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Jacob's Legacy
A Genetic View of Jewish History
A geneticist explains the science behind genetic history and what it has revealed about Jewish origins Who are the Jews? Where did they come from? What is the connection between an ancient Jewish...
Baldassare Longhena and Venetian Baroque Architecture
This fascinating book offers the first comprehensive study in English of Baldassare Longhena (1598–1682), the indispensable architect of the Venetian Baroque. While Longhena's legacy is most visible in his iconic Madonna della...
Music for Silenced Voices
Shostakovich and His Fifteen Quartets
A new biography of Shostakovich that views him through the intimate music of his string quartets Most previous books about Dmitri Shostakovich have focused on either his symphonies and operas, or his...
Rome and Rhetoric
Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
A many-faceted examination of how Shakespeare brought Rome alive for his readers through a masterful manipulation of ancient rhetoric Renaissance plays and poetry in England were saturated with the...
Learning by Doing
The Real Connection between Innovation, Wages, and Wealth
An important study of the relationship between technology, skills, and economic inequality that answers some of the most pressing economic questions of our time Today’s great paradox is that we feel the...
American Zion
The Old Testament as a Political Text from the Revolution to the Civil War
A wide-ranging exploration of early Americans’ use of the Old Testament for political purposes The Bible has always been an integral part of American political culture. Yet in the years before the Civil War,...
Revival Type
Digital Typefaces Inspired by the Past
An illuminating account of the design inspirations and technical transformations that have shaped the digital typefaces of the 21st century This fascinating tour through typographic history provides a...
The Spirit of Zen
An engaging introduction to Zen Buddhism, featuring a new English translation of one of the earliest Zen texts Leading Buddhist scholar Sam van Schaik explores the history and essence of Zen, based on a new...
The History of the Future in Colonial Mexico
A prominent scholar of Mexican and Latin American history challenges the field’s focus on historical memory to examine colonial-era conceptions of the future Going against the grain of most existing...
To Save the Country
A Lost Treatise on Martial Law
A Civil War-era treatise addressing the power of governments in moments of emergency The last work of Abraham Lincoln’s law of war expert Francis Lieber was long considered lost—until Will Smiley and John...