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Le Corbusier
Drawing as Process
“Each day of my life has been dedicated in part to drawing. I have never stopped drawing and painting, seeking, where I could find them, the secrets of form.”—Le Corbusier Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, known...
Worlds Beyond
Miniatures and Victorian Fiction
An innovative study of how the Victorians used books, portraits, fairies, microscopes, and dollhouses to imagine miniature worlds beyond perception In 1856, Elizabeth Gaskell discovered a trove of handmade miniature...
Locating Sol LeWitt
A revelatory consideration of the wide-ranging practice of one of the most influential American artists of the 20th century A pioneer of minimalism and conceptual art, Sol LeWitt (1928–2007) is best known for his...
True Stories
And Other Essays
An irresistible collection of favorite writings from an author celebrated for his bravura style and sheer unpredictability Francis Spufford’s welcome first volume of collected essays gathers an array of his...
Congress's Constitution
Legislative Authority and the Separation of Powers
A leading scholar of Congress and the Constitution analyzes Congress’s surprisingly potent set of tools in the system of checks and balances. Congress is widely supposed to be the least effective branch of...
Seapower States
Maritime Culture, Continental Empires and the Conflict That Made the Modern World
One of the most eminent historians of our age investigates the extraordinary success of five small maritime states Andrew Lambert, author of The Challenge: Britain Against America in the Naval War of...
Anti-Pluralism
The Populist Threat to Liberal Democracy
The Great Recession, institutional dysfunction, a growing divide between urban and rural prospects, and failed efforts to effectively address immigration have paved the way for a populist backlash that disrupts the postwar...
Slowdown
The End of the Great Acceleration - and Why It's a Good Thing
Updated Edition
A powerful and counterintuitive argument that we should welcome the current slowdown—of population growth, economies, and technological innovation? The end of our high-growth world was underway well before...
The Polymath
A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag
From Leonardo Da Vinci to Oliver Sacks: the first history of the western polymath, from the Renaissance to the present"An absorbing group portrait and intellectual history."—Kirkus Reviews...
Tu sais quoi?!
Cours de conversation en français: With Online Media
Tu sais quoi?! is a main text for conversational French courses, and it could also be used as a supplement to a second- or third-year French grammar review text. It is a function-based text that helps students...