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By Roberto Calasso
"Originally published in 2016 by Adelphi Edizioni, Italy, as Il cacciatore celeste"--Copyright page.
By Monica L Smith
A revelation of the drive and creative flux of the metropolis over time. -- Nature A sweeping history of cities through the millennia--from Mesopotamia to Manhattan--and how they have propelled Homo sapiens to dominance. Six thousand years ago, there were no cities on the planet. Today, more than half of the world's population lives in urban areas, and that number is growing.
By Gavin Weightman
Weightman tells the story of the frozen-water trade through the remarkable life of Frederick Tudor, the wealthy Boston "Ice King" who had a crucial role in establishing this booming industry in 19th-century America.
By Brendan Simms
A prize-winning historian presents a deeply learned and radically revisionist biography, arguing that the dictator's main strategic enemy, from the start of his political career in the 1920s, was not communism or the Soviet Union, but capitalism and the U.S.
By Yuval Noah Harari
Translation of: ha-Hisòtoryah shel ha-maòhar. 2015.
By Peter Watson
From Freud to Babbitt, from Animal Farm to Sartre to the Great Society, from the Theory of Relativity to counterculture to Kosovo, The Modern Mind is encyclopedic, covering the major writers, artists, scientists, and philosophers who produced the ideas by which we live. Peter Watson has produced a fluent and engaging narrative of the intellectual tradition of the twentieth century, and the men and women who created it.
By James M Brophy, Joshua Cole, John Robertson, Thomas Max Safley, Carol Symes
A rich, relevant collection of primary sources at an exceptional value
By Gary Taubes
"For years health organizations have preached the same rules for losing weight: restrict your calories, eat less, exercise more. It's simple enough. So why doesn't it work for millions of overweight or obese Americans? Gary Taubes sets the record straight--clarifying a century of misunderstanding about the differences between diet, weight control, and health--and gives us a revolutionary manifesto for the 21st-century diet, and a primer on how low-carbohydrate, high-fat/ketogenic diets can help you achieve and maintain a healthy weight for life. Taubes's book puts the ketogenic diet movement in the necessary historical and scientific perspective. It makes clear the vital misconceptions in how we've come to think about obesity and diet (no, people do not become fat simply because they eat too much; hormones play the critical role) and uses the collected clinical experience of the medical community to provide essential practical advice"--
By Jay W Richards
The "senior fellow at the Discovery Institute brings together the trending topic of intermittent fasting with the ancient Christian tradition of fasting for spiritual awakening"--
By Caroline Dooner
A "comprehensive program for chronic dieters to show them how and why they can escape the plague of diet culture and regain the personal power lost to misleading and disempowering beliefs about food, weight and self-worth"--
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