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Career on Course
Stop coasting and take control of your careerThe most successful professionals have clarity and a plan. They live in accordance with their values and know how to pivot in the face …
Benjamin's Arcades
The Arcades Project, Walter Benjamin’s unfinished masterpiece, is a brilliant but maddening book. Benjamin’s Arcades: an unGuided Tour looks for the method behind the madness, …
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Living Without Electricity
How do the Amish get along without electric lights or appliances, computers, power tools, or their own phones? This book examines the Amish response to technology. Also, the role …
Greek Literature in Late Antiquity
Late Antiquity has attracted a significant amount of attention in recent years. As a historical period it has thus far been defined by the transformation of Roman institutions, the …
The Bukharan Crisis
In the first half of the eighteenth century, Central Asia’s Bukharan Khanate descended into a crisis from which it would not recover. Bukharans suffered failed harvests and famine, …
Tales of a Grandfather
An example of pre-professional history, the Tales of a Grandfather chronicles the French royalty's dynastic concerns and principal military-political engagements with foreign …
Sir Francis Henry Drake (1723-1794)
Letters offering a rich insight into eighteenth-century life both in Devon and in LondonIn 1740, at the age of 17, Sir Francis Henry Drake of Buckland and Nutwell in Devon …
Will to Believe
On 19 December 1601, John Croke, then Speaker of the House of Commons, addressed his colleagues: "e;If a question should be asked, What is the first and chief thing in a …
Lawrence in Arabia
The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller 2014New York Times top ten bestseller 2014Amazon.com's Top Ten History Books of the Year 2014New York Times Book of the Year 2014The Arab Revolt …
Lost Autobiography of Samuel Steward
On August 21, 1978, a year before his seventieth birthday, Samuel Steward (1909-93) sat down at his typewriter in Berkeley, California, and began to compose a remarkable …
Approaching Recent World History Through Film
Approaching Recent World History Through Film: Context, Analysis, and Research explores the relationships between twentieth-century world history and film by providing analysis of …