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Ancient Community and Economy at Chinchawas
Vol. # 90
Archaeological investigations advance current knowledge of prehistoric Andean societies with this groundbreaking study of Chinchawas, a small village community of the Recuay culture, in the first millennium AD....
A Little Book of Language
Now in paperback, in the tradition of E. H. Gombrich's A Little History of the World, a lively journey through the story of language With a language disappearing every two weeks and neologisms...
To Do
A Book of Alphabets and Birthdays
The first ever illustrated edition of avant-garde writer Gertrude Stein's whimsical children's book "Alphabets and names make games and everybody has a name and all the same they have in a way to have a...
Hogarth's Marriage A-la-Mode
Directing his pointed wit at the upper echelons of 18th-century British society, William Hogarth, a painter, printmaker, and social critic, mocked the politics and customs of his day. His series of satirical paintings and...
Maynard L. Parker
Modern Photography and the American Dream
A fascinating look at the work of a photographer whose images documented and shaped the American suburban aesthetic following the Second World War As a prolific photographer for House Beautiful, ...
Design and Truth
A profound meditation on how design reflects the uses and abuses of power from the Pulitzer Prize-nominated author of Time and the Art of Living “If good design tells the truth,” writes Robert...
The Christian Imagination
Theology and the Origins of Race
A ground-breaking account of the potential and failures of Christianity since the colonialist period—winner of the 2015 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion and of an American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence...
Back to the Future in the Caves of Kaua'i
A Scientist's Adventures in the Dark
The intriguing tale of one of the world’s richest fossil sites and its profound implications for the environmental future of the planet For two decades, paleoecologist David Burney and his wife, Lida...
City of Gold and Mud
Painting Victorian London
London was the quintessential modern city of the 19th century, and its artists were the first to rise to the challenge of depicting the many facets of this new world. From the 1850s to 1900, the city underwent vast changes,...
Schlepping Through Ambivalence
Essays on an American Architectural Condition
A collection of writings showcasing Stanley Tigerman's indispensable contributions to architectural thought and culture Chicago architect and iconoclast Stanley Tigerman has been called a "design maven who...