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Justin¿s artfully condensed version of the lost Philippic History of Trogus, a contemporary of Livy, is a universal history of the world apart from Rome, from mythic beginnings through Alexander the Great, the Hellenistic kingdoms, and Parthia, and was among the most widely read and influential books in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

Cornerstone of the Nation is the first historical account of the complex alliance of forces that catapulted South Koreäs modernization under Park Chung Hee. Kwon makes the case that arms development may be the most durable and yet least acknowledged factor behind the country¿s rise to economic prominence in the late twentieth century.

Love Life follows Yora, an immigrant to the United States from Ukraine, as she becomes enmeshed with the seductive Sebastian. The second novel by the award-winning Ukrainian writer and poet Oksana Lutsyshyna, Love Life is a fascinating story of self-discovery amidst the complexities of adapting to a new life.

Charles Taylor delves into the poetry of the Romantics and their heirs, a foundation of his distinctive philosophy of language. Taylor holds that Romantic poetry responded to disenchantment: with old cosmic orders depleted, artists groped to articulate new meanings by bringing connections to life rather than merely reasoning abstractly about life.

Transpatial Modernity offers the first in-depth account of the relationship among Chinese, Japanese, and Russian literature in the modern era. Xiaolu Ma discusses leading cultural figures such as Leo Tolstoy, Futabatei Shimei, and Lu Xun and demonstrates the central role of relay transculturation as the key to understanding East Asian modernity.

Drawing on both contemporaneous historical sources and modern literary criticism, Navigating Narratives offers unique insights into Heian Japan through one of its most enigmatic and consequential texts, Tosa nikki (The Tosa Diary)-the world's first short novelistic work of fiction, which purports to record the voyage of an anonymous woman.

The Making of China's Post Office traces the origins and early development-and the political maneuverings and economic imperatives-of the institution. Using Chinese archives, Tsai illustrates the extent to which local agency shaped the design and development of the first nationwide modernization project to directly impact people's daily lives.

The Synagogue at Sardis, discovered in 1962, is the largest known in the ancient world. It caused significant revision of previous assumptions about Judaism in the Roman Empire. This long-awaited, copiously illustrated volume discusses in detail the history of the building, its decoration, and the place of the Jewish community in society.

The Center for the Study of World Religions Peripheries Poetry Series publishes contemporary poetry, alongside fiction, visual art, sound works, and archival material. Peripheries 6 includes a folio, "Anti-Letters, " as well as works by Victoria Chang, Aracelis Girmay, Joanna Klink, and Tracy K. Smith, among others.

Ancient Greek Heroes, Athletes, Poetry centers on masterpieces of ancient Greek literature, from the Iliad and Odyssey to tragedies from the Classical Age of Athens and beyond. With a focus on the Olympics, Gregory Nagy investigates how the heroes of ancient Greek poetry related to athletes, female as well as male.

Florence¿s iconic foundling home of the Innocenti is often taken as a symbol of Renaissance creativity, innovation, and humanity. The essays in Lost and Found explore new dimensions and contexts for foundling care at the Innocenti and use archival documents and digital tools to locate it architecturally, geographically, and socially.

A collection of stories meant to be read while dining and drinking, the Dinner Pieces, or Intercenales, are among Alberti's most innovative works. They constitute an important monument in the history of comic writing and cover topics from politics to the arts to love. This edition presents a new translation and an authoritative Latin text.

Samantha Kelly tells the story of Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims in sixteenth-century Rome. The only African community in premodern Europe to leave extensive documentation in their own language, they negotiated religious pluralism amid rising Catholic conformity and collaborated with Latin Christians on scholarly projects of enduring interest.

China's modern history has been marked by deep spatial inequalities between regions, between cities, and between rural and urban areas. Pivot of China tells this story through the city of Zhengzhou, a dramatic urbanization success and "National Central City" that, due to spatial politics, concentrates resources at the expense of its peripheries.

National security once was not limited to physical defense. FDR equated national security with safety from foreign attack and economic want, conservatives, fearful of costs and federal expansion, stripped out domestic policy. The Contest over National Security explains why the US developed separate, imbalanced national security and welfare states.

The Iberian Apollonius of Tyre includes the poem The Book of Apollonius, a creative and Christianized adaptation, and the prose Life and History of King Apollonius, a highly literal translation of the Latin Gesta Romanorum. This volume presents new editions and English translations of these two medieval Spanish versions of the ancient legend.

Across the twentieth century, Asians imagined universalist ideals centered on the idea of Asia itself, rivaling European colonial thought, liberalism, and race-based nationalisms. Sugata Bose explores the history of Asian universalisms and reflects on their potential amid ongoing nationalist rivalries tied to religious majoritarianism and violence.

Songs about Women by Romanos the Melodist contains eighteen works related to the liturgical calendar that feature important female characters, many portrayed as models for Christian life. This edition presents a new translation of the Byzantine Greek texts into English.

A groundbreaking history of philosophy and punishment, The Prison before the Panopticon traces the influence of ancient political philosophy on the modern institution of the prison, showing how prevailing theories of carceral rehabilitation and common justifications for the denial of liberty developed in classical and early modern thought.

Organizations now measure and rank nearly every aspect of our lives, using data to make predictions about our purchasing power, tastes, and character. The Ordinal Society shows how these predictions structure life chances, producing a hollow morality that launders familiar forms of social advantage into an illusion of merit.