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My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness
A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century
This first biography of a Palestinian writer also provides a moving account of the ways “ordinary” individuals are swept up by the floodtides of both war and peace Beautifully written, and composed with...
The Server
A Media History from the Present to the Baroque
A cutting-edge media history on a perennially fascinating topic, which attempts to answer the crucial question: Who is in charge, the servant or the master?? Though classic servants like the butler or the...
Bad Moon Rising
How the Weather Underground Beat the FBI and Lost the Revolution
A startling history of the forlorn war between the Weather Underground and the FBI, based on interviews and 30,000 pages of previously unreleased FBI documents In the summer of 1970 and for years after,...
The Walnut Mansion
An epic novel of twentieth-century Balkan life, from the decline of the Ottoman Empire through the bloodshed of the Bosnian War This grand novel encompasses nearly all of Yugoslavia’s tumultuous twentieth...
Almost Everyone's Guide to Science
The Universe, Life and Everything
This fascinating book is a guide for the perplexed—those who are interested in science but are scared off by the technical detail. John Gribbin, an award-winning writer, now stands back from the details and offers us a broad...
The House of the Mother
The Social Roles of Maternal Kin in Biblical Hebrew Narrative and Poetry
A novel approach to Israelite kinship, arguing that maternal kinship bonds played key social, economic, and political roles for a son who aspired to inherit his father’s household Upending traditional...
For God and Kaiser
The Imperial Austrian Army, 1619-1918
The definitive history of Austria’s multinational army and its immense role during three centuries of European military history Among the finest examples of deeply researched and colorfully written military...
The Discovery of Mankind
Atlantic Encounters in the Age of Columbus
A new and fascinating perspective on the earliest phases of European exploration across the Atlantic Ocean The first landings in the Atlantic World generated striking and terrifying impressions of...
The Somme
Published in a new edition on the centenary of the seismic battle, this book provides the definitive account of the Somme and assigns responsibility to military and political leaders for its catastrophic outcome. ...
Mob Town
A History of Crime and Disorder in the East End
A captivating history of a notorious neighborhood and the first book to reveal why London’s East End became synonymous with lawlessness and crime Even before Jack the Ripper haunted its streets for...