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The Hudson
A History
A vivid history of the Hudson River and how it has fired the American imagination for four hundred years Flowing through a valley of sublime scenery, the Hudson River uniquely connects America...
King Lear
The Annotated Shakespeare Series allowsreaders to fully understand and enjoy the rich plays of the world’s greatest dramatistKing Lear, one of Shakespeare's darkest and most savage...
Galápagos
The Islands That Changed the World
Second Edition
The first complete guide to the dramatic environment, the wild inhabitants, and the human history of the enchanting Galápagos Rocky, fragile, beautiful, strange—the Galápagos archipelago is unlike any...
America at the Crossroads
Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy
Francis Fukuyama’s criticism of the Iraq war put him at odds with neoconservative friends both within and outside the Bush administration. Here he explains how, in its decision to invade Iraq, the Bush administration failed...
In the Company of Crows and Ravens
From the cave walls at Lascaux to the last painting by Van Gogh, from the works of Shakespeare to those of Mark Twain, there is clear evidence that crows and ravens influence human culture. Yet this influence is not...
Facing Beauty
Painted Women and Cosmetic Art
This wide-ranging survey, spanning four centuries, illuminates shifting perceptions of female beauty through works of art and the evolution of cosmetics Throughout the history of the Western world,...
Caesar
Life of a Colossus
Named 2006 Best Book of the Year by Amazon.com “An authoritative and exciting portrait not only of Caesar but of the complex society in which he lived.”—Steven Coates, New York Times Book Review
Shakespeare the Thinker
"A close reading of the plays that tries to map the creases and folds in Shakespeare's mysterious, elusive brain."— New York Times Book Review A. D. Nuttall’s study of Shakespeare’s...
Quantum Physics and Theology
An Unexpected Kinship
One of today’s greatest thinkers ponders a surprising set of similarities between two important forms of the search for truth Despite the differences of their subject matter, science and theology...
Leviticus 1-16
At the beginning of his academic career, author Jacob Milgrom determined to make his lifework a probing study of the Laws of the Torah. Here, with Leviticus 1-16, the first of three volumes on Leviticus, he has...