and the Centuries-Old Battle Against Flooding
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'Exquisitely written' Sunday Times Beautifully written and magnificently illustrated with...
The Politics of Opera: A History from Monteverdi to Mozart
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A wide-ranging look at the interplay of opera and political ideas through the centuries The Politics...
Power, Patronage, and Memory in Early Islam
Alain George and Andrew Marsham
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When the Umayyads, the first Islamic dynasty, rose to power shortly after the death of the Prophet...
Buddha Mantra, buddha Chant for Meditation and Prayer
Health & Fitness and Lifestyle
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Mantras are words or phrases that are chanted out loud or internally as objects of meditation. Often...
Patient HM: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets
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In 1953, a twenty-seven-year-old factory worker named Henry Molaison—who suffered from severe...
Science medicine biography
Rhythm of War
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The Stormlight Archive saga continues in Rhythm of War, the eagerly awaited sequel to Brandon...