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Musicians have always been migratory frontrunners, and musical encounters have always generated nodes of cultural complexity. Seachanges brings together original essays that complicate Mediterranean and Atlantic histories and foreground music in mobility studies, from Turkish songs in France to Indigenous musicians in Latin America, and more.

Inscriptions: Architecture Before Speech presents a theory of contemporary architecture that spans the work of 112 practices in 750 images. It features essays on 21st century architecture by Catherine Ingraham, Lucia Allais, Stan Allen, Phillip Denny, Edward Eigen, Sylvia Lavin, Antoine Picon, Marrikka Trotter, and others.

Building a Nation at War argues that the Chinese Nationalist government's retreat inland during the Sino-Japanese War, its consequent need for inland resources, and its participation in new relationships with the United States led to fundamental changes in how the Nationalists engaged with science and technology as tools to promote development.

Defeat in World War II profoundly shaped how the Japanese reconstructed national identity and reengaged with Asia. In Asia and Postwar Japan, Simon Avenell reveals the critical importance of Asia in Japanese thought, activism, and politics-as a symbolic geography, as a space for grassroots engagement, and as the source of a new politics of hope.

"David Albert's 2000 book Time and Chance attempts to account for some of the most intractable problems in theoretical physics, in particular those arising from the direction of time. This collection assembles essays exploring and debating Albert's ideas, now recognized as among the most important recent contributions to the philosophy of science"--

Though celebrated at the peak of his career, Australian architect John Andrews¿ fame waned over time. His body of work exemplifies the late-modern development of architecture and deserves to be better known. John Andrews: Architect of Uncommon Sense examines his most important buildings and presents his local and international legacy.

Pairs is a student-led journal at Harvard University Graduate School of Design dedicated to design conversations. Pairs 03 features Thomas Demand, Mindy Seu, Mira Henry and Matthew Au, Alfredo Thiermann, Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine, Anne Lacaton, Edward Eigen, Katarina Burin, Marrikka Trotter, Christopher C. M. Lee, Keller Easterling, and others.

The Mishnah is the foundational document of rabbinic Judaism--rabbinic law is based on the Talmud which, in turn, is based on the Mishnah. Yet its sources, genre, and purpose are obscure. What Is the Mishnah? collects papers by leading scholars from the United States, Europe, and Israel and gives a clear sense of the direction of Mishnah studies.

"In the late ninth or early tenth century, a scholar in southern England-sometimes identified as King Alfred of Wessex (r. 871-899)-translated two difficult works of Latin philosophy into his native Old English vernacular: The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius, who died in 524 or 525 CE, and Augustine of Hippo's Soliloquia (Soliloquies), completed in 386-387 CE. The manuscript exemplar of the Latin Soliloquia that was used by this Old English translator is not extant; however, based on the Old English version, we can deduce that the textual variants in that Latin exemplar were very similar to those that survive in a manuscript copied in southern England in the decades around the middle of the tenth century (now Brussels, KBR, MS 8558-63, part 1). As for the vernacular version, which modern editors have named the Old English Soliloquies, it survives, fragmented but nearly complete, in a single copy produced in the mid-to-late twelfth century. The scribe who produced this copy wrote in an idiosyncratic form of Old English that is difficult to digest, even for readers who are trained in "textbook" Old English. The present volume includes both the Old English Soliloquies and Augustine's Latin Soliloquia, the latter based on the Brussels manuscript. Because the Brussels text differs notably from those found in modern editions, this single-text edition of the Latin Soliloquia offers readers a better understanding of what was in the translator's exemplar, and thus provides the foundation for a more accurate appraisal of his methods as he reworked his chief Latin source into the Old English Soliloquies. The Soliloquia is a dialogue in which an interlocutor called "Augustine" converses with his own faculty of reason, as though talking to himself; hence Augustine coined the term soliloquium, based on the adjective solus, "alone," and the verb loquor, "speak." The conceit of the soliloquy prompts the reader to question what and where the faculty of reason is and how it communicates with the mind or the self. The Old English Soliloquies is conventionally and conveniently labeled a translation, but it is more accurate to describe it as a vernacular adaptation of excerpts from Augustine's Soliloquia, supplemented with apparently original material and with excerpts translated from other Latin sources"--

Adam Sandel revives one of the oldest philosophical questions: What constitutes a good life? Drawing on thinkers ancient and modern, as well as his own experience as a record-setting athlete, he argues that fulfillment lies not in achieving goals but in forging a life journey that enables us to see our struggles and triumphs as an integrated whole.

Empty Plinths responds to the debate around the Columbus monument in Mexico City and probes the unstable narratives behind other memorials and public sculptures in the city. This collection of essays, interviews, artistic contributions, and public policy proposals reveals and reframes the histories embedded within contested public spaces in Mexico.

Empty Plinths responds to the debate around the Columbus monument in Mexico City and probes the unstable narratives behind other memorials and public sculptures in the city. This collection of essays, interviews, artistic contributions, and public policy proposals reveals and reframes the histories embedded within contested public spaces in Mexico.

Though best known for his drama and fiction, Oscar Wilde was also a pioneering critic. He introduced the idea that criticism was an act of creation, not just appraisal. Wilde transformed the genre by extending its ambit beyond art to include society itself, all while injecting it with his trademark wit and style.

Maura Dykstra shows how information overload resulting from the administrative revolution of Chinäs eighteenth-century Qing state led to a discourse of crisis. Slowly but surely, the thicket of imperial standards binding local offices, provincial superiors, and central ministries shifted the very foundations of the state.

In October 1963, President Kennedy proposed withdrawing from Vietnam, gaining him a durable reputation as a skeptic on the war. However, drawing on secret White House tapes, Marc Selverstone reveals that JFK never had a firm intention to withdraw. The real value of the proposal lay in obtaining political cover for his open-ended Vietnam policy.

The Mongols are universally known as conquerors, but they were more than that: influential thinkers, politicians, engineers, and merchants. Challenging the view that nomads are peripheral to history, The Horde reveals the complex empire the Mongols built and traces its enduring imprint on politics and society in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 40 features Máire Ní Mhaonaigh on Irish chronicles, Ruairí Ó hUiginn assessing the Irish genealogical corpus in its sociological context, Georgia Henley on the reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth¿s work in Norman Ireland and Wales, and other articles centered on Irish and Welsh.

Pairs is a student-led journal at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design dedicated to conversations about design that are down to earth and unguarded. Pairs 02 features conversations with Rashid bin Shabib, Sara Hendren, Jorge Silvetti, and Sumayya Vally, among others.

Livius Andronicus, Naevius, and Caecilius were highly influential pioneers in the creation and development of Latin poetry, especially tragedy, comedy, historical drama, and epic, not only in the adaptation of Greek models but also in the inclusion of Roman allusions, subjects, and themes.

When the US government resettled thousands of Hmong in 1975, the work was done by Christian organizations deputized by the state. Exploring the resiliency of tradition amid shaky US commitments to pluralism and secularism, Melissa May Borja shows how Hmong Americans developed a ¿new way¿ that blended Christianity with their longstanding practices.

Renowned scholar Susan J. Wolfson assembles seventy-eight selections¿some beloved, others less well known¿that illuminate the brief, extraordinary career of John Keats. Lively commentaries showcase the poems¿ form, style, layers of meaning, and relevant contexts, offering a chronicle of Keats¿s artistic evolution.

Nigel of Canterbury's Miracles of the Virgin, the oldest Latin poem about miracles performed by Mary, features lively tales illustrating her boundless mercy. Tract on Abuses rails against ecclesiastical corruption. Alongside authoritative editions of the Latin texts, this volume offers the first translations of both works into English.

When Europeans came to the American continent in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, they were confronted with what they perceived as sacrificial practices. Sacrifice and Conversion in the Early Modern Atlantic World examines the encounter between European and American conceptions of sacrifice expressed in texts, music, rituals, and images.

Ariosto and the Arabs sheds new light on Ludovico Ariosto's famous poem Orlando Furioso. The sixteen essays assembled here, produced by diverse scholars who work on Europe, Africa, and Asia, encompass several intertwined areas of analysis-philology, religious and social history, cartography, material and figurative arts, and performance.