Counsel for Kings: Wisdom and Politics in Tenth-Century Iran: Volume II: The Nasihat Al-Muluk of Pseudo-Mawardi: Texts, Sources and Authorities
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Mirrors for princes form a substantial and important genre in many pre-modern literatures. Their...
Forgetfulness: Making the Modern Culture of Amnesia
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Forgetfulness is a book about modern culture and its profound rejection of the past. It traces the...
Herodas: Mimiambs
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Before the publication of the second-century AD papyrus containing eight and a fragmentary ninth of...
The Writer's Idea Book: How to Develop Great Ideas for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, & Screenplays
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Where do you get your ideas? It's a question that plagues every writer. And once you've got an idea,...
A Delicate Truth
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'With A Delicate Truth, le Carre has, in a sense, come home. And it's a splendid homecoming...
A Thousand Paper Birds
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An intimate portrait of five inextricably linked lives, spanning one calendar year at Kew Gardens -...
The Ice Lands
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The Ice Lands by Steinar Bragi is set against Iceland's volcanic hinterlands, four thirty-somethings...
Under the Visible Life
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Half Chinese and half Canadian, Katherine Goodnow struggles through a 1950's childhood hostile to...
Human
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Are you really alive, or just existing? Zenith, an irritable cleaner from India, has been 'dead'...
Will You Walk a Little Faster?
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Penelope Shuttle's new collection explores cities (London, Bristol) on foot and via inward...