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The Image of Political Power in the Reign of Nerva, AD 96-98
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Nerva, who ruled from 18 September AD 96 to 27 January AD 98, left little for the art historian or...
Richard Serra: Props, Films, Early Works
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Richard Serra ( born November 2, 1938) is an American minimalist sculptor and video artist known for...
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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...
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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....
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The Other Alcott: A Novel
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Elise Hooper's debut novel conjures the fascinating, untold story of May Alcott-Louisa's youngest...
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What Lot's Wife Saw
Ioanna Bourazopoulou and Yiannis Panas
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It's been twenty-five years since the Overflow flooded Southern Europe, drowning Rome, Vienna and...
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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...
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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
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In the Company of the Courtesan
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My lady, Fiammetta Bianchini, was plucking her eyebrows and biting color into her lips when the...
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The Skin
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“It is a shameful thing to win a war.” The reliably unorthodox Curzio Malaparte’s own service...