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The authenticity of visual art has always commanded the attention of experts,        dealers, collectors, and the art-minded public. Is it "e;real"e; or "e;original"e; is a way        of asking what am I buying? What do I own? What am I looking at? And today more        sophisticated questions are being asked: How is authenticity...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau revolutionized our understanding of ourselves with his brilliant investigation of amour propre: the passion that drives humans to seek the esteem, approval, admiration, or love - the recognition - of their fellow beings. Frederick Neuhouser traces the development of this key idea in modern thought....

1928-1953A fresh analytical overview of the complex social formation ruled over by Stalin        and his henchmen from the late 1920s to the early 1950s, drawing on declassified        archival materials, interviews with former Soviet citizens, old and new memoirs, and        personal diaries, as well as the best of sixty years of scholarship....

What Hitler Knew is a fascinating study of how the climate of fear in Nazi Germany affected Hitler's advisers and shaped the decision making process. It explores the key foreign policy decisions from the Nazi seizure of power up to the hours before the outbreak of World War II. Unlike previous studies, this book draws the reader into the diplomats'...