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The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More
Volume 11, The Answer to a Poisoned Book
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More
Volume 7, Letter to Bugenhagen, Supplication of Souls, Letter Against Frith
More's Latin reply to Bugenhagen (1526), given here with a facing English translation, is a comparatively brief but intense rebuttal of the principal points of Lutheran teaching concerning scripture ant tradition, faith and...
The Power of Knowledge
How Information and Technology Made the Modern World
A thought-provoking analysis of how the acquisition and utilization of information has determined the course of history over the past five centuries and shaped the world as we know it today Information is...
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 19
Biographical Writings: Soldiers, Scholars, and Friends
Well before publishing the Lives of the Poets, Samuel Johnson was an accomplished biographer, having written the lives of numerous scholars, scientists, philosophers, critics, and theologians (including Peter Burnham,...
Edward IV
In his own time Edward IV was seen as an able and successful king who rescued England from the miseries of civil war and provided the country with firm, judicious, and popular government. The prejudices of later historians...
Crossing the Line
A Bluejacket's Odyssey in World War II
In this memoir of life aboard aircraft carriers during World War II, Alvin Kernan combines vivid recollections of his experience as a young enlisted sailor with a rich historical account of the Pacific war. ...
Order Gasterosteiformes, Suborder Syngnathoidei
Part 8, Syngnathidae (Doryrhamphinae, Syngnathinae, Hippocampinae)
Fires of Life
Endothermy in Birds and Mammals
A groundbreaking argument on how endothermy—arguably the most important innovation in vertebrate evolution—developed in birds and mammals“Vividly narrated and illustrated. . . . Provocative and...
The Economic Consequences of the Pandemic
From the author of Zombie Economics, a plan for creating a postpandemic economy that is more inclusive, equitable, and sustainable than the one preceding it The COVID-19 pandemic has upended the global...
America Dancing
From the Cakewalk to the Moonwalk
An exuberant history of American dance, told through the lives of virtuoso performers who have defined the art The history of American dance reflects the nation’s tangled culture. Dancers from wildly...