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The delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention blocked the establishment of Christianity as a national religion. But they could not keep religion out of American politics. This title shows that religion became sectarian and partisan whenever it entered the political fray, and that religious agendas have always mixed with nonreligious ones.

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A collection of nearly seventy Late Antique primary religious texts. It includes discussions of asceticism, religious organization, ritual, martyrdom, religion's social implications, law, and theology.

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"A magisterial study...by a historian at the top of his game. Political theorists, intellectual historians, and students of empire are once again in Duncan Bell's debt for his deep research, elegant analysis, and consistently acute judgments."--David Armitage, Harvard Universityrsity

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Here Michael Williams challenges the validity of the category "gnosticism" and the ways it has been described. Williams uncovers the similarities and differences among some major traditions widely categorized as gnostic and provides an argument for a more accurate way to discuss these interpretive approaches.

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This volume presents reverse mathematics to a general mathematical audience for the first time. Stillwell gives a representative view of this field, emphasizing basic analysis--finding the "right axioms" to prove fundamental theorems--and giving a novel approach to logic. to logic.

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Describes the terrors of the Soviet occupation of the lands that made up eastern Poland between the two world wars: the Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia. This title offers an analysis of the revolution that came to Poland from abroad which is based on hundreds of first-hand accounts of the hardship, suffering, and social chaos.

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Historians of the French Revolution used to take for granted what was also obvious to its contemporary observers--that the Revolution was shaped by the radical ideas of the Enlightenment. Yet in recent decades, scholars have argued that the Revolution was brought about by social forces, politics, economics, or culture--almost anything but abstract

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Examines how Anglo-American ideas about "strategic" bombing were formed and implemented. This book argues that ideas about bombing civilian targets rested on - and gained validity from - widespread but substantially erroneous assumptions about the nature of modern industrial societies and their vulnerability to aerial bombardment.

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Perhaps Greece's most important poet, Yannis Ritsos follows such eminent predecessors as Cavafy, Sikelianos, and Seferis in the dramatic and symbolic expression of a tragic sense of life. The three volumes of Ritsos's poetry translated here--Parentheses, 1946-47, Parentheses, 1950-61, and The Distant, 1975--represent a thirty year poetic journey an

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Argues for a completely new interpretation of republican chronology. While classicists have long recognized that the Roman Republic changed and evolved over time, the author mounts a serious argument against the idea of republican continuity that has been fundamental to modern historical study.

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In this study, Lloyd Gruber suggests that the emphasis on cooperation's positive-sum consequences may be leading scholars of international relations down the wrong theoretical path.

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Provides a guide to running randomized impact evaluations of social programs. This book explains why and when randomized evaluations are useful, in what situations they should be used, and how to prioritize different evaluation opportunities.

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Turning the monotheistic critique of idolatry on the monotheisms themselves, the author shows that much in these traditions must be condemned as false and spiritually debilitating. He claims that supernaturalism is idolatry.

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