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The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. 2
Volume 2: Religious Affections
This volume contains Edwards’ most mature and persistent attempt to judge the validity of the religious development in eighteenth-century America known as the Great Awakening. In developing criteria for such judgment he...
Michelangelo's Finger
An Exploration of Everyday Transcendence
A renowned British public intellectual illustrates how our unique ability to point the index finger has shaped our amazing evolutionary pathway as humans In this startlingly original and persuasive book,...
Monty's Men
The British Army and the Liberation of Europe
Historian John Buckley offers a radical reappraisal of Great Britain’s fighting forces during World War Two, challenging the common belief that the British Army was no match for the forces of Hitler’s Germany. Following Britain’s...
Louisa Catherine
The Other Mrs. Adams
The definitive biography of Louisa Catherine, wife and political partner of President John Quincy Adams“Insightful and entertaining.”—Susan Dunn, New York Review of Books
Franz Kafka
The Poet of Shame and Guilt
A highly original and engaging appraisal of Kafka’s life, work, legacy, and thought Franz Kafka was the poet of his own disorder. Throughout his life he struggled with a pervasive sense of shame and...
Mourning Lincoln
How did individual Americans respond to the shock of President Lincoln’s assassination? Diaries, letters, and intimate writings reveal a complicated, untold story.Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln...
Biblical Truths
The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
A leading biblical scholar’s landmark work challenges the historical realism that has dominated the discipline for more than two centuries How can a modern person, informed by science and history, continue...
Home Rule
Households, Manhood, and National Expansion on the Eighteenth-Century Kentucky Frontier
On America’s western frontier, myths of prosperity concealed the brutal conditions endured by women, slaves, orphans, and the poor. As poverty and unrest took root in eighteenth-century Kentucky, western lawmakers championed...
Twitter and Tear Gas
The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest
From New York Times opinion columnist Zeynep Tufekci, an firsthand account and incisive analysis of the role of social media in modern protest“[Tufekci’s] personal experience in the squares and...
Mr. Smith Goes to China
Three Scots in the Making of Britain’s Global Empire
An illuminating account of global commerce in the eighteenth-century Indian Ocean world as seen through the lives of three Scottish traders This book delves into the lives of three Scottish private...