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Haunted
On Ghosts, Witches, Vampires, Zombies, and Other Monsters of the Natural and Supernatural Worlds
An award-winning scholar and author charts four hundred years of monsters and how they reflect the culture that created them Leo Braudy, a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book...
The Water Paradox
Overcoming the Global Crisis in Water Management
A radical new approach to tackling the growing threat of water scarcity Water is essential to life, yet humankind’s relationship with water is complex. For millennia, we have perceived it as abundant and...
Delayed Response
The Art of Waiting from the Ancient to the Instant World
A celebration of waiting throughout history, and of its importance for connection, understanding, and intimacy in human communication We have always been conscious of the wait for life-changing messages,...
Out of Joint
Power, Crisis, and the Rhetoric of Time
How constructions of time shape political beliefs about what is possible—and what is inevitable To secure power in a crisis, leaders must sell deep change as a means to future good. But how could we know...
America’s Religious Wars
The Embattled Heart of Our Public Life
How American conflicts about religion have always symbolized our foundational political values When Americans fight about “religion,” we are also fighting about our conflicting identities, interests, and...
Amritsar 1919
An Empire of Fear and the Making of a Massacre
A powerful reassessment of a seminal moment in the history of India and the British Empire: the Amritsar Massacre“Amritsar 1919 chronicles the run up to Jallianwala Bagh with spellbinding, almost...
The Challenges of Multilateralism
An accessible history of multilateralism from its origins in the 1800s to the present Multilateralism has long been a study of contrasts. Nationalist impulses, diverging and shifting goals, and a lack of...
Mussolini and Hitler
The Forging of the Fascist Alliance
A fresh treatment of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, revealing the close ties between Mussolini and Hitler and their regimes From 1934 until 1944 Mussolini met Hitler numerous times, and the two developed a...
Samuel Johnson
Selected Works
The Yale Edition
A one-volume collection of the prose and poetry of eighteenth-century Britain's pre-eminent lexicographer, critic, biographer, and poet Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson was eighteenth-century Britain’s preeminent man...
Hernando Colon's New World of Books
Toward a Cartography of Knowledge
The untold story of the greatest library of the Renaissance and its creator Hernando Colón This engaging book offers the first comprehensive account of the extraordinary projects of Hernando Colón, son of...