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‘The Proudest and Most Arrogant Man in France’

Letters of Gustave Courbet

edited and translated by Petra ten-Doesschate Chu


The Other China

A Tragic Beginning: The Taiwan Uprising of February 28, 1947

by Lai Tse-han and Ramon H. Myers and Wei Wou

A Farewell: A Collection of Short Stories

by Bo Yang, translated by Robert Reynolds

The Great Transition: Political and Social Change in the Republic of China

by Hung-mao Tien

Governing the Market: Economic Theory and the Role of Government in East Asian Industrialization

by Robert Wade

The Protestant Community on Modern Taiwan: Mission, Seminary, and Church

by Murray A. Rubinstein

Taiwan: Beyond the Economic Miracle

edited by Denis Fred Simon, edited by Michael Y.M. Kau

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Looking for Napoleon

The Death of Napoleon

by Simon Leys, translated by Patricia Clancy. the author

The Strange Case of Mademoiselle P.

by Brian O'Doherty

The Emperor's Last Island: A Journey to St. Helena

by Julia Blackburn

Napoleon: An Intimate Account of the Years of Supremacy

produced and edited by Proctor Patterson Jones


A Triumph of the Gilded Age

The Battle for Homestead, 1880–1892: Politics, Culture, and Steel

by Paul Krause

'The River Ran Red': Homestead 1892

edited by David P. Demarest Jr.


The Love that Dared to Speak its Name

Bisexuality in the Ancient World

by Eva Cantarella, translated by Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin


The Mad Poets

The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper, Vol. 1, 'Adelphi' and Letters 1750–1781,

edited by James King, edited by Charles Ryskamp

The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper, Vol. 2, Letters 1782–1786

edited by James King, edited by Charles Ryskamp

The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper, Vol. 3, Letters 1787–1791

edited by James King, edited by Charles Ryskamp

The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper, Vol. 4, Letters 1792–1799

edited by James King, edited by Charles Ryskamp

The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper, Vol. 5, Prose 1756–c. 1799 and Cumulative Index

edited by James King, edited by Charles Ryskamp

William Cowper: Selected Letters

edited by James King, edited by Charles Ryskamp

The Poetical Works of Christopher Smart, Vol. 1, Jubilate Agno

edited by Karina Williamson

The Poetical Works of Christopher Smart, Vol. 2, Religious Poetry

edited by Marcus Walsh, edited by Karina Williamson

The Poetical Works of Christopher Smart, Vol. 3, A Translation of the Psalms of David

edited by Marcus Walsh

The Poetical Works of Christopher Smart, Vol. 4, Miscellaneous Poems, English and Latin

edited by Karina Williamson

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Witnesses to Evil

In the Lion's Den: The Life of Oswald Rufeisen

by Nechama Tec

Perpetrators, Victims, Bystanders: The Jewish Catastrophe, 1933–1945

by Raul Hilberg

A Mosaic of Victims: Non-Jews Persecuted and Murdered by the Nazis

edited by Michael Berenbaum

Out of the Inferno: Poles Remember the Holocaust

edited by Richard C. Lukas


Reading a Riot

The Vanishing Children of Paris: Rumor and Politics before the French Revolution

by Arlette Farge and Jacques Revel, translated by Claudia Miéville


How Independent Is the Court?

Grand Inquests: The Historic Impeachments of Justice Samuel Chase and President Andrew Johnson

by William H. Rehnquist

The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change?

by Gerald N. Rosenberg


Great Dane

Niels Lyhne

by Jens Peter Jacobsen, translated by Tiina Nunnally, afterword by Eric O. Johannesson


Not So Free At Last

The tensions between Russia and Ukraine go deeper than disagreements about territorial or military matters. They are rooted in the acutely different perceptions that the two nations have of each other and their history.

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