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Justine's attachment to virtue attracts nothing but misfortune, and she is subjected to an unending catalogue of sexual abuse. Sade's best-known novel, it overturns all religious, moral, and political norms, and still has the power to shock. This new translation of the 1791version is the first for over 40 years, and the first critical edition....

Beginning in Inner Asia two thousand years ago, the Turks have migrated and expanded to form today's Turkish Republic, five post-Soviet republics, other societies across Eurasia, and a global diaspora. For the first time in a single, accessible volume, this book traces the Turkic peoples' trajectory from steppe, to empire, to...

Midnight MessagesElly, Tash, and Sierra are back for their most mysterious adventure yet. At a sleepover in Tash's tree house, the girls are going through all of Old Man Blake's inventions, trying to figure out what they are and what they're meant to do. When Tash pulls out a ghost detector, the three of them can't resist trying...

In Saint Saul, Donald Harman Akenson offers a lively and provocative account of what we can learn about Jesus by reading the letters of Paul. As the only direct evidence of Jesus we have that were composed before the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE forever altered the outlook of the Christian and Jewish faiths, Akenson claims that these...

Examining one hundred years in the public campaign against cancer, this        path-breaking study of scientific, medical, and epidemiological writings and of        cinematic and literary representations of disease, reveals how experts and the lay        public saw cancer's demographic shifts - from a stereotypical white female disease        to...

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