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The History of Rome, Vol. V solves a single, urgent problem: how a five-hundred-year republican system collapsed into a military … Read more
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The Search for the Beautiful Woman, a cultural history of Japanese and Chinese beauty by Cho Kyo, is a definitive … Read more
The Lady in Red peels back Georgian England’s gilded curtain to show a marriage, a courtroom and a culture built … Read more