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Artisanal Enlightenment
Science and the Mechanical Arts in Old Regime France
A groundbreaking work that places the mechanical arts and the world of making at the heart of the Enlightenment What would the Enlightenment look like from the perspective of artistes, the learned...
American Art Pottery
The Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection
The fascinating story of the American art pottery movement told through hundreds of distinctive works During the height of the Arts and Crafts era in Europe and the United States, from the late 1800s until...
Migrant Brothers
A Poet’s Declaration of Human Dignity
“If justice had a Jericho trumpet, Chamoiseau would be it.”—Junot Díaz As migrants embark on perilous journeys across oceans and deserts in pursuit of sanctuary and improved living conditions, what is the...
Praetorian
The Rise and Fall of Rome's Imperial Bodyguard
A riveting account of ancient Rome’s imperial bodyguard, the select band of soldiers who wielded the power to make—or destroy—the emperors they served Founded by Augustus around 27 B.C., the elite...
Quest for Status
Chinese and Russian Foreign Policy
A look at how the desire to improve international status affects Russia's and China's foreign policies Deborah Welch Larson and Alexei Shevchenko argue that the desire for world status plays a key role in...
The Road Before Me Weeps
On the Refugee Route Through Europe
A powerful and revealing firsthand account of the migrant and refugee experience on the overland route across Europe War and chaos in Syria and Iraq, violence in Afghanistan, and hopelessness in countries...
Crossing the Rubicon
Caesar's Decision and the Fate of Rome
A dramatic account of the fateful year leading to the ultimate crisis of the Roman Republic and the rise of Caesar’s autocracy When the Senate ordered Julius Caesar, conqueror of Gaul, to disband his troops...
The Vory
Russia's Super Mafia
The first English-language book to document the men who emerged from the gulags to become Russia’s much-feared crime class: the vory v zakone Mark Galeotti is the go-to expert on organized crime in...
Bird versus Bulldozer
A Quarter-Century Conservation Battle in a Biodiversity Hotspot
An examination of the struggle to conserve biodiversity in urban regions, told through the story of the threatened coastal California gnatcatcher The story of the threatened coastal California gnatcatcher is a...
Election Meltdown
Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy
“A hard-hitting critique of the American election process as timely as it is frightening. . . . Required reading for legislators and voters.”—Kirkus Reviews, Starred ReviewFrom noted election law...