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Geronimo
A fast-paced biography of the most famous North American Indian of all time, with new material to reveal the man behind the legend Renowned for ferocity in battle, legendary for an uncanny ability to...
Charity
The Place of the Poor in the Biblical Tradition
A leading biblical scholar places charity back at the heart of the Judeo-Christian tradition, arguing for its biblical roots It has long been acknowledged that Jews and Christians distinguished themselves...
The Bet
Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble over Earth's Future
Are we headed for a world of scarce resources and environmental catastrophe, or will innovation and markets yield greater prosperity In 1980, the iconoclastic economist Julian Simon challenged celebrity...
Peggy Guggenheim
The Shock of the Modern
From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a "vibrant" (New Yorker) portrait of the colorful, irrepressible, and iconoclastic American collector who fearlessly advanced the cause of modern art"A...
Gothic Wonder
Art, Artifice, and the Decorated Style, 1290–1350
In this wide-ranging, eloquent book, Paul Binski sheds new light on one of the greatest periods of English art and architecture, offering ground-breaking arguments about the role of invention and the powers of Gothic art. His...
How to Read Oceanic Art
An engaging explanation of Oceanic art and an important gateway to wider appreciation of Oceanic heritage and visual culture Art from Oceania, the region encompassing the islands of the central and south...
Musical Instruments
Highlights of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Featuring more than 100 extraordinary pieces from around the world and spanning thousands of years, this book displays the astounding diversity of musical instruments. Highlights include Bronze Age cymbals, the earliest known...
The Marble Index
Roubiliac and Sculptural Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Providing the first thorough study of sculptural portraiture in 18th-century Britain, this important book challenges both the idea that portrait necessarily implies painting and the assumption that Enlightenment thought is manifest...
The Cobbe Cabinet of Curiosities
An Anglo-Irish Country House Museum
This lavishly produced volume presents a survey and analysis of a fascinating cabinet of curiosities established around 1750 by the Cobbe family in Ireland and added to over a period of 100 years. Although such collections were...
Playing for the Benefit of the Band
New Orleans Music Culture
Lee Friedlander (b. 1934) first visited the birthplace of jazz in 1957, and immediately set about photographing the aging pioneers of the art form. His love of the music and the people of New Orleans drew him back to the city, and...