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This first biography of Philo of Alexandria, one of antiquity’s most prolific yet enigmatic authors, traces his intellec
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When Mustafa Kemal Atatürk became the first president of Turkey in 1923, he set about transforming his country into a se
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A colorful, comprehensive, and authoritative account of Machiavelli's life and thought This is a colorful, compreh
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Karl Polanyi (1886-1964), a Hungarian-born thinker, is renowned for his seminal text, "The Great Transformation,&qu
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In this intellectual biography, the economic historian Michele Alacevich explores the development and trajectory of Albe
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Is the Grand Old Man re-emerging? More than twenty years after the collapse of Communism, and in the midst of the crisis
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Examines the life of Elie Halevy who was a historian in the grand tradition of Thucydides, the philosophe manque.
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"Fredrik Barth is one of the towering figures of twentieth-century anthropology. In a career spanning six decades,
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Gershom Scholem (1897–1982) was ostensibly a scholar of Jewish mysticism, yet he occupies a powerful role in today’s int
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The definitive account of the life and thought of the medieval Arab genius who wrote the Muqaddima Ibn Khaldun (1332–1
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