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Learn to Read Latin, Second Edition
Textbook
Learn to Read Latin helps students acquire an ability to read and appreciate the great works of Latin literature as quickly as possible. It not only presents basic Latin morphology and syntax with clear explanations...
The Richard Burton Diaries
The irresistible, candid diaries of Richard Burton, published in their entirety“Just great fun, and written out of an engaging, often comical bewilderment: How did a poor Welshman become not only a star,...
Chasing Monarchs
Migrating with the Butterflies of Passage
Pyle’s classic account of discovery along the migration trail of monarch butterflies is part natural history, part road trip adventure Although no one had ever followed North American monarch butterflies on...
Banned
A History of Pesticides and the Science of Toxicology
Silent Spring catalyzed an environmental movement in the 1960s and achieved a ban on DDT, but are the alternatives any less toxic? Rachel Carson’s eloquent book Silent Spring stands as one of...
The Leonard Bernstein Letters
An extraordinary selection of revealing letters to and from one of the titans of 20th-century music Leonard Bernstein was a charismatic and versatile musician—a brilliant conductor who attained...
Leonard Bernstein
An American Musician
A fresh appreciation of the great musical figure that gives him his due as composer as well as conductor Leonard Bernstein stood at the epicenter of twentieth-century American musical life. His creative...
Bulldozer
Demolition and Clearance of the Postwar Landscape
The first history of the bulldozer and its transformation from military weapon to essential tool for creating the post–World War II American landscape Although the decades following World War II stand out...
European Intellectual History from Rousseau to Nietzsche
One of the most distinguished cultural and intellectual historians of our time, Frank Turner taught a landmark Yale University lecture course on European intellectual history that drew scores of students over many years. His...
After Caravaggio
A revelatory study of a school of remarkable painters from one of the great art historians of the 20th century During the twenty years following Caravaggio's death, his revolutionary precedent inspired the...
Passchendaele
The Untold Story
Third Edition
No conflict of the Great War excites stronger emotions than the war in Flanders in the autumn of 1917, and no name better encapsulates the horror and apparent futility of the Western Front than Passchendaele. By its end there...