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When South Africa's apartheid government charged Nelson Mandela with planning its        overthrow in 1963, most observers feared that he would be sentenced to death. But        the support he and his fellow activists in the African National Congress received        during his trial not only saved his life, but also enabled him to save...

A HistoryAn overview of the history and nature of antisemitism from earliest times to the present, from a team of leading international specialists in the field....

This book offers a strikingly new perspective on EU enlargement. Basing his findings on substantial empirical evidence, Zielonka presents a carefully argued account of the kind of political entity the European Union is becoming, with particular reference to recent enlargement....

This is the first comprehensive study of the German occupation of France between        1940 and 1944. The author examines the nature and extent of collaboration and        resistance, different experiences of Occupation, the persecution of the Jews,        intellectual and cultural life under Occupation, and the purge trials that...

This book is not about myths, but about    approaches to myth, from all of the major disciplines, including science, religion, philosophy, literature, and psychology. A survey of the past 300 years of theorizing on myth, this book takes into account the work of such prominent thinkers as Albert Camus, Claude Levi-Strauss, Roland Barthes, C. G....

These first philosophers paved the way for the work of Plato and Aristotle - and hence for the whole of Western thought. This is a unique and invaluable collection of the works of the Presocratics and the Sophists. Waterfield brings together the works of these early thinkers with brilliant new translation and exceptional commentary. This is the...