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Going to Church in Medieval England
An engaging, richly illustrated account of parish churches and churchgoers in England, from the Anglo-Saxons to the mid-sixteenth century Parish churches were at the heart of English religious and social...
Wu Song Kills a Tiger
Volume Five, Supplementary Reading Series for Intermediate Chinese Reader
One of the most famous episodes from Water Margin, a traditional Chinese novel, is here retold in simple Chinese. This text is the fifth volume designed to supplement the Intermediate Chinese Reader by John DeFrancis. It is...
Northrop Frye on Shakespeare
One of the greatest literary critics of our time here provides a remarkable introduction to the genius of William Shakespeare through a study of ten of Shakespeare’s most popular plays: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and...
The Stripping of the Altars
Traditional Religion in England, 1400–1580
Second Edition
This prize-winning account of the pre-Reformation church recreates lay people’s experience of religion in fifteenth-century England. Eamon Duffy shows that late medieval Catholicism was neither decadent nor decayed, but was a...
A Worldly Art
The Dutch Republic, 1585-1718
Newly independent in 1585, the increasingly prosperous and politically powerful Dutch Republic experienced a tremendous rise in the production of artwork that was unparalleled in quantity, variety, and beauty. Now back in...
Why Globalization Works
A powerful case for the global market economy The debate on globalization has reached a level of intensity that inhibits comprehension and obscures the issues. In this book a highly distinguished...
Walden
A Fully Annotated Edition
The ultimate gift edition of Walden for bibliophiles, aficionados, and scholars"Replaces all other available editions of Walden as the most attractive and reliable way to approach this...
The Reconstruction of Nations
Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569–1999
From the bestselling author of On Tyranny comes a revealing history of the four modern national ideas that arose from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth “[A] fresh and stimulating look at the...
Minimalism
Art and Polemics in the Sixties
What is minimalism? The answer to this simple question has defied simple answers. In this highly readable history of minimalist art James Meyer argues that "minimalism" was not a coherent movement but a field of overlapping...
Inventing a Nation
Washington, Adams, Jefferson
“Trust Gore Vidal to teach us things we never learned in school. In Inventing a Nation, his quick wit flickers over the canonical tale of our republic’s founding, turning it into a dark and deliciously nuanced...