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The Encyclopedia of New York City
A newly updated, expanded edition of the most comprehensive one-volume reference work on New York City ever compiled Covering an exhaustive range of information about Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the...
Theologians Under Hitler
What led so many German Protestant theologians to welcome the Nazi regime and its policies of racism and anti-Semitism? In this provocative book, Robert P. Ericksen examines the work and attitudes of three distinguished,...
Yemen
Dancing on the Heads of Snakes
Yemen is the dark horse of the Middle East. Every so often it enters the headlines for one alarming reason or another—links with al-Qaeda, kidnapped Westerners, explosive population growth—then sinks into obscurity again. But,...
Ivan the Terrible
The definitive biography of Ivan the Terrible, setting the Tsar's infamous cruelty within the context of 16th-century Russia"[A] magnificent biography . . . illuminated by the wisdom gained by its...
June 1941
Hitler and Stalin
A masterful account, culminating in the fateful days before the most decisive event of World War II: Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union This brilliant new work by the author of the best-selling...
William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones
Interlacings
The friendship between William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones began when they met as undergraduates in 1853 and—despite their differences in temperament and in attitudes to political engagement—lasted until Morris’s death...
The Jewel House
Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution
Not just a few elite scientists, but Londoners from all walks of life--lawyers, prisoners, midwives, merchants--participated in the scientific community of Elizabethan times Bestselling author...
The Murder, Betrayal, and Slaughter of the Glorious Charles, Count of Flanders
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Auto Mania
Cars, Consumers, and the Environment
A history of why the environmental problems that American automobile consumers and automakers created proved so hard to fix The twentieth-century American experience with the automobile has much to tell...
Oblomov
Set at the beginning of the nineteenth century, when idleness was still looked upon by Russia’s serf-owning rural gentry as a plausible and worthy goal, Ivan Goncharov’s Oblomov follows the travails of an unlikely hero,...