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Orphan of Zhao and Other Yuan Plays
This is the first anthology of Yuan-dynasty zaju (miscellaneous comedies) to introduce the genre to English-speaking readers exclusively through translations of the plays' …
Chomsky Notebook
Noam Chomsky applies a rational, scientific approach to disciplines as diverse as linguistics, ethics, and politics. His best-known innovations involve a groundbreaking theory of …
Company and the Shogun
The Dutch East India Company was a hybrid organization combining the characteristics of both corporation and state that attempted to thrust itself aggressively into an Asian …
World's First Stock Exchange
This account of the sophisticated financial hub that was 17th-century Amsterdam ';does a fine job of bringing history to life' (Library Journal). The launch of the Dutch East …
Belle Epoque
The years before the First World War have long been romanticized as a zenith of French culture-the "e;Belle Epoque."e; The era is seen as the height of a lost way of life …
Understanding Through Fiction
Born in 1515, Teresa of Avila survived the Spanish Inquisition and was a key reformer of the Carmelite Order. Her experience of ecstasy, which she intimately described in her …
Silent Qur'an and the Speaking Qur'an
Two major events occurred in the early centuries of Islam that determined its historical and spiritual development in the centuries that followed: the formation of the sacred …
Out of the Dark Night
Achille Mbembe is one of the world's most profound critics of colonialism and its consequences, a major figure in the emergence of a new wave of French critical theory. His …
Beasts Head for Homei
In the aftermath of World War II, Kuki Kyuzo, a Japanese youth raised in the puppet state of Manchuria, struggles to return home to Japan. What follows is a wild journey involving …
Common Sense
The United States is supposed to offer economic opportunity to everyone. It shouldn't take a worldwide pandemic and nationwide protests to bring economic and racial inequality to …
Posthumous Life
Posthumous Life launches critical life studies: a mode of inquiry that neither endorses nor dismisses a wave of recent "e;turns"e; toward life, matter, vitality, …