Landscape, Seascape, and the ECO-Spatial Imagination
Simon C. Estok, Jonathan White and I-Chun Wang
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Written from within the best traditions of ecocritical thought, this book provides a wide-ranging...
Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World
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There's little doubt that most humans today are better off than their forebears. Stunningly so, the...
Nothing: A Very Short Introduction
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What is 'nothing'? What remains when you take all the matter away? Can empty space - a void - exist?...
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 Emperor of Law: The Emergence of Roman Imperial Adjudication
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In the days of the Roman Empire, the emperor was considered not only the ruler of the state, but...
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...
Supra: A Feast of Georgian Cooking
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Bordered by Russia, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Armenia, and situated at a crossroads on an ancient...
Arab Orthodox Christians Under the Ottomans 1516-1831
Samuel Noble, Constantin Alexandrovich Panchenko and Brittany Pheiffer Noble
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Following the so called "Arab Spring" the world's attention has been drawn to the presence of...
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
Amelia Peabody's Egypt: A Compendium
Elizabeth Peters and Kristen Whitbread
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The Egypt that so enticed and enchanted intrepid archaeologist-sleuth Amelia Peabody in the late...