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Houdini
The Elusive American
From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, an exuberant biography of the world’s greatest escape artist “Will leave [readers] entertained and astonished, and that’s a kind of magic of its own.”—Jerry Z....
Stuart Style
Monarchy, Dress and the Scottish Male Elite
Winner of 'History Book of the Year' in Scotland's National Book Awards 2021 A brilliant book revealing the complex messages that Stuart fashion conveyed about individual rulers’ personalities, and about...
Migrant City
A New History of London
The first history of London to show how immigrants have built, shaped and made a great success of the capital cityLondon is now a global financial and multicultural hub in which over three hundred languages...
Chinati
The Vision of Donald Judd
Second Edition
A beautiful book on the famed Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas The Chinati Foundation, a world-famous destination for large-scale contemporary art, was founded by Donald Judd (1928–1994) to preserve...
The Madwoman in the Attic
The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
"A feminist classic."—Judith Shulevitz, New York Times Book Review“A pivotal book, one of those after which we will never think the same again.”—Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Washington Post Book World
Italian Paintings in the Norton Simon Museum
The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
A handsome introduction to one of the most important collections of Italian art in the United States The preeminent collector Norton Simon amassed more than 100 Italian paintings during his 35-year career,...
Systematics and Morphology of American Mosasaurs
A classic work from the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History describing the mosasaurs, a group of large predatory marine lizards of the Mesozoic ?Mosasaurs have captured the imagination of readers...
Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Cloverly Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of the Bighorn Basin Area, Wyoming and Montana
The fiftieth anniversary edition of a landmark publication showcasing prehistoric North American landscapes and ecosystems, from a celebrated paleontologist at Yale University’s Peabody Museum The fiftieth...
Christopher Wren
In Search of Eastern Antiquity
A fresh look at the Eastern origins of Christopher Wren’s architecture In this revelatory study of one of the great architects in British history, Vaughan Hart considers Christopher Wren’s (1632–1723)...
The Year of Peril
America in 1942
This fascinating chronicle of how the character of American society revealed itself under the duress of World War II "place(s) today’s myriad social traumas and dislocations in perspective."—George Will, Washington Post...