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  • Fists of Glory

    The Ancient Origins of Boxing

    by Jean-Manuel Roubineau, Malcolm DeBevoise ...
    Fists of Glory provides a fascinating and intimate look at boxing from its origins in archaic Greece to its demise in late antiquity. Jean-Manuel Roubineau takes readers on a full sensory journey, replete with sights, smells, and percussive sounds, as he discusses all aspects of the sport, including rules and regulations, gear, weight classes, training regimens, cheating strategies, and boxing's ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

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  • Living with Robots

    by Paul Dumouchel, Luisa Damiano ...
    Translated by Malcolm DeBevoise ...
    From artificial intelligence to artificial empathy, "a timely and well-written volume that addresses many contemporary and future moral questions" ( Library Journal).Today's robots engage with human beings in socially meaningful ways, as therapists, trainers, mediators, caregivers, and companions. Social robotics is grounded in artificial intelligence, but the field's most probing questions ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Dangerous Life and Ideas of Diogenes the Cynic

    by Jean-Manuel Roubineau, Malcolm DeBevoise ...
    An engaging look at the founder of one of the most important philosophical schools of ancient Greece. The ancient philosopher Diogenes--nicknamed "The Dog" and decried by Plato as a "Socrates gone mad"--was widely praised and idealized as much as he was mocked and vilified. A favorite subject of sculptors and painters since the Renaissance, his notoriety is equally due to his infamously eccentric ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

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  • Robespierre

    The Man Who Divides Us the Most

    by Marcel Gauchet ...
    Translated by Malcolm DeBevoise ...
    How Robespierre’s career and legacy embody the dangerous contradictions of democracyMaximilien Robespierre (1758–1794) is arguably the most controversial and contradictory figure of the French Revolution, inspiring passionate debate like no other protagonist of those dramatic and violent events. The fervor of those who defend Robespierre the “Incorruptible,” who championed the rights of the people ... Read more

    $36.79 USD

  • Molecular Gastronomy. Exploring the Science of Flavor

    by Hervé This, Malcolm DeBevoise ...
    Hervé This (pronounced "Teess") is an internationally renowned chemist, a popular French television personality, a bestselling cookbook author, a longtime collaborator with the famed French chef Pierre Gagnaire, and the only person to hold a doctorate in molecular gastronomy, a cutting-edge field he pioneered. Bringing the instruments and experimental techniques of the laboratory into the kitchen, ... Read more

    $2.00 USD

  • Japan and Ancient Greece

    Culture and Possession

    by Michael Lucken ...
    Translated by Malcolm DeBevoise ...
    Series series Classical Scholarship in Translation
    Japan and ancient Greece. Placed side by side, these two concepts give the impression of something very strange, a sort of chimera - half Apollo, half samurai; half Venus, half geisha - set on a ground that is at once white and blue like the Cyclades, dark green and vermillion like Shintō shrines. How could two countries so distant from each other be joined together to form a coherent image, to ... Read more

    $106.99 USD

  • The Roman World War

    From the Ides of March to Cleopatra’s Suicide

    by Giusto Traina ...
    Translated by Malcolm DeBevoise ...
    How the ruthless contest among Julius Caesar’s heirs ignited a global war that raged far beyond the borders of RomeThe succession of civil wars that plagued the last years of the Roman Republic has often been portrayed as a settling of scores between Roman factions—Sulla against Marius, Caesar against Pompey, Octavian against Mark Antony—with foreign campaigns serving as a backdrop to the tragic ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Must We Divide History Into Periods?

    by Jacques Le Goff ...
    Translated by Malcolm DeBevoise ...
    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    We have long thought of the Renaissance as a luminous era that marked a decisive break with the past, but the idea of the Renaissance as a distinct period arose only during the nineteenth century. Though the view of the Middle Ages as a dark age of unreason has softened somewhat, we still locate the advent of modern rationality in the Italian thought and culture of the fifteenth and sixteenth ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The War That Must Not Occur

    by Jean-Pierre Dupuy ...
    Translated by Malcolm DeBevoise ...
    The possibility of a nuclear war that could destroy civilization has influenced the course of international affairs since 1945, suspended like a sword of Damocles above the heads of the world's leaders. The fact that we have escaped a third world war involving strategic nuclear weapons—indeed, that no atomic weapon of limited power has yet been used under battlefield conditions—seems nothing short ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Religion

    Rereading What Is Bound Together

    by Michel Serres ...
    Translated by Malcolm DeBevoise ...
    With this profound final work, completed in the days leading up to his death, Michel Serres presents a vivid picture of his thinking about religion—a constant preoccupation since childhood—thereby completing Le Grand Récit, the comprehensive explanation of the world and of humanity to which he devoted the last twenty years of his life.Themes from Serres's earlier writings—energy and information, ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Unsustainable Inequalities

    Social Justice and the Environment

    by Lucas Chancel ...
    Translated by Malcolm DeBevoise ...
    A Financial Times Best Book of the YearA hardheaded book that confronts and outlines possible solutions to a seemingly intractable problem: that helping the poor often hurts the environment, and vice versa.Can we fight poverty and inequality while protecting the environment? The challenges are obvious. To rise out of poverty is to consume more resources, almost by definition. And many measures to ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • Building a Meal

    From Molecular Gastronomy to Culinary Constructivism

    by Hervé This ...
    Translated by Malcolm DeBevoise ...
    An internationally renowned chemist, popular television personality, and bestselling author, Hervé This heads the first laboratory devoted to molecular gastronomy-the scientific exploration of cooking and eating. By testing recipes that have guided cooks for centuries, and the various dictums and maxims on which they depend, Hervé This unites the head with the hand in order to defend and transform ... Read more

    $10.99 USD