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The Gentleman's Daughter
Women's Lives in Georgian England
What was the life of an eighteenth-century British genteel woman like? In this lively and controversial book, Amanda Vickery invokes women’s own accounts of their intimate and their public lives to argue that in the...
No More Rules
Graphic Design and Postmodernisn
A spectacularly illustrated survey of the changing face of graphic design at the end of the twentieth century The past twenty years have seen profound changes in the field of graphic communication. As...
The First Urban Christians
The Social World of the Apostle Paul
Second Edition
In this classic work, Wayne A. Meeks analyzes the earliest extant documents of Christianity—the letters of Paul—to describe the tensions and the texture of life of the first urban Christians. In a new introduction, he...
Henry VII
Founder of the Tudor dynasty, Henry VII was a crucial figure in English history. In this acclaimed study of the king’s life and reign, the distinguished historian S. B. Chrimes explores the circumstances surrounding Henry’s...
Puerto Rico
The Trials of the Oldest Colony in the World
The island of Puerto Rico has a severely distressed economy, is one of the most densely populated places on earth, and enjoys only limited political freedom. As a United States commonwealth, it is still treated by Congress as...
What Johnny Shouldn`t Read
Textbook Censorship in America
In this lucid, disturbing, and provocative book, Joan DelFattore offers a behind-the-scenes view of the ways in which special- interest groups influence the content of textbooks used in public and private schools throughout...
The Spanish Inquisition
A History
A new history of the Spanish Inquisition—a terrifying battle for a unified faith. This is the story of 350 years of terror. Established by papal bull in 1478, the first task of the Spanish Inquisition was...
Virgil's Georgics
A masterful new verse translation of one of the greatest nature poems ever written. Virgil’s Georgics is a paean to the earth and all that grows and grazes there. It is an ancient work, yet one...
Antony and Cleopatra
The Annotated Shakespeare series enables today’s readers to understand and enjoy the plays of the world’s greatest dramatist. Comprehensive on-page annotations assist with vocabulary, pronunciation, prosody, and...
Philip de László
His Life and Art
Philip de László (1869–1937) was born into a humble Hungarian family in Budapest and rose to become the preeminent portrait artist working in Britain between 1907 and 1937. He painted nearly 3,000 portraits, including those of...