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In The Soul of the World, renowned philosopher Roger Scruton defends the experience of the sacred...

A superb new edition of Epictetus’s famed handbook on Stoicism—translated by one of the world’s l...

First published in 2000, Dipesh Chakrabarty's influential 'Provincializing Europe' addresses the ...

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In What Is Islam?, Shahab Ahmed presents a bold new conceptualization of Islam that challenges do...

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A richly illustrated natural history of the world's crabs that examines their diversity, ecology,...

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Through three editions over more than four decades, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poet...

Drawing on original interviews conducted across India, Christophe Jaffrelot shows how Modi's gove...

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First published in English in 1954, this founding work of the history of religions secured the No...

From the author of Race After Technology, an inspiring vision of how we can build a more just wor...

How the 'First State' has enabled international crime, sheltered tax dodgers, and diverted hard-e...

One of the most influential and compelling books in American literature, Walden is a vivid accoun...

The Tent is a beautifully written, powerful, and disturbing novel, featuring a host of women char...

'A global history of the horse told through the lens of genetics'-- Provided by publisher.

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in BiographyA double portrait of two of Ameri...

Jung's landmark seminar on the symbolism of yoga and its applications to dream analysisIn the sum...

Empires - vast states of territories and peoples united by force and ambition - have dominated th...

A new look at the interrelationship of architecture and sculpture during one of the richest perio...

A provocative and inspiring look at the future of humanity and science from world-renowned scient...

How the subtle but significant consequences of a hotter planet have already begun—from lower test...

Threat Multiplier takes us onto the battlefield and inside the Pentagon to show how the US milita...

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