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Habakkuk
The book of Habakkuk (one of the twelve Minor Prophets) is an intensely personal testimony played out against a highly political backdrop. Writing as his land and his fellow Israelites were being invaded and plundered by...
The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary, O-Sh
Volume 5
The most extensive Bible dictionary ever created:- The first major Bible dictionary to be published in America in 30 years- 6 volumes of approximately 1,200 pages each- ...
Archaeology of the Land of the Bible, Volume I
10,000-586 B.C.E.
Every year thousands of enthusiasts, amateur and professional, spend the summer months digging in the sands of Israel hoping to find items that in some way relate to the places and events depicted in the Bible. This work...
Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Volume 1: Artists Born Between 1570 and 1600
This spectacular slipcased two-volume set is the first in a series of four catalogues that will showcase the holdings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, which owns the world’s largest and most representative collection of...
The Speaker of the House
A Study of Leadership
Matthew N. Green provides the first comprehensive analysis of how the Speaker of the House has exercised legislative leadership from 1940 to the present. Green finds that the Speaker’s party loyalty is tempered by a host of...
Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology
The stories of nineteen scientists--some famous, some forgotten--who stubbornly challenged assumptions and icons in the life sciences This book is the first devoted to modern biology’s innovators...
Selected Poems
A sampling from the oeuvre of one of the greatest living poets of the English language Geoffrey Hill’s poetry comprises one of the most uncompromising and visionary bodies of work written over the last...
Renaissance Gothic
Architecture and the Arts in Northern Europe, 1470-1540
This compelling book offers a new paradigm for the periodization of the arts, one that counters a prevailing Italianate bias among historians of northern Europe of this era. The years after 1500 brought the construction of...
Music and Sentiment
Acclaimed pianist and writer Charles Rosen explores music’s profound ability to convey emotion through sound How does a work of music stir the senses, creating feelings of joy, sadness, elation, or...
History in the Making
An eminent historian offers rare insight into his craft and the way it has changed over his lifetime From the vantage point of nearly sixty years devoted to research and the writing of history, J. H....