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Prospects for the Nation
Recent Essays in British Landscape, 1750-1880
This fascinating book provides a picture of the changing state of British landscape studies. Art historians, historians, geographers, and literary scholars discuss a wide range of topics: the role of landscape in the...
Learn to Read Greek
Workbook Part 1
Learn to Read Greek is a text and workbook for students beginning the study of Ancient Greek. It is the companion volume to the authors’ Learn to Read Latin, published in 2004. Like its Latin...
Candide
or Optimism
The translation of choice for twenty-first-century readers of Voltaire's satiric masterpiece. In this new translation of Voltaire’s Candide, distinguished translator Burton Raffel captures the...
The Great Meadow
Farmers and the Land in Colonial Concord
An unprecedented look at how colonial farmers adapted to the challenges of New England’s climate and soil and achieved a sustainable agricultural system The farmers of colonial New England have been...
The American Dream vs. The Gospel of Wealth
The Fight for a Productive Middle-Class Economy
“The most important book I've read in years.”—Bill Moyers Norton Garfinkle paints a disquieting picture of America today: a nation increasingly divided between economic winners and losers, a nation in which...
A Republic of Mind and Spirit
A Cultural History of American Metaphysical Religion
This original study of metaphysical religion is the little known history of a fascinating, unique form of American religion This path-breaking book tells the story of American metaphysical religion more...
Primo Levi
The Matter of a Life
From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, the first intellectual biography of Primo Levi to describe the intersection of his roles as both chemist and writer In 1943, twenty-four-year-old Primo Levi had...
The Architecture of Paul Rudolph
The first major study of one of the most important architects of the postwar era Equally admired and maligned for his remarkable Brutalist buildings, Paul Rudolph (1918–1997) shaped both late modernist...
The Statue of Liberty
A Transatlantic Story
A stirring new history of the Statue of Liberty, from its creation in France to its renewed significance in the post-9/11 years“If you think you know all there is to know about the Statue of Liberty,...
The Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It
The Internet is primed for a meltdown—and the most obvious cures are just as bad This extraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity—and...