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The Burning House
Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America
A startling and gripping reexamination of the Jim Crow era, as seen through the eyes of some of the most important American writers"Walker has opened up a fresh way of thinking about the intellectual...
Speer
Hitler's Architect
A new biography of Albert Speer, Hitler’s chief architect and trusted confidant, reveals the subject’s deeper involvement in Nazi atrocities"Kitchen, the author of a dozen works on twentieth-century...
The Baltimore School of Urban Ecology
Space, Scale, and Time for the Study of Cities
A leading-edge guide to thinking about and planning for twenty-first-century cities in all their social, political, and ecological complexity The first “urban century” in history has arrived: a majority of...
Mapping the Heavens
The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos
A noted astrophysicist presents a lively and accessible introduction to radical ideas and discoveries that are transforming our knowledge of the universe “A strikingly lucid account of the expansion, not just 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...
The Internet in Everything
Freedom and Security in a World with No Off Switch
A compelling argument that the Internet of things threatens human rights and security"Sobering and important."—Financial Times, "Best Books of 2020: Technology" The Internet has leapt...
The Bloomsbury Look
An in-depth study of how the famed Bloomsbury Group expressed their liberal philosophies and collective identity in visual form“[Fascinating and wide-ranging. . . . Will be enjoyed by both Bloomsbury...
Confessions of a Born-Again Pagan
In this passionate and searching book, Anthony Kronman offers a third way—beyond atheism and religion—to the God of the modern world “An astonishing, . . . epically ambitious book. . . . An...
The Coldest March
Scott’s Fatal Antarctic Expedition
“These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.” So penned Captain Robert Falcon Scott in 1912 as he confronted defeat and death in the crippling subzero temperatures of Antarctica. In this riveting book, Susan...
Leonardo on Painting
An Anthology of Writings by Leonardo da Vinci; With a Selection of Documents Relating to his Career as an Artist
Leonardo’s writings on painting—among the most remarkable from any era—were never edited by Leonardo himself into a single coherent book. In this anthology the authors have edited material not only from his so-called