What is Landscape?
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"Mr. Stilgoe does not ask that we take his book outdoors with us; he believes that reading and...
Shadow and Substance: Eucharistic Controversy and English Drama Across the Reformation Divide
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Shadow and Substance is the first book to present a sustained examination of the relationship...
Alfred the Great: Pocket Giants
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'Alfred is one of the most remarkable rulers of any time or place. This clear, readable and...
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 Urban Revolution in England, 900-1200
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England, like other parts of Europe, experienced a vigorous growth in the number and size of urban...
This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
Kenneth S. Rogoff and Carmen M. Reinhart
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Throughout history, rich and poor countries alike have been lending, borrowing, crashing--and...
Tourism and War
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This is the first volume to fully explore the complex relationship between war and tourism by...
Making Love in the Twelfth Century: Letters of Two Lovers in Context
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Nine hundred years ago in Paris, a teacher and his brilliant female student fell in love and...
Minding the Modern: Human Agency, Intellectual Traditions, and Responsible Knowledge
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In this brilliant study, Thomas Pfau argues that the loss of foundational concepts in classical and...
Poetic Conventions as Cognitive Fossils
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Poetic Conventions as Cognitive Fossils offers a major theoretical statement of where poetic...