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Thinking Politically
Essays in Political Theory
A collection of the most important writings of Michael Walzer, one of the world’s most influential political thinkers Michael Walzer is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading political...
Architecture and Society in Normandy, 1120-1270
This wide-ranging book explores the architecture—principally ecclesiastical—of Normandy from 1120 to 1270, a period of profound social, cultural, and political change. In 1204, control of the duchy of Normandy passed from the...
Picasso
Architecture and Vertigo
The starting point of this exciting new exploration of Picasso is not his life but his work, which is revealed as a series of interventions in the troubled history of early twentieth-century Europe. Christopher Green shows...
Diderot on Art, Volume II
The Salon of 1767
The eighteenth-century French philosophe Denis Diderot—the principal intelligence behind the Encyclopédie and the author of idiosyncratic fictional works such as Jacques the Fatalist and Rameau's...
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
An artist of pivotal importance to the generation of post-Impressionists from Seurat and Gauguin to Matisse and Picasso, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824 - 1898) played a crucial role in the history of late-19th...
G.I. Messiahs
Soldiering, War, and American Civil Religion
Jonathan Ebel has long been interested in how religion helps individuals and communities render meaningful the traumatic experiences of violence and war. In this new work, he examines cases from the Great War to the present...
Jealousy
A witty and insightful investigation into the green-eyed monster’s role in our lives Compete, acquire, succeed, enjoy: the pressures of living in today’s materialistic world seem predicated upon jealousy...
A Culture of Desert Survival
Bedouin Proverbs from Sinai and the Negev
For 3000 years the Bedouin people have conveyed the wisdom of their culture from one generation to the next by means of spoken proverbs. This anthology presents 1,350 of these proverbs, almost none of which have been heard...
The Elizabethan Club of Yale University and Its Library
Centenary Edition
The Elizabethan Club of Yale University and Its Library was first published in 1986 to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Elizabethan Club. This second, greatly enlarged edition is being published in...
Thomas Hardy
The Guarded Life
A major new biography of one of the giants of early modern fiction and poetry Internationally renowned as the author of Far From the Madding Crowd, Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Jude the...