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Alex Averbuch,
Furious Harvests

Furious Harvests, a collection of striking poetry by Alex Averbuch, explores existential questions that war raises: from the Russian aggression against Ukraine currently taking place in Averbuch's home re…

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Hamilton Vaughan Bail
Views of Harvard

How Harvard College looked, from its beginnings to 1860, is shown in this collection of views, many heretofore unpublished, of its buildings and grounds. These lithographs, watercolors, charcoal drawings,…

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Ken Bain
The Learning Household

Children are eager learners, but many find school alienating. How can parents nurture kids' natural curiosity? Educators Ken Bain and Marsha Marshall Bain show that by creating a "learning household" that…

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Mark Baker
Pivot of China

China's modern history has been marked by deep spatial inequalities between regions, between cities, and between rural and urban areas. Pivot of China tells this story through the city of Zhengzhou, a dra…

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Karma Ben-Johanan
Jacob's Younger Brother

At Vatican II, the Catholic Church renounced the teaching that Jews had killed Christ and pivoted toward reconciliation. Jewish leaders responded in kind. Karma Ben-Johanan pierces the veil of interfaith …

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He Bian, Marten Soderblom Saarela
The Manchu Mirrors and the Knowledge of Plants and Animals in High Qing China

The Manchu Mirrors and the Knowledge of Plants and Animals in High Qing China is the first systematic study of the codification of Manchu and Chinese words for animals and plants in the eighteenth century…

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Sarah Bilston
The Lost Orchid

Sarah Bilston unfolds the story of orchid mania, the nineteenth-century craze among European and North American collectors vying to own the world's most coveted flowers. Focusing the hunt for the so-calle…

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Brandon Bloch
Reinventing Protestant Germany

Harvard Historical Studies

Brandon Bloch examines the remarkable transformation of German Protestantism after WWII. As avid nationalists and militarists, Protestant leaders had largely backed the Nazi regime. Yet after 1945, they r…

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Ulbe Bosma
The World of Sugar

Traversing 2,500 years of global history, Ulbe Bosma shows how sugar, once a luxury reserved for Eastern emperors, stoked a mania in the West, transforming diets and ecosystems, destroying and creating cu…

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Costica Bradatan
In Praise of Failure

Success is all very well, but failure teaches us what is most important: humility. Costica Bradatan tells the stories of four thinkers who, for all their external success, courted failure throughout their…

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Curtis A. Bradley
Historical Gloss and Foreign Affairs

Curtis A. Bradley argues that the practices of Congress and the executive branch have been essential in shaping understandings of the US Constitution and its system of checks and balances. Nowhere is the …

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Richard Breitman
A Calculated Restraint

Why did the Allied leaders-Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin-largely keep quiet about the Holocaust? Richard Breitman examines the competing political and military considerations that drove their responses…

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Liz Bucar
Stealing My Religion

Liz Bucar navigates the thorny terrain of religious appropriation, from yoga classes to non-Muslims who signal allyship by donning hijabs. Exploring the ethics of alleged appropriations, Bucar argues that…

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Orville Vernon Burton, Armand Derfner
Justice Deferred

In the first comprehensive account of the Supreme Court's race-related jurisprudence, a distinguished historian and a renowned civil rights lawyer scrutinize a legacy too often blighted by racial injustic…

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Julia Cagé, Thomas Piketty,
A History of Political Conflict

Drawing on centuries of data, Julia Cagé and Thomas Piketty place today's French politics in historical context. France is divided among bourgeois and distinct urban and rural working-class blocs-historic…

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Maria Adele Carrai
The China Questions 2

The China Questions 2 assembles top experts to explore key issues in US-China relations today, including conflict over Taiwan, economic and military competition, public health concerns, and areas of coope…

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Kornel Chang
A Fractured Liberation

After liberation in 1945, Koreans erupted with hopes for reform that had been bottled up during forty years of Japanese imperial rule. Arguing that permanent North-South division was far from inevitable, …

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Jian Chen
Zhou Enlai

Zhou Enlai, China's first premier, is overshadowed by Mao, but Zhou's influence in his own time and since has been vast. Chen Jian shows Zhou using his political and bureaucratic skills and centralism to …

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Vivek Chibber
The Class Matrix

Does class determine economic options, or is class in our heads-a matter of interpreting symbols and meanings? Cultural theorists have made the second claim, sidelining materialism. Now, amid deepening in…

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Cicero
Fragmentary Speeches

Loeb Classical Library

Although Cicero's oratory is well attested-of 106 known speeches, fifty-eight survive intact or in large part-the sixteen speeches that survive only in quotations by later authors nevertheless fill gaps i…

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