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Our Days Are Like Full Years
A Memoir with Letters from Louis Kahn
An intimate glimpse into the professional and romantic relationship between Harriet Pattison and the renowned architect Louis Kahn On a winter day in 1953, a mysterious man in a sheepskin coat stood out to...
Soliloquies
St. Augustine's Cassiciacum Dialogues, Volume 4
A fresh, new translation of Augustine’s fourth work as a Christian convert"The 'Cassiciacum dialogues' . . . are of a high literary and intellectual quality, combining Ciceronian and neo-Platonic...
The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 9
Catastrophe and Rebirth, 1939–1973
The Posen Library’s groundbreaking anthology series—called “a feast of Jewish culture, in ten volumes” by the Chronicle of Higher Education—explores in Volume 9 global Jewish responses to the years 1939 to 1973, a...
The Life of Christina of Hane
The first English translation of The Life of Christina of Hane, a gripping account of a largely unknown medieval female mystic“Who was Christina of Hane? History knows little about her, but Racha...
Vietnam
Rising Dragon
New Edition, Revised and Updated
An “enlightening and persuasive” (Jonathan Mirsky, New York Review of Books) survey of Vietnam as an emerging Asian power The eyes of the West have recently been trained on China and India, but Vietnam...
American Contagions
Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to COVID-19
A concise history of how American law has shaped—and been shaped by—the experience of contagion, "taking us from the smallpox outbreaks of the colonies to COVID-19. . . . The conclusion [Witt] arrives at is devastating." (Jennifer...
Claretta
Mussolini's Last Lover
A master historian illuminates the tumultuous relationship of Mussolini and his young lover Claretta Petacci"One of the finest historians of modern Italy, Bosworth has written both a love story, full of...
American Covenant
National Parks, Their Promise, and Our Nation's Future
An intimate and candid account of our national parks detailing their strengths, vulnerabilities, and essential role in American life"An important [book], . . . essential reading for anyone concerned about the...
Islamic Thought in Africa
The Collected Works of Afa Ajura (1910-2004) and the Impact of Ajuraism on Northern Ghana
The first book length-work on Afa Ajura and translation of his complete poems This is the first English translation of and commentary on the collected poems of Alhaj Yusuf ?ali? Ajura (1910–2004), a northern...
Adapting to Climate Change
Markets and the Management of an Uncertain Future
A revelatory study of how climate change will affect individual economic decisions, and the broad impact of those choicesSelected by Publishers Weekly as one of its Top Ten books in Business and Economics...