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How Shakespeare Put Politics on the Stage
Power and Succession in the History Plays
A masterful, highly engaging analysis of how Shakespeare’s plays intersected with the politics and culture of Elizabethan England With an ageing, childless monarch, lingering divisions due to the...
Holy Rus'
The Rebirth of Orthodoxy in the New Russia
A fascinating, vivid, and on-the-ground account of Russian Orthodoxy’s resurgence “A compelling picture.”—Irina Papkova, Russian Review “Powerful.”—Philip Jenkins, Christian Century...
What Playwrights Talk About When They Talk About Writing
The art and craft of playwriting as explored in candid conversations with some of the most important contemporary dramatists Edward Albee, Lanford Wilson, Lynn Nottage, A. R. Gurney, and a host of other...
Free Speech
Ten Principles for a Connected World
Named one of the Best Books of 2016 by The Economist Winner of the 2016 Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award “A powerful, comprehensive book."—The Economist ...
Eureka
How Invention Happens
This witty and inspiring book chronicles the long history of discovery and ingenuity which gave rise to a “eureka moment” when a dream of invention became a reality for the first time Tracing the long pre...
Exemplary Novels
Edith Grossman, celebrated for her brilliant translation of Don Quixote, offers a dazzling new version of another Cervantes classic, on the 400th anniversary of his death The twelve novellas...
The Complete Maisky Diaries
Volumes 1-3
The complete diaries that Ivan Maisky, Soviet ambassador to London, kept between 1932 and 1943 Confiscated by Soviet authorities in the 1950s, the diaries of Ivan Maisky, the USSR’s ambassador to Great...
Arabic for Life
A Textbook for Beginning Arabic: With Online Media
Arabic for Life takes an intensive, comprehensive approach to beginning Arabic instruction and is specifically tailored to the needs of talented and dedicated students. Unlike the other Arabic textbooks on the...
Trading in War
London's Maritime World in the Age of Cook and Nelson
A vivid account of the forgotten citizens of maritime London who sustained Britain during the Revolutionary Wars In the half-century before the Battle of Trafalgar the port of London became the commercial...
The Trombone
This is the first comprehensive study of the trombone in English. It covers the instrument, its repertoire, the way it has been played, and the social, cultural, and aesthetic contexts within which it has developed. The book...