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Software Rights
How Patent Law Transformed Software Development in America
A new perspective on United States software development, seen through the patent battles that shaped our technological landscape This first comprehensive history of software patenting explores how patent...
The Jews of San Nicandro
The intimate story of an Italian peasant community’s unique conversion to the Jewish faith, and its links to major changes that swept twentieth-century Europe Not many people know of the utterly...
Houses and Cottages of Britain
The sequel to Traditional Buildings of Britain traces the origins and development of traditional buildings by going inside the houses and revealing from their plans how they evolved from basic accommodation to homes...
Brick and Clay Building in Britain
This new edition includes a fascinating account of how bricks, brick files and terracotta have been made and used from medieval times to the present day, along with an illustrated glossary, a chronological photo survey,...
Nineteenth-Century Art in the Norton Simon Museum
This is the first critical catalogue of the collection of nineteenth-century paintings and drawings in the Norton Simon Museum of Art. World-renowned for its strength in works by the French impressionists and post...
Empty Bottles of Gentilism
Kingship and the Divine in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (to 1050)
In this book—the first volume in his groundbreaking trilogy on the emergence of western political thought—Francis Oakley explores the roots of secular political thinking by examining the political ideology and institutions of...
Like a Bomb Going Off
Leonid Yakobson and Ballet as Resistance in Soviet Russia
The powerfully moving story of the Russian Jewish choreographer who used dance to challenge despotism Everyone has heard of George Balanchine, but few outside Russia know of Leonid Yakobson, Balanchine’s...
Albrecht Dürer
Documentary Biography
Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) was hailed in his lifetime as a founder of the Northern Renaissance, and his work revolutionized the art of printmaking. Dürer was also the first artist outside Italy to leave behind a large body of...
Piggy Foxy and the Sword of Revolution
Bolshevik Self-Portraits
From the former Central Communist Party archive, a unexpected collection of humorous sketches and caricatures by Bolshevik leaders of themselves What did the rulers of the Soviet Union truly think about...
The Double-Crested Cormorant
Plight of a Feathered Pariah
The tragic history of the cormorant’s relations with humans and the implications for today’s wildlife management policy The double-crested cormorant, found only in North America, is an iridescent black...