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Raising Henry

A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability, and Discovery

Rachel Adams

A mother’s deeply moving account of raising a son with Down syndrome in a world crowded with contradictory attitudes toward disabilities Rachel Adams’s life had always gone according to plan. She had an...

October 28, 2014, Paper, $18.95

Essays

A Fully Annotated Edition

Henry D. Thoreau; Edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer

This new selection of Thoreau’s essays traces his trajectory as a writer for the outlets of his day—the periodical press, newspapers, and compendiums—and as a frequent presenter on the local lecture circuit. By arranging...

October 27, 2015, Paper, $20.00

Dressing the Decades

Twentieth-Century Vintage Style

Emmanuelle Dirix

A visually dazzling tour of 20th-century fashion, spotlighting the leading designers and dominant styles of the past 100 years An authoritative and visually stunning look at the fashion of the 20th century,...

March 1, 2016, Hardcover, $30.00

The Dirty Dust

Cré na Cille

Máirtín Ó Cadhain; Translated from the Irish by Alan Titley

The original English-language translation of Ó Cadhain’s raucous masterpiece Cré na Cille, which has been called by Colm Tóibín "the greatest novel to be written in the Irish language."“An audacious...

March 22, 2016, Paper, $16.00

Possession

The Curious History of Private Collectors from Antiquity to the Present

Erin L. Thompson

A riveting account of private art collectors' passion from Roman times to the present Whether it's the discovery of $1.6 billion in Nazi-looted art or the news that Syrian rebels are looting UNESCO...

May 24, 2016, Cloth, $30.00

My Dear Li

Correspondence, 1937-1946

Werner and Elisabeth Heisenberg; Edited by Anna Maria Hirsch-Heisenberg; Translated by Irene Heisenberg

Personal letters reveal the quandary of a prominent German physicist during the Nazi years and the strength he shared with his loving wife Nobel Prize–winning physicist Werner Heisenberg lived far from his...

September 27, 2016, Hardcover, $40.00

Why Preservation Matters

Max Page

Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act, a critique of the preservation movement—and a bold vision for its future Every day, millions of people enter old buildings,...

October 11, 2016, Hardcover, $25.00

Anna and Tranquillo

Catholic Anxiety and Jewish Protest in the Age of Revolutions

Kenneth Stow

A historical interpretation of the diary of an eighteenth-century Jewish woman who resisted the efforts of the papal authorities to force her religious conversion After being seized by the papal police in...

November 22, 2016, Hardcover, $40.00

Steven Spielberg

A Life in Films

Molly Haskell

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a film-centric portrait of Steven Spielberg, the extraordinarily gifted movie director whose decades-long influence on American popular culture is unprecedented...

January 3, 2017, Hardcover, $26.00

American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago

Edited by Elizabeth McGoey

The history of American silver offers invaluable insights into the economic and cultural history of the nation itself. Published here for the first time, the Art Institute of Chicago’s superb collection embodies innovation...

February 14, 2017, Hardcover, $50.00

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