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In and Out of the Marital Bed
Seeing Sex in Renaissance Europe
This book explores images whose sexual content has all too often been either ignored or denied. Each chapter is devoted to a place that artists associated with sexual activity or desire: the bed, the dressing area of the home,...
Volume 1 and 2: Orders Anguilliformes and Saccopharyngiformes and Leptocephali
Part 9
Yale 1900-2001
This slipcased, two-volume set includes:Yale College * Twentieth CenturyA History in Present TimeBeginning in 1900 and concluding with the events of 2001, VOLUME I is a chronological...
Christian Beginnings
From Nazareth to Nicaea
In this deeply learned and beautifully written book, Geza Vermes tells the enthralling story of early Christianity’s emergence The creation of the Christian Church is one of the most important stories in...
In the Courts of Religious Ladies
Art, Vision, and Pleasure in Italian Renaissance Convents
This fascinating study considers the poetic and mythological artworks made for elite female monastic communities in Renaissance Italy. Nuns from the patrician class, who often disregarded obligations of austerity and poverty,...
Love Letter in Cuneiform
From a leading voice in the vibrant literary scene of today’s Czech Republic, a love story rooted in the atrocities of the past and tethered to fading hopes for the future Set in Czechoslovakia between the...
The Winchester
The Gun That Built an American Dynasty
A fascinating history of the family behind the popular firearm that changed America and the world Arguably the world’s most famous firearm, the Winchester Repeating Rifle was sought after by a cast of characters...
Decoding Chomsky
Science and Revolutionary Politics
A fresh and fascinating look at the philosophies, politics, and intellectual legacy of one of the twentieth century’s most influential and controversial minds Occupying a pivotal position in postwar thought...
The Book of Whispers
A harrowing account of the Armenian Genocide documented through the stories of those who managed to survive and descendants who refuse to forget The grandchild of Armenians who escaped widespread massacres...
War and the World
Military Power and the Fate of Continents, 1450-2000
In this brilliant history of warfare, Jeremy Black is the first to approach the entire modern era from a comprehensive global perspective. He provides a wide-ranging account of the nature, purpose, and experience of war over...