The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror StoryThe Nobelist's latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors that lie beneath our most hallowed ideas. In September 1913, Mieczysaw, a student suffering from tuberculosis, arrives at Wilhelm Opitzs Guesthouse for Gentlemen, a health resort in what is now western Poland. Every day, its residents gather in the dining room to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur, to obsess over money and status, and to discuss

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The Constitution of Ancient China will be essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the institutional legacy of the Chinese empire

Tidak sedikit masalah-masalah yang menimpa umat manusia hari ini akibat daripada tindak-tanduk orang-orang “bodoh” di pundak kekuasaan

With essays by leading Palestinian and Israeli scholars

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its residents gather in the dining room to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur

and Eliot Weinberger

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by the Nobel-prizewinning economist

or by lingering assumptions based on discredited theories

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bestselling work from one of France's preeminent historians