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Ricardian Politics
Few deny that the work of economists has often embodied or stimulated significant contributions to political thought. Smith, Keynes, Hayek, and Friedman are good examples. However, the work of the...
Out of the Shadow of a Giant: How Newton Stood on the Shoulders of
Shortlisted for the BSHS Hughes PrizeWhat if Isaac Newton had never lived?Robert Hooke and Edmond Halley, whose place in history has been overshadowed by the giant figure of Newton, were...
In Praise of the Common: A Conversation on Philosophy and Politics
A publishing event - the history and evolution of Antonio Negri's philosophical and political thought. A leading Marxist political philosopher and intellectual firebrand, Antonio Negri has inspired anti-empire movements around...
American Future, The A History
In November 2008 the United States will elect a new President. But the imminent collapse of twenty years of Republican conservativism means the country is already conducting an intense self-examination...
Plural Logic
Alex Oliver and Timothy Smiley provide a natural point of entry to what for most readers will be a new subject. Plural logic deals with plural terms, plural predicates, and...
Picasso and the Painting That Shocked the World
One of The Christian Science Monitor's Best Nonfiction Books of 2018 When Picasso became Picasso: the story of how an obscure young painter from Barcelona came to Paris and made...
The Eureka Factor: Creative Insights and the Brain
Where do great ideas come from? What actually happens in your brain during a 'Eureka' moment? And how can we have more of them?It has been two millenia since Archimedes...
What Your Food Ate: How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health
David R. Montgomery and Anne Bikle take us far beyond the well-worn adage to deliver a new truth: the roots of good health start on farms. What Your Food Ate...
Faith and Power in Japanese Buddhist Art, 1600-2005
Faith and Power in Japanese Buddhist Art explores the transformation of Buddhism from the premodern to the contemporary era in Japan and the central role its visual culture has played...
Adolf's British Holiday Snaps: Luftwaffe Aerial Reconnaissance
After the fall of France and the allied retreat from Dunkirk, Hitler proposed the planned invasion of Great Britain. A secret aerial reconnaissance of the United Kingdom (and all of...
British Steam - Pacific Power
'Pacific', collectively a name applied to steam locomotives with a 4-6-2 wheel arrangement is perhaps more commonly associated with express passenger engines but that is not the whole story, there...
Human Flow: Stories from the Global Refugee Crisis
Mashable's 20 Books from 2020 That Make Great GiftsIn the course of making Human Flow, his epic feature documentary about the global refugee crisis, the artist Ai Weiwei and his...
Frocking Life: Searching for Elsa Schiaparelli
At an early age, BillyBoy* chose two mentors: Bugs Bunny and Elsa Schiaparelli. From Bugs Bunny, he learned the basics of how to behave in society and how to manage...
The Raven
One of the most influential and innovative recording artists of the past three decades, Lou Reed has always offered a shrewd view of life in the big city in all...
Correspondence of John Wallis (1616-1703): Volume III (October
Containing many previously unpublished letters, this third volume of a six volume collection of the complete correspondence of John Wallis (1616-1703), documents an important period in the history of the...
The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy
"Never has the story been told so well," said the New York Review of Books of Anthony Gottlieb's The Dream of Reason, an "endlessly entertaining and frequently instructive" (Times Literary...
Bloodline: the Origins and Development of the Regular Formations of
Using easy-to-follow, family-tree type tables, Bloodline shows the origins and development of every regular formation in the British Army including the latest amalgamations and changes brought about within the 'Future...
Spirit Of The North: The Quotable Sigurd F. Olson
An accessible and inspiring collection of Olson's most enlightening wordsSigurd F. Olson was the most beloved wilderness advocate of his generation. His renowned writings, including the nature classics "The Singing...
The Ocean Fell into the Drop: A Memoir
During his first visit to the cinema as a child, the empathy he felt from Gary Cooper was life-changing, and a secret dream was born in the darkened auditorium. Later,...
The Origins of Creativity
In this profound and lyrical book, one of our most celebrated biologists offers a sweeping examination of the relationship between the humanities and the sciences: what they offer to each...
Citizens, Democracy, and Markets Around the Pacific Rim: Congruence
East Asia is one of the most dynamic areas of political change in the world today-what role do citizens play in these processes of change? Drawing upon a unique set...
Sievers' Law and the History of Semivowel Syllabicity in Indo-European
This book investigates how semivowels were realized in Indo-European and in early Greek. More specifically, it examines the extent to which Indo-European *i and *y were independent phonemes, in what...
John Gower, Trilingual Poet: Language, Translation, and Tradition
New essays demonstrate Gower's mastery of the three languages of medieval England, and provide a thorough exploration of the voices he used and the discourses in which he participated. John...
The Tudors: The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty
The Tudors is the first single-volume history of this fascinating dynasty in two decades. NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER .For the first time in decades comes a fresh look at the fabled...
The Crisis of Rome: The Jugurthine and Northern Wars and the Rise of
In the later 2nd century BC, after a period of rapid expansion and conquest, the Roman Republic found itself in crisis. In North Africa her armies were already bogged down...
Military Airfieldssouthwest Eng
This series of books provides a fresh user-friendly look at the military airfields of the British Isles. The series is split geographically, each book including a number of counties on...
Venus and Aphrodite: A Biography of Desire
A cultural history of the goddess of love, from a New York Times bestselling and award-winning historian.Aphrodite was said to have been born from the sea, rising out of a...
Swords and Scoundrels
Two siblings. Outcasts for life. . .. together. What could possibly go wrong? Vocho and Kacha are champion duelists: a brother and sister known for the finest swordplay in the...
The Story of Russia
"This is the essential backstory, the history book that you need if you want to understand modern Russia and its wars with Ukraine, with its neighbors, with America, and with...
How Do We Look: The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization
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Conceived as a gorgeously illustrated accompaniment to "How Do We Look" and "The Eye of Faith," the famed Civilisations shows on PBS, renowned classicist Mary Beard has created this elegant...
The Planets
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Dava Sobel's The Glass Universe will be available from Viking in December 2016With her bestsellers Longitude and Galileo's Daughter, Dava Sobel introduced readers to her rare gift for weaving complex...
Boudica's Last Stand: Britain's Revolt against Rome AD 60-61
In 61 AD, Roman rule in Britain was threatened by a bloody revolt led by one of the most iconic figures in British history. Legend dictates that Boudica destroyed three...
Conspirator
Conspirator is the compelling story of Lenin's exile- the years in which he and his political collaborators plotted a revolution that would change 20th-century history. It tells the story of...
A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Middle Ages
Historians of sexuality have often assumed that medieval people were less interested in sex than we are. But people in the Middle Ages wrote a great deal about sex: in...
Weather Bird
Gary Giddins's magnificent book Visions of Jazz has been hailed as a landmark in music criticism. Jonathan Yardley in The Washington Post called it "the definitive compendium by the most...
The Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Collection at the University of South
The Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Collection at the University of South Carolina was founded in 1997 by Matthew J. and Arlyn Bruccoli and named for Professor Bruccoli's father, who...
The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the
Gifted storyteller and bestselling historian H. W. Brands narrates the epic struggle over slavery as embodied by John Brown and Abraham Lincoln--a thrilling and page-turning account of how two American...
Ethics and Enjoyment in Late Medieval Poetry: Love after Aristotle
Jessica Rosenfeld provides a history of the ethics of medieval vernacular love poetry by tracing its engagement with the late medieval reception of Aristotle. Beginning with a history of the...
Heroes and Villains: Inside the Minds of the Greatest Warriors in
We discover what drove Spartacus to take on the might of Rome against seemingly impossible odds, and how the young Napoleon rose to power in dramatic fashion at the siege...
The Landmark Arrian: The Campaigns of Alexander the Great
From the editor of the widely praised Landmark series comes The Landmark Arrian- The Campaigns of Alexander, the account from classical Greece of the conquests of the greatest military leader...
The Overrated Book
This work deals with hip lampoons of the music industry by comedians. Put together by the staff of "Chunklet Magazine", this work is a paragon of satire for the holy...
Maps of the Witham Fens from the Thirteenth to the Nineteenth Century
Reproduction of 48 maps from Lincolnshire's past sheds new light on the county's history. The low-lying parts of Lincolnshire are covered by an array of maps of intermediate scope, covering...
Hitler's War: World War II as Portrayed by Signal, the International
The downfall of Nazi Germany, as seen through its own media. The first issue of Signal magazine, Germany's biweekly army propaganda publication, hit the newsstands in April of 1940. The...
Athenian Potters and Painters III
Athenian Potters and Painters III presents a rich mass of new material on Greek vases, including finds from excavations at the Kerameikos in Athens and Despotiko in the Cyclades. Some...
Julian Schnabel: Symbols of Actual Life
This book showcases Julian Schnabel's diverse body of work from the past three decades and celebrates the scale and virtuosic materiality of his oeuvre. Julian Schnabel is one of the...
Typography and Graphic Design: From Antiquity to the Present
This chronological study traces the evolution of graphic form its varying economic, social, political, technical, and artistic contexts from Antiquity through the Middle Ages and up through the age of...
Billie Holiday at Sugar Hill
Billie Holiday at Sugar Hill is an intimate and compelling photographic portrait of Billie Holiday, the consummate jazz and blues singer and one of 20th-century music's most iconic figures, in...
Sans Serif:The Ultimate Sourcebook of Classic and Contemporary Sa: The
This is the complete visual history of one of the worlds greatest family of typefaces, Sans Serif. It is an essential sourcebook for designers everywhere, with lavishly illustrated examples of...