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Nights Out
Life in Cosmopolitan London
London’s Soho district underwent a spectacular transformation between the late Victorian era and the end of the Second World War: its old buildings and dark streets infamous for sex, crime, political disloyalty, and ethnic...
Becoming an Architect in Renaissance Italy
Art, Science, and the Career of Baldassarre Peruzzi
A leading architect of the Italian Renaissance, Baldassarre Peruzzi (1481–1536) has, until now, been a little-known, enigmatic figure. A paucity of biographical documentation and a modest number of surviving buildings,...
The Literary Churchill
Author, Reader, Actor
A transformative portrait of Churchill, whose love of history, theater, and reading was inextricably linked to his life as a statesman This strikingly original book introduces a Winston Churchill we have...
Cuzco
Incas, Spaniards, and the Making of a Colonial City
A story of change in the Inca capital told through its artefacts, architecture, and historical documents Through objects, buildings, and colonial texts, this book tells the story of how Cuzco, the capital of the...
How to Find a Higgs Boson—and Other Big Mysteries in the World of the Very Small
The history of particle physics, the hunt for the most elusive particle, and the fundamental questions the search has inspired How did physicists combine talent and technology to discover the Higgs boson,...
The Correspondence of James Boswell and Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo
This volume, tenth in the Research Correspondence Series of the Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell, documents the long friendship between Boswell and Sir William Forbes This volume, tenth...
Jean Cocteau
A Life
This passionate and monumental biography reassesses the life and legacy of one of the most significant cultural figures of the twentieth century Unevenly respected, easily hated, almost always suspected of...
Introduction to the Bible
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The Politics of Cultural Retreat
Imperial Bureaucracy in Austrian Galicia, 1772-1867
An illuminating history of state-building, nationalism, and bureaucracy, this book tells the story of how an international cohort of Austrian officials from Bohemia, Hungary, the Hapsburg Netherlands, Italy, and several...
The Crimean Nexus
Putin’s War and the Clash of Civilizations
How the West sleepwalked into another Cold War A native of Yalta, Constantine Pleshakov is intimately familiar with Crimea’s ethnic tensions and complex political history. Now, he offers a much-needed look...