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Hitler's Berlin
Abused City
How Berlin captivated Hitler's imagination, and how he sought to redesign the city to align with his obsessions and ambitions From his first visit to Berlin in 1916, Hitler was preoccupied and fascinated...
Tales from the Long Twelfth Century
The Rise and Fall of the Angevin Empire
This intriguing book tells the story of England’s great medieval Angevin dynasty in an entirely new way. Departing from the usual king-centric narrative, Richard Huscroft instead centers each of his chapters on the...
Claiming Crimea
A History of Catherine the Great’s Southern Empire
Russia’s long-standing claims to Crimea date back to the eighteenth-century reign of Catherine II. Historian Kelly O’Neill has written the first archive-based, multi-dimensional study of the initial “quiet conquest” of a...
Voices from the Warsaw Ghetto
Writing Our History
The powerful writings and art of Jews living in the Warsaw Ghetto Hidden in metal containers and buried underground during World War II, these works from the Warsaw Ghetto record the Holocaust from the...
On the Backs of Tortoises
Darwin, the Galapagos, and the Fate of an Evolutionary Eden
An insightful exploration of the iconic Galápagos tortoises, and how their fate is inextricably linked to our own in a rapidly changing world The Galápagos archipelago is often viewed as a last foothold...
The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. 8
Volume 8: Ethical Writings
This volume contains two major works of Jonathan Edwards: an unpublished text of a series of sermons he preached in 1738, known as Charity and Its Fruits, and his Two Dissertations: I. Concerning the End for Which...
The Eclipse of Biblical Narrative
A Study in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Hermeneutics
Laced with brilliant insights, broad in its view of the interaction of culture and theology, this book gives new resonance to old and important questions about the meaning of the Bible.
The Making of the Middle Ages
"This is the work of a man with a rare historical gift: the imagination to recreate the world of which he writes and the critical scholarship to make the exercise of imagination fruitful. . . . One of the most exciting...
Skyscrapers
Structure and Design
An investigation of thirty skyscrapers from around the world—both recently built and under construction—that explains the structural principles behind their creation Skyscrapers, ever taller, astound us...
Red Sky at Morning
America and the Crisis of the Global Environment
Second Edition
Why we are failing to protect the global environment. What we can—and must—do to succeed. This book will change the way we understand the future of our planet. It is both alarming and hopeful. James...