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My Bondage and My Freedom
"David Blight has produced a fine edition of Douglass' second autobiography. This is an essential work in African-American and American history, and displays Douglass' developing strength as a writer and political leader."...
Charlas de sobremesa
Conversación en español
Aimed at third-year students of Spanish, this book fills a need not met by other Spanish conversation textbooks. It facilitates lively and meaningful conversations via a variety of texts, including newspaper and journal...
Dog Days, Raven Nights
The coauthor of the award-winning In the Company of Crows and Ravens and his wife, an animal-behavior expert, offer an engaging account of their days as young field biologists in Maine Twenty...
One World Now
The Ethics of Globalization
One World Now seamlessly integrates major developments of the past decade into Peter Singer's classic text on the ethics of globalization, One World. Singer, often described as the world's most influential...
A History of Modern South Asia
Politics, States, Diasporas
Noted historian Ian Talbot has written a new history of modern South Asia that considers the Indian Subcontinent in regional rather than in solely national terms. A leading expert on the Partition of 1947, Talbot focuses here...
A Little History of the World
Illustrated Edition
Illustrated Edition
A special edition of the international bestseller that is "sumptuously illustrated. . . . Perfect for reading to alert and curious children, but it’s even better as a secret pleasure, read alone, with no children in sight...
Fashion Plates
150 Years of Style
A sumptuously illustrated, encyclopedic chronicle of fashion and its trends, from the 18th to the early 20th century Prior to the invention of photography, European and American magazines used colorful...
Fractal Worlds
Grown, Built, and Imagined
Fractal geometry is a uniquely fascinating area of mathematics, exhibited in a range of shapes that exist in the natural world, from a simple broccoli floret to a majestic mountain range. In this essential primer,...
Islamic Imperialism
A History
Revised Edition
A fundamental challenge to the way we understand the history of the Middle East and the role of Islam in the region From the first Arab-Islamic Empire of the mid-seventh century to the Ottomans, the last...
Susan Sontag
The Complete Rolling Stone Interview
Published in its entirety for the first time, a candid conversation with Susan Sontag at the height of her brilliant career“A humanizing interview with the late cultural icon, who was often perceived as...