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  • The Word According to Eve

    Women and the Bible in Ancient Times and Our Own

    de Cullen Murphy ...
    "A disarming, intelligent, and timely book" that re-examines religious history and scripture with a focus on the feminine experience ( The New York Times).In the world that created the Bible, there were no female scholars and theologians, yet in recent decades, owing to such stunning discoveries as the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi texts, as well as advances in historical understanding and ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • God's Jury

    The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World

    de Cullen Murphy ...
    "From Torquemada to Guantánamo and beyond, Cullen Murphy finds the 'inquisitorial impulse' alive, and only too well, in our world" (Jane Mayer, author of Dark Money).Established by the Catholic Church in 1231, the Inquisition continued in one form or another for almost seven hundred years. Though associated with the persecution of heretics and Jews—and with burning at the stake—its targets were ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Just Passing Through

    A Seven-Decade Roman Holiday

    de Milton Gendel ...
    **One of Vanity Fair's Best Books of 2022"Milton Gendel had the good fortune to live a wildly entertaining life in Rome—a charmed, romantic period he captured in diaries and photos. Milton had the further good fortune to have Cullen Murphy bring this vanished dolce vita to life." —Graydon Carter, coeditor of Air MailA never-before-seen treasure trove of photos and diary entries from the celebrated ... Leer más

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  • Rubbish!

    The Archaeology of Garbage

    It is from the discards of former civilizations that archaeologists have reconstructed most of what we know about the past, and it is through their examination of today’s garbage that William Rathje and Cullen Murphy inform us of our present. Rubbish! is their witty and erudite investigation into all aspects of the phenomenon of garbage. Rathje and Murphy show what the study of garbage tells us ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • The American Crisis

    What Went Wrong. How We Recover.

    Some of America’s best reporters and thinkers offer an urgent look at a country in chaos in this collection of timely, often prophetic articles from The Atlantic.The past four years in the United States have been among the most turbulent in our history—and would have been so even without a global pandemic and waves of protest nationwide against police violence. Drawn from the recent work of The ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Are We Rome?

    The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America

    de Cullen Murphy ...
    What went wrong in imperial Rome, and how we can avoid it: “If you want to understand where America stands in the world today, read this."—Thomas E. RicksThe rise and fall of ancient Rome has been on American minds since the beginning of our republic. Depending on who’s doing the talking, the history of Rome serves as either a triumphal call to action—or a dire warning of imminent collapse.In this ... Leer más

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  • Cartoon County

    My Father and His Friends in the Golden Age of Make-Believe

    de Cullen Murphy ...
    A poignant history of the cartoonists and illustrators from the Connecticut SchoolFor a period of about fifty years, right in the middle of the American Century, many of the the nation's top comic-strip cartoonists, gag cartoonists, and magazine illustrators lived within a stone's throw of one another in the southwestern corner of Connecticut—a bit of bohemia in the middle of those men in their ... Leer más

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  • Audiolibro

    God's Jury

    The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World

    de Cullen Murphy ...
    Narrado por Robertson Dean ...

    Completo

    9 hora 40 minutos

    The Inquisition conducted its last execution in 1826—the victim was a Spanish schoolmaster convicted of heresy. But as Cullen Murphy shows in this provocative new work, not only did its offices survive into the twentieth century, in the modern world its spirit is more influential than ever.God's Jury encompasses the diverse stories of the Knights Templar, Torquemada, Galileo, and Graham Greene. ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

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    Politics for Everybody

    Reading Hannah Arendt in Uncertain Times

    de Ned O'Gorman ...
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    6 hora 46 minutos

    In this age of nearly unprecedented partisan rancor, you’d be forgiven for thinking we could all do with a smaller daily dose of politics. In his provocative and sharp book, however, Ned O’Gorman argues just the opposite: Politics for Everybody contends that what we really need to do is engage more deeply with politics, rather than chuck the whole thing out the window. In calling for a purer, more ... Leer más

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    The Wrong Enemy

    America in Afghanistan, 2001-2014

    de Carlotta Gall ...
    Narrado por Jennifer M. Dixon ...

    Completo

    13 hora 11 minutos

    A journalist with deep knowledge of the region provides "an enthralling and largely firsthand account of the war in Afghanistan" (Financial Times).Few reporters know as much about Afghanistan as Carlotta Gall. She was there in the 1990s after the Russians were driven out. She witnessed the early flourishing of radical Islam, imported from abroad, which caused so much local suffering. She was there ... Leer más

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  • Audiolibro

    Ten Days that Shook the World

    de John Reed ...
    Narrado por Adam Sims ...

    Completo

    10 hora 21 minutos

    Ten Days that Shook the World is John Reed’s phenomenal first-hand account of the October Revolution, leading up to the storming of the Winter Palace and the assumption of power by the Bolsheviks in 1917. A socialist journalist from the United States, John Reed was open about his Bolshevik sympathies and used his support to gain access to officials, witness speeches by the likes of Lenin and ... Leer más

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    River Horse

    A Voyage Across America

    Abreviado

    6 hora 37 minutos

    In this abridgement of River-Horse, the pre-eminent chronicler of American back roads -- who has given us the classics Blue Highways and Prairyerth -- recounts his singular voyage through American waters from sea to sea. Along the route, he offers a lyrical and ceaselessly fascinating shipboard perspective on the country and its rivers, lakes, canals, and landscapes. Brimming with history, drama, ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD