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Yemenite Midrash
Philosophical Commentaries on the Torah: An Anthology of Writings from the Golden Age of Judaism in the Yemen
The fourteenth to sixteenth centuries were the most vibrant period in the intellectual history of the Yemeni Jews. By rooting themselves firmly in the tradition of the great philosopher Maimonides, they found that the Hebrew...
The Jeffersons at Shadwell
An original study of Shadwell, Thomas Jefferson's boyhood home, providing new insights into the founding father’s formative years Merging archaeology, material culture, and social history, historian...
Arcadian America
The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition
How a forgotten environmental tradition of the pre-Civil War era may prove powerfully useful to us now Perhaps America's best environmental idea was not the national park but the garden cemetery, a use...
Mrs. Mattingly's Miracle
The Prince, the Widow, and the Cure That Shocked Washington City
In 1824 in Washington, D.C., Ann Mattingly, widowed sister of the city's mayor, was miraculously cured of a ravaging cancer. Just days, or perhaps even hours, from her predicted demise, she arose from her sickbed free from...
Art and Psyche
A Study in Psychoanalysis and Aesthetics
In this provocative, closely argued book, Ellen Handler Spitz explores three principal psychoanalytic approaches to art. The first considers the relations between an artist’s life and work; the second focuses on the work...
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol 9
A Journey to the Western Island of Scotland
Inside Picture Books
Mention a name from a beloved childhood picture book—Madeline, Corduroy, Peter Rabbit, Max and his “wild things”—and most adults can recollect a bright image, fragments of a story, the timbre of a certain reading voice, the...
Reflections on Espionage
The Question of Cupcake
This book-length poem by one of the major poets of our era is structured as a series of messages transmitted by a master spy to the director of spy operations and to a number of his fellow spies. The spy speaks of his own...
Ayrshire and Arran
Ayrshire and Arran is an area of striking contrasts. Its landscape ranges from sand dunes to rolling pastures to moors. The local architecture is similarly diverse, marrying natural beauty with industry and modernity. This...
Spain, Europe and the Wider World 1500-1800
A vivid and extraordinarily wide-ranging collection of writings by an eminent historian of Spain and its empire When J. H. Elliott published Spain and Its World, 1500–1700 some twenty years...