Heat, a History

Heat, a HistoryA Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2025 "In this provocative book, both witty and profoundly serious, Barak provides a human scale history of the causes and consequences of rising temperatures in the Middle East. He brings the abstractions of carbon footprints and greenhouse gas emissions to vivid, tangible life"."Foreign Affairs Despite the flames of record breaking temperatures licking at our feet, most people fail to fully grasp the gravity of

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eher unspektakulär

Monastische Kultur übt auch in der Gegenwart eine starke Faszination aus – sei es als das Andere einer fern gewordenen Welt

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Unique in its dual focus on literary form and economic practices

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The internet is often heralded as an equalizer

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like complicated inflectional morphology with non-straightforward mappings between lemmata and attested forms

Gottfried Seebaß

as well as Virgil’s sources and the literary tradition