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The New Science
A fresh translation of The New Science, with detailed footnotes that will help both the scholar and the new reader navigate Vico’s masterpieceThe New Science is the major work of Italian...
The Third Walpurgis Night
The Complete Text
The first complete English translation of a far-seeing polemic, written in 1933 by the preeminent German-language satirist, unmasking the Nazi seizure of power"[A] drop-dead analysis of the rhetorical...
Domina
The Women Who Made Imperial Rome
A captivating popular history that shines a light on the notorious Julio-Claudian women who forged an empire? Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero—these are the names history associates with the...
Borges and the Literary Marketplace
How Editorial Practices Shaped Cosmopolitan Reading
A fascinating history of Jorge Luis Borges’s efforts to revolutionize and revitalize literature in Latin America “Nora Benedict's illuminating book is an essential contribution to the understanding of Borges'...
Daily Life in Ancient Rome
The People and the City at the Height of the Empire
Second Edition
This classic book brings to life imperial Rome as it was during the second century A.D., the time of Trajan and Hadrian, Marcus Aurelius, and Commodus. It was a period marked by lavish displays of wealth, a dazzling cultural...
The Destruction of the European Jews
The Destruction of the European Jews is widely considered the landmark study of the Holocaust. First published in 1961, Raul Hilberg’s comprehensive account of how Germany annihilated the Jewish community...
The Holocaust Encyclopedia
The Holocaust has been the subject of countless books, works of art, and memorials. Fifty-five years after the fact the world still ponders the enormity of this disaster. The Holocaust Encyclopedia is the only...
Talking with Young Children about Adoption
"[This] book, with all its examples from different kinds of adoptive parents and from various types of adoptions is so compassionate, reassuring, and jargon-free, it empowers adoptive parents. . . . Recommended reading for...
Cuba
A New History
This new look at the history of Cuba illuminates the island’s entire revolutionary past as well as the most recent decades of the Castro regime Events in Fidel Castro’s island nation often command...
Muralnomad
The Paradox of Wall Painting, Europe 1927-1957
In this fascinating and generously illustrated book, Romy Golan explores mural and mural-like works in Europe from the 1920s to the 1950s, beginning with Monet’s installation of the Nymphéas at the Musée de l...