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The Jaguar's Shadow
Searching for a Mythic Cat
In the tradition of Peter Matthiessen’s The Snow Leopard, an intimate portrait of the endangered, exotic, and elusive jaguar When the nature writer Richard Mahler discovers that wild...
Redeemed by Fire
The Rise of Popular Christianity in Modern China
This book is the first to address the history and future of homegrown, mass Chinese Christianity. Drawing on a large collection of fresh sources—including contemporaneous accounts, diaries, memoirs, archival material, and...
Engines of Truth
Producing Veracity in the Victorian Courtroom
During the Victorian era, new laws allowed more witnesses to testify in court cases. At the same time, an emerging cultural emphasis on truth-telling drove the development of new ways of inhibiting perjury. Strikingly...
II Corinthians
Nothing speaks more highly for a commentary than how valuable it is to pastors and scholars, students, and interested readers. By all accounts, Victor Paul Furnish’s commentary on II Corinthians has become the standard by...
Black Square
Malevich and the Origin of Suprematism
An in-depth exploration of Malevich’s pivotal painting, its context and its significance Kazimir Malevich’s painting Black Square is one of the twentieth century's emblematic paintings, the visual...
"I Am Not Master of Events"
The Speculations of John Law and Lord Londonderry in the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles
Two of the greatest financial fiascos of all time took place at the same time and were instigated by two acquaintances: the Mississippi Bubble, on which John Law at first made a vast fortune and gained sway over French finances...
Macaulay and Son
Architects of Imperial Britain
Thomas Babington Macaulay’s History of England was a phenomenal Victorian best-seller defining a nation’s sense of self, its triumphant rise to a powerfully homogenous nation built on a global empire and its claim to be ...
According to Our Hearts
Rhinelander v. Rhinelander and the Law of the Multiracial Family
This landmark book looks at what it means to be a multiracial couple in the United States today. According to Our Hearts begins with a look back at a 1925 case in which a two-month marriage ends with a man suing his...
The Great Famine in China, 1958-1962
A Documentary History
Beginning soon after the implementation of the policies of the Great Leap Forward of 1958-1961, when the drive to collectivize and industrialize undermined the livelihoods of the vast majority of peasant workers, China’s Great...
Octavia, Daughter of God
The Story of a Female Messiah and Her Followers
The little-known story of the charismatic, utopian leader Octavia and her devoted followers in the interwar years In 1919, in the wake of the upheaval of World War I, a remarkable group of English women...