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Thoreau's Wildflowers
The first collection of Thoreau’s writings on the flowering plants of Concord, with more than 200 drawings by renowned artist Barry Moser Some of Henry David Thoreau’s most beautiful nature writing was...
Edlis/Neeson Collection
The Art Institute of Chicago
Marking an important moment in the Art Institute of Chicago’s 136-year history, this book documents an exceptional gift to the museum: the Edlis/Neeson Collection, consisting of 44 stellar works of contemporary art. Among the...
Exploration and Discovery
Treasures of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
In celebration of the Peabody’s 150th anniversary year, a gorgeously illustrated tour of the museum’s renowned scientific collections Founded in 1866 with a generous gift from international financier George...
Spiritual Defiance
Building a Beloved Community of Resistance
A leading voice of progressive Christianity makes a powerful case for faith as a radical way of being in the world During his thirty-year career as a parish minister and professor, Robin Meyers has focused...
Does Altruism Exist?
Culture, Genes, and the Welfare of Others
A powerful treatise that demonstrates the existence of altruism in nature, with surprising implications for human society Does altruism exist? Or is human nature entirely selfish? In this eloquent and...
The Origins of Reasonable Doubt
Theological Roots of the Criminal Trial
To be convicted of a crime in the United States, a person must be proven guilty “beyond a reasonable doubt.” But what is reasonable doubt? Even sophisticated legal experts find this fundamental doctrine difficult to...
Art History and Emergency
Crises in the Visual Arts and Humanities
Art History and Emergency assesses art history’s role and responsibilities in what has been described as the “humanities crisis”—the perceived decline in the practical applications of the humanities in modern times....
Troubleyn/Laboratorium
Jan Fabre
This handsome book peers into Troubleyn/Laboratorium, the workspace, collective art space, and creative incubator of Belgian multidisciplinary artist Jan Fabre (b. 1958), whose performances, staged since the 1980s, have...
Legal Codes and Talking Trees
Indigenous Women’s Sovereignty in the Sonoran and Puget Sound Borderlands, 1854-1946
Katrina Jagodinsky’s enlightening history is the first to focus on indigenous women of the Southwest and Pacific Northwest and the ways they dealt with the challenges posed by the existing legal regimes of the nineteenth and...
The National Gallery Companion Guide
Revised and Expanded Edition
For two decades, The National Gallery Companion Guide has introduced art lovers to one of the richest collections of Western European paintings in the world, including famous works by the greatest painters—Piero della...