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One of the five Confucian classics, The Book of Songs (Shijing) is the oldest collection of poetry i... more

translation, by the distinguished scholar Arthur Waley, is the first accurate English version; it makes available to the Western...... more

This book is devoted to the issue of nationalism in the latest Polish history as well as to legitima... more

This timely and lucid guide is intended for students and scholars working on all historical periods ... more

This timely and lucid guide is intended for students and scholars working on all historical periods ... more

elegant and readable abridged translation, Arthur Waley perfectly conveys Sei Shonagon s girlish temperament and quirky...... more

Offering an unflinching portrait of life in Daghestan and Chechnya and focusing on its girls and wom... more

Historians have long treated Reconstruction primarily as a southern concern isolated from broader na... more

Napoleon s military expedition to Egypt in 1798 famously included various scientists and savants, am... more

Olivier’s ambitious work, newly translated into English from the French, brilliantly explicates the ... more

here translated into English by Arthur Madigan. Alexander goes through Aristotle s text practically line by line, attending...... more

Society’s wealthiest members claim an ever-expanding share of income and property--a true counterrev... more

This is the complete and critical translation into English of Controversy over the Existence of the ... more

When did we first serve meals at regular hours? Why did we begin using individual plates and utensil... more

One of the leading scholars of Hasidism and modern Jewish theology has brought together and translat... more

Fran ois Delaporte s Chagas Disease chronicles Brazilian medicine s encounter with a disease, an ins... more

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognit... more

Olivier’s ambitious work, newly translated into English from the French, brilliantly explicates the ... more

It’s a commonplace that citizens in Western democracies are disaffected with their political leaders... more

award-winning translator, Arthur Goldhammer is uniquely qualified for the task. In his Introduction, Jon Elster draws on his recent...... more

First published in 1938. Previous translations of the Analects of Confucius are based upon a medieva... more

Neoconservatism has undergone a transformation that has made a clear identity almost impossible to c... more

seminal work. Arthur Waley’s elegant translation of The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon captures the beauty of its prose and the...... more

Alexis de Tocqueville, a young aristocrat of twenty-five, worried deeply about the future of France ... more

A Venetian adventurer, author, and lifelong womanizer, the name of Casanova has become interchangeab... more

morality. The present edition reprints the rare unabridged 1898 American edition translated by Arthur Hornblow, rather than the...... more

Educated in the humanities and trained in psychiatry, Jean Starobinski is a central figure in the Ge... more

James Fenimore Cooper was a 19th century writer known for his historical romances and stories of the... more

In her graceful account of the transformation of European attitudes toward the Ottoman empire during... more

Democracy is established as a generally uncontested ideal, while regimes inspired by this form of go... more

Democracy is established as a generally uncontested ideal, while regimes inspired by this form of go... more

Michel Foucault observed that "the birth of philology attracted far less notice in the Western mind ... more

The fear of oblivion obsessed medieval and early modern Europe. Stone, wood, cloth, parchment, and p... more

This is not the usual New Age tantric sex manual, but a deeply esoteric and traditional book. The ... more

Paris is firing all its ammunition into the August night. Against a vast backdrop of water and stone... more

Henri Bergson (1859-1941) is one of the truly great philosophers of the modernist period, and there ... more

The Summa Theologiae ranks among the greatest documents of the Christian Church, and is a landmark o... more

This work contains almost everything written by Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi, his inspired compositi... more

This work contains almost everything written by Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi, his inspired compositi... more

Hailed by Andre Gide as the patron saint of all outsiders, Simone Weil s short life was ample testim... more

Hailed by Andre Gide as the patron saint of all outsiders, Simone Weil’s short life was ample testim... more

"My task is piecing together a puzzle... I hope to reconstitute the existence of a person whose memo... more

Critique of the modern world from the point of view of traditional metaphysics, with special referen... more

Arthur Madigan presents a clear, accurate new translation of the third book (Beta) of Aristotle’s Metaphysics, together...... more

for Brazilians of all stripes. Superbly translated by Arthur A. Brakel and edited by Stuart Schwartz and Fernando Novais...... more

This volume, the third part of Realms of Memory, focuses on the emblems that signify Frenchness to p... more

Simone Weil, the French philosopher, political activist, and religious mystic, was little known when... more

This text is the second of three volumes looking at the history of France. This volume examines how ... more

The Muslim slave uprising in Bahia in 1835, though unsuccessful in winning freedom for the rebels, h... more

From the Liberation purges to the Barbie trial, France has struggled with the memory of the Vichy ex... more

In August 1870, during a fair in the isolated French village of Hautefaye, a gruesome murder was com... more

To write this history of the imagination, Le Goff has recreated the mental structures of medieval me... more

What is it about opera that can bring unashamed tears to the eyes of adoring fans? In this book, fir... more

In The Birth of Purgatory, Jacques Le Goff, the brilliant medievalist and renowned Annales historian... more