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Radical Art and the Formation of the Avant-Garde
An authoritative re-definition of the social, cultural and visual history of the emergence of the “avant-garde” in Paris and London Over the past fifty years, the term "avant-garde" has come to shape discussions of...
Elephants on the Edge
What Animals Teach Us about Humanity
In the tradition of Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, a renowned animal trauma specialist offers an unusual glimpse into the elephant mind and makes an appeal for new notions of human uniqueness and treatment of animals...
Gabriel Metsu
Life and Work: A Catalogue Raisonné
Despite his untimely death in 1667 at the age of thirty-seven, Gabriel Metsu left an astounding collection of history paintings, portraits, still lifes, and exquisite genre scenes. These charming depictions of kitchen maids,...
Toxic Bodies
Hormone Disruptors and the Legacy of DES
In 1941 the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of diethylstilbestrol (DES), the first synthetic chemical to be marketed as an estrogen and one of the first to be identified as a hormone disruptor—a chemical that...
Superpower Illusions
How Myths and False Ideologies Led America Astray--And How to Return to Reality
A former U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union demolishes central myths that have distorted America's recent foreign policy—including the idea that the United States destroyed Communism and defeated the Soviet Union in...
Chanel
The Vocabulary of Style
A luxurious book that showcases the spirit and essence of Chanel's iconic style through the medium of fashion photography"Jérôme Gautier's text is excellent."—The Wall Street Journal...
Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin's Gulag
A new and chilling study of lethal human exploitation in the Soviet forced labor camps, one of the pillars of Stalinist terror In a shocking new study of life and death in Stalin’s Gulag, historian...
Giving Voice to Values
How to Speak Your Mind When You Know What's Right
An innovative approach to standing up for your values in the workplace—inspired by a popular program from the Aspen Institute"In business and in life, we often know what is the right thing to do, but we have...
The Heroic Slave
A Cultural and Critical Edition
Frederick Douglass’s only work of fiction—an imaginative retelling of the most successful slave revolt in American history—accompanied by an interpretive introduction, notes, and a selection of related writings by Douglass and...
The Burma Campaign
Disaster into Triumph, 1942-45
A new perspective on the long and bloody Burma campaign, focusing on the four Allied commanders who battled not only the Japanese and their allies but also one another This book, in essence a quadruple...