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William Rufus
William II, better known as William Rufus, was the third son of William the Conqueror and England’s king for only 13 years (1087–1100) before he was mysteriously assassinated. In this vivid biography, here updated and...
Getting It Wrong from the Beginning
Our Progressivist Inheritance from Herbert Spencer, John Dewey, and Jean Piaget
The ideas upon which public education was founded in the last half of the nineteenth century were wrong. And despite their continued dominance in educational thinking for a century and a half, these ideas are no more...
Methodism
Empire of the Spirit
"Brilliantly provocative. . . . [A] masterful account."—Grant Wacker, Christian Century The emergence of Methodism was arguably the most significant transformation of Protestant...
Drive
A voyeuristic view of Los Angeles drivers in their own moving living rooms The culture of cars is an inseparable part of American life. Whether used for functional purposes or...
Paracelsus
Medicine, Magic and Mission at the End of Time
Theophrastus von Hohenheim (1493–1541), better known as Paracelsus, was a physician, natural magician, radical activist of the early Reformation, and commentator on the social and religious issues of his day....
Secret Trades, Porous Borders
Smuggling and States Along a Southeast Asian Frontier, 1865-1915
Over the course of the half century from 1865 to 1915, the British and Dutch delineated colonial spheres, in the process creating new frontiers. This book analyzes the development of these frontiers in Insular Southeast...
Alighiero e Boetti
The first monograph on the influential 20th-century artist Alighiero e Boetti and his groundbreaking works Alighiero e Boetti (1940-1994) has emerged as one of the most significant figures of postwar...
What Intelligence Tests Miss
The Psychology of Rational Thought
An engaging discussion of the important cognitive characteristics missing from IQ tests Critics of intelligence tests—writers such as Robert Sternberg, Howard Gardner, and Daniel Goleman—have argued in...
Imperial Landscapes
Britain's Global Visual Culture, 1745-1820
In response to conquests in mid-18th-century wars, Britons developed a keen interest in how their colonies actually looked. Artistic representations of these faraway places, claiming topographic accuracy from being "drawn on...
Czechoslovakia
The State That Failed
This book, the most thoroughly researched and accurate history of Czechoslovakia to appear in English, tells the story of the country from its founding in 1918 to partition in 1992—from fledgling democracy through Nazi...