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1 Peter
The significance of the First Letter of Peter for the formation of Christianity stands in sharp contrast to its brevity. John H. Elliott, a leading authority on this letter, brings its significance to life in this...
Genesis
Genesis is Volume I in the Anchor Bible series of new book-by-book translations of the Old and New Testaments and Apocrypha. Ephraim Avigdor Speiser was University Professor and Chairman of the Department of Oriental...
Fandom Unbound
Otaku Culture in a Connected World
In recent years, otaku culture has emerged as one of Japan’s major cultural exports and as a genuinely transnational phenomenon. This timely volume investigates how this once marginalized popular culture has come to play a major role...
A Fragile Freedom
This book is the first to chronicle the lives of African American women in the urban north during the early years of the republic. A Fragile Freedom investigates how African American women in...
Songbook
The Selected Poems of Umberto Saba
A beautifully translated selection of poems by one of the greatest Italian poets of the twentieth century Umberto Saba’s reputation in Italy and Europe has steadily grown since his death in...
Painted Glories
The Brancacci Chapel in Renaissance Florence
In 1440, on the feast of Saints Peter and Paul, Florence unexpectedly defeated Milanese forces near the town of Anghiari in eastern Tuscany. Nicholas A. Eckstein reveals the impact of this celebrated victory on Florentine...
A Great Leap Forward
1930s Depression and U.S. Economic Growth
This bold re-examination of the history of U.S. economic growth is built around a novel claim, that productive capacity grew dramatically across the Depression years (1929-1941) and that this advance provided the foundation for...
Unfinished Business
The Unexplored Causes of the Financial Crisis and the Lessons Yet to be Learned
A penetrating critique tracing how under-regulated trading between European and U.S. banks led to the 2008 financial crisis—with a prescription for preventing another meltdown There have been numerous books...
Breaking White Supremacy
Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Social Gospel
This magisterial follow-up to the Grawemeyer Award-winning The New Abolition explores the black social gospel’s crucial second chapter“Magnificent . . . Breaking White Supremacy interweaves...
Why the Electoral College Is Bad for America
A new edition of the best-known book critiquing the U.S. electoral college In this third edition of the definitive book on the unique system by which Americans choose a president—and why that system...