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The Cold War was an era of surprising connections between American and Czech literary cultures. Major writers met behind the Iron Curtain, while others smuggled, translated, and adapted works from the other side. Brian K. Goodman explores the artistic and political consequences, arguing that the movement of literature inspired new forms of dissent.

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 112 includes Olga Levaniouk, "The Dreams of Bar¿in and Penelope"; Paul K. Hosle, "Bacchylides' Theseus and Vergil's Aristaeus"; Vayos Liapis, "Arion and the Dolphin: Apollo Delphinios and Maritime Networks in Herodotus"; and other new essays on Greek and Roman Classics.

The New Biology argues that mechanical reductionism, though helpful in answering many biological questions, cannot on its own explain complex biological systems. Promoting a more holistic approach, the authors contend that both mechanistic and organicist views are invaluable frameworks for understanding life.

Widely regarded as the Shakespeare of Persia, Bahram Beyzaie remains largely unknown to the English-speaking world. Naqqali Trilogy blends traditional Iranian storytelling with contemporary philosophy and technique in a cycle of mythological revisionism. This volume presents a pinnacle of world drama for the first time in English translation.

Amidst conflicting information and personal experiences, how can someone distinguish between truth and falsehood? Criteria of Truth: Representations of Truth and Falsehood in Hellenistic Poetry tackles this fundamental question through a study of five Hellenistic poems by Aratus, Nicander, Callimachus, Apollonius of Rhodes, and Lycophron.

Izyaslav and Gertrude focuses on two well-known Rusian rulers, King Izyaslav and Queen Gertrude, from their marriage to their rule in Rus' to their travels in exile and their ultimate fates. Through this book, readers will see the Rusian royalty as not an eastern Other, but part of the broader complex of medieval European royalty.

Civil society in Eastern Europe has long been labeled weak based on a lack of participation in formal organizations. However, this fails to recognize the impact of informality where it permeates economic, political, and social spheres. Below the Radar convincingly shows that informal engagement constitutes an essential component of civil society.

Vietnam focuses on how the country's governance shapes its politics, economy, social development, and international relations, as well as on the reforms required if it is to become a sustainable and modern high-income nation in the coming decades. This book features work by scholars from Vietnam, North America, and Europe.

Vietnam focuses on how the country¿s governance shapes its politics, economy, social development, and international relations, as well as on the reforms required if it is to become a sustainable and modern high-income nation in the coming decades. This book features work by scholars from Vietnam, North America, and Europe.

The essays in Literary History in and beyond China examine the anthological histories that shape the concept of a particular genre, the interpretive positions that impel our aesthetic judgments, the conceptual categories that determine how literary history is framed, and the history of literary historiography itself.

Reconstructing the philosophical project of William James, Alexis Dianda deploys a concept of experience that avoids both foundationalist epistemology and an account of the subject rooted in immediately given objects of consciousness. In doing so, Dianda rethinks the role of experience as well as the aims and resources of pragmatic philosophy.

Leading social scientists explore pressing issues-monopoly and inequality, growth and innovation, climate change and fraying social safety nets-through the lens of creative destruction. Far more than a theory of capitalist dynamics, creative destruction proves an important idea for illuminating a wide range of social and political challenges.

Zongyuan Zoe Liu provides the first in-depth examination of sovereign funds in China. Under President Xi, the state has become an aggressive financier, using sovereign funds at home and abroad to secure allies and influence, boost strategic industries like semiconductors and fintech, and pick winners among domestic businesses and multinationals.

From the Alien Friends Act to the Cold War and the War on Terror, the US has used ideological exclusions and deportations to suppress freedom of speech and association of foreigners depicted as threatening to national security. Julia Rose Kraut provides the first history of the tensions between immigration law and the First Amendment.