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The extraordinary story of the intermingled civilizations of ancient Greek and Rome, spanning more than six millennia from the late Bronze Age to the seventh century
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An authoritative new history of the vampire, two hundred years after it first appeared on the literary scene
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A penetrating look into the unrecognized and unregulated links between autocratic regimes in Central Asia and centers of power and wealth throughout the West
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In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the 26-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited to attempt a history of the world for younger readers. Amazingly, he completed the task in six weeks, and Eine kurze Weltgeschichte fur junge Leser was published in Vienn ...
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A best-selling author and world-renowned bibliophile reflects on his own library and champions the vital role of all libraries
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A brisk, concise, and readable overview of Irish history from the Protestant Reformation to the dawn of the twenty-first century
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A renowned Buddhist teacher's magnum opus, based on his fresh reading of the tradition's earliest texts
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A guide to the styles or an architectural dictionary, though it contains elements of all three. It helps to 'come to grips with how things feel to us when we stand before them, with how architecture affects us emotionally as well as intellectually' - with its impact on our lives.
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What makes a work of literature good or bad? How freely can the reader interpret it? Could a nursery rhyme like Baa Baa Black Sheep be full of concealed loathing, resentment and aggression? This book addresses these intriguing questions and a host of others.
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The first English-language book to document the men who emerged from the gulags to become Russia's much-feared crime class: the vory v zakone
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