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John Keegan’s brilliant look at the meaning of leadership In The Mask of Command, John Keegan asks us to consider questions that are seldom asked: What is the definition of leadership? What makes a...

One of our finest novelists now gives us his most dazzling creation -- his own life. In six eloquent and compelling chapters, the author of THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK and the wonderful RABBIT trilogy...

The Oxford history of the classical world aims to present the general reader with a view of the Graeco-Roman world, its history and achievements.

Text: English, Latin

Each volume in this series includes a collection of authoritative essays from The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, selected by the Editors to illustrate the range and diversity of economics...

This sourcebook of fifty-seven modern Islamic writings shows the tensions inherent in the struggle of Muslims to maintain their religious identity in the modern world. Here Muslims speak for...

John Kenneth Galbraith's classic examination of the 1929 financial collapse. Arguing that the 1929 stock market crash was precipitated by rampant speculation in the stock market, Galbraith notes...

Thousands of people live in the subway, railroad, and sewage tunnels that form the bowels of New York City. This book is about them, the so-called "mole people" living alone and in communities, in...

This “flowing, lucid, and satisfying…story of Indian nations” (The Washington Post) traces the history of North American Indigenous peoples from the Pleistocene era to the present—a must-read for...

But who could describe my fright when, on the next morning, I awoke and found myself feeling as if completely changed into a woman. — Case 129, Autobiography, from Psychopathia Sexualis, a...

Five essays provide an overview of the emerging research program for analyzing contemporary society from a historical and pragmatic standpoint within the rules of empirical science.

A re-evaluation of Genghis Khan's rise to power examines the reforms the conqueror instituted throughout his empire and his uniting of East and West, which set the foundation for the nation-states...

"Fryderyk Chopin (1810-49), although the most beloved of piano composers, remains a contradictory figure, an artist of virtually universal appeal who preferred the company of only a few sympathetic...

Ask the Dust is a virtuoso performance by an influential master of the twentieth-century American novel. It is the story of Arturo Bandini, a young writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard for the...

The classic novel of freedom and the search for authenticity that defined a generationOne of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years...