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All Measures Short of War
The Contest for the Twenty-First Century and the Future of American Power
A groundbreaking look at the future of great power competition in an age of globalization and what the United States can do in response The two decades after the Cold War saw unprecedented cooperation...
Nicholas Hilliard
Life of an Artist
This illustrated biography follows Nicholas Hilliard’s long and remarkable life (c. 1547–1619) from the West Country to the heart of the Elizabethan and Jacobean courts. It showcases new archival research and stunning images,...
Nature Underfoot
Living with Beetles, Crabgrass, Fruit Flies, and Other Tiny Life Around Us
An informed and heartfelt tribute to commonly unappreciated plants, insects, and other tiny creatures that reconsiders humanity’s relationship to nature"Put aside that can of Raid for the short time it...
Islamic Art
Past, Present, Future
In a world where the making and consumption of art is constantly changing, the term "Islamic art" can be hard to define. Through the exploration of a wide array of media—from painting, sculpture, and photography to video and...
The Art Lover’s Guide to Japanese Museums
An indispensable guide to Japan’s most fascinating museums and galleriesThe Art Lover’s Guide to Japanese Museums is a personal introduction to more than 100 of Japan’s most distinctive and inspiring...
Edvard Munch
Behind the Scream
New Edition
Who was the man behind The Scream, the iconic painting that so acutely expresses the anguish of the twentieth century? Edvard Munch (1863 – 1944) was twenty-eight when he embarked on a lifelong effort to...
What Is a Complex System?
A clear, concise introduction to the quickly growing field of complexity science that explains its conceptual and mathematical foundations What is a complex system? Although “complexity science” is used to...
Bitter Shade
The Ecological Challenge of Human Consciousness
A seminal anthropological work on the paradoxical relationship between human consciousness and the environment This book asks an age-old question about the relationship between human consciousness and the...
Blooming Flowers
A Seasonal History of Plants and People
An evocative and richly illustrated exploration of flowers and how, over the centuries, they have given us so much sustenance, meaning, and pleasure“From the meaning of carnations in Sex and the City
What Noise Against the Cane
Finalist for the 2021 National Book Award for Poetry, this Yale Series of Younger Poets volume is a lyrical and polyvocal exploration of what it means to fight for yourself“Bailey invites us to see what twenty...