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James Fenimore Cooper
The Early Years
The authoritative biography of James Fenimore Cooper, author of the Leather-Stocking Tales and representative figure of the early American republic"For Franklin, Cooper wasn't just a major...
City
Urbanism and Its End
A new understanding of the modern city, its challenges, and why old ideas about urban renewal won’t work How did neighborhood groceries, parish halls, factories, and even saloons contribute more to urban...
The Arts and the Creation of Mind
Although the arts are often thought to be closer to the rim of education than to its core, they are, surprisingly, critically important means for developing complex and subtle aspects of the mind, argues Elliot Eisner in...
Norfolk 2: North-West and South
This second volume on Norfolk provides a comprehensive survey from prehistoric times to the present day. The 17th- and 18th-century treasures of King's Lynn are explored, as well as the market towns of Swaffham and Wymondham....
The Bill of Rights
Creation and Reconstruction
"This is one of the most important books about constitutional interpretation of its generation."—Jeffrey Rosen, American Lawyer Are the deep insights of Hugo Black, William Brennan, and Felix...
Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields
Memoirs by Survivors
"Childhood testimonies by survivors of the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia. . . . Compelling."—Kirkus Reviews"Underscores with great poignancy the horror of the Pol Pot period."—Nancy J. Smith...
Perceval
The Story of the Grail
One of the most influential storytellers in Western literature, French poet Chrétien de Troyes helped to shape the ever-fascinating legend of King Arthur and the Round Table. Of Chrétien's five surviving romantic Arthurian...
The Voices of Morebath
Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village
In the fifty years between 1530 and 1580, England moved from being one of the most lavishly Catholic countries in Europe to being a Protestant nation, a land of whitewashed churches and antipapal preaching. What was the...
Persephone's Quest
Entheogens and the Origins of Religion
This fascinating book discusses the role played by psychoactive mushrooms in the religious rituals of ancient Greece, Eurasia, and Mesoamerica. R. Gordon Wasson, an internationally known ethnomycologist who was one of the...
Transitory Gardens, Uprooted Lives
Jimmy's garden on the Lower East Side of Manhattan—an assortment of stones and garbage bags, five tires, a chair, a skid, a refrigerator shelf, some ailanthus trees and goldfish, a wooden fence, and a pond with water carried...