A riveting history of vampire panics across cultures and down through the millennia—and why killing the dead is better than killing the livingKilling the Dead p ...
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Women’s cultural and political engagement with oral tales and traditions in European peripheries With Seekers of Wonder, Elena Sottilotta offers the first compa ...
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A major poet and literary critic leads an aesthetic adventure through poems about queer experience, by writers who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, tr ...
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This classic study remains the definitive account of witchcraft and magic in the centuries following the witch trials. The Witchcraft Act of 1736 brought an end ...
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An engaging introduction to the cutting-edge discipline of experience design for students and practitioners in creative fields, including architecture, product ...
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An informative and entertaining account of how actions send signals that shape behaviors and how to design better incentives for better results in our life, our ...
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A beautifully illustrated guide to over seventy-five important journeys in world literature, spanning more than thirty countries and twenty-five hundred yearsFr ...
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Frank Furedi returns to the theme of Fear in our society and culture.In 1997, Frank Furedi published a book called Culture of Fear. It was widely acclaimed as p ...
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In the gripping first novel in the Daughters of the Empty Throne trilogy, author Margaret Killjoy spins a tale of earth magic, power struggle, and self-inventio ...
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A psychologist sets out to understand the uncanny phenomenon of felt presence. We all know the feeling: you’re alone but it’s like there’s someone there with yo ...
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Longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award in Nonfiction“Sweeping…A new way to make sense not only of the past, but of the contemporary culture wars.” —New Yo ...
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“A fascinating insight into the evolution of China’s financial policy and its strategic investments using leveraged foreign exchange reserves.” —Diane Coyle, En ...
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“Timely…Cockell makes us consider a gamut of new possibilities that boggle the mind.”—Bruce Dorminey, Forbes “Taxi from Another Planet conveys an array of ideas ...
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A cutting-edge neuroscientist and a leading clinical psychologist look to religious, mystical, and mind-altering experience to challenge scientific orthodoxies ...
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An illuminating new history of World War II–era Smolensk, a region at the crossroads of the two great dictatorships of the twentieth century. During the Cold Wa ...
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Is geography really destiny?Our maps may no longer be stalked by dragons and monsters, but our perceptions of the world are still shaped by geographic myths. My ...
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A vivid new history of the criminal underworld in the medieval Holy Land The religious wars of the crusades are renowned for their military engagemen ...
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A new approach to the challenges surrounding artificial intelligence that argues for assessing AI actions as if they came from a human being “Elegant ...
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GOLD MEDALLIST IN THE 2024 AXIOM BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS A bold new account of the state of globalization today―and what its collapse might mean for the ...
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The story of the circle of scientists, poets and dissidents who discovered laughing gas—and forever changed our understanding of the mind An unlikely circle of ...
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A fresh, research-driven playbook for how successful leaders can maximize the potential of others When we think of leaders, we often imagine lone, inspirational ...
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The long history of China’s relationship between stability, diversity, and prosperity, and how its current leadership threatens this delicate balance ...
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The story of the sixteenth-century’s epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific&a ...
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