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Humanism and Secularization

From Petrarch to Valla

by Riccardo Fubini ...

Translated by Martha King ...

Series series Duke Monographs in Medieval and Renaissance Studies
The Renaissance movement known as humanism eventually spread from Italy through all of western Europe, transforming early modern culture in ways that are still being felt and debated. Central to these debates—and to this book—is the question of whether (and how) the humanist movement contributed to the secularization of Western cultural traditions at the end of the Middle Ages. A preeminent ... Read more

$32.39 USD

The Renaissance movement known as humanism eventually spread from Italy through all of western Europe, transforming early modern culture in ways that are still being felt and debated. Central to these debates—and to this book—is the question of whether (and how) the humanist movement contributed to the secularization of Western cultural traditions at the end of the Middle Ages. A preeminent
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Her Husband

by Luigi Pirandello ...

Translated by Martha King, Mary Ann Frese Witt ...

One of the twentieth century’s greatest literary artists and winner of the Nobel prize in 1934, Luigi Pirandello wrote the novel Her Husband in 1911, before he produced any of the well-known plays with which his name is most often associated today. Her Husband—translated here for the first time into English—is a profoundly entertaining work, by turns funny, bitingly satirical, and tinged with ... Read more

$35.99 USD

One of the twentieth century’s greatest literary artists and winner of the Nobel prize in 1934, Luigi Pirandello wrote the novel Her Husband in 1911, before he produced any of the well-known plays with which his name is most often associated today. Her Husband—translated here for the first time into English—is a profoundly entertaining work, by turns funny, bitingly satirical, and tinged with
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The Leader and the Crowd

Democracy in American Public Discourse, 1880-1941

by Daria Frezza ...

Translated by Martha King ...

Daria Frezza covers six tumultuous decades of transatlantic history to examine how European theories of mass politics and crowd psychology influenced American social scientists' perception of crowds, mobs, democratic "people," and its leadership. In the last decades of the nineteenth century, the development of an urban-industrial mass society and the disordered influx of millions of immigrants ... Read more

$45.89 USD

Daria Frezza covers six tumultuous decades of transatlantic history to examine how European theories of mass politics and crowd psychology influenced American social scientists' perception of crowds, mobs, democratic "people," and its leadership. In the last decades of the nineteenth century, the development of an urban-industrial mass society and the disordered influx of millions of immigrants
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Light Inside Me, The

A Gentle Guide that Builds Confidence and Self-Trust

by Martha King ...

Narrated by Martha King ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Love
Unabridged

5 min

Every child carries a light.This story helps them find it — and remember it.The Light Inside Me is a gentle, rhyming journey that guides children inward to discover their own glow — the quiet, steady light that lives beneath their feet, flows through their body, and shines from their heart.Whether a child is feeling joyful, unsure, overwhelmed, or simply ready to settle into sleep, this story ... Read more

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Every child carries a light.This story helps them find it — and remember it.The Light Inside Me is a gentle, rhyming journey that guides children inward to discover their own glow — the quiet, steady light that lives beneath their feet, flows through their body, and shines from their heart.Whether a child is feeling joyful, unsure, overwhelmed, or simply ready to settle into sleep, this story
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Song Within, The

A Journey Into Your Voice - A Calming Story That Builds Confidence

by Martha King ...

Narrated by Martha King ...

Series Audiobook 2 - Love
Unabridged

5 min

A Journey Into Your Voice, Calming Story That Help Builds ConfidenceYour voice matters.Let it rise — softly, slowly, from deep inside.The Song Within is a calming and empowering story that guides children to discover the quiet sound that lives in their body — the gentle “O” that rises from the belly, moves through the heart, and finds its way to the lips.Through poetic rhythm and mindful breath, ... Read more

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A Journey Into Your Voice, Calming Story That Help Builds ConfidenceYour voice matters.Let it rise — softly, slowly, from deep inside.The Song Within is a calming and empowering story that guides children to discover the quiet sound that lives in their body — the gentle “O” that rises from the belly, moves through the heart, and finds its way to the lips.Through poetic rhythm and mindful breath,
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Path of Breath, The

Where Breath Begins, Calm Follows a Story to Help Kids Slow Down and Feel Calm Inside

by Martha King ...

Narrated by Martha King ...

Series Audiobook 4 - Love
Unabridged

5 min

A Gentle Guide for Inner Calm, Clarity, and StrengthWhen the world feels loud and thoughts feel tangled, your breath can lead you home.This soothing, poetic story invites children — and the child within us all — to slow down, tune in, and rediscover the quiet power of the breath. Through gentle rhymes and soft imagery, The Path of Breath teaches how to follow the breath through the body, like a ... Read more

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A Gentle Guide for Inner Calm, Clarity, and StrengthWhen the world feels loud and thoughts feel tangled, your breath can lead you home.This soothing, poetic story invites children — and the child within us all — to slow down, tune in, and rediscover the quiet power of the breath. Through gentle rhymes and soft imagery, The Path of Breath teaches how to follow the breath through the body, like a
... Read more
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Very Brave Me, The

The Secret Chalice of Inner Strength - An Uplifting Story to Help Kids Face Change and Feel Brave Inside

by Martha King ...

Narrated by Martha King ...

Series Audiobook 3 - Love
Unabridged

4 min

Bravery doesn’t always roar.Sometimes, it whispers — “You can do this.”The Very Brave Me is a heartfelt story for children navigating change, big feelings, or moments of uncertainty. Through gentle rhymes and soft imagery, this book reminds young readers that true courage isn’t about being fearless — it’s about feeling the fear, and choosing to keep going anyway.Whether it’s speaking up, asking ... Read more

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Bravery doesn’t always roar.Sometimes, it whispers — “You can do this.”The Very Brave Me is a heartfelt story for children navigating change, big feelings, or moments of uncertainty. Through gentle rhymes and soft imagery, this book reminds young readers that true courage isn’t about being fearless — it’s about feeling the fear, and choosing to keep going anyway.Whether it’s speaking up, asking
... Read more

Intellectuals and Society

by Thomas Sowell ...

The influence of intellectuals is not only greater than in previous eras but also takes a very different form from that envisioned by those like Machiavelli and others who have wanted to directly influence rulers. It has not been by shaping the opinions or directing the actions of the holders of power that modern intellectuals have most influenced the course of events, but by shaping public ... Read more

$18.99 USD

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The influence of intellectuals is not only greater than in previous eras but also takes a very different form from that envisioned by those like Machiavelli and others who have wanted to directly influence rulers. It has not been by shaping the opinions or directing the actions of the holders of power that modern intellectuals have most influenced the course of events, but by shaping public
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Thinking About History

by Sarah Maza ...

What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating question of Sarah Maza’s Thinking About History, a general introduction to the field of history that revels in its eclecticism and highlights the inherent tensions and controversies that shape it.Designed for the classroom, Thinking About History is organized around big questions: Whose history do we write, ... Read more

$16.59 USD

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What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating question of Sarah Maza’s Thinking About History, a general introduction to the field of history that revels in its eclecticism and highlights the inherent tensions and controversies that shape it.Designed for the classroom, Thinking About History is organized around big questions: Whose history do we write,
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Intellectuals and Race

by Thomas Sowell ...

Thomas Sowell's incisive critique of the intellectuals' destructive role in shaping ideas about race in America*Intellectuals and Race is a radical book in the original sense of one that goes to the root of the problem. The role of intellectuals in racial strife is explored in an international context that puts the American experience in a wholly new light.The views of individual intellectuals ... Read more

$19.99 USD

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Thomas Sowell's incisive critique of the intellectuals' destructive role in shaping ideas about race in America*Intellectuals and Race is a radical book in the original sense of one that goes to the root of the problem. The role of intellectuals in racial strife is explored in an international context that puts the American experience in a wholly new light.The views of individual intellectuals
... Read more

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Working Toward Whiteness

How America's Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs

by David R. Roediger ...

How did immigrants to the United States come to see themselves as white?David R. Roediger has been in the vanguard of the study of race and labor in American history for decades. He first came to prominence as the author of The Wages of Whiteness, a classic study of racism in the development of a white working class in nineteenth-century America. In Working Toward Whiteness, Roediger continues ... Read more

$12.99 USD

How did immigrants to the United States come to see themselves as white?David R. Roediger has been in the vanguard of the study of race and labor in American history for decades. He first came to prominence as the author of The Wages of Whiteness, a classic study of racism in the development of a white working class in nineteenth-century America. In Working Toward Whiteness, Roediger continues
... Read more
The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics

by Christopher Lasch ...

"A major and challenging work. . . . Provocative, and certain to be controversial. . . . Will add important new dimension to the continuing debate on the decline of liberalism." —William Julius Wilson, New York Times Book ReviewCan we continue to believe in progress? In this sobering analysis of the Western human condition, Christopher Lasch seeks the answer in a history of the struggle between ... Read more

$17.99 USD

"A major and challenging work. . . . Provocative, and certain to be controversial. . . . Will add important new dimension to the continuing debate on the decline of liberalism." —William Julius Wilson, New York Times Book ReviewCan we continue to believe in progress? In this sobering analysis of the Western human condition, Christopher Lasch seeks the answer in a history of the struggle between
... Read more

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