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Fashion and Politics
A timely and splendidly illustrated global exploration of the complex intersections of fashion and politics from the mid-19th century to the present day Taking a multifaceted look at a topic of widespread...
Westminster Abbey
A Church in History
A comprehensive and authoritative history that explores the significance of one of the most famous buildings and institutions in England Westminster Abbey was one of the most powerful churches in Catholic...
Why Liberalism Works
How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer, More Equal, Prosperous World for All
An insightful and passionately written book explaining why a return to Enlightenment ideals is good for the world "Beginning with the simple but fertile idea that people should not push other people...
Crush
Finalist for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry—an erotic, powerful collection “One of the best books of contemporary poetry.”—Victoria Chang, Huffington Post ...
The New Testament
A Translation
From one of our most celebrated writers on religion, a fresh, bold, and unsettling new translation of the New Testament “The greatest achievement of Hart’s translation is to restore the urgency of the original. ...
Emulating Antiquity
Renaissance Buildings from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo
A revelatory account of the complex and evolving relationship of Renaissance architects to classical antiquity Focusing on the work of architects such as Brunelleschi, Bramante, Raphael, and Michelangelo,...
The Trials of Thomas Morton
An Anglican Lawyer, His Puritan Foes, and the Battle for a New England
A new look at Thomas Morton, his controversial colonial philosophy, and his lengthy feud with the Puritans “[This] brilliant riposte to scholarly conventions . . . reconstructs an early colonial...
Ernest Gimson
Arts & Crafts Designer and Architect
An authoritative and insightful study, surveying the life and work of “the greatest of the English artist-craftsmen” This study of the renowned designer-maker Ernest Gimson (1864–1919) combines biography...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide
Featuring beautiful color reproductions and enlightening descriptions, this is the definitive guide to one of the largest, and most beloved, collections of art in the world More than a simple souvenir book,...
Dispatches from Planet 3
Thirty-Two (Brief) Tales on the Solar System, the Milky Way, and Beyond
An award-winning science writer presents a captivating collection of cosmological essays for the armchair astronomer The galaxy, the multiverse, and the history of astronomy are explored in this engaging...